This week...
we did quite a bit!
I started writing in my journal again, haven't done that for about 6 months. not good... but yeah i so i started doing audio journals. My camera also records just voice so that's what i do! just takes a few minutes every night to get everything pretty well documented.
Today was a pretty cool pday. The Stockholm Marathon was today and it was way intense! we saw them start and finish and a couple places inbetween. I didn't like it because i thought they were racial profiling because if you just took the first 15 winners they were all the same race. I couldn't believe such a free and equal nation like Sweden would allow such an event. Especially when it disfavors the common blonde blue eyed swede. Some dude from Kenya won, of course.
I'm just kidding about the previous statement about racial profiling. It was actually way awesome to see them run. They owned!!! this dude ran so freaking fast. he beat 2nd place by 7 minutes. he got around 2 hours and 25 minutes to run 26 miles. I was blown away.
BUT this was the most impressive part. a 70 year old man got under 3 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UNBELIEVABLE.
We had a lot of member dinners this week. And we went tracting a few times, and did a lot of office work. One time we were tracting in a really really nice area in Täby. It is the nicest area in Sweden (richest) well anyway there were these 2 teens putting in their front yard. We talked to them for a few seconds, got the first little bit and they wernt interested. They had enough of god like the rest of them, well anyway then i asked them if i could try to hit a few, so we did! it was pretty cool. I showed them up. They were a little drunk, but they thought it was cool. It was so funny! when i was putting i could hear the dad in the house talking on the phone and then he said "haha the Jehovah witnesses are playing golf with my son!" and went on, he thought it was really funny. They complemented our Swedish big time also. That was cool. well we talked to them for a little more and gave them a Book of Mormon. it was pretty cool.
The assistants were on a really long trip. like a week. So was President Anderson. They had zone conferences in Göteborg and also Malmö. But now they are back.
I read a really interesting thing called "as a man thinkith" it was really interesting. Oh and I've also been studying chiasmus. They are really interesting and show alot of the author.
OH YEAH! I hit my one year mark last thursday. Yep i've been on a mission for over a year now... Pretty crazy!
This was at the very beginning of the Stockholm Marathon. 18,500 participants!
This is the finish line! In the same stadium where they held the 1912 olympics or something like that when the olympics were here in sweden. This is about ½hr after the winner came by. it was pretty intense!
Back to Uppsala. I'd been there about 8 months before on splits many times. it is a really cool city. That is the biggest cathedral in all of scandinavia.
here is my one social comentary picture. Taken in the Domkyrkan in Uppsala. Hope you enjoy the dark humor of the picture!
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This is me and my mom in Sergelstorget, the middle of Stockholm!
I was showing them how to get these bike things that we ride around.
This is me and my mom in gamlastan-- the oldest part of Stockholm. We are in the smallest road thing-- more like a stairway.
This is me, my mom and Matt at a tunnelbanna station (subway station) when they were headed home! We also had dinner together at the Mission Home with President and Sister Anderson. That was cool. We also took a boat ride way out in the ocean to Sandhamn that day! It was pretty fun!
This was a while ago-- we took some cool pictures on our way home one day. They have these fields that are completely yellow and this allé tree path thing was right in the middle of it!
This is a close up of the yellow rapseed plants that they have everywhere here. We had a fun time doing some photography stuff.
We went out by some members who live way far away, and they live right by this. I thought it was a cool picture. It reminded me of Strawberry! I used my new tripod for this picture.
These are the yellow fields we ran around in. We had lots of fun!! If you zoom in you can see a girl and her horse down the pathway.
