Week 35, Den konstiga Örebro, 5/23/16

Hello everyone! 

So we got transfers, of course I just got here so I'm not leaving, but here's the surprise...neither is Äldste Swenson! I've still got this guy for another 6 weeks. But both of the sisters are leaving, which is sad! We'll have to help them move all their crap and help new sisters move in. And we're getting a greenie! One of the new sister will actually have just come from visa waiting for a transfer in Las Vegas! Kinda just like me! How neat. 

I'm super extra excited for this transfer. Äldste Swenson and I have worked really hard and have a ton of investigators and we're also getting one from the sisters who they've trusted us with because we know him so well. His name in Jamil and he is my favorite human being!!!! He is also: from Syria, decent at Swedish, super prepared, being baptized on the 4th. He's so great! So we'll be busy.

Other important things:

• We had specialized zone training on Thursday in Södertälje which was AMAZING. I learned a lot and am really starting to feel like I'm an experienced missionary...starting.
• We were out contacting in Stan when we got a text from these people who got a card from the sisters (long story) but we had to bus and run strait to the church to meet with them! It was a 17 year old dude from Afghan named Ejsan who wants to learn more about our church! He came to church this last Sunday and he is great. Lots of potential with him. 
• Unfortunately Salm has been hard to get a hold of and couldn't come to church on Sunday because of a test at school. We're still working with him.

Remember when I said Örebro was full of weirdo's? I wasn't kidding. I've got stories.

Weirdo #1: So we're in the local train station to check for bus times when they suddenly start playing this Micheal Jackson song in the background (the way you make me feel). We thought it was cool, but this homeless man sitting on the bench thought it was cooler. So he got up and started dancing around this train station for a couple minutes. Dance moves = 7/10

#2: There's this guy and lives in a bus stop. Because he wants to. The city has offered him apartments and stuff but he won't take them. So he has like an entire house in this bus stop by the station. 

#3: Some other homeless dude doesn't like him very much (we don't know why) one day on the bus ride home they were fighting in the street until one of them pinned the other dude (we don't know which one got pinned) and they just laid there like that for a solid 20 minutes till the cops showed up. It was awesome. 

#4: This 80 year old Finnish lady has a crush on us. It's weird. I don't wanna talk about it.

#5: This black guy occasionally sets up a keyboard outside of the castle and sings gospel music loudly. He is my favorite. We love him

#6: We had to take a bus home from a city outside of Örebro last Friday night. All was peaceful and quiet, until like 20 drunk Swedish teenagers got on and starting yelling and singing the Swedish birthday song to some other dude. They were cool. 

- Örebro is really into public art. And so sometimes we'll just be walking through a park and we see giant popcorn statues. It's cool.

-And on Friday we were waiting for the buss and we walked through this candy store just to pass some time while we called people and this SUPER nice immigrant dude just gave us ice cream and like a kilo of candy almost. 

That is Elder Swenson and the candy.

-These 2 videos are of me and Jamil dunking. As you can see, the hoops in Sweden are not so high. :) and that's a picture of us and Jamil and Ali.