March 22nd 2010

Hello Everyone!

OK!  I got quite a bit of stuff to tell you.  I'm going to get transfered one last time... so this'll be my final area.  I'm going to Visby (Gotland)!!!!  It's a pretty big island in the middle of the Baltic Ocean.  Here's a map.


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Hopefully that worked.  Yeah so that island right in the middle that says "Gotland" is my new area!!!  The branch there is pretty small... but I don't know how small.  And we have a senior couple there - the Herreys.  Their sons are pretty famous.  They won "eurovision" or something like that. It's kinda like the American Idol of Europe, but bigger, and I'd say more organized and better. Them and ABBA are the only people to win from Sweden. I've meet most of them, but It'll be cool to serve with their parents!
here's 2 good links I found for them...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herreys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTFec_mrD-c

My companion will be Elder Seegmiller.  He's actually in my same group.  So we'll be "killing" eachother.  So that'll be interesting.  Usually the elders out there only come back into mainland once a transfer, but it sounds like we'll be coming back quite often which is good.

So yeah.  Stuff about this week...  Yesterday I was "pleading from the porcelain alter."  That's no fun if you get what I'm talking about.  My companion was sick last week, and then it seems I got it from him.  No fun!

We went on splits with the assistants (they were coming to spy on us to see if they wanted to close our area, which they didn't cause we are actually doing really good right now).  But while on splits I was back to Täby, my old area when I was in the office.  That was fun to get to go back and see a bunch of members.  We contacted a woman when we were walking around and then we ended up teaching her.  That was good.

And while I was on splits in Täby the elders that were in our area got a baptismal date!!  So that was awesome!!!  She is a friend to a member and has come to church lots and lots, but her parents wouldn't let her get baptized... but now she is 18 and so we've been working hard to get in contact with her.  So we finally got to talk to her and it sounds like she is doing good and will get baptized sometime soon.

We'll that's about it.  Have a great day!!!

I also gave a talk on sunday and would like to talk about what I talked about.  The topic was "member missionary work" but i took it from probably not a normal angle.  I talked about charity and how because God loves us we have the Attonement, and the chance to be here, and why we do missionary work is cuz we love the people we serve, and god.  and then i talked abotu how awesome my mom is, and that moms are the best missionaries.  And that it's most important that you have a good family- but you should also be a missionary.

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