This week has been pretty good. Last week on P-day we did some shopping, and I found a couple of pretty cool sweaters at a second hand store. This week it started out pretty cold, and almost snowed a couple times. Last Monday morning there was a little snow in the morning, but it didn´t stick. Then the rest of the week it was pretty rainy, but it got all the way up to about 10 degrees celsius.
Last week me and Elder Stafford contacted a woman on the street who was not interested in the gospel, but is an English teacher at the high school and invited us to come and do a presentation on America for her class. She said some missionaries in the past did some presentations there and they really liked it. So on Wednesday we came and did a slide show presentation about America. We talked about Oregon, Idaho, American high school, differences between Sweden and the US, and gun laws, because their class has been talking about gun laws a lot. It was pretty fun. Elder Stafford used a lot of jokes. I talked about Portland, and had a slide about Nike´s world headquarters, and also about the phrase/bumper stickers that say "Keep Portland Weird". I found a pretty good picture to put on the slide show. It was a building with Keep Portland Weird painted on the side, but in front of the building there was a man on a unicycle, in a kilt, with a darth vader helmet and cape, playing bagpipes with flames shooting out of it. I thought it was a pretty good representation of Portland´s weird people, haha. Elder Stafford talked about Idaho, so he did a slide about potatoes, and another about Napoleon Dynamite. We thought nobody would know what Napoleon Dynamite is, but some of the guys in the class had actually just watched if for the first time last week. It was pretty crazy.
So the English teacher invited us back to teach all her other classes, and the other English teachers know about us now too. Even though we aren´t allowed to share the gospel directly in our presentations, they are good to help people see that we are just normal people, and not too weird haha.
This week we taught a guy from Afghanistan who had a pretty crazy story. He said that he spent 20,000 dollars on his engagement party, because apparently that is the custom in Afghanistan. He bought his fiance 10,000 dollars of gold. And he said the actual wedding will cost about 40,000 dollars. And he isn´t a super, super rich guy, so it is a ton of money. He is also training right now to hopefully be a pro soccer player.
Something else a little crazy that happened this week was that I let Elder Stafford cut my hair. He gave me a "swedish haircut", which basically means short on the sides, longer on the top. It actually turned out okay. I think it looks a lot better now that it´s had a few days to grow in a bit. Also, this week me and Elder Stafford discovered a hair dryer in our apartment. It´s actually pretty nice to use in the morning, haha. We also found a straightener and curler, but we are giving those to the sisters.
Tomorrow will be a pretty crazy day. We have zone conference in Stockholm, so we have a train that leaves here at 5am. So that means we will be waking up at 3:30, and we will be getting back at around 10 at night. It will be a long day.
Elder Smith
Pictures!:
1) A selfie from working on a chimney a few weeks ago
2) Selfie of our district. Elder Bliss is the one in the hood, Elder Gray is in the back, Elder Stafford is in front, Sister Smith is kind of in the middle, and Sister Jacobs is in front of Sister Smith.
3) Selfie on the bus. The gloved hand is actually Elder Stafford, but it looks like it´s my hand
4) I saw this out the window while eating breakfast yesterday, so I took a picture
5) Me and Elder Gray were texting awkward pictures to each other last night during dinner at the church with a member family. This is the only one I have of my new haircut. My hair is also conditioned (Elder Stafford is letting me use his conditioner) and styled using a hair dryer.
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