This has been a very busy week! Last Monday for our P-day activity we went to a park on the top of a really big hill. There was a super long wooden stairway/path to get up there. The park had some really huge benches, so we took some pictures sitting on them. Then we played on the playground a bit. There was a zipline and some other fun stuff there. Then we went up to the top of a tower that is there with a really good view at the top. It was fun.
On Wednesday we worked on the District President´s farm. We helped him hook up some heavy metal stuff to the front of his tractor so he could move it all to a big pile of scrap metal. Then we helped push some really big rocks into this hole that was basically a well. It was fun. They fed us a whole bunch of really good lasagna. We also helped trim back trees from the road leading up to their house, which was fun. After that we went to a member woman´s house, since the sisters were there helping make saft, and we were invited to help too. But when we got there they were pretty much done, so we just got food again. The member woman really likes giving people food, so she made us eat a lot, haha. I was very full that night.
On Thursday we had zone training, so we got up at 4am to take a train up to Umeå, which is a little over 3 hours away. Then we had zone training and lunch and rode the train back home. We got back around 6:30ish I think. I was really, really tired by the time we got back.
Oh yeah, and on Wednesday night we were heading back to our apartment, and a drunk lady was getting off the bus and tripped and hit the ground really hard. So we ended up staying with her along with another lady who was helping her while we waited for an ambulance. The drunk lady wasn´t bleeding or anything, but we weren´t sure if she might have hurt her neck or something. The ambulance got there after about 15 minutes I think, and they took her to the hospital. So that was an interesting experience.
On Friday the sisters brought me and Elder Stafford doughnuts during open church because I was so tired and had kind of a hard day the day before. So they are super nice. Then on Saturday we spent the entire day helping a member lady rebuild her roof. I don´t think her husband is a member. They live away from the town, so it was really pretty around their house. We were there from about 9:30 am to 9 at night. Elder Ogaard got to help tear off the tiles off the roof and throw them to the ground, so everyone watched because it was cool to hear them smash on the ground, haha. We were all sore by the end of the day. But it was fun.
Yesterday was the sister missionaries´ last Sunday in Sweden. They are both going home on Wednesday, I think. But we found out that we will be getting new sister missionaries in about 3 weeks, so that will be good. The other elders and I are going to teach their investigators and take over their areas while we don´t have any sisters, so that will be fun to get to teach more.
Yesterday night we taught a family for the first time who we had met on the street. They all fled from Syria, and have been here about 4 months. Three of them had taught themselves English, so we kind of had to talk to them and they translated for the rest of the family into Arabic. It made me wish I had learned a little arabic before coming on the mission, haha. There are a ton of Arabic and Persian speakers here from the Middle East and Africa. But they were a super nice family. It is the man and his wife and their 2 year old son we contacted initially, then they also live with the wife´s parents and 2 brothers. So we kind of just talked to them about what we do as missionaries, and then gave them a couple book of mormons. They are Muslim, but seemed pretty open as we talked to them. We went through the pictures in the Book of Mormon and told them a brief overview of the events of the Book of Mormon so they could understand a little better what it is. Me and Elder Stafford felt like it went really well, and we are super excited to teach them again. I´m not sure how much they are really investigating the church as opposed to just wanting to read a book in Arabic, but I hope they were able to feel the Spirit and will want to know more. I feel like they are an awesome family.
I hope everyone is doing great and has an awesome week!!
-Äldste Smith
Pictures!!
1) Chess with Elder Gray
2) On the big hill on P-day again
3) Us on top of the tower thing on P-day
4) Me and the other elders on P-day
5) Me and the sisters on a swing
6) Super exciting train ride...early
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