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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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