Happiest Week

Letter sent September 12, 2016:

Me and the hilarious, sassy Sister Jackson

This week was just fabulous. Started off killer because we went to this members house and they have the most adorable little girls ever. There are three of them and they are just to die for. We were playing with them and the oldest, she's 8, was like, you remind me of another sister who was here. So I named a couple sisters and when I said Sister Bateman she was like, "YES! Her! I love her." Basically that is the best compliment a sister can receive from a child because Sister Bateman is all the children's favorite. And I just thought it was adorable that they remembered her. 

Then Tuesday we headed on up to Jönköping halfway through the day to go do workovers with the sisters there (aka my beloved Sister Christensen and her new missionary, Sister Dargan) It was so so good to see Sister Christensen again. I love her to death. Sister Dargan was astounding me with everything she did. She's only been in Sweden a few weeks and she was already talking with everyone and sharing her testimony in swedish and just like wow. I was definitely not doing that at that level when I was new. She's a hard worker and a good learner. Happy to have her in the mission family haha my "granddaughter." We took a three-generation picture that I'll attach. I got to meet with some people that I was working with while I was in Jönköping which was super fun. They said that they called a less-active, Rikki, and asked if he wanted to meet with us while I was there and he was like, "Heck ya!" (edited version). Haha it made me happy that he was excited. 

Three generations

Then Thursday Sister Jackson and I taught this man, Lars. HOLY COW HIS ACCENT WAS OUT OF CONTROL. We understood like 50% of what he said. Rough. We're meeting again tonight. Currently praying for the gift of tongues to manifest itself. 

Friday night we started splits with the Helsingborg sisters. Sister Christofferson came to Malmö with me and Sister Jackson went to Helsingborg to be with Sister Campbell. We had a fun day of talking to people on the street on Saturday together. The time flew by. 

Sunday I was again tvugen to sing in sacrament meeting. We sang a song with the young women. Walk by faith I think it's called in english? The whole sacrament meeting was just hymns. So a few members gave tiny talks on their favorite hymns and then we would sing the hymn. It was really good. 

A highlight of the week was getting more pillows. I just love pillows and we only had one each here but we had to get extra bedding so that a bunch of sisters can stay with us this weekend for stake conference so we have more pillows now and my life has been pure bliss since then. 

Also we made a general conference countdown paper chain with general conference quotes on all the links. Classic missionary life. 

I love Malmö. I especially love my time with Sister Jackson. We talk about it a lot and we just feel the spirit a ton together as a companionship. It's really lovely. I don't really know what's changed but it's just always with us in a very tangible way. I feel happy all the time. And so grateful all the time. And I know that those are fruits of the spirit. I know that God blesses us with the spirit as we sacrifice and do our best to follow Him. When we do the things that are hard the spirit will accompany us. I'm so grateful for a living Heavenly Father. I know He exists and that he listens when we pray. I know He loves me and my family. Plus everyone else also.

Have it good.

Syster May

Dudas trying to trick us with a math problem.  "What do you get when you cut 12 in half?"