This was a good week. We didn´t do too much last P-day, Elder Pearson just had to do a few things to get ready for transfers. On Tuesday we did family history with our investigator Jan, and after that we went to the train station to pick up my new companion, Elder Dickson. Elder Dickson is 18 years old, but came to the mission the transfer after me.
On Wednesday Elder Pearson´s train left early in the morning. We were all pretty tired, and all three of us slept through the alarm, so we woke up ten minutes before the train left. So we just got ready as fast as we could and headed to the station to find another train. Luckily there was another one that didn´t leave too long after the first so Elder Pearson was able to get on that train. Elder Dickson and I found some other missionaries at the station, because on transfer days you will run into tons of other missionaries there. A small group of us went to McDonalds for breakfast. The rest of the day was a lot less stressful than the start.
On Thursday we had district meeting. One of the new sisters in our district is Sister Bolton, who I had a couple classes with at BYU. There is also a new greenie in our district now, named Elder Reed. After district meeting we all went out to lunch together, which was a lot of fun.
Conference started for us at 6pm on Saturday night. We got to the church about 40 minutes early to make sure we could help set up and get good seats. But we found out that pretty much only the missionaries and a few members come to the church to watch conference. Our investigator Jan came on Saturday, so I watched the Saturday morning session with him in Swedish. I am happy to say that I was able to stay awake and attentive the whole time. It was my first time watching conference in Swedish, and I think I did alright.
Yesterday morning we watched the Priesthood session of conference at 11am, and Saturday morning session started at 2pm. Jan came again for Saturday afternoon session so I watched it with him in Swedish. There was something wrong with the audio, so the English audio was playing at the same volume as the Swedish translation (usually they make the English quiet so you can´t hear it), and I think there was also the German translation playing in the background. So I couldn´t understand unless I focused really hard. I couldn´t focus well enough. But luckily Elder Floyd, my zone leader, went up halfway through and was able to fix it so only the Swedish was playing loud enough to hear. After that it was a lot better. After that ended we went to a member´s house for dinner. We tried watching Sunday morning session on the computer, but it started freezing right during the good part of Elder Holland´s talk. We got really sad, haha. But we will probably watch it today or sometime soon.
One of the things I really liked from conference was President Uchtdorf´s talk, which I think was during Priesthood session, where he said that sometimes the things that we can count don´t really count, and sometimes the things we can´t count do count. He applied it to the setting of goals. Sometimes we focus too much on numbers and the measurable affects of the things we do to improve and help others. But sometimes the most important things we can do that have the greatest influence will not be things we can measure. It is important to do the little acts every day that help those around us and help us as well to grow.
I hope everyone has a great week!
Elder Smith
Pictures!
1) Some Swedish nature!
2) This is a place we just randomly found while walking out of a building across the street. It is either the first or just one of the first buildings the Church used in Sweden.
3) The member´s house that we went to had a good view. It´s just kinda hard to see behind me, haha
4) There it is!
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