March 11th 2009

Alright so we got transfer calls on tuesday morning and it was pretty intense!! There was 4 elders in our appartment and i've been here for 5 months now, and we knew that only 2 elders were staying. Kstad 2 was going to get closed. So President said that he wanted ME and my compaion to stay!!! I beat them all out!! I knew i could do it! It was the best feeling eever!!! I was so excited. The second he said that i was staying I stood up and did a fistpump and yelled yes. I think he was a little thrown back. well I was very excited!! It was the best thing ever!!! this is my letter to President Anderson this week "I am so excited for these next 2 months! We have alot to do! It is going to be so good. I knew that if i left the work would go on, but maybe some people would get lost along the way or something, but this definately is going to be good.

I'm very excited for the next transfer. I feel that was right. I'm very excited for Erica, our baptisimal canidate. She is so awesome. I'm not sure if i told you about how we got the baptisimal date or what, but it was so awesome. We went in and talked about chruch, because she went just a few days before, She loved it. It was really good. Then on tuesday we went by and that is when we talked about that and the we decided we needed to teach about the Law of Chastity. We decided to intro with our bodies are a temple and we need to respect them and then had her read out of Preach my Gospel what it says about it. And after she was done reading that she said yeah that is "självklart" and she already lives it! That was just about the best feeling ever. And then after that we asked her if she and found out if the book of mormon is true, and she said YES, and we asked her if she wanted to be baptized! She said yes!! we pulled out the little calander in the phone and told her that most people get baptized on a saturday and recieved the Holy Ghost the next day. She picked out the 28th! even thought that was in like 3 weeks she said that felt right for her! It was the best feeling ever. I could barely hold it in. After we left we could barely hold it in, and then we let loose once we were far enough away. It felt so good. She is the best investgator ever. Currently she is on a trip in norland skiing, and we told her to read in the BoM and in a liahona we gave her. IW are actually suppose to call her today and see how it is going. She is going to come back on monday, and we already have 3 appointments set for next week. It is just the best ever. I've never seen of or heard of someone more spiritually prepared and WILLING to follow the spirit. I've been so impressed with her. You can tell who she is. She is really going to be a strong member her whole life. It's been an amazing experience. We went by her another time with a young woman in the ward last week before she left and talked about how everyone is a child of God. She said she had problems with anorexia before and we explained our point of view on that and why we know that it comes donw to we are children of God. Then we read about tithing and she said again that is obvious and is willing to live that. it was so awesome. We also met with Alexander Appelqvist and figured out his problem. Hopefully the real problem. He said that he feels pressure that it is a commandment that you have to go on a mission and that the members of the branch are kinda pressuring him. He said he honestly doesnt want to go on a mission, and we explained that that is ok for him and it is not a commandment if you do not want to. We said it is a commandment to get baptised but not to go on a mission. Hopefully he understands. We are going to try to get a baptisimal date with him too, probably the same day as Erica if all goes good. Hopefully it does. I really hope he keeps being honest with us. He held in his problem for so long and I dont know why. We're working on it though.

We have so many appointments set up here. So much to do. I'm very excited for it. It is going to be a great transfer. Although me and Elder Clark dont get along perfectly like me and Elder Langston did, we still are doing good. I think this will be one of the best transfers ever. I honestly love this branch down here and this area. I'm so glad i got to stay because it takes time to grow that love and appreciation for an area, and the other elders didnt quite have that yet. I guess i didnt have enough time to pass along the success here! Thats what i plan on doing this transfer!" So hopefully that was enough information on everything.

Other things people have asked about. The protests here against Israel are so rediculous! this is what I wrote my grandpa..."The riots going on are no big deal, i havent even heard much about them. I think it is pretty rediculous. Whatever. I wanted to make a big sign that says "Sweden, Your opinion doesnt matter." We wernt serious but sweden is so small and they have no say in the big picture, unless the are willing to send their whole army, all their 10,000 soldiers theyve got to go fight for the palistinians. Whatever. I think it is all rediculous."Swedes are pretty wimpy honestly. I have no idea why the try protesting. I think it is rediculus, why dont they worry about themsleves and just take it easy, fight something that is wrong in their own country, unless you are seriously going to send an army to fix something in another nation just take it easy, jews are people too you know. In all honesty swedes are pretty racist. They have ALOT of immigrants here and the swedes treat them bad and make fun of them. I just think the whole thing is stupid. I think the USA has made it a bigger deal, i've only heard a little about the riots and stuff. It is nothing big. I've seen like 2 people waving a palistine flag and and saying anti stuff one time in the city, and i thought it was halarious. But that is about it. Well i dont have any more time! and i think that is all!! We are going to go to the Wennerlunds and eat lunch and then go home and have the rest of p-day and then we have another memeber dinner with a eternal investigator. Pretty awesome!!

Oh i forgot i've been doing the rubiks cube, my fastest time is 1.06.1 thats right. one minute and six.1 seconds.

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