This has been without a doubt the strangest week of my mission. Like I can't even. Really quick:
The work is going good! Osman unfortunately didn't come to church (we're not sure why) but Viktor did! Viktor is the boyfriend of a member in the Ward whose name is Emma. He's been coming to activities and stuff lately and we've been able to teach him a few times before but for the most part Emma is really micro-managing it (which is fine since she's doing a great job). WELL. He surprised her at church yesterday! He never told her he was coming, and just showed up. It was PERFECT because we taught the Joseph Smith story during Gospel Principles and the Priesthood lesson was all about recognizing the Holy Ghost. So we basically taught him the restoration better than we ever could on our own. Super spiritual stuff and he's already got the social conversion down. I'll keep you updated on anyone else that pops up.
We're actually pretty burnt out right now because we've been going super hard the last three weeks. We had two days this week where we talked to over 100 people and no one was interested. (we counted) Those days are the worst!
ONTO THE WEIRD STUFF: Talking to a lot of people means meeting a lot of...people.
- One dude on Tuesday said that he believed he would have 100 wives in heaven when he got there. Good for him.
- We meet people from UTAH. IT WAS GREAT. We were out in Hallsberg to teach one of our investigators (He's Eritrean, his name is Salm, he's a super nice Orthodox Christian dude) and we got off at the train station and heard ''Hey Elders!'' and almost peed ourselves cause no one knows our names. It was this incredibly nice member couple who were there on buisness\geneology work who bought us some pizza! Greatest thing ever!
- Speaking of Orthodox Christians it was their Easter this week. There's a GIANT Orthodox church like 100 yards from our apartment, and the past few days it has been packed with thousands of Christians. We walked by and a bunch of teenagers shouted 'Jesus loves you!' at us. That's not what teenagers normally shout at us.
- We tracked the buildings around the church and all the Orthodox people gave us hard boiled eggs. That was different.
- It snowed on Thursday and it's now like 20 degrees Celsius outside. Crazy weather still.
- We had dinner with a member named Aina. She is 80 years old and insane. She's like actually crazy. She constantly talks about her conversations with Jesus and how she's going to cook food for him and 50 others in heaven and how he'll make her 25 years old again. She knows a lot about Jesus! But she cooks great food and made sure we ate until we wanted to puke and then we played Mexican train. That's right. THE Mexican train board game. Randomest thing of my life. We mostly just smiled and nodded and tried not to laugh. Good times.
- We actually had last Saturday evening off because it was a Swedish holiday! It's called Valborg, and it's a celebration that Summer is starting. They burn old dead wood and sing songs. It was GREAT.
Bye everyone! Love you all! Let me know if I can do anything for you!
Pictures:
Weather last Wednesday night
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| Apparently this is a famous person. He had an entourage of other Asian people following him. |
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| I'M ASHAMED I NEVER SENT THIS BEFORE. This is of the Malmsten fam! They are the best human beings on the planet. |
If you look closely they're shooting flaming arrows at that barge on the castle moat. #onlyinsweden
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