March 15th 2010

Hey everybody!

This week was an interesting week.  We kinda had a lot of crazy stuff happen, that made it pretty chaotic.  We had sharpening(1 day messed up), then we had splits with the zone leaders (2 days), then we had surprise splits with the elders in Södertälje(3 days) because one of them can speak spanish and we had a teach in spanish that we needed help with, and it just worked out that way.  and then we were gone the next day playing a swedish sport called innebandy(4 days).  So yeah!  that was quite the adventure.  After that I just felt like I needed to get like a missionary reboot.  It's kinda hard living in a 4 man apartment.  There are so many distractions and such.  I think it's alot easier to live in just a 2 man.  and a 1 man would be cool- like i'm looking forward to it.  Having a companion glued to you 24/7 is like the hardest thing about missionary life I think.  I just wanna do something on my own like go hiking or make something or do some art or something.

Anyway enough of "wo is me" stuff.
Our teach that was in spanish was pretty good.  We teach those 2 kids from Equador.  They are awesome.  The older one wants to be baptized, and just needs to come to chruch to get ready.  She gets it all! she just needs to start making steps.

And our new member from Chile is having a hard time.  His parents live right on where the earthquake is, and doesn't know how they are doing.  he heard they were alive, but with all these other earthquakes he's not sure anymore.
And the other day we met a girl who was homeless.  she was selling these magazines, like they all do.  I gave her 20kr cuz i felt bad for her, but didnt want a magazine.  And she seemed like a respecable homeless person.  I've just gained a "sad love" for people who've had a hard time.  Like I just feel really bad for them.  It's just crazy what we go thru in this life.  The next life better be freaking better!!!  sheesh.  I just kinda had a view of us up in the pre-mortal world looking down, and then realizing "oh dang, there's not much time left. Oh no, like i gotta go down in that crazy world soon." Like I know that's a pretty pessimistic view but that's just what I though.  But then look at all the good things we have in this life!  I guess we gotta experience hell before we appreciate heaven.

So we've been playing chess in our apartment lately.  I won my first game pretty easily, and then I lost last night to my companion in the "finals".  I was dominating him and then he got me, pretty quickly.  It didn't help when I made a dumb quick mistake.  I just didn't think it out very far and assumed I'd be fine.  But if I did the smarter move, it would have been a toss-up and a long game.  It was already past bedtime!  And then I couldn't sleep so I stayed up thinking about life and reading stuff about Dad, like some letters he wrote, and some journal entres he did.  Did you know that I'm older then both of my parents when they had me?!  Yep like 8 months older then my mom apx and 2 months older then my dad.  Crazy huh!!  I just wish I could be like my dad.  He was sure awesome.  I still think about him all the time and tell stories all the time.  I think my companions think it's weird- whatever.

Next week we have transfers.  I'll most likely be emailing on Wednesday.... just to give you a heads up.

Anyway I hope all is well back home and that no earthquakes happen in Utah, especially now that our house is right under the "mmall sountain."

Have a great day!

ÄA