Week 25, Ain't Green Anymore 3/7/2016 (happy birthday Natalie)

SO! I'm learning something really important this week. Not being a Greenie is AWESOME!

I feel so much better not being one. I've had much more responsibility and opportunities in my area which is so nice! I turns out I can actually speak Swedish a lot better than I thought I could as well. I'm totally starting to become fluent! ...ish

Noticed a big jump in my Swedish anyways. 

So my new companion! He's from Washington but he only lived there for about 8 months before his mission, before that he came from Germany actually!....But doesn't speak any German because he only lived there for about 5 years. Yep you guessed it, his dad's in the military. But his name is Äldste Duwors and he's an awesome guy! He just got done training Äldste Barnes from my MTC group and I like him a lot, he's been out for about a year and a half but he's never been in Skåne so the language is actually a bit rough for him, at least for the next little bit. 

The crazy thing that happened this week happened on TRANSFER day! It was Wednesday, and basically we had to get up about an hour early to get to Helsingborg to make sure that Äldste Nielsen and Hainsworth made their train to Stockholm. So Elder Scott and I said goodbye to them and proceeded to work that day in Helsingborg while we waited for our new companions to show up at 8...that evening. Well, while they were gone we met up with an old investigator named Fai who lives in Helsingborg and had just spent 3 months back home in China. Well, we just about got her a baptisimal date!! She still has some reservations we'll need to work through. But even though she's been gone she totally has a testimony of the book of Mormon and she loves going to church. It'll be good to see her there! Unfortunately that's technically the other Elders investigator but it felt really good to work without our trainers. Then, we went back to the train station at 8 when we saw the arriving trains board and realized shoot, they aren't coming till nine.

That's when we went to the nearest grocery store and happened to find some Swedish Capri Suns. (pictured) And that's how we spent our Wednesday! :)

Not too many big things have happened this week. It's been kinda hard to get a hold of Richard so we will see when he will be able to get baptized. It's a little hard just because he's moving into a new place with a new job. BUT we've been able to reactivate Fred quite a bit! He's a less active (also from Africa) who finally went the Church the week last Sunday and he's awesome! We were able to visit him at his house through a total miracle, basically his apartment was unlocked (which it shouldn't of been) and a bunch of other things worked out for us to be able to visit him. I love it when that stuff happens! Anyways though with Fred coming to church now Richard will have a good friend and that will just be fantastic. The work goes on!

Well, I love all of you and hope you're enjoying the rain back home! It's raining quite a bit here and we're not enjoying it. 

And shoutout to Carlos Vergara for his sweet mission call to Peru! That's so awesome!

Happy birthday Natalie!!!! I hope things are going well! 

This is a pretty standard birthday song sung by none other than me, ft. Äldste Duwors and Olsen (attachment below)

It basically means 

'Yes may she live, 

yes may she live, 

yes may she live to be a hundred years old, 

of course shall she live,

of course shall she live,

of course shall she live to be a hundred years old.

A fourfold life for Natalie! 

Hurah!! x4

(Josh if you are reading this I have the audio, I can't download music.  only video so I need help uploading it here)

Yep. Not very creative but it sounds really cool. I wish you the best for your next birthday and I'll probably leave something special for you in my next package home!

Love you!