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  Hej everyone!  This week was good. We met with quite a few friends, and had some good lessons. Tried to, anyways.😂 Inconvenience #1: We met our friend *Steven at his house--which should have been totally fine, except for that his mom was in the same room and decided that she needed to take a hammer to a bag of salt to "make the salt pieces smaller" during our lesson. It was unbelievably loud, and we essentially had to yell in order to invite him to be baptized. Oops.  Inconvenience #2: We met our friend *Helen in public, at a little fika spot called Wayne's Coffee in order to have a lesson with her. Which again, SHOULD have been fine--except that a deranged man (in an almost empty restaurant) sat RIGHT next to our table and kept creepily staring at us and derailing our conversation with random questions about where we're from. Dang. Inconvenience #3: We were having a lesson with our friend *Mark at the park, and a giant wedding celebration began right next to us wi...

  Hej alla!  This week was busy, and fun, and good. We had a lot of lessons, we had a game night, we had a volleyball activity, and we had a 50 minute lesson on the street with a guy named *Matt who stopped us and asked us if we were Mormons, and then took us on a walk.  We also: - got a call from a member in our ward who asked us to pick her up after she got in a crazy car accident  - got invited to a grillfest by a person we had never met, and met a bunch of very interesting people there. We were able to talk about the gospel quite a bit, and gave out our card. We even scored half a free Korv!  - invited someone to be baptized. She said no. #tyvärr  - Had a really deep lesson with our friend *Mark about the temple and about making covenants with God.  - had yet ANOTHER person tell me that I look like an elf  - had a lesson in a burger joint and ate the worst nachos ever  Spiritual thought for the week is from Mosiah 4: "9 Believe in God; be...

  Tjena! What a crazy week. I moved to Jakobsberg! Some very noteworthy events: - Had a party to celebrate one of our members getting baptized 4 years ago, and then 8 of us got in the elevator afterwards. The bad news is that the elevator was only built to hold 5 people, and we got stuck in there for 45 minutes. NICE. - Our ward mission leader Pablo brought us mangoes on my last day at church in Gubbängen. He knows how much I love them.  - Played volleyboll with my new ward.  - Went and visited someone in a mental hospital and she asked us to sing for her. So we did. And she cried.  - Went and got burgers from Bastard Burgers with the bishop and his wife in Gubbängen before moving. #freefood - Got asked to speak in the middle of sacrament meeting here in Jakobsberg, so I did!  #missionarylife  - Went and knocked some doors, and it did not go entirely well. #LOL My new area has a car! First time I've ever had a car on my mission. Kinda exciting. Kinda differ...

  Hej alla! This past week was a little bit crazy, but it was great! Our friend Frida was supposed to get baptized on Saturday, but then asked if we could move it to Thursday! So we did! It was really great. A lot of members came to support her, and it was very sweet. Unfortunately, she was supposed to get confirmed on Sunday and then felt really sick that morning and couldn't come to church... it'll have to be next Sunday, then! (Though I won't be there to see it...)  We also: - helped our friend move apartments, and met a friend of his who personally knows Bob Marley, Muhammad Ali, and several other famous people. He then played his harmonica for us. Very cool. - we also met his other friend who was also there help him move, and we gave him a Book of Mormon!  - Had some good lessons with great friends  - Had a lesson with a girl who admitted that she's actually trying to convert us into being pentecostal... And we also got transfer news-- I'll be moving to a diffe...

  Tjena!  This week was good.  We had a big conference with our new mission leaders, the Lakes! They're very kind and they'll be awesome.  We also had a church event with all of the Spanish speakers in the Stockholm area, and it was hilarious. They had a big stir fry made from South American gumbo (?) and then there was a huge guy dressed in a Mariachi suit and he sang a bunch of dramatic Spanish songs. Somehow I was chosen out of the crowd to be the recipient of all of his songs. Likely because I couldn't understand what he was saying😂 We also: - made Swedish waffles with the young women  - had a lesson with our friend Frida who is getting baptized soon, and it was really sweet.  - had a lonnggg Bible study - learned how to make schnitzel from scratch  - had in person distriktsråd and then got bastard burgers  - went on a boat ride around Stockholm last pday, and it was beautiful  The spiritual thought for the week is that grace is real, an...