This has been a very different week, but a good one! I have P-day today, and I´m pretty sure my next one is on January 1st. I found out I am being transferred! I will be going to an area called Gubbängen, which is in the Stockholm zone. So I will be in more of a big city area, which will be interesting. My companion will be Elder Walker, who has been out just one transfer longer than me.
It´s kind of hard to remember everything that has happened, so I will just write what I remember. First of all, we got snow! There is about a foot of snow now, and the temperature is in the negative 10s celsius. Luckily we haven´t had to be outside too much lately. The snow plows here are really good, so the roads have been pretty clear for the most part. But in the city there are some giant piles of snow from the snowplows, and they look pretty cool. It´s like there´s a mountain in the middle of town.
This week all of our lessons were basically just saying goodbye to our investigators and explaining that new missionaries will come by to visit them soon. Elder Stafford goes home on the 30th, and our area is being closed because so many missionaries are leaving in his group. But luckily there will still be the other two companionships in Sundsvall to keep teaching everyone.
On Christmas Eve all six missionaries were invited to the District President´s family´s Julbord, which is basically a buffet table of Christmas foods. It was pretty fun. There were little kids running all over the place, but everything went well. There was a white elephant gift exchange, and I ended up getting a 10-pack of toothebrushes. So now I have enough to last my entire mission, haha.
After that we got to go over to the Branch President´s house. We got to watch Frozen with them. Three of the missionaries hadn´t seen Frozen yet, so they were really happy to finally see it. After the movie we went outside and had a snowball fight with the kids. While we were playing, somebody noticed that there were Northern lights! There were street lights and other lights where we were, so we ran into a big field full of snow where it was a better view. I had on church shoes and church pants, but somehow my feet didn´t get too wet running through deep snow, which I am very thankful for because it was about -15 degrees. The Northern lights were awesome! They weren´t super bright, but they stretched across a lot of the sky and sometimes there would be brighter strands.
Yesterday the missionaries got together and we made a big breakfast at the church. I also got to skype home yesterday, which was really fun but also kind of weird, haha. It was weird to be on this end of the skype call, being the one away from home. Then yesterday night a member family had us over for dinner.
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! Lately we have been teaching the lesson on the Restoration a lot, and usually when we talk about Jesus Christ, it is my turn to talk. I have gotten to tell a lot of people that Jesus Christ was not just a good man, but he was literally the Son of God, who came here to the earth and suffered and died for us. The only way that we can progress and someday live with our Heavenly Father again is through Jesus Christ and because of what He did for us. I am so grateful for my Savior and for the opportunity to grow here on the earth and to follow His example. I hope we can all remember that even though Christmas is the time of year when we most remember Christ, we need to remember Him the rest of the year as well.
God Jul!
Äldste Smith
Pictures!
1) Giant snow pile!
2) A good way to keep drinks cold
3) Christmas breakfast
4) Northern lights! They didn´t show up very well in pictures
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