Letter dated 21Jul2014

[Dear family and friends, here is the letter that we received from Daniel a couple of weeks ago! I hope you enjoy it! Daniel's editor - BWS] Dear Family and Friends: Wow! July has gone by so quickly! Now that I think about it, 2014 is going by really fast! Based on dad'd letter, Pioneer Day is in a matter of days... this Thursday? I hope it's a good one for all of you, especially those going on the trek. I've included some choice pictures in this week's email. 1) most of the trains in Lund are purple "Pågetåg"s (pronounced Poagatoag). Each one has a name, and this one I liked a lot because Tycho Brahe was an astronomer in a previous century who studied the solar system. A cool guy! The train ride was out of this world (budumchhh....... cricket. cricket.) :P. 2) a handsome missionary and a cool church. 3) the big print on this pack of cigarettes says "smoking kills." Each pack has a similar warning. The warnings seem to be ineffective. 4) a kakolofin (kokelugn in Swedish) in the Nilssons house! We had tacos there yesterday after church with all 8 of Lund's missionaries and a couple friends we brought. Last night after the Nilssons' dinner we were contacting everyone we saw. We met Raza and his chihuahua right by our apartment. He's from Iran and was really happy that he could get a free copy of the Book of Mormon! It was great that we had a Persian copy in our library of Book of Mormons, so we got it for him right away! I love being able to give these to people and seeing how their lives' change as they start reading :) It is great that there are so many translations, because Sweden is incredibly diverse! Raza was super cool. We are meeting tomorrow and I'm psyched! We met José from Spain when we stood by our stand in the town square. He was a really funny guy. I said "Hola" and then he became ecstatic! He said that I do not look Spanish, but because my pronunciation of "hola" was so good, if I had my hands covering my face I could go around Spain saying "hola" to everyone and everyone would think me to be Spanish! He was quite serious. So Weston and I will have to battle our Spanishes. We even oddly had an El Libro de Mormon, in which he was interested, so we gave him that! We had a fantastic sacrament meeting yesterday. Mayhaps the best one I have been in ever! There were three musical performances and the talks, about the prophet Joseph Smith and women's importance and men's importance were super edifying and witty. Earlier this week we were helping out one of our friends and I did the dishes for 2.5 hours. So long! My kitchen job really paid off! Love each of you. I pray that you will all have a terrific week! If you are bored, read Alma 32. I just read it for the millionth time and learned lots! Email me about it and then we can talk! Love, -- Äldste Daniel Schindler