I had a super great week this week! My companion eats VEGETABLES which is a nice change.
We're going to Nimis today! It's this old castle some crazy dude made out of driftwood along the coast of Höganäs. Pictures to follow, I'm excited. 
I really do also love music actually, and I'm always listening to talks and other such things on my iPod, I love that thing actually. Btw, what are you planning on sending? I could use some hydrokortisone. Or something. The eczema doesn't hurt or itch right now but the back of my hands are all red. I tell everyone I have leprosy :)
Picture where I am? I'm probably walking around somewhere talking to random Arabic people. Alla Akbar!
Bye mom I love you I'm gonna write my weekly email now
So I won't lie, nothing to exciting this week other than that we've been cleaning out our area book and phone trying to find people to meet.
When we meet someone of the street who's interested and we get their number, we put them in the phone as a TU (Tänkbara Undersökare) ((Potential Investigator)) and call them that evening or the next day. And keep calling them until they say yes or no to a visit or they just never answer and we give up.
To give you an idea of how often that actually happens, and how often they pick up, we currently have like 100 TU's in our phone. So we've been actually spending like 1 hour a day at least trying to call TU's people and clean out our areabook.
And we've had some success! We've got 5-6 tentative lessons scheduled for this week and I'm excited to meet some new investigators! The Lord is super blessing us right now! The only really bad news is that Richard is still not ever answering his phone, which means he's either in Denmark randomly or has been deported or hates us.
Hopefully it's the first one.
I thought I'd give you an idea of the average Sweden Stockholm Mission contact! Here are some examples of things Swedish Missionaries say: (in Swedish of course)
- No, we're not Jehovah's Witnesses (I'm pretty sure half of the people who say no think that we're the JDubs.)
- Yes, the church does exist outside of America, in fact we have a ward in Helsingborg and most of our members live outside the US.
- Yes, we believe in the bible. No, not the Koran, the bible.
- Yes, I can speak pretty good Swedish and I've only been here for 3 months (most immigrants learn as much Swedish as I have in about 3 years or so. Not to brag, but they're not talking to Swedish people on the street for hours a day)
- No Mohammed, we aren't coming to your Mosque later.
- Only 1 wife actually.
- Ha det bra (this is what we say to people who wave us off)
- No I haven't voted for Donald Trump. Neither has he. I can't tell you why he does what he does. Yes he does have silly hair.
- Äldste just means missionary, no I'm only 18, yes I understand it means 'the oldest'.
- Yes, I volunteered to come here, yes I know it's a bit colder than back in California. Yes I am cold. So is everybody.
- Wow, you're Muslim?! I couldn't tell by the parka and the fact you speak Arabic! (That's more of something we WISH we could say)
- No, we know where our church is, we don't need directions. We're WITH the church. We have the address on these cards, take one.
That's about it for this week! we're actually going to go visit Nimis is a bit which is this castle made out of driftwood some crazy guy build on the coast of Höganäs. Pictures will follow!!
I love all of you!!!
Äldste Mason
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