Oh, How Swede It Is!

Email sent just to family on July 11, 2016:

Hey fam!

I'm not going to do the big email today. Yoga looks so fun and the picture looked like it was perfect weather. Floating the river and the 4th of July looked fun. Seems like you had a fun gang to go with. We had hamburgers and hot dogs and chips for the 4th so it felt like a real Utah bbq. 

So this transfer I am going to be an STL, sister training leader. Normally the STL's are together in a companionship but every sister in the mission is either a greenie or training right now so we are going to be in different companionships. So the other STL in our zone is Sister Barrett. So later today we will be traveling to Stockholm to go to a Mission leadership conference. Basically being an STL means that we'll teach a part of our zone training and that we're in charge of all the sisters in our zone and go on splits with them. Except there are no STL's in the Malmö zone so we will also go on splits with all of them. So I'll get to go down south and learn from all of the missionaries down there! I'm super excited! I think it will be a great opportunity to learn and grow and become a better missionary. Also everyone says that mission leadership conference is amazing so I'm excited to get to go to that. 

This past week we met two really cool people on the street. One's name is Daniel. We were almost ready to head to the church for a lesson but we thought we'd talk to a few more people before we left and we stopped this young guy. Normally the youth all just don't believe in anything and don't care about anything but we asked Daniel what he thought the meaning of life was and he was like, "Oh, I have to get to a train but do you want to walk with me?" We were like, okay. And started walking toward Juneporten (train station like 10 minutes away) with him. He was like, "I've thought about this a lot, what do you two think?" So we all shared what we thought and started talking about why we're here as missionaries. We got to Juneporten and he said he still had 20 minutes before his train left so we found a bench and sat down and continued talking. We got to talk a ton about prophets and how they're called and that process. And he was like, "Nah, I don't think I believe that because after Christ died the power wasn't on the earth anymore." We were like, EXACTLY. And got to teach basically the whole restoration and Joseph Smith's first vision. We switched numbers like half way through the conversation. He was like, I will call you! (don't worry, we got his number also). Turns out he is 18 just graduated high school. Super cool. We haven't met with him yet though. We called and texted him the next day and he never responded so we were just devastated. Then Saturday night we texted again saying that he was welcome to come to church on Sunday and he replied and said that he was on vacation in Spain for two weeks. We were so relieved and happy. 

Then the next day we talked to a young girl on the street. She's also probably about 18. She said her church is closed right now so she needs another church and got super pumped to talk about what happens after this life. So we've had good contact with her. We were going to meet with her tonight but I'll be heading to Stockholm tonight with sister Barrett and Syster Christensen will be here with sister Barett's brand new greenie who's been in Sweden about 5 days. I think they could teach her, Sister Christensen is a very good missionary, but she said she would feel more comfortable if I was with her so we're going to reschedule. 

We played soccer with a lot of ward members and non members on Saturday, it was really fun but Sister Christensen and I got a little sunburnt! 

To answer dad's question, I'm still loving Jönköping. It really is such a beautiful little town. There was an iron man here yesterday so that was kind of cool. We got to see a couple people finish as we walked by. And got to see them swimming as we went to pick up Abdul for church in the morning.

I love you all! Have a good week!

Love,

Syster May