Another week has past. It was a busy one and I am having a hard time remembering what exactly we did that we haven’t done before. Our FHE lesson giver called at 5 Monday night and was unable to be to FHE so Nikki did a last minute lesson – never as good as when you have time to prepare. Tuesday and Wednesday we served fried rice and Chinese dumplings for dinner. Thursday was district meeting. Friday was chill – one of the YSA taught us all how to paint with water colors. Very interesting, but I am not Picasso!! Saturday we had to inspect the missionary apartment in KÃ¥llered and do a bunch of shopping for stuff that is needed in the various apartments as well as groceries. The apartment isn’t far from the IKEA but of course we were finished 45 minutes before IKEA opened. So we came home, got our grocery list and decided to return to IKEA via a back road we had never driven on. I had asked one of the boys at the center about it and he said it ran close to the sea but you had to get off the hiway and go into the little town of Särö to actually see the ocean. So we did. And we took some pictures. It was a trying-to-storm type of day, which was typical for last week – it snowed or rained every day all week. On Sunday we went to Utby for church because one of the investigators wanted us to be there when she was. She is the aunt of a boy in the Swedish class who often comes to activities at the center and she only speaks Chinese and a little bit of Swedish. Luckily there is a Sister Falk in Utby who also speaks Chinese and Swedish and a little bit of English. They were at the center Friday evening and the Chinese was really flowing!! Talk about a head ache – Swedish and Chinese at every turn. Whew!!   Then Sunday evening was a rebroadcast of a CES fireside with Elder L. Tom Perry. It was really good. You can see it on line, if you’d like to. Luckily Dad had downloaded it onto his computer. Because the US had switched to daylight savings time and we have not, the broadcast was at 6 instead of the advertised 7. So when we got to the center to get set up at 6:30, it was half over!  But Dad saved us and everything turned out ok.
The work is going well in the Göteborg (pronounced: Ute-a-bore- ee) Zone. All our missionaries are busy and happy. This coming Saturday our district has 3 baptisms! One for each companionship in the district. One of the candidates is a young man who comes to the center often with a friend. He had no religious background at all when he first started investigating. He and Dad have had several long talks during his conversion process. And he has asked Dad to baptize him! His name is Kim Nikius and he is a remarkable young man. Dad is learning the baptismal prayer in Swedish. Kim speaks both English and Swedish but Swedish is his original language. He had a really good friend die last week (a young man) and we are praying that he still has the desire to follow through with his decision.
We hope all is well with each of you. We’d love to hear what is happening in your lives. Remember that you are always in our thoughts and prayers.