Hej!
So the mission office scheduled our train tickets so we actually have time to email this morning. But right after this we are going to go play volleyball with the zone :)
Last Monday for P-day we went to a place called Wadköping, which is a place in Örebro where they have a lot of preserved old buildings. They took super old buildings from all over the area and moved them all to one place. There were a lot of gift shops there, but the buildings were pretty cool to see.
On Tuesday we did yard work at the church with the sisters. Lately we have been taking turns making lunch for everyone after service, and this week was Elder Williams´ and my turn. We found some salmon in our freezer, so we decided to cook that. We weren´t really sure what to do, so we threw some spices on the salmon and put it in the oven. It turned out alright. We also had potatoes, so it was a very Swedish meal haha.
On Wednesday we went out to visit a member that lives sort of far away because she had a friend that she wants us to teach. But her friend was an 80 year-old man who really, really, really likes to talk, so we didn´t get anywhere before it was time for us to catch the bus back to town. So that was an interesting experience.
On Thursday we taught the restoration again to our new convert Sami along with his new home teacher. Afterwards we had Sami call a man who contacted us but only speaks Arabic. Sami said the man wanted to meet, so he stayed to help translate for us. It was interesting, because Sami speaks English, the other guy speaks a little Swedish, and they both speak Arabic. It was pretty cool.
On Friday we had district meeting, then I went on splits with Elder Bradley, who is the district leader and is from my MTC group. His area is Karlstad, which is in the middle of nowhere and takes two and a half hours by bus to get to. We got there by 4, then went to a ward barbeque. They didn´t know about the ward barbeque until we´d already scheduled splits, haha. So we ate hot dogs and bacon (Elder Bradley brought the bacon. It was interesting to see it being grilled) and played games with some of the kids. Then we taught a woman from El Salvador, and went back to the Karlstad apartment. We figured out that we spent at least 7 hours of our splits on busses. So we had a lot of time to talk, which was fun.
On Saturday we helped someone move into their house, and it was the quickest moving experience I have ever seen. We were done in maybe 20 minutes. There wasn´t anything too big, so it was just lots of trips carrying small boxes and bags.
Yesterday in Gospel Principles we talked about charity, and it really made me think about what it means to have charity. Jesus Christ is the ultimate example of charity, and a definition of charity is literally "Christ-like love". I believe that if we have charity, then we are on the right track to following Jesus Christ and becoming more like Him. Someone in the class yesterday pointed out that charity is something that we can pray for. I know that when we pray specifically for things like charity, and do all we can ourselves to develop this attribute that our prayers can be answered.
I hope everyone has a great week!
Elder Smith
Pictures!
1) Sister Bourelle feeding popcorn to some of the many, many seagulls and ducks
2) One of the best (and only) mats I´ve seen in an elevator
3) The forest right by our apartment
4) I´m not hurt. Sister Bourelle twisted her ankle running for a bus so we took some crutches from our storage unit. I was walking with them a while and we hoped people would be more willing to talk to us because they´d feel bad that I had crutches, but unfortunately that wasn´t the case :/ haha
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