2010! January 4th

Howdy Everyone!

This week was an alright week.  We didn't have much success in normal missionary stuff this week.  It was not so great.  But I'll tell you about it anyway.  The hard times are just as important as the good times right?

Well our English class kinda tanked.  We had one Chinese man come who is actually pretty good at English, well he knows a lot of words, but we helped him learn how to say them.  He is the same guy who wants to join the American Army.

And we went on splits with the Zone Leaders.  That was pretty good actually, but kinda ineffective like all splits are.  On Wednesday, we drove all the way to Skellefteå and switched.  Then we came back and helped our member that lives out in the middle of the woods.  And we were there forever.  She needed help getting water out of her well.  And then we went to Boden to visit the new members there.  That was that whole day.  And then the next day we drove to Skellefteå again, and had district meeting.

We did go contacting on Saturday and had some success... We got 3 phone numbers.  So hopefully those turn out to be golden.  Oh this was actually a pretty funny story, and kinda a typical story, but at the same time extreme.  We were tracting and this door didnt answer forever so we just went down the stairs to the next one, but then I heard it answer, so I went up there and there was this old woman, about in 60's.  I said something like "oh hey we are going around talking to people about God" and then she said "Nej!!  Nej!!  Stig här ifrån!  Stig här ifrån!!" (translates to No! No! Leave from here! Leave from here!!)  and slammed the door.  Yep.  It was after a pretty long day, and boy that just helped.

BUT on a more exciting note, I got my package from my family!!  That was awesome!! I love mangoes and beef jerky and thanks Matt for the kit!  I really like it!  And the gloves are pretty awesome too.

And we had a fun time with the Näslunds on New Years.  That was really fun.  We had some really good food, it reminded me of America. (yes it was that good.  Not saying swedish food isn't good, cause it really is, just in America everything is bigger and better.)

AND this upcoming week should be a lot better.  We are going to dedicate us a little more, work harder, and we already have a few appointments set up and we have 'sharpening' (mini-zone conference) on Friday.

Anyway Sorry I don't have too much positive to report right now!  We're working on it!

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