Letter dated 28Apr2014

Hallå där! This Wednesday I'll head from Eskilstuna to the town of Lund, in southern Sweden! Lund is a university town. I'm not sure if it's an all-male university like the one Weston's going to or not, so I guess we'll see in a couple days :P They speak a dialect of Swedish there which sounds a lot like Danish (a.k.a. very difficult). So we'll see how that goes in a couple days as well. We have had such a good week! A sure highlight was when Mahmoud and Zohreh made dinner for us as well as the Karlsson family on Friday! They had spent half the day making a really great chicken delight that was placed atop rice in which there were mixed berberries. It was super good! For dessert we had something like a huge twinkie, a flat cake with frosting and nuts rolled up in tubular form. It was really good :D Then we went to play volleyball as a branch, and had a couple of close games. On Saturday we went with the the Lundkvists to Sweden's third largest lake. Right by it, there is a flat rock with an old Viking story en-graven on it (look at the picture with said rock and a great family) and the remnants of a viking bridge that was just made of several stones piled up on top of each other. Earlier on Saturday, we had just been canceled on and so were about to go to plan b, but I had a feeling to do plan c instead, so we went by someone who was referred to us who is very difficult to contact, and actually met her on the way out of her door! It was super good that we did that because I have a pretty good relationship with her and could see her once more before heading to Lund. And then it turns out that her neighbor is also interested and now has a Book of Mormon! I am really grateful that God prompted us to go with that plan instead of the regular thing because it was so unusually positive! On Saturday night, right before hopping into bed, I decided to call some friends who stopped investigating the church a few months ago. They had never been to church, and didn't want to come ever, but they said they would when I called them because I would be on the program. They came and they said that they felt so good, relaxed and uplifted in church, and they were also invited by the Karlssons to have dinner with us all today! And then earlier today we went on a walk together in Skilsta (see the picture of us three in front of the fence as well as the picture of the rock dam). It was super cool and really nice that we could say bye to each other. Also on Sunday during church, Mahmoud and I passed the sacrament together. It was so good to see him all the way from someone behind a door to see him as a member of the church, helping everyone at church by passing the bread and water. And then there's also a picture of a Czech Book of Mormon I found which is cleverly disguised as a communist book so that they could smuggle them in a few decades ago (so I am told by Joseph). I love you all and I know that the church is true. I love being a missionary!! Good luck to you as you finish the school year and are super busy. Love