Dec 21nd 2009

Hey Family!

OK pretty crazy!!  So Matt is home!  It's crazy!!  So in his honor, this whole week I'm wearing nametags that I got that say "Äldste Liljegren"  his swedish name.

So that's pretty cool!  This week was kinda a weird one... some cool things happened-
we saw it -20 degrees Celsius!  Thats like -4 degrees Fahrenheit!!  It was WAY cold!  and we were outside for like 1½ hrs helping Marike chopping wood so she can live.  That was pretty crazy!  It think i would have died if i didnt have handwarmers in i think they would have fallen off.

I've also been studying Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon.  They are super cool!  If any of you have any idea what they are, I'm going thru them and studying them.  They are really fun to study.

I like my comp.  We get along pretty well.  we were in Umeå so we never got around to buying food this week, so we were pretty creative.  We'll go buy lots of food so that we are all stocked up.

The Elders in Skellefeå have no where to go for christmas so they are coming up with us!  It'll be lots of fun.  We might to to Jokkmokk (above the artic circle) on the shortest day of the year, therefore it'll be dark at noon.  And that is Joseph Smiths birthday!  We'll close to it.

We'll be at the Näslunds on Christmas Eve.  That's the big day here.  The actual day is just a chill day.  We'll see what we end up doing.

But yep that's our plans for this week, except we are going to make some sugar cookies with our english discussion group!  and then in our swedish and english class we are going to decorate some of them, and then we are going to take some more to members and less actives and investigators the next few days!  So we've got LOTS of cookies to make!  It'll be pretty fun.

Here are some videos of us doing stuff... like our christmas tree.  We went and cut one down, and then we have it hanging in our room haha.  In the video you can pretty much see our whole appartment.  It's slightly bigger then the appartment gma and gpa had in Bermuda.

I'm excited to talk to you guys on christmas!  Expect a call sometime!

ÄA





hopefully i didn't say anything stupid in these videos