More 4 of 216 Print all In new window So we were in a jungle this week...

Göteborg has a museum with a four-story rain forest in it, and we went to that last p-day, and it really grew my gratitude. My gratitude for not being in Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, the such. It was like 90 degrees and super humid and there were birds flying around all over and a real sloth (and a fake sloth for picture purposes) and a couple iguanas, it was pretty crazy. I'll take my cold winters and lack of sun over having to proselyte in that any day.They also had a fish tank thing and a massive saw-tooth shark parked himself on top of the tunnel thing so we got some cool pictures, he kinda looks like that skin-person from Doctor Who (Cassandra?). And they had a snake called "deathsnake". Sounds pretty sketch.

Hey, what's up with buying the nice cars after I leave? And all the trips to Arazona and Texas, couldn't that have been accelerated a year?

Naw, it's fine. I got all the godis I could ever want.

As for General Conference, oh, I'm so exited. It'll the best, I love conference. I'm exited for Elder Renlund to speak, because I'm in his childhood ward so that's pretty cool. He actually helped to build the chapel I'm sitting in right now! Well, I'm in the family history center now, not the chapel, but you understand.

Nick, happy birthday

Now, a quick note to all you who like sending me stuff about planting seeds. You see, as a missionary I have been called as a Harvester, not a planter. Missionary work needs planters though, and if its not the full time missionaries, who is that? The Members. So here's the thing, maybe I'm not "harvesting" like they do in South America, but I don't care. I may have been assigned to a part of the field with more tares than wheat, but if I don't harvest my square who will? Besides, for those of you that have read "how to be a successful missionary" to be successful I have to committed to find, teach, and baptize, not baptize thousands. So for anyone that feels pity for Elder Wilson, there's no need. If anything, pity the Swedish Members for having the truth but not wanting to share it with their friends. So ya, pray for me and all, I really do appreciate it, but also pray for the Swedish Members that they can man up and bring friends to church. 

Anyways, time for pictures. I got a lot from the Jungle. Also the longer film is a member that likes to give us språk lessons but spends the entire time only having us read stuff then correcting our pronunciation, so we mess with him a bit. In the video I said a word super skånish and he says I sound like a feminist french man, so that's pretty hilarious.

MVH

Äldste Wilson

Oh, this week was a party. Just as always, I love it. Oh, so good. I gave in and got a Karl Frazer Samlliaakkii chocolate bar, oh, so good. Finnish chocolate filled with Salt Lakrits cream. Oh, so good. 

Emma, Elder Cluff does not have any younger brothers your age, but he does have a sister in the 14 year old range...

Oh, I'm so exited for Conference. I love it so much, especially Conference in the 70's. Bruce R. McConkie, what a man. LeGrand Richards, he knows his bible. I highly recommend The Purifying Power of Gethsemane (watch it, don't read it) (actually from 1985, but Elder McConkies last talk so super good) and The Simplicity in Chirst (1976). I know a good amount of RM's get my email, any suggestions?

Lets see, life goes on as a Sweden Stockholm Missionary.We do a good amount of contacting on the streets, that's a party. Unfortunately it's started to warm up, which means that a certain gender of people are starting to take off clothes, making for some very awkward contacts. But ya, life goes on. Whatcha gunna do, stop missionarying? See if that helps anyone.

Now, for the pictures!

2182: Dinner with the elder couple the Watsons! They're super nice :)

2190: Saint Patricks in Göteborg, definitely a lot of drunken three legged races on our contacting street :(

2173: Straight out of Alpine

This may be a surprise, but I don't have a lot of time again..

Ya, we've been busy this week, and don't have to much time right now. But ya, also once again I don't have the ability to send pictures, so I guess that'll have to wait another week. But ya, transfer calls came and I'm staying here in Västra Frölunda with Elder Cluff, and he's a total boss. The man's 5´ 10" and played starting basketball for Broken Arrow (something like the 4th largest high school in the nation) because he could dunk or something like that. I guess I can attach a picture someone else took then emailed to me, it's from when President Kearon came and spoke to us so they pulled Malmö up to Göteborg so a lot of missionaries from my group were there for that and we took a picture together. ​

Other than that, the work is going super well. I love Sweden. This transfer Elder Cluff and I made some "transfer laws", one of which is to eat healthy and do all 30 minutes of actual exercise in the morning every morning, so I had to swear off Marabou :( But life still goes on.

I guess for those of you who wish to pray for our investigators (Dad), I can send a list of first names of the few select for ya: Daniel Kristian Mehdi Ben Klaes-Göran Samuel Sam and Ellen. It'll be appreciated.

Ya, I don't really know what else to talk about, so I may as well end. 

Love ya, 

Elder Wilson

Once again...

Not a lot of time. I'll give a quick over view of the week:

Monday; P-Day, had a pant party with the other missionaries in the district. Turned in a ton a bottles and jars, bought ice cream, ate ice cream.

Tuesday; lots of missionary work then dinner with Familjen Angelini, they're the best. They made this chicken dish that was super good, then we had Semlor. Krysti, you would love a semla.

Wednesday; Mission tour! President Patrik Kearon spoke to Göteborg and Malmö zones about whatever he wanted to for like five hours, broken up by lunch. It was awesome, he's hilarious.

Thursday; Lots of missionary work. All day. It's a party.

Friday; Repeat of Thursday.

Saturday; Bishop asked us to play Innebandi with the priests in the ward every saturday, so that's interesting. Innebandi is like broom hockey, but Swedes get super competative in it. And for some reason Elder Cluff and I were on the same team, so that was interesting. Other than that, lots of work. 

Sunday; Special broad cast from Elder Ballard, Elder Clayton, and Elder Dykes, it was super duper good. We also had four investigators in the meeting, so that was good.

In all, just a lot of fun party working. Sweden's the best. Elder Cluff is an animal. This area is doing quite well, we actually have six baptismal dates and they're all solid. So ya, that's life in Västra Frölunda!

Jag är i kär med det här livet

Äldste Wilson