March 30th 2009

Hello Everyone! This week was pretty good. I was on splits with Elder Dees from my MTC group for almost 2 days and that was pretty fun. I love Kristianstad and I dont want to leave. I dont even like to leave on splits! Except to Karlskrona, which I want to do sometime! I've never slept over there. Confrence is going to be very good. We are going to watch it at the chapel in Kristianstad. In times of confrence over my whole mission ½ of them will have been in Kristianstad! Cool huh? I think we get 3 sessions... but i'm not sure. I like to listen in swedish, but we will see. Other announcments... are not good. Our investigators are not doing so good. and it is frustrating! Erica said that she needs to wait and take a step back and see if this is right, and she didnt come to church and said that she will call us on thursday. Not good. And her friends have been pretty hard on her, saying that she always jumps into the craziest stuff asap, and also have given her a little taste of all the anti stuff. That is not cool. But we fired back with having one of her member friends who lives in NYC give her a call, and he said that it was very good. My cousin Ty is going to get his mission call this wednesday it looks like! I'm very excited! I hope it says sweden! We need one more awesome missionary here to convert this godless nation! Look at this.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreligion of all the nations a missionary can possibly serve now, it looks like I'm in the middle of ....... you can be creative. And rumor has it that Skåne is the most nonreligious part of sweden, and I'm in the capital of Skåne! haha. Well we still work hard and drive just like normal. It's just a fact most people dont quite see when they think of a missionary in sweden. It is not quite what I expected. The truth though is that sweden does have alot of religious people, but i'd say 60% to 70% are Islamic. There is alot of immigrants here and they are pretty awesome people. We talked to 2 guys from Iraq this weekend and they were really cool. We were actually in an english class and he asked me what I think about the war in Iraq, and i gave him the PR missionary response and he said, well I'm glad that america came, and so is most people in Iraq. He said that a poll of bagdad said that 70% were pro-usa. That was pretty cool to hear! It kinda felt good to hear from an Iraqi that. Sweden is very pro-Palistine and anti-war and everything, so it was good to hear a Pro-USA statement, or another opinion then the typical swedish. (we hear their opinions ALOT) Well sounds like i've vented enough of missionary life and pressure for you guys, its been fun, and I added some pictures! the boy is named Jonathan, but in swedish it is said, yo-na-toan. He is SO funny! he is wearing my jacket at church last week. That kid is so funny. Usually he jumps on my back and stuff at church. It is pretty fun! He is such a funny kid. He reminds me of all my little cousins. He has 1 voice, and that is a scream, and 2 volumes- loud and really loud. its pretty funny! Even when he talks quiet it is really a scream voice/attitude. That is me and President and Sister Anderson, when I first got to sweden! That is me and my MTC group in stockholm the very first day.