And the work goes on!

This one'll have to be short, mostly because this week contained lots of work, with the remainding time being filled with work and a fever of 103.8! Just kidding, there was no fever of 103.8, it was only 100.8 (so not even a real fever, pop an ibeprofen in the morning and you're set for the day).

But yes, up here in Ö-vik the work is going forwards, faster and faster! We have many investigators, but one in particular could use some prayers. His name is Youssef (Joseph in Arabic, it's a soft "J") and will be having a surgery this week because he has throat cancer. He's a great friend, and loves meet us and reading from the BOM, he just smokes all day. Makes great Bulgar though, he was a navy cook for a very long time and has been all over the world.

Other than that, I have been asked the following questions which I will now answer:

What is in your apartment?

We have a fairly standard missionary apartment, but it's a little bigger. We have a big bathroom, a closet room, a study/living room, a kitchen with a table, and a bed room. My bed is small and hard, but I've been sleeping great in it. We also have two couches and two chairs that match the couches. It's pretty nice.

What kind of transportation you use?

An Opel car.

When you look out the window what do you see?

Popcorn popping on the apricot tree. Just kidding, when I dare to look out the Window, a nice Swedish city covered by a blanket of fresh and growing snow (it's snowed every day this week). However, we must be very careful looking out our widows as our across-the-way neighbor is a young woman who could be a model but (as per Swedish custom) doesn't wear clothes or close the blinds when home alone.

How are your language skills now you have been there a while?

Great! I still cannot do my "R's" right, but it's definitely not a problem. And having a slight American accent is a bonus most of the time, Swede's wish they could be Americans.

Dreaming in what language?

People speak their native language in my dreams, except for Claire who speaks fluent Swedish. Don't know why, but her Swedish is phenomenal.

How large is your district?´

My district has two branches in it, Örnsköldsvik and Umeå. There are two missionaries in Umeå, the ZL's (Äldste Bringhust from my group and Äldste Stapley) and a set of Sisters (Syster Edwards who's been in Sweden 4 months and Syster Adams who's been in Sweden 1 month), and just Äldste Prososki and I in Ö-vik. It would take about 3 hours to drive from the districts top to bottom on the freeway, and it extends all the way to Norway from the coast. But the district members are so solid! If anyone were to be missionaries in a district roughly the size of Utah from Bear Lake to Provo, it'd be these ones! The zone itself is about the height of Nevada and is covered by a meager 9 companionships and 5 branches.

What do you do on P-days? 

Not much. Buy groceries, play chess, email home, check out shops in Ö-vik central, the such.

Well, unfortunately the only picture I have to send home is this video from when we were tracting and this massive snow drift made my companion want to jump off of the second story of a apartment complex. Don't worry, he only fell like a meter and a half and the snow was up to my waist (and deeper if I were to have tried to tunnel deeper) when I also jumped off, so it was super safe :) And fun :)

Have a great week!

Äldste Wilson