A Fantastic Week

Hej Hej

This week has been a fantastic week! Where do I even begin.So Syster Larson and I were waiting at the bus stop to go home just saying hi to everyone ya know because it is fun. So we said hi to this guy that walked passed us and he gave us a wierd look (like everyone always does) and then he asked us if we were Christian and we told him that we were. Then he was like "I knew it because you girls are so nice and had a glow about you." We dont usually get that response here. They usually start walking really fast or start running so we were shocked. Anyways he kept asking us questions and questions about the gospel and we ended talking about the gospel for over and hour. Oh the funny thing is that his name is Emmy who would of thought Emmy was a guys name. So after teaching him almost all the lessons we decided to ask him if he would prepare himself to be baptized and he said absolutly! We have scheduled a baptism for the 16th of November!!! 

Okay so yesterday(Sunday) Syster Larson and I had two appointmnets scheduled. One of them was a less active member who said he would come to church with us but he never came. Then right as we were walking into to church a member introduced us to David who she found walking around and said he wanted to go to church. He stayed for all three hours and he doesnt speak any English or Swedish just Spanish. So I whipped out the five Spanish words that I learned from the three years of Spanish I took. Luckily we had Ruben who is from Peru help translate for us. So after all three meetings of church we asked him if we could teach him more about our church and he said YES or SI. He was so excited about church and he was so happy during church! I could tell he was a very nice man even though we couldnt really communicate. So as we were teaching him and all the sudden (in spanish) he asked us if he could be baptized!  I knew right then that miracles really do happen. So we scheduled a baptism date for him on November 9th! The wonderful thing about it is that Rebun (the translator guy) Just got his call to Sweden (which is common even though he grew up here) is going to baptize David two days before he reports to the mtc. It was a great day!

It was nice and warm this week and we had day light savings on Sunday so we got to sleep in an extra hour. It was wierd though when we got out of church at 4 it is was really dark outside! I have come to realize that each Swedish meal consist of some type of fish with potatos and Känka bread with some cheese and butter.

Oh funny story so Syster Larson and I were at a memebers house for dinner and we were eating what i thought was chicken stew. Well after the dinner Syster Larson was like "I cant believe we just at quron." Well we both thought it was chicken but it is a substitute for chicken and it is made from fungi! She found out sooner becasue the family told her what it was in Swedish but I obviously did not catch that part of the conversation.

Well I hope you had a great week! I am loving my mission and I am so grateful I get to talk and meet wonderful Swedish people each day. They are some of the greatest people I know and they make me laugh. I really do love them very much and I know that this church is true with all my heart!

I Love and miss you all so much!

Love emi

(Syster Christison)