Hejsan Allihopa!
This has been a good week. Last Saturday after emailing we didn't do too much. A member family invited us over for dinner, and they had cooked a giant turkey. Turkey here is usually pretty small, but this one was as big or bigger than ones I've seen in the US. It tasted good :)
On Sunday the bishop announced that they will be changing the order of the meetings at church, so now we will be having Sacrament meeting first, then Sunday school, then Priesthood and Relief Society. I think it will be a good change.
Lately we have had a problem with fruit flies in our kitchen. I have no idea now, since it is freezing outside and we don't really have any fruit sitting around. But it had been like a week since we took out the garbage, and suddenly there were swarms of fruit flies in the kitchen. On Sunday morning I made a trap for them by putting apple cider vinegar in a cup and mixing in just a little dish soap. Every missionary apartment has a list of useful recipes and mixtures so that's how I found out about it. The flies are drawn in by the vinegar, then are poisoned by the dish soap. So we caught maybe 30 flies with that one, but there were still more, so I made a second cup with a little more concentration of vinegar to hopefully draw in the rest of the flies.
The next day there were maybe 20 flies in the second cup, and some more in the first cup. I got impatient and took out the vacuum. I got a lot of flies.
Besides that most of the week was pretty normal, we did tracting and swing bys and taught some lessons. Yesterday morning we had district meeting, and afterwards we went out to lunch with the other missionaries in our district and from one other district. We went to a burger place called Max. It is cool because they have touchscreen things where you can order your food and it's pretty convenient because it can show you more options, like that for 3 more crowns you can get a bigger thing of fries.
Last night we went over to a part member family's house. We didn't really do any of the typical New Year's stuff though, we just talked. It was still fun though. We got home at 9:30pm and just stayed in the apartment. I was able to see quite a few fireworks just by looking out the window though, so that was fun.
This week we also got real snow! It snowed on Saturday night, and we ended up with a few inches. By the end of the day it all turned to slush, and then it got cold over night so now there's ice everywhere, but it's still kind of white. Most of it has melted by now though.
This week I was reading in the new Liahona, and I really liked the article about the Godhead. It was funny because I was reading it in Swedish and I was thinking how it seemed pretty powerful and bold, so I wondered who it was by and of course it was Elder Holland. I thought it was really good how he points out that we need to make sure that we and that investigators understand who God the Father really is before we can really understand the rest of the gospel. That is something that I have not payed enough attention to while teaching, or in my own understanding of the gospel. I know that God is literally our Heavenly Father and that He loves each and every one of us because we are His children.
I hope everyone has a great 2016!
Elder Smith
Pictures!
1) Snowy sunset
2) Looking at the moon right before personal study (it's the light on the top right side. The others are reflections from lights in the apartment)
3) Some snowy forest
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