This week didn´t have too many crazy events, but it was good. Something really good that happened was that yesterday we had church down in a town called Hudiksvall. It is about an hour drive south of Sundsvall, so there are a lot of less-active members down there. We drove down with the branch president and his 6 and 7 year old sons. His sons started getting a little crazy when they realized it was going to be a long car ride, but luckily I had a notebook and pens in my bag, so we played tic tac toe most of the way there. We had church in a member family´s apartment. At the meeting there was Elder Stafford and me, the branch president and his two kids, two less-active members, and two investigators. So it was a small meeting, but it was really good I thought. Almost everyone bore their testimony during sacrament meeting, including one of our investigators. I felt the Spirit, and I think it was one of the best sacrament meetings I´ve had, even though I couldn´t understand much. The whole time it kind of reminded me of how small the Church was at first. It started with six members, then was still relatively small for many years. Now there are over 15 million members. It´s amazing how much growth there has been in just a few years. After sacrament Elder Stafford did a lesson about scripture study, and after that we ate a bunch of Swedish Christmas food. It was Christmas bread with butter and cheese on it, some oatmeal stuff with cinnamon on it, and a drink called julmust. Julmust is a big Christmas time thing here, but I don´t think they have it anywhere in America. It´s kind of like cream soda, but a little different.
This week it snowed! But only a little. The other elders ding dong ditched our apartment, and left a little snowman by the door. On Saturday we were at the church, and then the elders showed up, and the sisters came pretty soon after them. We didn´t plan it or anything. So we decided to just have a coordination meeting, haha. We decided we are going to start an English conversation group as a way of fellowshipping investigators, or even just showing people that we are normal people. So that will be fun.
One day we were going into the city to contact, and the other elders were going to do the same thing, so we did splits for an hour. I was with Elder Bliss, who is one transfer newer than me, so it was called greenie splits. We did pretty well for being on our own. We talked to a lot of people about Christmas. One time a man said something and I had no idea what he said, but then he just walked away, so it was okay.
I hope everyone has a great week! Be sure to share the He Is The Gift video! It is a great way to remind people that Christmas is about Christ and also to invite them to learn more about our faith in Him.
Elder Smith
Pictures!
1) Elder Stafford took this while we were driving to get groceries at 9 something in the morning last week. It´s the bay that leads to the ocean
2) We were walking around one night (at maybe 5), and saw this beach so we decided to take a picture. We couldn´t figure out what was making that weird white line in the middle though. It looked kind of like fog with a light shining on it, but it was really wide. I think it´s the ocean.
3) Frozen pond! (I was careful)
4) We bought a 3 kg bag of pasta last week. Hopefully it will last until the end of December, haha
5) Snowman (I put my name tag on it for the picture)
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