Elder Nielsen said for email they go to the same place in Sliema (Sleeeema) each week because the rates are awesome. The owner is from India, and his wife and their newborn baby are always there with him, they are trying to make friends with them.
The Maltese spaghetti they had last week had olives and hot dogs in it! He said he really liked it!
He said our estimate for the location of Swaatar (the city he is living in) is correct! (see previous post)
Update on the translation of the Book of Mormon into Maltese: “We are so excited to hear what the First Presidency says about this! They say it will take about a month so we will see! We are all praying like crazy! The next step after that is getting the team organized from the membership here and then getting things going! I don’t know much after that! lol! I will keep you posted!”
After a great lesson on the Atonement with Elizabeth, she fed them a pie of cheese and lima beans. He said it was delicious, actually really really good! His companion Elder Jones had told him about this pie and was hoping for it so that worked out great when she had it for them!
They had another great lesson with Dorothy and her husband Stefan and their 3 year old son who actually knew, when they started watching the Restoration film together, that it was about Joseph Smith! Dorothy has quit smoking! She told them that nothing will stop her from getting baptized!
They watched a Good Friday procession: “That was very interesting! They do 14 steps of the death of Christ in parade form. How it worked is there would be tons of kids all dressed up in Catholic attire carrying plaques of the scriptures that described the scenes that would follow and then would come a giant statue being carried by up to 10 men followed by people wearing these hoods and all carrying chains, they were called the penitent sinners, there was music and drum beating; and they got the story right…it was interesting.”
They were able to contact people who had previously been investigating the gospel but stopped and were excited to get an appointment with one of them to return the next day!
They watched General Conference live online with a projector in their Chapel! He didn’t tell us too much about it because he knew we’d be watching the following week! ;o) He said it was the best Easter weekend ever and summarized this way “This week has been absolutely awesome! I have loved every second of it! I really love being a missionary! It is so fun! Man I really enjoy it!”
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