Busy, Busy Busy

 Things are going well here in Landskrona! This week has been really really busy; we've been running around like crazy meeting a whole bunch of people and everything. All in all, it's been really good though, I'm glad that I can be here. I'm not really sure what to say about the week; it's been really busy, but a lot of it has been fairly similar (meet with an investigator (or try to), talk a while and teach a gospel principle, and then try to meet someone else). I suppose that to break it up a bit, on Tuesdays we go to Helsingborg and have Open Church, and one Fridays we go to Helsingborg and play Inebandy (floor hockey) with the ward (and any investigators who can come).
We've also been working a lot with our investigator A. We actually just met A last Sunday; she called us from a Mormon.org  card Elder Noso had given her a few weeks ago. There's been a bit of a language barier in teaching her; she's from Albania and only speaks a little English, but we've been able to make good use of simple English, Albanian church materials, and Google Translate to try to convey simple doctrines to her. She really likes it, came to church and had a good experience there, and has agreed to be baptized later this month. She's apparently had a really rough life, and is working to try to gain asylum here, but she is a very humble and very kind person. It's been great working with her.
The Second Coming was an assigned topic for me in Sacrament meeting this week. Apparently the past 4 or 5 missionaries who have come to Helsingborg ward have given a talk on the second coming, which is kind of funny. I focused on the parable of the Ten Virgins, drawing largely from Matthew 25 (of course) and D&C 45, and talked sort of about what we need to do to fill our lamps (so to speak) and how doing so will help us when Christ comes again and when our faith is tested.

  Elder Noso speaks Finnish, but we communicate mainly in English (he speaks pretty good English). He does speak Swedish okay, but he's still learning it, like other missionaries. But he does have really good Swedish.

  Teaching and finding is going really good right now. The area is very good, there are a lot of people who are willing to at least meet and see what we're about (even Swedes!), and we've been running around like crazy the last week or so trying to meet everyone. It's been really good. When we teach people, we usually speak Swedish unless they can't speak Swedish, in which case we try English. Most immigrants (but not all) from Albania, Serbia, etc. speak Swedish, and sometimes limited English. So we teach in Swedish (usually), I hope that was confusing enough.

 

I hope all is well with you guys! 

 

A picture of all the Elders serving in the Helsingborg ward