Hey Everyone!

Hey Everyone!

  Things have been going fairly well here in Sweden. This week has been kind of interesting, largely on account of the transfer earlier in the week. I'm now in the city of Eskilstuna, which is sort of over by Stockholm (a few miles to the west of it). I'm now with Elder Miller, which is pretty good.  I think that working with him over the next few weeks/months should be good. Eskilstuna itself seems like a pretty cool city; it's a bit bigger than Växjö and has a lot of really beautiful buildings and rivers. It seems quite cool so far.

  I suppose that my last day in Växjö was fairly interesting. We were able to spend some time helping a new family move into the branch. They seemed like a young, vibrant family, and I think that they'll greatly help the branch there.

  Transfers happened on Wednesday. Fortunately everything went well with that, it was about a 5 hour train ride (though there was an hours delay). That evening we were able swing by and visit a few of the investigators here.

  And the last several days have been pretty good. A lot of the time we've been doing swing bys and the like, but there's been a few more interesting things happening. On Thursday we had a district meeting, which was kind of nice for a change because I'm now actually in a district with other missionaries, so we actually met, had a lesson, go lunch, etc. It was kind of nice. On Friday evening we were able to meet some of the branch members and play volleyball with them. That was really quite fun, and the branch members (at least those that I've met so far) seem really cool. One of them, D, invited us over for General Conference yesterday, and we had a pretty good time talking with him and his wife after the meeting. On Saturday we were able to go to another member's house, H, I think, and do some service for her (she's renovating her house fairly extensively). I largely helped build a patio, which was kind of cool. We didn't quite finish it, but we made some good progress.

  And then on Saturday evening and Sunday we were able to watch conference. And, per tradition amongst missionaries here in Sweden, we went and bought Konferens Godis (or Conference Candy) before the meeting, and over the course of the meeting, we probably ate at least half a kilogram of candy each (which is kind of a lot of candy). It was fun. Oh, and the talks were good too :) I remember especially liking Uchdorf's talks (I usually like his talks), as well as Eyring's talk from the Sunday morning session and Brother Causeé's talk. And a lot of the other talks, there were a lot of really good speakers and ideas and everything. It was good.
 Hope everything is going well for you!

 

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