Well this week was crazy

There are three parts to the crazyness of this week, all of which were awesome! To start off, we went to Stockholm for a mission tour by President Johnson, President over the Europe area. But it was super fun, because I got to fly to Stockholm and sleep on Handens, my previous areas, couch. We then had this big meeting with three zones, so around 80 missionaries, which also included almost every missionary I've served around except for a few. The meeting was super good, very spiritual, and lunch was a party as I got to play the part of social butterfly and walk around and talk to lots of people. It's super weird though, I'm one of the "oldest" missionaries left in the mission! The Sister missionaries that came into the MTC with me are going home in two weeks, so this was also my chance to say goodbye to most of them. After the meeting was a little leadership meeting I went to and that meeting went a little overtime, which leads to the next exiting event this week!

We almost missed our plain! Because the meeting went over, first off I didn't get any pictures with the other missionaries (very sad day) but second off we missed the intended train and had to get a ride to the train station to catch the next train. We then got to the airport 30 minutes before the plain left, and we got to the baggage station 28 minutes before the plain left, so they wouldn't let us check my suitcase. Luckily for us though, the Umeå Elders were also at the airport and Elder Stapley offered to take my suitcase with him, so I sent that to Umeå with him and we begged the lady to print off our boarding passes. We then ran though security and got onto our plain just as they were closing boarding. It was close, but we made it! Then we landed at Ö-vik in time for crazy event three!

We land, in the middle of a massive snowstorm! It's crazy, we must have gotten around a meter of snow, I'll send pictures but they don't do it justice. There was so much snow, that they couldn't plow it! Our parking spot is out of commission, there is a pile about 3.5 meters tall just behind it, and the stall itself has a meter of snow on it. It's also super cold! Like, this morning was -24 C. Like, it's insane how much snow appeared over the 24 hours we were in Stockholm. 

Now, crazy event related to event 2, the trip up to Umeå! Because my suitcase had everything needed to be a missionary (scriptures, phone charger, toiletries, PJs, ext.) in it, we stayed the night in Ö-vik then the next day drove up to Umeå to get our stuff, then since we were in Umeå we decided to do work-overs with the Umeå ZL's, so that was a party! I love those two, Elder Stapley and Bringhurst. Great missionaries, the both. We also had a member meal with a family from Colombia and that was tasty :)

Also, crazy event related to event 1. We show up at the airport an hour early to fly down to Stockholm, and the airport parking machine won't take our cards! We try both our mission credit cards, then we both try our personal cards, and we try the other parking machine, and it also doesn't work. So we go in and try talking to people there but no one knows how to help us, and at this point in time the plain was about to board, so we call the mission financial person and he says to call the parking company, so we call the number on the parking machine, and no one answers! What kind of help line doesn't answer? The one to the parking meters in Ö-Vik airport.

Well that was long. I'll now attach some pictures and sign out. Thanks for reading and have a great week!

Äldste Wilson

 The time we did P90X with one of the Cambodian families on p-day

IMG_3305 is a sign that says "Eat, Drink, Enjoy (in a "be merry" manner)", sounds familiar, right?