I don't have very much time today but we'll see how much I can spit out. My fingers are becoming slower in typing. Also I don't know if that sentence made complete sense in English.
Okay, some highlights of the week.
Yesterday I translated in Sacrament meeting. Normally Syster Crawford or Äldste Halterman translate the meeting but then Syster Crawford got asked to lead the music so she had to sit on the stand and Äldste Halterman had to give a talk. So I had to translate his talk. He translated the rest of the meeting luckily. Because he is way easier to understand than actual native Swedes. But yeah! I actually like knew what he was saying and there was one time when I was just like uhhhh. But for the most part I could do it! I was just like praying the whole time and during one part he was talking about sharing the gospel with his swim team and I just was sooo grateful that my MTC teacher is on the Ballroom dance team at BYU because we all learned the word for "team" because of that. Otherwise I would have had no idea what he was talking about.
Another day this week as we were walking to a train station we were contacting and we we talking to this couple and they couldn't speak Swedish so we were talking to them in English. They didn't have very much time so we were just going to give them our card that has the mormon.org webiste on it. So I gave it to them and in Swedish I would normally say like, "Ni kan tita på hemsida och vårt nummer finns på baksidan." "hemsida" means homepage. but also sometimes I say websida (webiste, duh). Haha but in English it was just such a struggle. I was like, "You can go to our home....site." Like, no. That is not english. It was rough.
Also mom, the brand of yogurt here that is everywhere is just called "YO" so basically I fit in perfectly here. Everybody should just call yogurt "yo"
Also I have decided that I basically have to dehydrate myself to be an effective missionary because if I drink then I literally have to go to the bathroom every 2 minutes. Plus you have to pay for bathrooms. So they don't just exist everywhere. It's a hard life.
Okay, the kindest thing happened yesterday. So last week on Sunday as we were riding the train to church I had made up my mind that I was going to talk to somebody on the train. I always have to build up my courage because it's just embarrassing and I never know what to say to them. So I sat down and started talking to the guy across from me. He was so nice and from Africa and we talked about his job and I told him I was going to church and stuff and we told each other our names, etc. Then I got off after like 5 minutes and totally forgot about him. But then yesterday as we got off the train before church Syster Crawford got my attention and pointed towards the train, and there he was! He was like, "Syster May! How are you!?" (in swedish) and I was just about in tears because he remembered my name and me and just wow somebody in Sweden actually knows who I am and even though he isn't even investigating I made a difference. And it was such a small thing but so big to me.
This week was really cool. At the beggining of the week the Assistants sent out a mass text to everyone saying that this week we were all going to have a challenge that each companionship would try to get one new baptismal date. The whole week it was super cool because our district leaders would all call us and see how our days had gone and what we had done. And it was just cool to know that everyone was praying for everyone. The assistants are in our district so at district meeting on Friday they were telling us how the challenge was going and they told us how many baptismal dates normally get called in every week and they told us how many had already been called in this week and the number was 3 times as many! It was so exciting and such a good way to start off the year; with everyone so excited and working together. It was amazing to see what all of our prayers could do. How the Lord strengthened us and made us capable of so much more. How he prepared his children to accept baptismal dates as we tried our hardest.
It was a great week. Also yesterday and literally perfect snowflake fell onto my scarf right in front of me. I'm so sad we forgot our phone cord so I can't attach the picture. But the snowflake was like as big as a dime and actually just perfect and detailed. I've never seen a snowflake so big. I just stopped right in the middle of walking and was like freaking out to take a picture.
I hope you all have a fab week. And go sledding and skiing and all those fun wintery activities. Like please someone just snuggle up in a blanket with hot chocolate and watch a movie for me please. Thanks.
Kärlek,
Syster May
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