Hej!
So I have another P-day already. From now on I´m pretty sure it´s back to the normal Monday, once-a-week P-days. I don´t have much to say, so this will be a shorter email.
Last week for P-day we went to the actual city part of Stockholm. It was really cool. I got to see a lot of the buildings that are in the typical picture of Stockholm that shows up if you google it. We wanted to go shopping, since there are a bunch of Christmas sales, but it was on New Year´s day so they were all closed. But there´s a YSA center in the city that we went to and hung out with other missionaries. The weird thing about serving in Stockholm is that you´re actually pretty close to a lot of other missionaries so you get to see them more often. It was really fun. I got to see Elder Peterson, from my MTC group, who I haven´t seen in about 4 months.
It´s been pretty warm lately. On Thursday it got all the way up to 7 degrees! Now it´s back to about freezing though. Yesterday was my first church in Stockholm. It went pretty well. Last night a member named Pablo invited us and the zone leaders over for dinner. He gave us way too much food. After the huge dinner he gave us a ton of ice cream too. He literally just took the whole container of ice cream and split it into four big chunks that he gave to us.
For a spiritual thought I´d like to share a quote. Unfortunately, I don´t remember the exact words or who said it, but it´s still good. It was something like, "Always be preaching the Gospel. And, if necessary, use words." We need to be sure that no matter where we are or what we´re doing, we´re always living the gospel. People will notice that something is different, and that there is something special about us. I really like this quote because it shows how the Gospel can really change us and help us to be better people, but at the same time it´s a little scary to wonder if I have been living up to that expectation. It also shows how we do not need to necessarily talk to people and be "preachy" in order for them to learn about what we believe. We can show it just by how we live, or especially by giving service to others.
I hope everyone has a great week!
Elder Smith
1) The streets of Stockholm
2) This is the busiest street in Stockholm apparently. But the morning after New Year´s Eve was not very busy. There´s one intersection where there´s an H&M on three of the four corners.
3) I bought a cool Viking rune ring, but it´s made of copper so it stains my finger, haha
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