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  Tjena!  Happy holidays, everyone! It's weird to think that everyone is on Christmas vacation right now. I suppose, in a way, I'm on vacation too! Just an extra long extended one where I am also in the work of the Lord. (So, the best kind.) This week, we had a lot of lessons planned, and most of them fell through. It's tough for people to keep commitments so close to the holidays. But everything is still good here in Lund. And things will pick up again after the new year. I have faith. Some events from this past week:  -We figured if there was ever a time to do missionary work in the form of delivering cookies, it was probably this past week. We tried to make Swedish-style pepperkaka and they did not turn out well at all...so we had to make different, edible cookies to use. You can't win them all!  - One of the houses that our cookies got us into was a woman who we had delivered a Book of Mormon to many weeks ago, and then could never get in touch with again. We did...

Hej everyone! Another good week. A little slower than usual, maybe...but a good week nonetheless! We've officially reached the time of year where everyone we reach out to asks if we can wait until after Christmas to meet. Tråkigt, but fair. My new companion's name is Syster Kearns, and this is the VERY last transfer of her mission! Kinda crazy. She's from Utah, she's super easygoing, and she actually has some living relatives here in Lund that we're going to contact! Pretty sweet.  An unfortunate series of events: - A guy who we've been meeting with pretty consistently told us the day we were supposed to meet him that he was too sad to meet. Sheesh. To be fair, he's having it pretty rough right now.😅 - We got stuck on the train for over an hour on Friday because of the ice on the railroads. - Another guy who we've been teaching for a while wouldn't respond to our messages the day we were supposed to meet and then texted us later that he "decide...

  Vilken vecka!  Hej everyone. A lot has happened. Things seem to move and change so quickly all the time. Helt galet.  Noteworthy experiences:  - We had julkonferens this past week, which was super fun. We heard from our mission leaders, ate traditional Christmas food, including Pickled fish (sill), and went caroling in the streets of Göteborg! It was awesome.  - We had our Stake Sankta Lucia konsert on Saturday, and it was fantastiskt. We managed to memorize old Swedish vocabulary (enough) to go unnoticed and the songs are super beautiful. It was a cool tradition to take part in.  - We had a lesson with a guy named Kevin, who came with about 4 pages of typed out notes, citations, and questions about the Book of Mormon. Our lesson with him went on for almost three hours.  - We finally got to meet with an awesome little family who has interest in getting baptized!  - Me and Syster Taylor made meatballs (köttbullar) and they tasted really good. It'...

  Hej Alla!  Another week gone, and another week closer to Christmas!  It seems like this week we taught the Restoration quite a bit! And something that I learned, and actually didn't expect somehow, is that the Spirit is REALLY strong when you recite the first vision: "I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me...When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other—This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!"  Which I did, three times this week! (In Swedish, of course.)  1. We had a lesson at a members home, and it was actually the first time we had met this investigator. He was an older guy who had a friend that was a member of the church, and had requested a Book of Mormon from us. We went through the Restoration, and I recited the f...