O that I were an angel, and could have the wish of mine heart, that I might go forth and speak with the trump of God, with a voice to shake the earth, and cry repentance unto the Swedes!
Yea, I would declare unto every soul, as with the voice of thunder, repentance and the plan of redemption, that they should repent and come unto our God, that there might not be more sorrow upon all the face of Sweden.
But behold, I am a man, and do sin in my wish; for I ought to be content with the time at the MTC which the Lord hath allotted unto me.
Anyways, I leave on monday, so I'm pretty much gone. I mean, by the time Dad reads this to the familj and Mom posts this on my blog thing, I'll definately be in Sweden already.
Our MTC zone is all of scandinavia and this week the Finns left us, so we were all super sad monday and tuesday because the Finns were the coolest people I know. There were so many of them and they really knew how to live MTC life. I mean, they were here for over two months! I've been here five weeks and can't wait to leave, I cannot imagine having another three weeks! Finnish is so crazy though, you know in English how if you wanted to go onto a house you could take a sentance about going into a house and just change one word? "He went into the house" becomes "He went onto the house". Pretty simple. In Finnish, every single word gets conjugated based on the extent of action the verb has, literally every word! Like, your name changes when you enter a place, when you leave a place, when you cross through a place, when your on a place, when you go up to a place but don't enter it, you enter a place without a roof, the weather can affect sentances, literally everything makes a change to how every word ends. It's crazy. I'll stick to Swedish, where the hardest rule to understand is that commas can be removed by switching word order of the second phrase, "I wonder what will happen, that is a big plug" becomes "I wonder what will happen is that a big plug".
Other Swedish trivia, Att Döpa means to baptize, and Att Dopa means to be high (on drugs), and Ett Val is a choice, and En Val is a whale. So I may have told an investigator that Jesus wants him to be high. And that we have a being-high-service next saterday. But he must make the Whale to join us.
I actually didn't say that, but I could have.
The hardest thing so far for me to adjust to was when I experienced how much math I forgot. At the bookstore I went to buy something and the total was $4.96 and I wanted to get rid of the maximum about of change I had but I couldn't figure out how to do it so I ended up paying $5 and getting four cents back. If I had paid $5.06 cents I would have traded six pennies for a dime, but I literally had to work that out on a piece of paper in the Res. Life was sad that day. I miss being able to math.
Fun fact of the day: if you connect the reference numbers in Facsimile 2 in the Book of Abraham in order, then turn it upside down, it makes Abrahams face. Try it, I kid you not.
The Finns left on Monday, but yesterday (Wednesday) we got new Finns. They are pretty cool and all, and there is another Swede going to Finnland in this group. He's from Boden, the furthest north area where everyone wants to go because it's on the Arctic Circle, so he has a nice Norrland accent. As a whole, this group of Finns is not quite as good as the old group of Finns, but they will suffice. I only have to be with them for a total of four days.
Well, my laundry still has 25 minutes until it's dry, so I'm pretty much wasting time. As a missionary that is not good because I'm actually wasting the Lords time, so I'm going to get off now and do something productive.
Älskar er!
Äldste Wilson
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