Okt. 5th 2009 General Conference!

Ok!! this week was pretty aweome I gotta lot to say

Ok so we have this swedish class, where we teach swedish to these people that wanted to come.  It's pretty cool- I told you guys a little about it.  Well there are lots of them from Iran and they are so awesome!!!  You guys have no idea how awesome muslims are and how nice they are!  they are really some of the greatest people.  I'd trust them any day over your average christian.  They are so awesome.  Well there are these 2 of them, they have been married for about a year, and they come.  They got out of Iran and went to Malasia or something, and then ended up here.  They are studying.  They are so cool.  Well like i said, last week, they all started asking us about what we believe.  Well the husband, Tophie(?) he wanted to speak english with us and also learn about what we believe, and his wife Pavaneh also!  we called and asked President Anderson if we could teach them and he said yes, but we cannot promise that they can get baptised- until they are legal long term residents of sweden or some stable country.  Anyway so we met with them and it was so good!  One of my favorite scriptures is Mosiah 3:13 -- I use it all the time.  Anyway they do have alot of truths and good /great values.  They are awesome people.  Well it was so fun to talk to them and not feel like we were trying to convert them, but we were just discussing different things, similarites and differences between our beliefs.  It was really cool.

And we also saw general conference.  Like everyone else it appears that I also liked Pres. Monsons talk about charity and good work.  It kinda made me home sick and really miss my dad.  He did alot of charity and good works, that people kinda didnt know about.  He did some great stuff, and i was thinking about how awesome he is, and he was probably listening somewhere in heaven doing his fistpump and touchdown call when all the different apostles nailed different topics.

I dont think i've ever eaten so much candy in my life.  We bought so much candy for conference- I kinda felt sick after.  I'm sure i ate over a kilo.  It was so good tho.  Yes i brushed my teeth after.

So we've been kinda deciding our strategies here of how we are going to do missionary work.  these are the things we kinda came up with...  strenthen the members- and help them know how to do missionary work.  So we are working with the bishop with maybe doing a mission prep class for any of the members, and also the branch mission plan.  Also i want to target swedes.  We have been visiting lots of English classes in highschools- I've done so many of them in my day.  Some of them we talked alot about what we believed and got to testify, and others we just showed them that we are normal people and basically just planted 1000 good seeds for future missionaries.  Its really good to give them a good perspective of us and that we are kinda normal.... and just so they know who we are.

And we also when we have extra time we are going to swing by 1 less active, and then tract in their area.  That seems the best to me.

It's essencially the first time i've really been seinor.  The office doesnt count, for one cause Edmunds is the most awesome missioanry ever, and we dont even do missionary work in the office, just service work all day. so yeah this is pretty much my first time being senior in a normal missionary setting.

Tonight we are flying to Stockholm to have a zone conference tomorrow.  That'll be cool to fly as a missionary!!  I'm pretty excited about it.

Ok i'll keep talkinga bout missionar work, we actually ahd one killer week.  We got 4 new investigators, and next week we seriously could get like 8.  We had alot of good teaches this week with some new people. 

We had a teach with this kid from an english class who asked us (they all ask us 1 question) and he asked us what is our opinion about gay marriage.  Haha what would you say??  and another girl asked us about contraceptives- and my comp didnt know what that ment.  I just about died laughing.  It was so funny.  They must of thought we were the most sheltered people ever.  well this kid that asked about gays, well ok basically i feel like i can answer every freaking crazy question on earth, and in the middle of this class i explained how we believe it is a choice etc. and stuff, and he wanted to know more so we met with him the next day and talked about it.  we had to stop ½ way cause his bus was going to leave, so we are going to continue.  The things we do as a missionary are sometimes crazy.  You'd never believe some of the questions we get.

I've gotten alot of quesitons about weather.  And i'm sad to say it SNOWED this morning.  Yes when we woke up there was a little snow.... pretty sad.  The sun is up quiet a bit tho still.  it's up during most of studies and until like 6pm.  So that isnt too bad.  but where we are at, for about 2 weeks it never gets light... maybe a little bit, but not really.  we are pretty close to the artic circle. 

we didnt have a car for a few days this week, cause it was getting repaired. so taht was kinda fun to take the buses again, but kinda a pain.

I dont have tons more to say, except for i love Luleå, it's a great place.  The members are awesome altho a little crazy haha. but it is awesome to be a missioanry!  even you nomal members should study pmg a little haha.

talk to you later!

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