May 19th, 2014

Well this week was great as usual. We taught 21 lessons!!! 

Sweden is so light! It doesn't get dark till 11pm and its light before 5:30am! I had to put blankets around my bed to block out the light at night so that I could sleep.

Elder Brown and I have been running almost every morning and it feels like noon! It's really nice out though. lots of humidity.

We had a cool experience where we were out contacting and we saw a man sitting on a park bench, he waved and smiled at me. I waved back and walked up to him and asked him if we could sit down with him and teach him about our message of  Christ. I found out pretty quick that he didn't speak Swedish, or English it turns out that he is from Iraq and only speaks Arabic. With the little bit of Arabic I know and google translate on our Iphone we were able to teach him a bit of the restoration and set up a time to meet with him at the same bench next week!

I can't belive that next week will be my year mark! it is weird to think, and see how fast it has gone by. 

anyways I am great and working hard as usual. Love you all!

Äldste Peterson.

This is where we run to every morning we can

cool café racer 

today... rain... feels good though

we went to a funeral this Friday of a woman from out branch this is a panorama of right by the cemetery

6:30ish in the morning.

panorama of by the lake where we run. you can see me... disclaimer. haha I did not buy that shirt it was given to me as a joke at Christmas by another missionary. nice and poofy to run in though.

looking at the factory of Västerås

just a nice day to be out contacting

HEJDÅ!!!! LOVE YOU ALL

Äldste Peterson

May 12th, 2014 | Week of skype, stake conference and other things.

Hey! 

Well this week was great! 

Highlights were probably stake conference on Saturday and Sunday, where we were able to listen to one of the 70, It was also really fun to see a few people from my MTC group who are in my zone.

I can't believe that Ben is already home! and its super crazy that Silas is going home soon as well... time really just flies by.

Västerås is great, and Elder Brown has been super fun to be companions with. We were able to teach a guy named Tom this week who has been a bit hard to get a hold of. He is studying about mormonism in a class and so he has a lot of good questions. It was really fun to answer his questions about and explain the plan of happiness. 

Skype was AWESOME I wish I could skype every week so I didn't have to write... it would be alot simpler but I guess if I did it every week it would take the novelty out of it. oh well

In other news, Daniel who we baptized about two weeks ago is going to be teaching preisthood next Sunday(he only speaks English so I will be translating it into Swedish)

By the way Tess I forgot to tell you and Kyle, but the piano at the Stake conference was a bösendorfer... super cool. I will send pictures in a bit.

so this is the leg of the piano

we went to a music store today, and I played this guitar.... it's a Tanglewood, never
 heard of the brand before but it was a super good sounding guitar. The guy at 
the music store also showed us his accordians which were super cool looking.

when we went to Stake Conference we stayed with the Elders in Gubbängen, and their apartment was a super cool itallian looking basement, with statues all over the property... it was a little creepy, but really cool at the same time. 

here is a cool picture of Västerås... down by the lake.

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LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Äldste Peterson

May 5th, 2014

Well this week was good... I got a new companion, Elder Brown, he's from Mesa Arizona, he's super cool! 

Alexander and Inger both came to church and for sunday school I taught them the lesson on baptism... it was super fun. I also translated for testimony meeting and priesthood for Daniel, in priesthood it was funny because Åke ( the guy teaching) started telling a story about a troll, and Daniel being from Nigeria didn't really know what a troll was. It's funny what a huge barrier culture can be. 

In testimony meeting Daniel got up and bore his testimony, so I went up with him and translated his English into Swedish, it was a little wierd switching back into translating Swedish into English right after. 

We got 20 lessons again this week even with transfers woot woot, and we are now teaching a guy and his wife from Chille. (they have lived here for 13 years.

I have the Iphone cable today so I will send a bunch of those.

This is right in front of Stefan (a less active in our wards) apartment. We were waiting for him to let us in. 

This was when Maria, a lady in our ward made all four of the missionaries dinner.

this is Maria... she's super nice, but she has some mental problems and it's hard for her to remmber things, so she is actually still an investigator, but she comes to church every week.

This is a flag I got in Trollhättan that hangs above my bed. ( I have the bottom bunk)

This is a cool poem that's in the kitchen at the church. 

This is the famous bridge shot in Västerås.... super cool right.

more of Västerås

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This is a picture of a cool antik book store we went to a few P-days ago. 

The shirts that Daniel got for us.

this is a picture of the Västerås branch. from left to right 

Stig-Åke, Vivianne, Kärstine, Äldste Peterson, Åke, Monika, Äldste Krebs, 

Äldste Hansen, Roger, Syster Pettersson, Syster Sevhammar, David, Harry

This was while we were trackting, the guy actually said that we could come back. It is now known as the aslan door

this was a cool sunset that we saw on the way back from Sala, a few weeks ago.

This was on Wednesday, it was Elder Browns first day here in Västerås, and we got to go out to Åke's for Valborg, a celebration to scare away the witches every spring.

Thursday morning we helped Åke chop up a tree at the church and at the end I got to blow away the left over sticks.

On our way to Innebandy on Saturday. you can see the dome from the dome kyrkan... that's the towns church.

On P-day we went to a music store.... and I got to play this sweet Ibanez (it's the red one)

Well that's pretty much it... I can't wait to skype on Mothers Day!!!!! I will email you later with specific times, Love you!!!

Äldste Peterson