Elder Joshua Mason: Week 19, A Much More Funny Email, 1/25/16

A super nice house we tracked into

Hey Everyone! I read my last weeks email and realized something, it's pretty boring. I'm definitely going to write about some more funny stories and put some more pictures in here so you might actually want to read it.

Spiritual stuff: So you know our baptismal date Richard? The Ghanaian? We finally made contact with him the other day. So here's the good news, he's still down to be baptized and is still a SUPER awesome guy :) he's just been in Denmark and has had his phone off the whole time which is why he hasn't been responding. The bad news, he doesn't actually live in our area. Kinda. He might actually be homelessish. He moves around a lot. So we'll see if we have to give him to some other Elders. We're meeting with him tonight.

Graveyardish place we walk by all the time.

Miracle for this week: We got ANOTHER date actually!! We were out tracking late last Monday when we see this lone guy on a bike coming toward us. We normally don't stop people on bikes...cause it makes them mad. But Äldste Nielsen like a boss turns to me and says *watch this* and proceeds to wave the guy down. His name is Jose! He was super positive and from Peru of all places! Just like Eduardo! He's been in Sweden for like 30 years or so though, so he speaks fluent Spanish and Swedish (his lessons are in Swedish). We switched numbers and I said something really smooth like, Hasta Luego or something just to show how much Spanish I know *cough* none. Well, we met up at the library a few days later and he was super positive! He's from a Catholic background obviously but he was really interested in the Libro de Mormon we gave him. He committed to baptism and is excited to come to church once he gets money for a busscard (which will be this week). His date is for the 20th of February but it's pretty tentative after only one lesson. We'll see where it goes! The Lord has definitely set out miracles for us to find him though. His Swedish with a Spanish accent is like the best thing I've ever heard.

Helsingborg

Less spiritual stuff: So this week we met with this less active on our list named Christian. We showed up at his apartment and he was super excited to let us in. He's in a wheelchair, and was...interesting. We shared a 20 lesson with us before he said he really wasn't interested in God anymore but he loves us. We finished up and left the apartment and walked with him to the store before we had to catch a train. On the way he said 'I gotta pee' and proceeded to stand up next to some trees. But he didn't turn around and pee on the trees like we thought he would. He just dropped and started peeing like under his wheelchair. It was the most awkward experience ever, my companion and I DIED after we said goodbye to him though. So funny. We will not be meeting with Christian anytime soon.

Something less disgusting but hilarious happened at a member dinner (the Vikstroms), I wish I had a video of it but I didn't think too. One of the members had visited America not too long ago and had brought back with her a can of smuckers peanut butter/jelly in one can (like the cheapiest thing ever). Because to them pb&j sandwiches are the most American thing ever. So she opens it up and hands it to her dad who is like a semi-professional chef, and he proceeds to spread it on like this super fancy piece of Swedish bread and eat it like the professional judges on food network...and almost threw up. He rated it below Swedish fermented herring. They think that stuff's bizarre. Weird right?