Vaxjo

Hey everyone!

  Things have been pretty good here! It's been my first few days here in Växjö, and it's been really good! 

  The last few days in Luleå went quite well. We had a few lessons (pretty usual) until Tuesday. Because Elder Jones was getting a new missionary for a companion, he had to go down to Stockholm to meet him and go through some orientation on Tuesday, so I stayed with the Bybees for a good part of Tuesday and Wednesday morning. That went well, we had some lessons that evening and got to the airport alright on Wednesday. 

  And then on Wednesday I flew down to Stockholm and then took a few different trains in to Växjö. I ended up arriving at Växjö at about 6 or so on Wednesday evening.

 

  Things have been going well here. I've been working with Elder Jensen, my new companion, over the last several days. The Växjö area doesn't have a lot of current investigators, so we're working on trying to find people that might be interested from the records in the Area Book, and we're going to try to begin working with some former investigators. We haven't had much luck yet, but we're going to keep at it and hopefully find someone to teach. We've also decided that we want to try to work with the branch, and we've tried to set some goals and plans to try to help build unity in the branch and hopefully get them more involved in the missionary work. It seems like it should go well.

  Aside from that... We've been having a pretty good time here. We've had a chance to go and look around a cool castle (Teleborg Castle-built in 1900, now a hotel and restaurant) here for a little bit. Played an old Swedish board game called Drak Borgen (The Castle of the Dragon), and we've been trying to have some fun while still doing work. It's been pretty good so far. It seems like it's going to be a pretty different transfer than my last, and it should be good.

  Love you all! Hope things are going good in all of the places you are!

  Eli

             Our trip to Jokkmokk-this is what the Arctic Circle looks like in the summer

                                                       Teleborg castle in Vaxjo