I hope everything is going well with you all back in the States and such! Things have been going okay here. This week we've been doing a lot of finding work and such (again), so it hasn't really been all that exciting, but there have been a few interesting happenings.
One was, I guess, while we were tracting some building on the other side of town. We knocked one door and this Somalian guy opened the door. We introduced ourselves, and he asked us if we could read the name on the front of the door (as most residencies have people's name's written on the door. In this case it was "Mohammad"). We replied affirmatively, and he said he was Muslim and then just sort of looked at us. We said something to the effect of "yeah.." and he invited us in and started asking questions about the church. He ended up going on a rant about imperialism and colonialization in Africa (he was pretty drunk), but he said that we could try to come back when he was sober. All in all, it was an interesting experience.
In other news, we had a zone training this week in Göteborg (Gothenburg?). It was good, though it just focused on finding people and contacting, which is a lot of what we've been hearing about recently.
Valentines day is not very big here; it might just be an American holiday. Honestly, if we didn't recieve valentines from the mission president (which was nice of him), I wouldn't have even noticed that it had come and gone. On the other hand, The Olympics are very big here, most people are watching them a lot of the time. One of the members said that a lot of people would take sick leave so that they can stay home and watch the Olympics, which I think is pretty funny, just because that sounds really boring. I'm glad to hear Sweden is doing well, though.
Also, we've been able to see a few kind of cool sights recently while in some of the cities near Karlstad. Cool sculptures and towers and stuff.
One of the sculptures is by Pablo Picasso.
Water Tower
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