New Year January 11th

Hey Everyone!

This week some pretty cool stuff happened!

Check out this! -34° Celsius!
That's around -30° Fahrenheit!!!!

From 07 Luleå Clarke

From 07 Luleå Clarke

Yes... that's WAY cold!

But it did some crazy stuff that weather. Then yesterday and today it warmed up SO much!  It was positive for a few hours.

We also went to Umeå for Sharpening- basically mini-zone conference. That was pretty cool.  While I was there I got my package!  From Tami and family!!! SO that was really really awesome!!! Thanks you guys! I got all the stuff I needed.  I have food and candy and warm stuff!
BUT the best of it all was the letters, the journals and everything else!

I've got some pretty cool stuff up my sleeves for when I come home.  I hope you guys are all ready to do a service project....

We also had a pretty good week as missionaries.  We had a lot more teaches then we had over the holidays.  And we had some really good teaches.

I was probably the braves/boldest I've almost ever been on my mission.  We were talking to these 2 guys from Africa. They are awesome, but didn't really want to take anything but the bible.  My companion asked them an awesome question.  He asked them “how do you know the bible is true?”
one of them started to go off about history... and I stopped him, no I pretty much interrupted him.  Then I asked him if he wanted to know how I knew?  Then I basically just said the best answer which is--- that GOD told me the bible is right, and that the Holy Ghost bore testimony to me it was right!  And when I live the principles of it- I am HAPPY. And then we basically bore testimony of the Book of Mormon- how it's also the word of God.  We have to start our commitments pretty low- this time it was just read and pray about the bible.  They said they don't even read it all that much cauz they are too busy.

Another awesome teach was with our friend from Iran.  He's lived in Sweden for a long time, and basically has a swedish mentality.  But we invited him to “the challenge” which is to read and pray every day, and meet the missionaries 2x a week, and come to church!!  So we'll see where that goes!!!  If he holds to it obviously he'll get an answer!

Anyway have a great week!

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Great Picture of the Week:

From 07 Luleå Clarke

Purely Social Commentary:

From 07 Luleå Clarke

When you have the highest rates of abortion in the world - your opinion of saving food and hugging trees is automatically disqualified in my eyes.

sorry... i'm a missionary and shouldn't make social comments.  This just came from when I accidentally dropped an egg.  It just sparked my creativity/sorrow.