This week was the last week of the transfer and Elder Lyon and I had a lot of great experiences throughout this week. We also had transfer calls! Elder Lyon will be staying in Jakarta and I will be moving to Medan! I will be companions with Elder Ritchie again, my mtc companion, he is an awesome missionary! I am excited to serve with him in Medan. Jakarta has been so sweet and I have loved serving here. I am grateful for the ward, the people, and all the awesome experiences and things that I have learned while I have been here.
Things are going well in Jakarta and we have seen God's hand guiding us in our lives and in the lives of others. We got to teach a lot of new people for the first time this week. On Sunday, we also had 7 of our friends come to church! It was awesome seeing them there.
About 2 months ago, I met this person named Yuvita on the bus. We had a good conversation and I explained our purpose of being here. She had never heard about our church before and I was able to introduce many of the things that make our church different from a lot of other churches. I also saw her again, when we were heading to the Christmas party last month! This week, Elder Lyon entered a Christian group chat on Facebook and had contacted some people in there. Some people responded and one of them was Yuvita! On Wednesday, she messaged us on Facebook saying that she wants to read the book of mormon and that she would like to meet. At first, I didn't realize that it was the same person that I had met about 2 months ago on the bus and when I realized it was her I was shocked! It was so cool seeing that she was interested to learn more and through efforts in Facebook we were able make contact with her again. We plan on meeting with her tonight!
On Friday, we facilitated the English group and met with one of our friends and had a good discussion about the restoration, the role of the book of mormon, and other topics. She is reading in Mosiah in the book of mormon and has a strong desire to learn about new things. She has studied several religions throughout her life. She has studied catholicism, Buddhism, Islam, and is now studying more about our beliefs. She has a lot of good questions and is acting on the things that we are inviting her to do. She also told us that when she decided to learn more about our church, she saw us 2 days later walking to the busway and she felt like she should talk to us and she did. Since her decision to learn more about our church, she said that she has also seen many other missionaries in different places around Indonesia!
This upcoming Friday, we also have another mission conference in Jakarta and Elder Neil L. Anderson will be presiding!
Love you all and have a great week :)
Kasih,
Elder Östhed
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