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| Hike to Nimis |
Sorry this is coming in late. We went to the neatest driftwood castle thingy today called Nimi's. Apparently (if the rumors I have been fed by other missionaries are correct) some guy just decided to try to build his own little civilization out in the middle of nowhere by the ocean. And logically he thought it needed to be made of driftwood. He hadn't quite mastered the carpenters trade because there were nails sticking out EVERYWHERE. But like, I dodged them all and had a good time. I'll send pics but they really don't do it justice.
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| Nimis |
Last Monday though. We taught Simone. She's a little 7 year old in our ward who's getting baptized in a couple weeks and her parents asked us to come teach her the lessons before. They made it all special, just her and us, and it was so cute. Simone's dad is danish and her mom is from Peru or something so Simone has learned Swedish in school. She has a younger brother, Joshua, who just speaks pure jibberish. He hasn't been to school yet so he only speaks danish and Spanish and Sister Jackson and I just stare at him when he talks to us. He's adorable. While we were eating dinner with them after teaching Simone they brought out a cake that Simone had made with sprinkles on top. They asked us how to say sprinkles in english so we told them and Magnus was like, "Isn't that the thing Americans have on their lawns that shoots water out?" hahahha sprinklers.
Tuesday we visited the sweetest old lady named Märta. She's like 98 and lives in an old folks home because she's completely blind. But she's completely there mentally. She gave us little books of her life history that she wrote. It was adorable. Then Tuesday was cut short because we got on a train to go to the lovely world of Stockholm for sisters conference. Holy cow Wednesday was so much fun. All 40-ish sisters from the mission were there and the theme was princesses (all the elders thought this was a joke-it's not). Each lady took a princess and taught us the things that we can learn from that princess. Like for example, Sister Watson talked about Mulan and how "a mere girl" can accomplish amazing things. After all the classes there was a photo booth. My body flashed back to all my days working at the 169 at BYU and was in photo booth heaven.
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| Group pic at Sisters Conference (Elder Nielsen is in the office right now so he was there) |
Confession moment: Tuesday I had a melt down. I was getting ready in the morning and I looked at my teeth and I am certain that I saw a cavity on that blasted baby tooth that has never fallen out. So during personal study I couldn't even concentrate for like 20 minutes because I was just thinking about this probable cavity. I just panicked about not having dad here to fix it and coming home and having creepy witch teeth or something. So during companion study sister jackson asked me what I had studied and tears just started streaming out of my eyes. I couldn't even help it. So yeah. Add that to the list of weird things I've done on my mission: cry about my teeth.
Thursday we met with this guy named Bosse at a little cafe. He was telling us his whole philosophy on life and basically he just explained the gospel of Jesus Christ to us but just used un-religious terminology. We were like. Let us meet with you again and teach you about God's plan. He was down.
Then we also met with our investigator, Christian. He had read a little from the beginning of the Book of Mormon and then random places within the book and proceeded to tell us all the things he learned from reading. He read about the great and abominable church and was like talking about how it's just the world and how people get all caught up in worldly things. We also taught him about the restoration. We're meeting again this week hopefully.
Friday we had a fabulous lesson with a less-active lady, Anette. The spirit was so strong while we talked about the plan of salvation and the temple. She has such a firm testimony of life after this and it's always strengthening to hear how själv klart everything is to her. Then in the evening on Friday we switched with Helsingborg to go on splits with them. The absolute funnest because they are a tripan of sisters so I got to be with not just one of them, but two!! And guess which two they were...Sister Campbell and Sister Davis. MTC love. We just had a great day together on Saturday. Every few minutes the conversation would turn back to the fact that we hit our year mark this week. We were all losing our minds and could hardly handle it. It was fun. Also terrifying. I was contacting with Sister Davis and we met the sweetest little hispanic family. They're background is catholic but they wanted to meet with us to learn more. I feel like being in Sweden I have just learned to understand why all the missionaries who go to serve in South America just fall in love with the people there. Like half the ward in Jakobsberg was latino and probably a third here in Malmö is also from south america and I am just obsessed with all of them. So I hope that darling little family can feel the truthfulness of the gospel.
Saturday night we went to a members house for dinner in Lanskrona. They were the most hill-billy swedes I have ever met in my life. They were so funny and chill and such a fun time to be around. They were laughing so hard when they told us this story of how they went out to buy cups earlier that day so that the missionaries would have something to drink out of and when they got home they poured some water in them and it just all came out the bottom! Haha every cup had 3 holes in the bottom and they were just losing it. They were like, this is some kind of rip off. Of course, if you just read what was written on the cups it said "speed stacking." It was so funny.
Sunday we went over to the Larsson's for dinner. It always feels like home when we're there. Kids going crazy and making taco's that only have cheese inside. Good times. The elders gave a little thought at the end on Christ and how the Book of Mormon teaches of Jesus Christ. I know that I have come so much closer to Jesus Christ and understand more fully how I can use the atonement by reading the Book of Mormon. Because the atonement is just massive and can help with so many things. The Book of Mormon is true. Reading it daily has honestly changed my life. I love it. I can't wait until I get home and I can just read it as much as I want to!
Have it good.
Syster May
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| Emma and I (from last letter) |
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