Sorry everyone, yesterday (monday/pday) the library's were closed because it was 2nd day Easter. Swedes need lots of time to remember the Resurrection.
Oh those pictures that didn't work last week should work now. go to...
http://rileyadamson.blogspot.com/2010/03/march-29th-2010-gotland.html
But yesterday was GREAT! We wen't with the Herreys (the senior couple with us) and their granddaughter and her kids out on the beach and looked for Fossils! it was super cool!! We found tons of them. Most of them are from plans or little shellfish. It was tons of fun! THEN after that me and my companion and Elder Herrey wen't on a teaching tour down south. We taught quite alot of people and we were pretty tired after. We were out working/doing something from 9am to 9pm.
Dang... Matt just told me I can sign up for classes! Thanks but dang now I gotta do that.
We are teaching quite a few people which is awesome. And one of them, probably the most positive, might move.... :( AND we almost started a civil war in the branch here. There is this one woman who was extremely mad when we had to cancel a dinner appointment with an investigator. We didn't want to cancel at all but we had to because we got a really lucky opportunity to talk to some high school kids who wanted to do a report about us. Anyway she flipped out and got super mad. She kinda has problems with everyone, but we got off to an early start. I was well prepared of how to handle the situation because Elder Loomis told me how to handle her, and the Herreys too. I didn't want to offend her at all, but we really couldnt come. She called the office, called the branch president, and called all her friends to try to get support, and bash us kinda. It was a sticky sticky situation. But I think I handled it well. She kinda likes to take over everything, and I just didn't let her. I held my ground, and just tried to reschedule. She was really not happy. But life's not fair so she can take it. But we got over it and it was good.
Oh so something cool. I'm reading in "Jesus the Christ" and I'm towards the end, and it was going thru the last week of Christs life, and it was Easter week, so that was really cool to visualize and think of. I LOVE that book. It's super good. Hard language, but good. I wanna finish that and the BOM in Swedish before I go home.
Anyway have a great day!
ÄA
We watched 1.5 sessions of conference. no, pretty much 2. But it was kinda crazy. I'm going to have to download them and put them on my ipod or something. I can comment more on them once I've seen them :)
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Monday, March 29, 2010
March 29th 2010 GOTLAND!!!
Hello!!
Now I'm out on Gotland with Elder Seegmiller!
A pictures worth a thousand words...
Now I'm out on Gotland with Elder Seegmiller!
A pictures worth a thousand words...
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| From Visby! |
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| From Visby! |
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| From Visby! |
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| From Visby! |
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| From Visby! |
It looks like some of those pictures isn't working... just click on them and hopefully it works.
So the city we are in is really cool. It has a big wall around it like Jerusalem, and it's right by the ocean!
The branch here is not very big. We had 11 people in church, and 6 of them were full-time missionaries.
It feels a lot like Bermuda! We have an awesome senior couple!!! the Herreys, who know everyone on the Island. They remind me a lot of my grandparents. Äldste Herrey is super friendly and loves to talk to everyone like grandpa. And the branch is kinda like it... except smaller. And the island is alot bigger, the one i'm on. And we're not very far away from mainland. It's pretty expensive and about a 3 hr boat ride.
We walked all the way around the wall and took pictures, and then when we got to the ocean i think my companion had a hard time. he used to live by the ocean. And then we got talking to some high school kids, and they were pretty chill. One of them took a book of Mormon and they listened to us a little! One of them believed in God! that was impressive.
Well I think that's about it for today. I don't have all that much more to say then i'm VERY excited for the next 2 months. They are going to be awesome!!
Have a great day!
ÄA
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
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.
View Larger Map
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.
ÄA
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.
View Larger Map
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.
ÄA
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