I hope everything is going well for all of you guys back in the States! I hope you all had a good week. Things have been pretty good here, we've been out doing our thing. But it's been a good week.
Earlier in the week (on Wednesday, I think), we ended up going on splits with the other Elders in our district, so I spent the day with Elder Grey. All in all, it was a pretty good day, but it was kind of interesting because they had apparently just called through a list of Potential Investigators and had set up a few appointments with people they hadn't met before. One of them was a guy that owned some sort of a business aimed at helping people from Somalia acclimate to Swedish society. When we met him he started showing us around his office and I honestly wasn't sure if he realized that we were missionaries and not business men. But eventually he did talk with us a little about what we can do to work together, and we ended up setting up an English class. It was, all in all, a pretty interesting meeting.
Later in the day we had a few other appointments that were a little more normal (though we did get to listen to an Irish lady explaining where Halloween came from and a middle eastern man talk about Islam, and a few other interesting conversations). That evening, though, we went to the church because we were going to meet an old investigator there, and we found out that branch council was apparently that night (we thought it was a day later, but apparently not because of a Relief Society activity). So we were trying to arrange with the other Elders to have someone at the meeting and the investigator showed up, and we had to sort of stall until we could get everything sorted out. It was kind of interesting. We did eventually end up meeting with him, though, and it turned out that he mainly wanted to meet so he could teach us how to juggle. It was nice meeting with him, though, he was a super nice guy. Also, I can now kind of juggle 3 balls.
The next day was Halloween. We met in the morning for a district meeting, and, after a somewhat shortened lesson, we ended up getting a pumpkin to carve, eating pumpkin pie (that was baked by Elder Grey the night before), and planning on carving a jack o lantern, though we didn't get around to it just then. So we had a few sort of Halloween related activities, and then we split and went our separate ways. Elder Miller and I actually ended up cleaning the apartment for a cleaning check and then carving the pumpkin we got. We made a pretty cool Jack O Lantern, though it's just an ordinary looking Jack O Lantern. And that was about all of the excitement for Halloween itself... there wasn't too much in way of celebration in Sweden. Apparently a few days later there was some sort of event on All Saints Day where they put a bunch of candles in a graveyard, but we didn't end up going because there isn't a cemetery easily accessible in town and the buses were on a holiday schedule. But next time, if we get a chance, it would be cool.
Aside from that, things have been going pretty well. I didn't actually get a chance to meet with L (our Finnish investigator) this week because Elder Miller met with her while we were on splits and she was feeling sick later in the week (which I believe; there's been some sort of bug going around). But we did meet with some of our other investigators, including another Finnish guy named S and a woman from Congo named F. We also met a few times with a less active member, P, who actually ended up coming to church yesterday, which was awesome. Either way, things are going pretty well here.
Have a great week!
Halloween Jack'o lantern
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