Another week in the life of a Sweden Stockholm Missionary

Like, this whole mission thing is the best. I get to wake up after getting sufficient sleep, study the Good Word of God, have a party on the streets of Göteborg with my boy Elder Cluff, eat a ham and mustard sandwich, teach a bunch of Persians, Arabs, Swedes, and Africans (but not the Eritreans or Somalians, they don't like us) (and we mostly teach Persians), come home and eat meatballs and pasta covered in some flavored sour cream thing, then knock some doors, come home and eat Marabou then go to bed. What a life. Swedish is a blast, Persian is fun to learn, being a YSA missionary is still lame, I'm still loosing weight, I've definitely read Jesus the Christ multiple times, had some bad hang nails, loving the rain, wishing is were snow as well, still very confused why I didn't have a white Christmas, ya, it's a party. 

Lets see, ya, it was a pretty standard week for me. I'll attach some pictures of standard Göteborg suburb fields. Notice the golden color in the first two, that was the sun. That existed for a day. That was strange. Most every other day is like the third picture, slightly foggy and or raining. It's a party, reminds me of Oregon. 

Sorry it's short, but it's all I got! We have mission tour from President Kearon (European Area President) this Wednesday, so that should be a blast!

MVH

Äldste Wilson

Once again, not a lot of time...

 Once again, not alot of time.....

Just know that I love Sweden, I love Marabou, I love my companion, and I love salt lakrits, especially salt lakrits flavored ice cream with salt lakrits chunks in it, coated in salt lakritz.

We have a good handful of investigators, which is good, and life as a YSA missionary is still lame.

He're some pictures, they speak for themselves.

Love ya all! Frid, kärlek, och templets äktenskap!

Äldste Wilson

ps, we are keeping our nerdyness under kontroll. The fun stuff happens after hours.

Meet Elder Cluff

This E-mail will be short. The work is good, and my companion is cool. Sorry for the poor video quality, but I was a little more concerned about getting to the tram in time than getting a good video, but this clip is pretty much most of what we talk about. That and Olan Rodgers, Rhett and Link, the mission (obviously), how unhealthy we're eating, the weird scripture stories in the Bible, Mormon messages, and Homefronts (LDS ads about family, they're hilarious. On Gospel Library).

Another event of much awesomeness, the grocery store we shop at had a sale on Cherry Coke because the expiration date is today (but does soda really go bad?) so the cost was the same as how much you get when you turn in the cans (like, in the US the bottles say 3 cents or whatever, in Sweden you get 1 kr. for every cans and 2 kr. for big bottles, it's called Pant). So I literaly bought a ton of soda for free. Really though, the cost was the pant. There is no better deal that that, free. 

Marabou gets better the more I eat it.

Photo::Us in Göteborg. A snazy leader, chubby follower, and a pair of sister missionaries, aware of some greater power everyone we meet has no idea exists. 

Vi hörs,

Äldste Wilson​

Västra Frölunda

What a place. Göteborg is awesome. The ward is super cool. Unfortunately I am the YSA missionary so I have to go to stuff like FHE instead of contacting, and after sitting with a bunch of Swedes my age playing games it's hard to feel like a missionary. It's fun (kind of, not really my type of setting) but I often wonder why I'm here. Like, if I were to share a message or something then leave with some Fika-to-go I'd love the new assignment, but as is it's a little strange in my mind. I sure do hope my next area is Skellefteå or something like that, where the branch consists of four active members and it takes two hours to get to District Meetings. Oh well, it's fun, I guess.

But Göteborg is super cool! It's a little colder than Skåna but still no snow, but Spårvagnarna are super awesome. Our locations is a little out of town, but the apartment is super nice. There exists 10 rooms, our own full sized washer and drier, the shower room is roughly 20 ft. by 20 ft., the bed is super comfortable, life is nice in Västra Frölunda.

Aside from the apartment, this area is way nice. The ward is super strong, and with all the YSA church is a party (but a good one that I feel good about because I can do stuff like make comments of the religions type in Sunday School). Also, for those of you who really payed attention in general conference you would know that Elder Renlund talked about a growing up in Göteborg with member of the 70 named Elder Per G. Malm, right? The Malm family is in this ward, on Sunday I had dinner with Elder Malm's wife and daughter, the daughters husband (who is the brother to Sister Åsa Ahlström, co-head of one of the coolest families in all of Skåna) and their 5 kids. They are way cool, I can't wait to meet the rest of the Malms. Also, the Malms love me. So, Elder Malm died of brain cancer this summer then this Sunday I go up and bear my testimony om hur när jag läste skrifter och bett efter min mamma dog kännde jag närmare Kristus.
 So that scored me some bonus points with the ward. 

Also, my new companion is a beast. His name is Elder Cluff, from Broken Arrow Oklahoma (Carly, his dad is the Stake president, you possibly know his family) and he was trained on Gotland by a Swedish missionary, so he knows how to speak Swedish and work hard. He's only one transfer older than myself, but he's already DL and stuff, he'll be a great missionary. We get along pretty well, I'm exited for these next six weeks. The missionary work is quite different here though, we have investigators and stuff and six dop dates and a lot of TU's, it'll be fun. Except for FHE.

Who wants some pictures!

2098: My new companion and I!

2004: Our happy light, for when you feel like 1999

2024: Nothing like a blurry picture of night time Göteborg!

1941: The best part of being a YSA missionary

Vi ses!

Äldste Wilson