Elder Cahill in Sweden: Finding Fever

Hey everyone!

The last week has been good! We've been focusing on finding work a lot to try to (surprise!) find new people and figure out which of the old people would be willing to meet, etc. Overall, there weren't too many new investigators (etc), but there were a few new people. One of them was this pretty old guy who we found (1) to be really hard to understand, either because of his accent or because he was drunk, I'm not sure, and (2) loves America. A lot. We tried to talk about the gospel some, but as before mentioned, it was a bit hard to understand him, so we ended up talking mostly about America and his background (which isn't bad for a first lesson). He's a super nice guy, though, loves the outdoors and animals, and said he never wants to hurt anything. But, then again, he also said that he wants to kill a wolf before he dies (which will be in 7 years when he turns 78. Whatever.). But he was actually a really nice guy and enjoyed our company a lot, so we'll try to visit him more in the future.

Aside from that... We met a few former investigators and such, but most of them weren't too interested in the gospel. We did contact these two middle eastern people (ironically two men about our age), who we talked to for a while and who were mainly interested in converting us to Islam. That was pretty fun. But they seemed pretty interested when we talked about prophets in the Book of Mormon, so they took a copy. That was pretty good.

Lets see... In other news, President Newell came by for interviews and such. It was a really good visit; he said a lot of really good stuff about missionary work and building a testimony. He also talked about contacting quite a bit, which is good. He always strikes me as a very spiritual man.

Oh yeah! I suppose that last Thursday marked my year mark! I've officially been out for a year now! Yay! We didn't have too many exciting celebrations, but, per tradition, I did burn a white shirt to mark the occasion. Good fun.