End of Transfer

Hey the transfer is already over? I just got to Sweden... Like a month and a half ago!

So on P days we play this card game called Munchkin. You should play it if you get a chance. 

I went on splits for the first time this week! It was great. I led a contact with this guy and we taught him how to pray, in Swedish. That was super duper :D We even got his number. We also taught a lesson to a potential investigator and I helped with a major part of it in Swedish. It was great. She said she has a bunch of friends too that she wants to bring. So that is amazing. 

The next day we went to a member lesson and they took us to lunch. I want to avoid just talking about all my mission food but I figure as long as that is not all I talk about haha So they have Kebab here. It is really good and they put it on pizza. and then they put fries on top of the pizza. It is just really really good. Different a little but good. look up kebab pizza.

Elder Johnson lost his bus card the day before we needed to go to Norrköping  and  that was just super. We went to talk to a lady to see if we could get it renewed and she said nope. Then the next day (Midsommer Afton, a holiday) someone else also said it was impossible. Then one lady was like, ahh well it is a holiday and gave him a free replacement. God always answers prayers. 

So in Sweden they have holidays but they always celebrate on the eve. So Midsommers Afton (eve) is the actual holiday. So they play music and everyone gets in a big circle and dances around the maple. I took some videos I will try to get home. We actually had permission to participate so we danced and experienced the culture here in Sweden. It was great.  A member fed us. They made too much food so they kept saying, "Frankman," whenever they wanted something eaten and I was happy to oblige. At first... Then they just kept feeding me. It was so so funny. They had root beer! Which people here don't like... But I finally had root beer in Sweden. I was so happy :D They all claim that it tastes like toothpaste. I think they are crazy. We went to go see a castle. I thought it was going to be like cobblestone but it was just a big older looking building from the 18th century. The outside of the castle though, like the landscaping was beautiful and huge. I will send some pictures of that too eventually haha.  

They don't have anything spicy in Sweden. Anywhere. Okay that is a lie. They have sriracha sauce at one store I have found. But they don't like spicy food. :'( 

My district leader said something quotable this week, "Jesus Christ wants to save each and every person, therefore he will not let us fail." I really feel like this work is moving and it is about to go! I know that Christ can help us with anything if we ask. Thank you all for prayers! 

Sincerely,

     Elder Frankman
Enebybergsvägen 38

182 46 Enebyberg

Sweden

Last P-day of transfer one... weird

Wow this goes fast and slow and everything in between. I think on the mission is when you start to remove the veil a little bit and time starts to not exist, but we are still mortal so it is skewed. Yep time is a beast. I can't believe it has been so long. 

So earlier this week ( Last p-day) We got bloasted (cancelled on) and we were walking around. We tried to follow the spirit. Then we said a prayer. We shortly thereafter found some positive potential investigators that are our age! That was super cool. I look forward to meeting with them. 

Badou's lesson went well! His second one however didn't go as well, mostly because it didn't happen. He called us and said his girlfriend is against us meeting him. He is trying to work it out, and he is a stud so I am pretty sure things will work out. God has a plan for that man. I mean really though. I love that guy ;)

I had a hamburger at a members house! That was refreshing... haha Good old America. Speaking of which, the McDonalds here only has like three workers at one time... They aren't really fast food. haha I mean it still tastes like fast food but it takes forever. Nothing tops the spicy chicken or the 1.50 chicken nuggets at BK. Good times! Also you have to pay for sauce packets here. oh you want BBQ sauce. Five kronor. Life is rough... haha

We had a great lesson with a guy named Gabriel. He seems like he is pretty prepared. We just called him up and he was like, "I am in the city let's just meet up now!" So we met up and walked to the church and introduced the Book of Mormon! It was great! 

Pele.... What a bro. He is this Baptist minister that we go eat with every few weeks. He isn't really progressing, but we feel like he isn't a waste of mission time as long as we don't visit him too much. He said he doesn't want to be "missionaried". I think we might try to do "practice lessons with him so I can practice my Swedish" though. So we will see how that goes! His family and him are so Mormon, it isn't even funny. Someday. That would be the baptism of a mission. "I baptized a baptist minister's family...." #nbd(no big deal). We will see :D

Thomas this week came to FHE! So he is making friends with the members! That is grand news. I really hope that he softens up to the gospel! 

Thank you all for the prayers in my, my companion's, and my investigator's behalf! 

Love you all!

Oh and the Gospel is true 

Why can't I count

So on Monday last week after I emailed you, we had a lesson during Pday time scheduled and that was awesome. We asked Badou if he believed it came from God and he said he wasn't sure about the coffee and tea part. Then we read the scripture and said, "okay it is old Swedish. It is from God. I feel it is from God." Like why is he so good. He has only had like two cups in six days. It is crazy. Then we were knocking apartments and this one guy got mad and said all Christians should be (translated) "sent away." So basically just die. And I kinda just stopped him and asked him if he had read the Book of Mormon. He was like "no because you took out the part about polygamy!" he then rudely shut the door and locked it. I was just like almost laughing. I mean I was sad for him but he is so much more unhappy than I am even if I were wrong. It is just dumb. Then almost perfectly, the next door we knocked was a guy that asked us where in the Bible it talked about the BOM and we showed him and just like that, let us in. He seems super cool. He didn't seem to happy but he did seem happier near the end. We think he may have just broken up with his girlfriend. It is funny how right after we got shut down and our P-day proselyting time was nearly over (Like we could have called it quits close) we knocked that last door and the guy let us in. Always give the Lord your all otherwise you won't get what he has waiting for you at the end. 

Next crazy contact. We were following up on some people who told us to come back. We got a call from a bishopric member from some other city a few hours away. He wanted us to help him return his car... We didn't know why but we figured God had some weird plan that we (As usual) didn't understand. So after being with him for like 2 hours he was about to get on a train. I contacted this guy named Magnus with my companion. He was waiting there for two hours for his friend to get out of school. Magnus was also the name of the bishopric member we were with, and they are both from the same city. We talked to Magnus (nonmember) for over an hour! He said, "I wish that we could just sit down and talk sometime for like 3 or 4 hours..." And we were like... "hmm... we could probably maybe talk to you sometime about our religion if you really want..." haha that is not really what we said, but it was just crazy to hear, especially from a Swede. Things are going great! 

And then...

So Badou... Next Lesson we have planned with him. He cancels and says he can't make our next two scheduled lessons and to call him tomorrow. So we WERE going to teach him chastity before he cancelled. We called him back and he said, "Sorry, I just got back in contact with this old girl friend so that is why I needed to cancel..." My companion almost threw the phone... But we will talk to him, and he is super sweet. I guess we will see what happens. I love that guy! 

Things with Thomas... Good lesson with him. We are really getting to know him really well. He super trusts us. I hope that he can get baptized soon...

Hampus! We got permission from Hampus to ask his dad to let us baptize him! That will be great! I think his dad will say yes because he loves us! 

Oh and btw did I mention that I was at my second stake conference with Elder Holland?! HE IS AMAZING. He said it was his favorite stake conference he has been in in Europe I think... IDK he really liked it. and there were some GREAT TALKS. So Elder Holland got up and said something like this, "I have noticed a theme... I am glad because this is what I felt I needed to talk about and the theme emerged..." My companion and I were like: Member missionary work! Sweet here come the referrals. And then he yelled over the pulpit, like Elder Holland does, about the Book of Mormon. So I guess that can tie back to any theme... IT was so amazing. He said, "I can't tell you some of the things I have seen! I am not allowed to!" He basically proved through his talk that the Book of Mormon is true. Ahhh it was just too amazing. My face was melting. Anyways the BOM is definitely true. 

I love this church and it is true! Thanks again for all the support.

Love you all!!!

Man I look weird there. Oh well.

This is Kebab. I was Kebaptized!

Those lumps are actually the rock guys from frozen.

​so pretty. more pictures next week

Week 3 or.. yeah three

So we were going to teach Badou ( I just won't give last names. I figure that works well enough) and he is golden. We decided that we would teach the Word of Wisdom. He is a sport guy and so we figured it wouldn't be too hard. We knock on the door and guess what? He opens it, with a cup of coffee in his hand!!!!! What the CRAP? Ugh... Why on the Word of Wisdom lesson. He offered us some and we declined and he said, "What? You guys don't drink coffee?" and we were like, "We are going to talk about coffee today" XD Then we taught about no alcohol, no tobacco, no illegal drugs. that is all cool. He said, " Yeah people really get on a schedule and addicted to alcohol. It is like me with my coffee. If I didn't have my coffee I would die. It isn't good to get on these schedules." And my companion said, "So you know what the next one is..." He was like, "Wait... what? nej. nej. Coffee? NEJJJJJJJJJJJJJ!!!!" and he just yelled for like 20 seconds at the ceiling. XD He is trying though. I love that guy :D

We met lots of great people on the street this week. No new investigators this week but I did get a girl's number ;) She is a potential Investigator. I don't think she was too impressed with my Swedish... Haha oh well. 

Our bus cards expired on the 27... So we can use them that day right? right! Except they expire at four in the morning sooo... We went to buy new bus cards and my companion didn't have money so later we were going to walk to a bus station that takes cash. Then I decided to take a weird way and we ran in to a guy just sitting in the grass. We sat down with him and now he texts us everyday asking us to pray with him for some cause or another. He doesn't want the gospel yet but seeds are planted. A lot of inconvenient things happened though to get us to that point. The Lord always knows what he is doing. 

A lot of knocking this week. I named one night Knocking Knight, because I am a genius :D I deserve an award for that. 

People here in Sweden have fika. Which is basically snack time. So after church a lot, we have fika XD I love this place. Except that the sun goes down at like 11 or 1130. I don't know I am always sleeping, and apparently it rises at 4... But I have a black out curtain so that is great :D

Miss you guys, love you guys a ton, and thank you for the support.