Hej everyone! This week has been super great! I've had some pretty good experiences. My Swedish is coming along! I've noticed a huge improvement which is really cool! It definitely just comes along as you listen to Swedes.
A cool experience this week is when I got my first new Swedish investigator! We were tracking in this apartment complex and like NO one was home, which is weird. But I knocked on a door and this Swedish lady answered finally. I was all like 'Hej! Vi är från vår kyrka och vi vill att prata om hur vi kan förbätra jultid för dig.* Which means, Hey we're from our church and we'd like to talk about how we can make your Christmas better! Which worked pretty well! We showed her a short church Christmas film and she said we could come back on Wednesday. It was pretty much all me talking and it felt SUPER good to actually do something useful with my Swedish. I was flying afterwards. Hopefully it turns out well! Her name is Hannah!
Weird food....hmmj.... one thing they really like here is mustard. Like the strongest mustard you've ever had. We had a little food gathering after church yesterday where we had sandwiches and rice pudding. Apparently like every other culture (and my grandma) except ours loves that stuff. It tastes really boring all by itself, but they put this fruit juice stuff and sugar and cinnamon in it. Pretty good. And then ALL bread here is super good and thick and hearty. The white wonderbread stuff we have in America doesn't exist here whatsoever. So we have really think bread and cheese and ham and butter. Butter and cheese here is also REALLY good here. Butter comes in these huge tubs, and it's amazing. But the really Swedish way to do it is to take one piece of bread and one piece of ham and squirt a TON of this super strong mustard in there, fold it in half and eat it. I tried it, it was ok, but the mustard was a really weird kind of spicy that like hurt my mouth almost. Fun to try.
Investigators to pray for: VICTORIA! Her baptism is actually today! And she has such a great testimony and strong desires! But her parents are lame. They're with the AFS church (still have no idea what that is) and they recognize that Victoria has her own choice, but her mom especially wants her to know EVERYTHING about the church before she joins, and she's always trying to interview her and ask all these hard questions and is really stressing Victoria out and critiquing her testimony. She made her cry yesterday, pretty sad. But the baptism is still on for tonight and hopefully nothing crazy dramatic will happen. We need prayers for her though!
Also pray that we can also meet with Joe. I think I mentioned him last week, but we haven't been able to meet with him since. And he was so solid I really don't want to lose him. So yeah.
I'm really looking forward to Christmas this week! I'll tell you all about it and about the baptism next week.
Merry Christmas!_
Äldste Mason
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