Time goes by so fast!!!
it is pretty crazy!
This week was pretty good. Some really good stuff and some really bad stuff. We had Zones conference!! that is always fun! I love President and Sister Anderson. I would trust them with anything. They are so awesome. I don't know if I've told you guys much about President Anderson. He is awesome.
Well that was in Lund. The elders in Karlskrona slept over at our apartment to cut up the trip, but Elder Dixon left his backpack at our apartment so me and him drove back to kristianstad and then back to lund, and then me and my companion took a train back home. It was alot of travel. Elder Dixon is an awesome guy. we had a good conversation. Me, Him and Elder Balhorn have been in the same district for 7 months! that is a LONG time. it has been awesome though.
Then another cool thing, is this guy, who is the head of some pro-jewish organization, who is a member, came to Malmö on sunday and gave a talk/presentation. It was SO cool. I love learning about other religions. He explained to us why the Jewish community loves mormons and why we love them, and why we are so similar and we take care of eachother. he said something that was really interesting he said that people who believe in the old and new testament can still hate the Jews-- just look at European history. But those that also believe in the bible AND the book of Mormon cannot. It was very cool. He is a very important guy appparently. He can speak 7 languages, and has done alot of political stuff to do good things. I wish i had his name so you could look into him. Anyway it was really cool to learn about, and gain a bigger appreciation for our brothers.
Because we were in Malmö we slept over there and now we are still there having p-day with them! Nothing too exciting but it has been good! Malmö is a cool city. I'd like to serve here.
Ok for some of the bad news...
Erica was sick with the flu this week, and we went by and gave her a blessing, and haven't talked to her sense. we plan on calling her today. But it is going pretty long and slow.
Alex-- we are not sure what his deal is. he is just wishywashy. He wont make up his mind. I've been in this city for 6 months and he is exactly in the same place. It is hard.
David Gustavsson-- got baptized last transfer, hasn't been to church sense. His dad wont fix their car and is just making up excuses and it is just really sad. they are making their own choices now. It's just hard to see. Our elders quorum president said to just do your job and leave agency up to them. It's been hard.
me and my companion are still working along. It is hard but not too bad. We get by I guess you can say. It is just frustrating and effects our effectiveness haha. But it will be fine. I kinda expected have hard companions and maybe this is just one of them! I'm a pretty strong willed person, and 2 strong willed persons don't get along so great USUALLY. But my last companion was the strongest willed person I've ever meet, and we got along really good. Life is just interesting!! I told my mom i was sure glad we get to pick our eternal companions haha.
Unless you've been on a mission i don't think you understand what a mission does to you. It is like a 2 year time to just think, and do missionary stuff-- which is the weirdest profession you can imagine. Who gives 2 years and 10,000 dollars to go around and be the most awkward person ever, and ask people to believe in God and pray and read for 2 years? we have got to be the craziest group of people in the world. I bet of all the 53,000 missionaries, we have the highest person to Rubik's cube ratio, and scriptures, and say more prayers and all sorts of weird stuff. We are one heck-of-a picular people.
I taught a class in Sunday school! Just me and like a couple 12-13 year old Swedish kids. They needed me to because a few members were sick. So i taught them about why we need Jesus Christ and how he helps us overcome the Physical and Spiritual deaths. It was cool! I hope they got it!
Call me a huge nerd, but i love the Rubik's cube. Elder Dixon is super good at it, is teaching me a new way to do it. it will be my 3-4th way of knowing how to do it. My fastest time is 47.8 seconds!!! It was pretty intense!!! My goal is to break the first official world record, at 44 seconds-- made in 1984 or something like that. haha.
alright i have a crazy thing for you guys to try.
check out this. I know I'm a huge nerd and all but these are pretty intense. I don't expect many of you to understand the power of these things, but they are pretty sweet. They have programs that you can put onto your cellphones that can basically do this same thing. they are pretty intense.
this creates them: http://qrcode.kaywa.com/this decodes them: http://www.drhu.org/QRCode/QRDecoder.php
this will tell you more about them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code
so i send my sister sand from all the places i visit. Last P-day we went to Simrisham-- the most southern city in or area, WAY far down. almost by poland and germany. the very end of sweden. Well i got some sand from this beach. Nati I'll send it to you soon!!! which by the way I'm going to send a package home with alot of stuff i've collected in Kristianstad over the past 7 months.
I also got my package from my family!! It had my new shoes in it-- the old ones cracked but they had a 2 year gaurentee so that was good. And some CDs with music! So i've been enjoying all of that this week. My mom also sent me some eyedrops that i need and it says that they expired 2 years ago, but I called up President Anderson, he used to be a world renouned chemist and stuff like that, so i told him what was in the ingredients, and he said it might not be very effective anymore but it wont hurt. So i'll try it and maybe have to go by a swedish doctor. The swedish medical stuff is very messed up. it is all free-- kinda-- but you have to wait like 6 hours and stuff like that. It is really stupid.
This is a cool picture i took thrugh a window into some house haha-- in simrishamn. Allison thats for you.Anyway love you all!!!
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