Riley Adamson's Mission: Transfer Week: Welcome to Täby

Ok everyone, I have kinda alot to say this week!

Well we got transfer calls on Tuesday, and Wednesday we packed up and visited people. We had lunch at the Wennerlunds, that was awesome, and then after that we emailed, and then we went by my favorite family the Erikssons! They are so great! They gave us some food, and the little girls gave me goodbye love letters and I got to say goodbye to Jonathan, my favorite buddy. That kid, i'm going to miss him. He is this crazy little kid. Well then we headed over to Hässelholm to say goodbye to Erica, our previous investigator.... but she wasnt home.... So that was not fun. She called us the next day so I got to say goodbye to her on the phone.

Then that night we stayed up until 1:00 AM packing.... That wasnt fun. I have so much junk i've collected over the last 7 months. Well i crammed it all in my bags, and took a short nap, woke up at 4:30 and headed for Stockholm. When we first got to "the Ring", that is the place where all the missionaries meet, we had like 15 minutes before we were suppose to be at the training meeting. Because some missionaries were not so smart, I wasnt there at the meeting, but that was fine because i got to chill with Elder Langston and some other missionaries. AND Elder Fryer. he was my companion in the MTC. The coolest kid ever. he is down in malmö now, he's just been avoiding me my whole mission. That was the first time i saw him in almost a year. Anyway he is doing good. Me and Elder Czuba went to lunch also, we went to Pizza Hut. one of 3 in sweden. AMERICAN PIZZA is so freaking goood! Swedish pizza is really weird. If you guys know what Kabab is, then you know what i'm talking about. well its these really thin weird pizzas. maybe i'll take a picture sometime.

After that I meet my new companion Elder Drake, he is way cool, from Ohio. He's been the secretary for 3 weeks so we have lots to learn! It'll be really good.

Awesome things about my new job. We have a car!! We have computers, we have a huge apartment, we are with President Anderson alot, we learn alot about the mission, and we do alot of stuff! we have a dish washer, an American microwave, we work with the Johnsons (the office senior couple) and Täby is a pretty awesome place! oh and we get our letters and packages very first! I'm really excited! although i got to learn how to drive stick, it'll be good. I kinda know how because i rode dirtbikes my whole life, so it'll just be switching everything around. I'm excited though!

So last p-day was super exciting. It was on Saturday. Well we started off with a little service, helped a guy move an organ to his sisters place, then we drove it across stockholm to Hägersten or somewhere down there. Then we came back and then went to Skansen, this huge outdoor museum type zoo thing in the middle of down town stockholm. it is a big island that they gave to this museum. Sweden is super 'green' and enviormentally friendly. It's kinda annoying sometimes. Well that was super fun, we were with the APs just messing around for a few hours seeing what they got there.

well then we left and went and saw the Young Ambassadors from BYU preform in the middle of down town stockholm. it was pretty awesome! they only preformed for 20 minutes, it was kinda a preview to their big show later that night. So I was watching them and realized i could know them! And I did know one of them! Her name is Megan, so one day when i was at byu at this seminar or something she came up to me and asked me what elementary school i went to. it turned out that she was in my 6th grade class but then moved to saint george! and so at byu we were friends a little bit. Well and then we both ended up in stockholm. So that was cool, we got to talk for a few minutes. We went to their preformance later that night and it was pretty cool knowing someone down there.

Anyway so then after that we got these bike passes and cruised around all of stockholm on these rental bikes!! it was so fun! pretty crazy though. If anyone comes to sweden they need to do that! It was really fun! well we went all over the place. I'll attach some pictures. The bikes are pretty good quality, and you can return them to any of these stop things all over stockholm. It was pretty intense. Bikes on real cobblestone roads was a little crazy. And stockholm is pretty hilly.

Thats another awesome thing about the office. We have a car, but also bus/train cards for all of stockholm. So then we took the subway home! After that we hopped in the car and drove to the Young Ambassadors show. I WAS BLOWN AWAY!!! THEY ARE SO FREAKING GOOD!!!! They really have some talent. You guys need to see them. I dont know if they have their stuff online but i was blown away. They could sing and dance anything. Well i was completely impressed. They sang ABBA stuff and just about everything... And then after I got to talk to megan quickly and then time to go home and sleep!

It sounds like they were on a pretty cool tour. Denmark, norway, sweden and Finland. Pretty cool. And they sang I'm a child of God in swedish. It was pretty impressive!

Pictures from our bike trip in Stockholm. It was an AWESOME DAY! that is a piece of Gamla Stan in the middle of Stockholm. it is actually on an island. it is a pretty cool place!