Hey Fam!
Ok i'll just get the business stuff out of the way first.
WOW! Last Christmas $443.28 was spent on shipping stuff to me. As seeing that thats lots of money, and I dont really need anything this upcoming christmas so I'm asking that you don't send packages-- but LETTERS in stead. I would like as many genuine letters as possible. That would be the best gift. Letters are awesome.
But if you insist on sending something- I can make a "Elder Adamson College Book Fund" that you can donate to....
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX email me if you need this
THANKS!
I probably should clarify a little. I super appreciate all the packages that were sent to me last year. Thanks to each of you that did that. It was understandably a hard time in my life and I sure enjoyed opening them all and everything. I really appreciate it, but I just don't need anything now! I've got all the stuff I need! I'll need money for college alot more!
OK so news for this week!
The RIVER IS STARTING TO FREEZE OVER!
it's scary! it's starting to snow, and we dont have our snow tires on... and it's pretty scary. I'm super newrvous about the whole driving in the snow situation, and on ice roads etc. It'll be pretty scary. Hopefully i survive. Pray that i dont die- I'm serious. Most missionaries pray that they dont get shot or something, i'm praying that i dont die in a car reck.
Some better news!
Our best investigator got married! now he is completely ready for baptism! He is so awesome! He has gone thru a lot. He was one of the best surgeons in sweden, but had lots of problems. He was an alchaholic, and nothing helped him, he snused (drugged up chewing tobacco) and lived with someone and all this stuff but now he's overcome it all and is ready! we went thru the baptismal questions with him, and he said yes to all of them. The best was he didnt have any problems with abortion- i was worried about that one. Really worried. BUT it all went great! So we just have to set a date with him, he has to be offically interviewed, and get in the water!
We met with our 2 iranian friends, they are so cool. I love them to death. they are so honest and polite and appreciative. I really like them. I wanna go to iran and visit them, or whereever in the world they end up.
We also went by our chinese investigator- he works SO HARD. he works 12+ hrs a day, and EVERY day. even sunday. He is working on getting his doctorate in 2 years. It's unbelievable. He said it will be hard to learn abt religion now... so we'll see where it all goes.
OH k, i posted 2 posts this week. Make sure you look at the other one. We watched elder Hollands talk. That guy owned the place. I cannot believe it's possible to have that strong of a testimony. He was so incredible! I can competely see him as one of the 2 apostles in the last days in jerusalem. that'd be cool. And the choir rocked the song before. I was blown away. I guess i've gained a little more appreciation for that kinda stuff these 2 years.
and we've been teaching lots of english classes and that's been fun. I think i've learned alot on my mission. especially about loving people, and taking care of random people and just caring about them. It's kinda weird cause I absolutly hate abortion, and all it includes, and it makes me just super sad, even tho i dont really care in a way, cause it doesnt effect me. but just living with these people and seeint that they do stupid stuff. Idk, it makes me love them more, and care about them. Swedes in all honesty are pretty hard to love. But it's coming. I dont think anyone quite understand how it is to live in the most godless nation on earth, and probably one of the most "unhumble". pride sounds a little harsh... cause they are not really prideful, ok yeah they are.
We went tracting for 2½ hrs... I really dont like tracting. every time i do i think there has gotta be a better way. No one gives us the time of day to present what we believe. but that's life.
AND that way tho is members. The members are going to really have to step up and start taking over in sweden. Now is the time. We started a Branch Mission Plan- a plan of action to get this place on fire! It'll be pretty good. Honestly us as missionaries cannot do too much without the members, so that is why we are trying to help them understand missionary work. Most of them wanna do missionary stuff, just dont really know how. or they are crazy, so it doesnt matter what they say to their friends haha. But anyway we are trying to also get a Mission Prep class going for all the members in Luleå so they know what to say to their friends. I think it will be really good!
Our ZC in Stockholm was really good! on the way back i sat next to this guy on the plane he was pretty cool, not really intested, but he told me all about his work on the trains and stuff. that was cool.
The ZC was about stepping it up and getting baptisms. Ä. Paya talked about how if we gain christlike attributes, then we will be spiritual, then we will love the people, and then we will build up zion. and if we are spiritual we can follow the spirit and find the elect people. if we love we will have a trusting relationship w. them, and be able to teach them. and if we do that then we will convert people to the gospel!
Anyway love you all!
Have a great week!
ÄA
don't forget to look at the other post
Monday, October 12, 2009
Nati sent this to me-
Well last P-day we watched this, cause we didn't get to watch it during confrence.
Elder Holland owns, and the choir before set the perfect scene.
I wish people would keep the door open long enough for us to explain this!
This is the part Nati sent to me:
If one scoffs at the explanation of the Book of Mormon, he is in so many words claiming it to be false: that it is a deceiving fraud formulated through the efforts and talents of a common man. Occasionally you hear someone say, "I could believe your Mormon Doctrine if I just didn't have to swallow the story about Joseph Smith being a man of God and that he translated the Book of Mormon from some golden plates with he claimed he found on a hillside." It is even possible that you, yourself, have doubted the story.
What can be or is produced by one man, can always be duplicated by another man. The challenge the Book of Mormon makes to the world is that of duplication. Well, let us consider some facts or conditions that must be complied with in order for you or any one else to produce a similar record under comparable conditions. Because the book complies with everyone of the following conditions, and in order for you to produce a similar record, you must comply with the same conditions:
Write a history of ancient Tibet covering a period from 2200 BC to 400 AD. Why ancient Tibet? Because it is likely that you know no more about ancient Tibet than Joseph Smith (or anyone else) knew about ancient America.
You're 21 years of age.
You cannot be a college graduate. In fact you have had no more than three years of formal school education, and have spent your life in backwoods farming communities.
Your history must be written on the basis of what you now know. There was no library that held information for Joseph Smith. You must use none. There is to be no research of any kind.
Your book must be long, containing 522 pages with over 150 words per page and over 300,000 words from start to finish. It must contain 239 chapters. You must include in your book 54 chapters dealing with wars, 21 historical chapters, 55 chapters on visions and prophecies, and remember, when you begin to write visions and prophecies you must have your record agree meticulously with the Bible. You must write 71 chapters on doctrine and exhortation, and here too, you must check every statement with the scriptures or yours will be proven to be fraud. You must write 21 chapters on the ministry of Jesus Christ, and everything you claim He said and did and every testimony you write in your book about Him must agree absolutely with the New Testament.
Other than a few grammatical corrections, you must have no changes in the text. The first edition as you dictate it to your secretary must stand forever.
You must not write it yourself, you must dictate it to a scribe. You must sit on opposite sides of a curtain and never see each other as you speak and he/she writes.
After pauses for sleep and food, if you are dictating to a stenographer, you must never ask to have the last paragraph or last sentence read back to you.
This record is to contain the history of two distinct and separate nations, along with histories of different contemporary nations or groups of people.
You must describe their religious, economic, political, and social cultures and institutions. Cover every phase of their society, including the names of their coins. Your description of the cultures in the civilizations of which you will write about cannot be known about when you publish your manuscript.
Change your style of writing many times. Many ancient authors contributed to the Book of Mormon each with his own style.
Weave into your history the religion of Jesus Christ and the Pattern of Christian Living.
You must claim or announce that your "smooth narrative" is not fiction with moral value, but is true and sacred history.
Many of the facts, claims, ideas, and statements given as absolutely true in your writings must be entirely inconsistent with the prevailing beliefs of the world. Some of these worldly beliefs must prove to be a direct opposite of your claims.
Included in your narration will be authentic modes of travel; whether or not those ancient people used fire; descriptions of their clothing, crops, mourning customs, and types of government. You must invent about 280 new names (William Shakespeare in all his writings added approximately 30) that will stand up under scrutiny through the years as to their proper application and derivation.
You will have to use, properly, figures of speech, similes, metaphors, narration, exposition, description, oratory, epic lyric, and parables.
You must invite the ablest scholars and experts to examine the text with care, and you must strive diligently to see that your book gets into the hands of those eager to prove it a forgery, and who are most competent to expose every flaw in it.
Thorough investigation, scientific and historical evidence, and archaeological discovery for the next 125 years must verify its claims and prove detail after detail to be true, for many of the details you put in your history are still buried beneath the soil of Tibet.
You must publish it to every nation, kindred, tongue and people declaring it to be the word of God and another witness for the Lord Jesus Christ.
The book must not contain any absurd, impossible, or contradictory statements. Your history must not contain any statement that will contradict any other statement elsewhere in the volume.
Many theories and ideas as to its origin must arise, and after discovering and examining the facts, they must fall. You have claimed that your knowledge had come from a divine origin, and this claim continues to stand as the only possible explanation. The strength of this explanation must not decrease as time passes, but actually increases to the point where it becomes the only logical explanation.
Your record is to fulfill many Bible prophecies, even in the exact manner in which it shall come forth, to whom it will be delivered, it's purposes, it's accomplishments.
Call down an angel from heaven in the middle of the day and have him bear testimony to three honest, dignified citizens of your community that the record is the word of God. These witnesses must bear the angel's testimony to the world, even to their death beds. You must put that testimony to the test by becoming an enemy to these men.
You must call out of heaven the voice of the Redeemer, to declare to the three witnesses that your record is true and that it is their responsibility to bear their testimonies to the world, and they must do so.
Eight other witnesses must testify to the world that they saw the ancient records in broad daylight and they handled them and felt the engravings thereon.
The first three and the second eight must bear their testimonies not for profit, not for gain, but under great personal sacrifice and severe persecution, even to their deaths.
Thousands of great men, intellectual giants, national and international personalities, and scholars for 125 years must accept your history and its teachings even to the point of laying down their lives rather than deny their testimony of it.
You must include within your record this strange but wonderful promise; "And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, He will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost. And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things."
Millions must bear record to the world for the next 125 years that they know the record to be true because they put the promise to the test and round it to be true. The truth of it was manifested to them by the power of the Holy Ghost.
Over 80,000 competent salesmen must be so sold on your book that they gladly give up two years of their lives to take it to all parts of the world for distribution. They not only pay their own way during these years, but return bearing testimony that the time spent will remain as one of the highlights of their lives. They receive nothing in return for their efforts but the joy of having shared your book with others.
Your book must not only raise the standards of millions of people but do it in such a way that they become one of the great moral, ethical and dynamic marvels of the day. They must become world reknowned for this.
For the next 20 years you must watch those that follow you, your family, and the dearest of your loved ones persecuted, driven time after time from their homes, beaten, tortured, starved, frozen, and killed. Tens of thousands must undergo the most extreme hardships in your presence just because they believe your claims concerning the origin and content of what you have written on ancient Tibet.
You must gain no wealth from your work, but many times lose all that you have. Like those that believe you, you must submit yourself to the most vile persecution. And finally after 20 years of this, give your own life in a very savage and brutal manner, for you testimony concerning your book. This must be done willingly on your part.
Start right now and produce this record which covers 2,600 years of history, doing it, not in the peaceful atmosphere of your community, but under the most trying of circumstances which includes being driven from your home several times, and receiving constant threats upon your life. Please have your book completed, talk a friend into mortgaging his farm to raise money to have it printed with the understanding that neither he nor yourself will ever receive monetary enumeration from it. You must sell the book at cost or less.
Do this all in 60 days!!
If no one can comply exactly to this criteria: There Is Only One Answer:
Elder Holland owns, and the choir before set the perfect scene.
I wish people would keep the door open long enough for us to explain this!
This is the part Nati sent to me:
If one scoffs at the explanation of the Book of Mormon, he is in so many words claiming it to be false: that it is a deceiving fraud formulated through the efforts and talents of a common man. Occasionally you hear someone say, "I could believe your Mormon Doctrine if I just didn't have to swallow the story about Joseph Smith being a man of God and that he translated the Book of Mormon from some golden plates with he claimed he found on a hillside." It is even possible that you, yourself, have doubted the story.
What can be or is produced by one man, can always be duplicated by another man. The challenge the Book of Mormon makes to the world is that of duplication. Well, let us consider some facts or conditions that must be complied with in order for you or any one else to produce a similar record under comparable conditions. Because the book complies with everyone of the following conditions, and in order for you to produce a similar record, you must comply with the same conditions:
Write a history of ancient Tibet covering a period from 2200 BC to 400 AD. Why ancient Tibet? Because it is likely that you know no more about ancient Tibet than Joseph Smith (or anyone else) knew about ancient America.
You're 21 years of age.
You cannot be a college graduate. In fact you have had no more than three years of formal school education, and have spent your life in backwoods farming communities.
Your history must be written on the basis of what you now know. There was no library that held information for Joseph Smith. You must use none. There is to be no research of any kind.
Your book must be long, containing 522 pages with over 150 words per page and over 300,000 words from start to finish. It must contain 239 chapters. You must include in your book 54 chapters dealing with wars, 21 historical chapters, 55 chapters on visions and prophecies, and remember, when you begin to write visions and prophecies you must have your record agree meticulously with the Bible. You must write 71 chapters on doctrine and exhortation, and here too, you must check every statement with the scriptures or yours will be proven to be fraud. You must write 21 chapters on the ministry of Jesus Christ, and everything you claim He said and did and every testimony you write in your book about Him must agree absolutely with the New Testament.
Other than a few grammatical corrections, you must have no changes in the text. The first edition as you dictate it to your secretary must stand forever.
You must not write it yourself, you must dictate it to a scribe. You must sit on opposite sides of a curtain and never see each other as you speak and he/she writes.
After pauses for sleep and food, if you are dictating to a stenographer, you must never ask to have the last paragraph or last sentence read back to you.
This record is to contain the history of two distinct and separate nations, along with histories of different contemporary nations or groups of people.
You must describe their religious, economic, political, and social cultures and institutions. Cover every phase of their society, including the names of their coins. Your description of the cultures in the civilizations of which you will write about cannot be known about when you publish your manuscript.
Change your style of writing many times. Many ancient authors contributed to the Book of Mormon each with his own style.
Weave into your history the religion of Jesus Christ and the Pattern of Christian Living.
You must claim or announce that your "smooth narrative" is not fiction with moral value, but is true and sacred history.
Many of the facts, claims, ideas, and statements given as absolutely true in your writings must be entirely inconsistent with the prevailing beliefs of the world. Some of these worldly beliefs must prove to be a direct opposite of your claims.
Included in your narration will be authentic modes of travel; whether or not those ancient people used fire; descriptions of their clothing, crops, mourning customs, and types of government. You must invent about 280 new names (William Shakespeare in all his writings added approximately 30) that will stand up under scrutiny through the years as to their proper application and derivation.
You will have to use, properly, figures of speech, similes, metaphors, narration, exposition, description, oratory, epic lyric, and parables.
You must invite the ablest scholars and experts to examine the text with care, and you must strive diligently to see that your book gets into the hands of those eager to prove it a forgery, and who are most competent to expose every flaw in it.
Thorough investigation, scientific and historical evidence, and archaeological discovery for the next 125 years must verify its claims and prove detail after detail to be true, for many of the details you put in your history are still buried beneath the soil of Tibet.
You must publish it to every nation, kindred, tongue and people declaring it to be the word of God and another witness for the Lord Jesus Christ.
The book must not contain any absurd, impossible, or contradictory statements. Your history must not contain any statement that will contradict any other statement elsewhere in the volume.
Many theories and ideas as to its origin must arise, and after discovering and examining the facts, they must fall. You have claimed that your knowledge had come from a divine origin, and this claim continues to stand as the only possible explanation. The strength of this explanation must not decrease as time passes, but actually increases to the point where it becomes the only logical explanation.
Your record is to fulfill many Bible prophecies, even in the exact manner in which it shall come forth, to whom it will be delivered, it's purposes, it's accomplishments.
Call down an angel from heaven in the middle of the day and have him bear testimony to three honest, dignified citizens of your community that the record is the word of God. These witnesses must bear the angel's testimony to the world, even to their death beds. You must put that testimony to the test by becoming an enemy to these men.
You must call out of heaven the voice of the Redeemer, to declare to the three witnesses that your record is true and that it is their responsibility to bear their testimonies to the world, and they must do so.
Eight other witnesses must testify to the world that they saw the ancient records in broad daylight and they handled them and felt the engravings thereon.
The first three and the second eight must bear their testimonies not for profit, not for gain, but under great personal sacrifice and severe persecution, even to their deaths.
Thousands of great men, intellectual giants, national and international personalities, and scholars for 125 years must accept your history and its teachings even to the point of laying down their lives rather than deny their testimony of it.
You must include within your record this strange but wonderful promise; "And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, He will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost. And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things."
Millions must bear record to the world for the next 125 years that they know the record to be true because they put the promise to the test and round it to be true. The truth of it was manifested to them by the power of the Holy Ghost.
Over 80,000 competent salesmen must be so sold on your book that they gladly give up two years of their lives to take it to all parts of the world for distribution. They not only pay their own way during these years, but return bearing testimony that the time spent will remain as one of the highlights of their lives. They receive nothing in return for their efforts but the joy of having shared your book with others.
Your book must not only raise the standards of millions of people but do it in such a way that they become one of the great moral, ethical and dynamic marvels of the day. They must become world reknowned for this.
For the next 20 years you must watch those that follow you, your family, and the dearest of your loved ones persecuted, driven time after time from their homes, beaten, tortured, starved, frozen, and killed. Tens of thousands must undergo the most extreme hardships in your presence just because they believe your claims concerning the origin and content of what you have written on ancient Tibet.
You must gain no wealth from your work, but many times lose all that you have. Like those that believe you, you must submit yourself to the most vile persecution. And finally after 20 years of this, give your own life in a very savage and brutal manner, for you testimony concerning your book. This must be done willingly on your part.
Start right now and produce this record which covers 2,600 years of history, doing it, not in the peaceful atmosphere of your community, but under the most trying of circumstances which includes being driven from your home several times, and receiving constant threats upon your life. Please have your book completed, talk a friend into mortgaging his farm to raise money to have it printed with the understanding that neither he nor yourself will ever receive monetary enumeration from it. You must sell the book at cost or less.
Do this all in 60 days!!
If no one can comply exactly to this criteria: There Is Only One Answer:
THE BOOK OF MORMON IS A DIVINE RECORD
Monday, October 5, 2009
Okt. 5th 2009 General Conference!
Ok!! this week was pretty aweome I gotta lot to say
Ok so we have this swedish class, where we teach swedish to these people that wanted to come. It's pretty cool- I told you guys a little about it. Well there are lots of them from Iran and they are so awesome!!! You guys have no idea how awesome muslims are and how nice they are! they are really some of the greatest people. I'd trust them any day over your average christian. They are so awesome. Well there are these 2 of them, they have been married for about a year, and they come. They got out of Iran and went to Malasia or something, and then ended up here. They are studying. They are so cool. Well like i said, last week, they all started asking us about what we believe. Well the husband, Tophie(?) he wanted to speak english with us and also learn about what we believe, and his wife Pavaneh also! we called and asked President Anderson if we could teach them and he said yes, but we cannot promise that they can get baptised- until they are legal long term residents of sweden or some stable country. Anyway so we met with them and it was so good! One of my favorite scriptures is Mosiah 3:13 -- I use it all the time. Anyway they do have alot of truths and good /great values. They are awesome people. Well it was so fun to talk to them and not feel like we were trying to convert them, but we were just discussing different things, similarites and differences between our beliefs. It was really cool.
And we also saw general conference. Like everyone else it appears that I also liked Pres. Monsons talk about charity and good work. It kinda made me home sick and really miss my dad. He did alot of charity and good works, that people kinda didnt know about. He did some great stuff, and i was thinking about how awesome he is, and he was probably listening somewhere in heaven doing his fistpump and touchdown call when all the different apostles nailed different topics.
I dont think i've ever eaten so much candy in my life. We bought so much candy for conference- I kinda felt sick after. I'm sure i ate over a kilo. It was so good tho. Yes i brushed my teeth after.
So we've been kinda deciding our strategies here of how we are going to do missionary work. these are the things we kinda came up with... strenthen the members- and help them know how to do missionary work. So we are working with the bishop with maybe doing a mission prep class for any of the members, and also the branch mission plan. Also i want to target swedes. We have been visiting lots of English classes in highschools- I've done so many of them in my day. Some of them we talked alot about what we believed and got to testify, and others we just showed them that we are normal people and basically just planted 1000 good seeds for future missionaries. Its really good to give them a good perspective of us and that we are kinda normal.... and just so they know who we are.
And we also when we have extra time we are going to swing by 1 less active, and then tract in their area. That seems the best to me.
It's essencially the first time i've really been seinor. The office doesnt count, for one cause Edmunds is the most awesome missioanry ever, and we dont even do missionary work in the office, just service work all day. so yeah this is pretty much my first time being senior in a normal missionary setting.
Tonight we are flying to Stockholm to have a zone conference tomorrow. That'll be cool to fly as a missionary!! I'm pretty excited about it.
Ok i'll keep talkinga bout missionar work, we actually ahd one killer week. We got 4 new investigators, and next week we seriously could get like 8. We had alot of good teaches this week with some new people.
We had a teach with this kid from an english class who asked us (they all ask us 1 question) and he asked us what is our opinion about gay marriage. Haha what would you say?? and another girl asked us about contraceptives- and my comp didnt know what that ment. I just about died laughing. It was so funny. They must of thought we were the most sheltered people ever. well this kid that asked about gays, well ok basically i feel like i can answer every freaking crazy question on earth, and in the middle of this class i explained how we believe it is a choice etc. and stuff, and he wanted to know more so we met with him the next day and talked about it. we had to stop ½ way cause his bus was going to leave, so we are going to continue. The things we do as a missionary are sometimes crazy. You'd never believe some of the questions we get.
I've gotten alot of quesitons about weather. And i'm sad to say it SNOWED this morning. Yes when we woke up there was a little snow.... pretty sad. The sun is up quiet a bit tho still. it's up during most of studies and until like 6pm. So that isnt too bad. but where we are at, for about 2 weeks it never gets light... maybe a little bit, but not really. we are pretty close to the artic circle.
we didnt have a car for a few days this week, cause it was getting repaired. so taht was kinda fun to take the buses again, but kinda a pain.
I dont have tons more to say, except for i love Luleå, it's a great place. The members are awesome altho a little crazy haha. but it is awesome to be a missioanry! even you nomal members should study pmg a little haha.
talk to you later!
ÄA
Ok so we have this swedish class, where we teach swedish to these people that wanted to come. It's pretty cool- I told you guys a little about it. Well there are lots of them from Iran and they are so awesome!!! You guys have no idea how awesome muslims are and how nice they are! they are really some of the greatest people. I'd trust them any day over your average christian. They are so awesome. Well there are these 2 of them, they have been married for about a year, and they come. They got out of Iran and went to Malasia or something, and then ended up here. They are studying. They are so cool. Well like i said, last week, they all started asking us about what we believe. Well the husband, Tophie(?) he wanted to speak english with us and also learn about what we believe, and his wife Pavaneh also! we called and asked President Anderson if we could teach them and he said yes, but we cannot promise that they can get baptised- until they are legal long term residents of sweden or some stable country. Anyway so we met with them and it was so good! One of my favorite scriptures is Mosiah 3:13 -- I use it all the time. Anyway they do have alot of truths and good /great values. They are awesome people. Well it was so fun to talk to them and not feel like we were trying to convert them, but we were just discussing different things, similarites and differences between our beliefs. It was really cool.
And we also saw general conference. Like everyone else it appears that I also liked Pres. Monsons talk about charity and good work. It kinda made me home sick and really miss my dad. He did alot of charity and good works, that people kinda didnt know about. He did some great stuff, and i was thinking about how awesome he is, and he was probably listening somewhere in heaven doing his fistpump and touchdown call when all the different apostles nailed different topics.
I dont think i've ever eaten so much candy in my life. We bought so much candy for conference- I kinda felt sick after. I'm sure i ate over a kilo. It was so good tho. Yes i brushed my teeth after.
So we've been kinda deciding our strategies here of how we are going to do missionary work. these are the things we kinda came up with... strenthen the members- and help them know how to do missionary work. So we are working with the bishop with maybe doing a mission prep class for any of the members, and also the branch mission plan. Also i want to target swedes. We have been visiting lots of English classes in highschools- I've done so many of them in my day. Some of them we talked alot about what we believed and got to testify, and others we just showed them that we are normal people and basically just planted 1000 good seeds for future missionaries. Its really good to give them a good perspective of us and that we are kinda normal.... and just so they know who we are.
And we also when we have extra time we are going to swing by 1 less active, and then tract in their area. That seems the best to me.
It's essencially the first time i've really been seinor. The office doesnt count, for one cause Edmunds is the most awesome missioanry ever, and we dont even do missionary work in the office, just service work all day. so yeah this is pretty much my first time being senior in a normal missionary setting.
Tonight we are flying to Stockholm to have a zone conference tomorrow. That'll be cool to fly as a missionary!! I'm pretty excited about it.
Ok i'll keep talkinga bout missionar work, we actually ahd one killer week. We got 4 new investigators, and next week we seriously could get like 8. We had alot of good teaches this week with some new people.
We had a teach with this kid from an english class who asked us (they all ask us 1 question) and he asked us what is our opinion about gay marriage. Haha what would you say?? and another girl asked us about contraceptives- and my comp didnt know what that ment. I just about died laughing. It was so funny. They must of thought we were the most sheltered people ever. well this kid that asked about gays, well ok basically i feel like i can answer every freaking crazy question on earth, and in the middle of this class i explained how we believe it is a choice etc. and stuff, and he wanted to know more so we met with him the next day and talked about it. we had to stop ½ way cause his bus was going to leave, so we are going to continue. The things we do as a missionary are sometimes crazy. You'd never believe some of the questions we get.
I've gotten alot of quesitons about weather. And i'm sad to say it SNOWED this morning. Yes when we woke up there was a little snow.... pretty sad. The sun is up quiet a bit tho still. it's up during most of studies and until like 6pm. So that isnt too bad. but where we are at, for about 2 weeks it never gets light... maybe a little bit, but not really. we are pretty close to the artic circle.
we didnt have a car for a few days this week, cause it was getting repaired. so taht was kinda fun to take the buses again, but kinda a pain.
I dont have tons more to say, except for i love Luleå, it's a great place. The members are awesome altho a little crazy haha. but it is awesome to be a missioanry! even you nomal members should study pmg a little haha.
talk to you later!
ÄA
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