Family, friends, and others,

Not a whole lot of time today, so I'll just answer some questions I've been asked throughout my mission so far, by you, my faithful followers.

No, I do not think it is cold. The last time I checked, it takes a little more than -2 Celsius to be classified as "cold" in my view, especially when I have to wear pants.

I have not quite yet actually got around to purchasing a winter coat, but if it makes any one feel better (dad) I'll start wearing my thermal undies.

Emma, I will not give you a shout out.

My companion is quite awesome! If I were to describe him in three words, I would ask him what three words he would use to describe himself with, to which he responded "Analyse, create, passion." He's from Wisconsin. He has a brother who just left to the MTC for Argentina. He likes pasta.

After zone conference we had a thanksgiving dinner that was pretty good, but we did nothing on actual thanksgiving day. Sweden does like black Friday though.

Swedish goes pretty good, I mean, obviously it's hard, but it's coming. Oh, and you all thought I couldn't spell in English? Watch me try to spell in Swedish!

The Lund ward is awesome, I love it. I think the rest of the world could learn something from how it operates. Every talk is directly focused on Jesus Christ. Every ward council meeting (which happens every week) is attended by almost every ward council member, even though most of them live about an hour drive from Lund. 

Pictures!

7714: Surprise selfe with my comp!

7706: When you really want a big pot of chicken noodle soup, but don't have a big pot.

7703: For those of you who remember a while back, some poor Swede lost a can named Wilson. Wilson is still lost.

Jag älskar er!

Äldste Wilson

I know something you don't! Na na na na na na!

Family, friends, and robots who scan the inter-webs 

looking for emails to contact and numbers to call,

As far as weeks in Sweden go, this one was pretty AWESOME!!! Do you want to know why? Oh, let me tell you why.

CHRISTMAS INITIATIVE IS ALMOST OUT!!!

My hair being my hair and wishing it could fly. There was no wind that day, we were just walking a solid 2 or 3 kilometers an hour.

We had zone conference this week, so the assistants to the                 resident came and showed us the Christmas initiative video and talked about how to use it, and the moral of the story is the video will be amazing. Definitely the best Jul (Swedish for Christmas, also what I will be using from now on because it is 9 letters shorter.) video the church has made. But ya, the video hasn't come out yet (It is released the 25) but there is a teaser video on www.mormon.org/downloads I think that's a little funny, they made a one minute teaser for a two minute video, but it should be good.          

                                             The Zone

My companion wanted me to take this picture, so I did. It was 4:30 in the afternoon then.

ell, that paragraph started to get a little rambley, so I'm going to start new. The following section will contain spoilers.

This years Jul video will begin with standard church video music playing over standard Jul events: putting up lights, setting up a nativity, ext. Then the video transitions to Christ growing up and serving others. Just when you think you get the hang of seeing Christ serving others, Christ stretches out his hand to heal a blind person and BAM! Scene change! Generic young adult helping a generic old man learn how to read Braille! Back to Jesus helping the blind man up and BAM! Another scene change! A generic young adult showing a generic grandma generic videos of generic children! Back to Christ healing some one and BAM! Generic Grandpa visiting his generic sickly wife in the hospital! Christ embarrassing someone he healed and BAM! Generic young boy 1 putting his arm around generic young boy

after generic young boy 2 messed up in 

soccer! I think you get the picture. The video ends with yet another service from Christ, this time with the text over it "I am the light of the World". Then a more subtle bam, and there's some generic adults helping at a soup kitchen with the text "Ye are the light of the World". Then the invitation to go to Mormon.org to learn how to serve "25 ways in 25 days". You go there and find an advent calendar which begins December 1st and goes through to December 25th (25 days), and each day has a topic (i.e. "Jesus Lifted Other's Burdens and So Can You" or "Jesus .Ministered To Children and So Can You") with several ideas on how you can fulfill that topic listed below (25 ways). It's just the best video ever. Also, it looks as though every day is going to have a video released specific to that topic.

End spoilers

Moral of the story is that the video is the best, service is the best, I'm very grateful we have IPhones so we can show it on the street, and I love Christ. 

Well, I guess I could talk some more about how Yoda attends this ward, or about how I learned to play O Come, O Come, Emanuel on the cello, or how I licked my elbow for the ward talent show, but I think I'll just put in some pictures and call it a day. By the way, one of the above three things is a lie. Guess which one!

The 20 meter tree we cut down

It snowed! For real!

I'm not making it up this time! It snowed in Lund! YAY!

Unfortunately, because it is snowing now my companion wants me to wear my gloves and hat and get a winter coat and all that stuff. Ugh. Two steps forwards, one step back.

Nick, before I forget, you have to tell me if Lone Peak won or not. And who they played.

Well, this week was pretty boring (but not really), so I'd thought I'd start this off with a quick insight I got from one of the coolest guys I know, Broder Strandberg. We were sitting in Elders quorum (which happens to be the most fun event ever, after ward council) when we were talking about some gospel topic and Broder Strandberg mentions the idea of putting on the Yoke of Christ. You see, a yoke is a tool, and is quite heavy. Sitting in a field with a big fat yoke on your neck would be quite miserable. However, once you start pulling your yoke and working with it you can 1) See that you're doing something, and 2) Christ is able to start pulling with you, thus making your burden light. So ya, it does us no profit to just put on the Yoke of Christ unless you start working with it!

Now to the descriptions of how life in Sweden is. Something that is really cool is this week (along with it having snowed) has not risen above 1 or 2 degrees Celsius, so all the plants are completely frozen and, for lack of a better description, freezer burnt, so all the leaves are super cool looking and walking on grass sounds awesome. 

Hey family, don't forget to be memorizing The Living Christ! If I can do it in Swedish, you all better do it in English!

Oh, and by the way, have fun in Trump-land!

It turns out, Swedish Children are the best! So cute! They all learn songs in English they sign to us, and they eat tons of butter, and they all know how to play an instrument because the schools in Sweden have amazing culture programs, and they are totally crazy, and they eat all the snow they find, no matter how old, how dirty, how gray or yellow, they love to eat it all. That last part is actually a problem, but it's still super cute.

Also, if you all can find a good recipe on the inter-webs, make some Saffron Bullar. Jätte bra. 

And finally, our little college town of Lund got another new missionary this transfer! Now all three companionships are training! But ya, he's actually a super cool guy, his name is Elder Shanks. His companion in the MTC was also from Lone Peak, so that was cool. I knew another Knight had a call to Sweden, but I thought he still had some time before he came. Anyways, now that I've sufficiently thought-vomited this email, got to go!

MVH,

Äldste Wilson

It snowed!!!

It snowed!!! In Sweden!!! But not in Lund. That made me a little sad.

Anyways, I thought I'd take some time to share a bit about the Ward in Lund. There are three companionshipsof proselyting missionaries, two Elders and one Syster, and a Lund senior couple. The ward is awesome, the bishop is super sharp. All the missionaries are part of the ward council and every member on the ward council has the power to call people to speak, which is super cool. We use this app called Trello to keep an agenda for ward council and a list of speakers called so we don't over book a week. Sacrament is awesome, it begins with a musical number, then announcements, then the sacrament, then two speakers, then another musical number, then the last speaker closes, all with the standard opening, sacrament, and closing hymns. It's super cool. We usually have around 70 members present, and the ward is able to provide teachers for primary, priesthood, relief society, and five Sunday school classes. So ya, the ward is pretty solid. However, it sounds like the new line up for the MV5 ward is going to be killer! All three of those people are amazing! But who got put into the Priest quorum?

But ya, this week has been pretty awesome! Unfortunately, I did not get a pass along card into the popemobile :( My companion is the district leader so we've been doing splits, and this week I was with someone who has spoken to Hannah and Syster Carly Smith! He's from Pleasant Grove and worked as a janitor for LP, and some how it came up that he helped Student Counsel make posters or something like that two years ago.

This week we also served a family in the ward, familjen Ahlströms, by raking their massive lawn. Dad, if you think you have amassed a big burn pile, check out this guy! I really don't know how he hasn't burned down those trees next to the pile. My comp had the phone and he didn't really know what I was asking him to take a picture of, so you can't really get a good feel for the size of the pile. It's over twice my height and two me's laying down in diameter.

Also, turns out I'm strangely adept at drawing mushrooms and snails. Not really, but one day I couldn't think about something to write in journal about, so I drew a mushroom. Then the mushroom looked lonely, so I gave it a friend.

Well, not a lot of time today, so that's all! MVH, Äldste Wilson