Ok! This week! 091205

Sorry I didn't email yesterday!  It wasn't our pday! cause we were in Umeå for zone conference, so now, the day after is our pday.

So this week was a fairly good week.  We had some good things happen.

Ok first, it is dark ALL the time!!!  It is kinda light from like 10:00 to 1:30.  But we almost never actually see the sun, cause it is cloudy usually, and it is way way far down.  The sunrise is the sunset.... and it's miserable.

But i'm doing pretty good.  It is kinda crazy tho with it always being dark.  I can feel it inside me.  Our investigators from Iran have the same thing... I dont think they really like it here to be honest haha.

BUT on the good side, we taught our best investigator, Fred, the guy married to the member this week.  We'll see what happens with him.  And we also taught a man named Altai, he is really a good guy, but we'll see if he needs the gospel, or can muster up enough faith to ask.  We'll see!

And our teenage friends just came to the church and we had a good old time with them.  They are really great kids, I think we've helped them quite a bit.  I didnt know what we were going to talk about (religious wise) and then i looked up and there was a drawing of Lehi's dream!  It was perfect for them!  It was pretty cool, to go over that and talk about what it was symbolic of, and that we are kinda at the tree asking them to come to it.
But we did play a fun word game where we wrote down a funny sentence, kinda like in story form, and then folded over the paper, and the next person writes a sentence of the last one.  (so you only can see 1 sentence above) and then it makes really funny stories!  It was good.

We also had zone conference, and that was really really good.  I was really impressed with our zone leaders actually.  I'm sorry but sometimes i have had a hard time looking up to leaders cause usually they aren't much of a good example of following the rules, or they are kinda prideful about it, but I was really really impressed. They gave some really good talks, that I was blown away with how they worded their sentences and the depth of their talks.  For some reason it really got to me.  they are both really good orators- however you spell that, and they bore a strong testimony.  It was a really good zc.  It made me want to be better!

Anyway I hope you all serve someone this christmas time, and don't think about yourself.  Some of my best christmas memories, were...
1, when i got my rifle.  I was so happy.
2, when we went and gave blankets to kids at the hospital
3, when we helped some families with the sub-for-santa.  I cant think of anything i've pretty much ever got for christmas (ok thats not true, i remember alot) but I remember better those service projects we did.

So SERVE!!!

I was telling Matt Lyons (I first said Matt L. but that could be Lelegren too) that I wish that christmas was a Worldwide Service Day.  That would be the best ever.

Hejdå!

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