The Troll's Bonnet

HEJSAN!

What an awesome and eventful week I've had. Bittersweet. Exciting. New.

We spent a big portion of last week saying goodbye to all of the wonderful people I met in Jakobsberg. And it was great. It's crazy how quickly we can form meaningful relationships. I have a lot of people I'll miss.

And then, on Saturday, we had a giant meeting with all the new missionaries that arrived so that they could get matched up with their trainers. Both me and Syster Jaques are training this transfer, so we were both there. And it was exciting!

I got my new companion, Syster Rollins, and she's straight from the MTC! I've trained a couple times, but both of them were reassigned missionaries that had a little bit of experience beforehand. So this is new for me!

We then commenced our 6 hours of travel to get to Trollhättan--where a pair of cute members surprised us at the station! One of them gave us Smörgåstårta, which I've avoided my whole mission.

You guys are gonna have to look up Smörgåstårta for yourselves. Truly terrifying.

Other notes:

- Me and Syster Jaques celebrated her birthday on Friday, and went to a little food truck called fett gott. (Fat good). It was fat good.

- We ate a bunch of fika.

- I packed my dumbbells, which made my suitcases a little heavy.

- We had stake conference, and I heard some of the craziest and awesome talks ever.

I got to share Ether 12:27 with a couple people this past week, and it has such a powerful message.

"And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them."

I know this is true. With Christ's grace, our weaknesses can become strong.

Syster Naatjes

waiting for our lesson in a weird hotel

fett gott!

goodbye to Sys Jaques

Sys Rollins absolutely konked on the bus

Ran into a member from Lund that recently moved to Borås at stake conference! So awesome.

Pday in Göteborg!

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Everything Cancelled

Tjena! Everything cancelled this week. Oops. That's alright. Literally everyone is sick it feels like! Whatcha gonna do. We spent quite a bit of time on the street, and... - gave out two Book of Mormons in a Arabic! - gave out a Book of Mormon in Ukrainian! - accidentally met a homeless man with no teeth that had recently thrown up and was gnawing on a rotisserie chicken wing. It was a little traumatizing to be honest💀 - met a man who tried to recruit us into joining his pyramid scheme - took a selfie with a woman from Cambodia who wanted a picture with Americans We also: - spent an hour trying to match up three huge bags of socks #service - had a game night, and failed to teach some Sri Lankan men how to play UNO - found a disgusting bug in our butter - read 3 Nephi 11 with our friend and it was awesome - went on Splits with the Örebro sisters! Quick scripture: 1 Peter 5:6-7 "Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you...

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Tjena! What a crazy time. I love our ward, I love our friends, and I love the snow that we're getting. This past week we didn't have as many lessons, but the lessons we DID have were golden. 1) We're teaching a Swedish girl about our age and invited a member along. Turns out they work at the same place! It was awesome, they got along great. 2) We had a lesson with our friend *Mont, and talked about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He said that he would love to be baptized, but just needs to grow his faith a little more. His biggest problem is that our doctrine sounds "too perfect to be true." We love him! 3) We had a lesson with our friend *Mitch, and taught him about the Gospel of Jesus Christ as well!! At the end we asked him if he'd be interested in baptism, and he said absolutely. He then picked January 14th!! #miracle PLUS-- *Mont and his wife even came to our ward Christmas party, and the ward loved them. It was awesome. I'll be coming home next Mon...

Vill du bli döpt?

Hej everybody! Sorry I didn't get the chance to email last week, but on the bright side, SO MUCH has happened since you last heard from me that this email is about to be loaded. First things first, MY SWEDISH DISTRICT CAME LAST WEDNESDAY! I had been doing classes with them online: --And it was super fun, but being with them in person is FAR better... (Shout out to Äldste Vander Linden, who brought us all sun tanning glasses so that our mission photos, going forward, can be that much more epic). We started learning Swedish, too, which has definitely been a challenge. BUT, we are very determined to get it down, and we have already done not one, but TWO english fasts (we went without speaking english for 8 hours). We did our first one on Saturday, which went horribly--but then did another one yesterday, and we could already see SO MUCH improvement in our Swedish. It's hard to believe that one day, maybe, hopefully, possibly, I will be completely fluent. ...

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