Well I am now in my new area of Alingsås! It's pretty different here, both the landscape and the people. I had no idea, but the dialect here is different. It's cool to be able to hear the difference now.
I spoke in church on Sunday, the ward is pretty big, about 70 people in sacrament meeting. I talked about prayer. I shared Alma 37:36-37 and Mosiah 4:11 which are both great scriptures I would recommend.
It was really hot this last week which made traveling uncomfortable but totally fine. It was kind of interesting. It was planned that I would take a train to Katrinaholm and then switch to one going to Gothenburg, but the first train that I was on had something malfunction about an hour into the trip, so they slowly made it to a stop in the middle of nowhere and switched everyone on the train to a bus.
while we were waiting for the bus I almost laughed the situation was so funny. We were all gathered under a few trees for the shade. There was a small group of people from south america on their way to a dance competition in Malmö so they played some spanish dance music while we waited, I was alone. in a white shirt and tie, and there were Swedes as well of course.
The bus finally arrived and we made our way to Katrinaholm, passing through beautiful Swedish countryside on the way. I sat by a man from Iran, we didn't talk much.
We arrived after about an hour and a half, and waited at the train station for our trains. They were all delayed, so I stood there for around 2 hours until finally the train arrived to the cheering of all of us waiting, I thought it was funny that they cheered. I ended up arriving in Gothenburg at 30 minutes to midnight luckily Elder Simas and Elder Stafford, one of the zone leaders were waiting. We waited another 30 minutes for another missionary to arrive and then spent the night at their apartment in Gothenburg instead of making the trip to Alingsås.
It was a long trip. But i'm here!
I forgot my camera cable so no pictures this week.
Love,
Äldste Peterson
Monday, July 28, 2014
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
July 21nd, 2014 | Hejsan!!!
Hey! well this week was good. we were able to meet a lady named Marianna for the first time, we contacted her on the street a few weeks ago, and on Tuesday I was going through the phone calling everyone in the potential section and I was able to set up a meeting with her. She came to the church and we taught her the restoration. I felt like it went well and I am excited to meet with her again on Tuesday to teach her the Plan of Salvation!
We also got to play soccer again, this week which was a lot of fun, there were 11 people there all in all and 5 of them were not members of the church. It was fun,but us Americans looked like fools playing against Swedes and Africans, haha
We did not get to go to the temple with Daniel as planned because he had to be somewhere else but he does want to go soon, Unfourtunatly I will be transferring to the other side of Sweden to a city called Allingsås, so I probably won't be able to go with him. He was funny and he told me that even though I was going to be far away, he would pay for my train tickets so that I could go with him. I tried to explain to him why that wouldn't work but I don't know that he got it.
I am excited to transfer, sad to leave my companion and this area though. I have had such a great time here and I have made a lot of friends.
Anyway I hope everything is going great with all of you enjoy the summer!!!
Love,
Äldste Peterson
Soccer!
Västerås Domkyrkan
We also got to play soccer again, this week which was a lot of fun, there were 11 people there all in all and 5 of them were not members of the church. It was fun,but us Americans looked like fools playing against Swedes and Africans, haha
We did not get to go to the temple with Daniel as planned because he had to be somewhere else but he does want to go soon, Unfourtunatly I will be transferring to the other side of Sweden to a city called Allingsås, so I probably won't be able to go with him. He was funny and he told me that even though I was going to be far away, he would pay for my train tickets so that I could go with him. I tried to explain to him why that wouldn't work but I don't know that he got it.
I am excited to transfer, sad to leave my companion and this area though. I have had such a great time here and I have made a lot of friends.
Anyway I hope everything is going great with all of you enjoy the summer!!!
Love,
Äldste Peterson
Soccer!
Västerås Domkyrkan
Monday, July 14, 2014
July 14th, 2014
Hey!
Well this week was really good! We went to a zone training on Thursday which was a lot of fun. We went on a hike just outside of Uppsala which is a neighboring city to Västerås. It was really hot out, but it was still a lot of fun, and kind of strange to be in normal clothes.
We were also able to teach a lesson to Gordon again, we are going through the Book of Mormon with him, and during the lesson I shared a scripture with him that is one of my favorites and he loved it. The scripture is in Mosiah 4:9.
I also renewed my visa because it has now been over a year since I have lived in Sweden! Pretty weird.
On Saturday we got to play Soccer again with Daniel, Bukuru, three of his friends and the Stake President... it was really fun but I rolled my ankle pretty bad, so I have been limping around the past couple of days.
Last week I forgot to send some of these pictures so some of these are a little late.
This is Weinerbröd it's danish and sooooooooo good. they cost about 7 crowns at local grocery stores.
This is all four of us missionaries after we did a step class with Ida. (she is the Instructer so she invited us for free) She and her husband David have us over every tuesday for dinner and we teach a lesson. it has been dubbed Awesome Tuesday and I think that they have only missed one week since I have been here. They really take care of us. We were all pretty tired after this step class and I was a little embarrassed because the lady in front of me must have been over 60, but she did way better at following the instructions then us. haha it was a lot of fun though.
Well this week was really good! We went to a zone training on Thursday which was a lot of fun. We went on a hike just outside of Uppsala which is a neighboring city to Västerås. It was really hot out, but it was still a lot of fun, and kind of strange to be in normal clothes.
We were also able to teach a lesson to Gordon again, we are going through the Book of Mormon with him, and during the lesson I shared a scripture with him that is one of my favorites and he loved it. The scripture is in Mosiah 4:9.
I also renewed my visa because it has now been over a year since I have lived in Sweden! Pretty weird.
On Saturday we got to play Soccer again with Daniel, Bukuru, three of his friends and the Stake President... it was really fun but I rolled my ankle pretty bad, so I have been limping around the past couple of days.
Last week I forgot to send some of these pictures so some of these are a little late.
This is Weinerbröd it's danish and sooooooooo good. they cost about 7 crowns at local grocery stores.
This is all four of us missionaries after we did a step class with Ida. (she is the Instructer so she invited us for free) She and her husband David have us over every tuesday for dinner and we teach a lesson. it has been dubbed Awesome Tuesday and I think that they have only missed one week since I have been here. They really take care of us. We were all pretty tired after this step class and I was a little embarrassed because the lady in front of me must have been over 60, but she did way better at following the instructions then us. haha it was a lot of fun though.
Me and Elder Brown, taking a big elevator to renew my visa.
I saw my old car.... nostalgia haha
Friday, July 11, 2014
July 7th, 2014
Well this week I got to explain to Daniel what a strawberry was. I got a very Swedish haircut, probably too Swedish, and we got to see a bunch of Swedish people try to act like Americans for about three days. It was Power Meet, which apparently is the biggest American classic car show\gathering in the world.
Mostly it was just a bunch of very drunk people driving in a perpetual traffic jam around Västerås wearing as little as possible, and some less than that.
The work here is still going well, I love talking to people about the gospel, and I get frustrated when people are unable to comprehend the importance of the message that we are sharing, but that is the way that missionary work is supposed to be and growth only comes from doing hard things.
I continue to love it here though.
President Beckstrand is great, I am very excited to get to know him and his wife better. They stressed the importance of exact obedience, which I think is fantastic, because I have definitely seen the miracles that come from when we are exactly obedient. He said something that really stood out to me about keeping the rules, it went something like this:
"even if you think a rule is needless, or you don't understand the meaning of it, just follow it anyway, because the lord sometimes tests our faith by seeing if we will follow even those things that seem unimportant"
I like to think of myself as an obedient missionary, but there are always things that I can do to improve.
Other than that I got to spend the 5th of July with a less active family in a little town outside of Västerås called Enköping, it was fun, and really good they made steak, macaroni and cheese and an american flag cake, and afterwards Malta the Husband, showed us his paintball guns which was cool.
Thanks for all the emails!
Love you all!
Äldste Peterson
Mostly it was just a bunch of very drunk people driving in a perpetual traffic jam around Västerås wearing as little as possible, and some less than that.
The work here is still going well, I love talking to people about the gospel, and I get frustrated when people are unable to comprehend the importance of the message that we are sharing, but that is the way that missionary work is supposed to be and growth only comes from doing hard things.
I continue to love it here though.
President Beckstrand is great, I am very excited to get to know him and his wife better. They stressed the importance of exact obedience, which I think is fantastic, because I have definitely seen the miracles that come from when we are exactly obedient. He said something that really stood out to me about keeping the rules, it went something like this:
"even if you think a rule is needless, or you don't understand the meaning of it, just follow it anyway, because the lord sometimes tests our faith by seeing if we will follow even those things that seem unimportant"
I like to think of myself as an obedient missionary, but there are always things that I can do to improve.
Other than that I got to spend the 5th of July with a less active family in a little town outside of Västerås called Enköping, it was fun, and really good they made steak, macaroni and cheese and an american flag cake, and afterwards Malta the Husband, showed us his paintball guns which was cool.
Thanks for all the emails!
Love you all!
Äldste Peterson
Swedish Haircut
My group! this was at the meet and greet for President and Sister Beckstrand.
These are Malta's paintball guns, pretty cool.
a car from the meet
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
June 30th, 2014 | Farewell President Newell
Well this week was good, President and Sister Newell had one last Zone conference before they left and it was nice.
almost my entire MTC district was there.
other than that the work is going well, and Västerås is still awesome.
this is me and Elder Clawson we were companions one year ago.
and this was one year ago in the MTC
These are some of my favorite guys in the mission
saying goodbye to the Newells
most of my MTC district
June 23rd, 2014 : Midsommer!!!
Well this week was good, We had district meeting on Tuesday so we could do splits with the Elders in Borlänge, it was good, but a long train ride to get there, and another long train and then bus ride to get to a teach in Ludvika.
Thursday was also a lot of travel because we did our last interviews with President Newell before he goes home this Saturday.
Elder Peterson
June 16th, 2014
Well, this week was great! Transfers were this last Wednesday, and Elder Hansen left us and went to Utby, his replacement is Elder Dahle, he's from Orlando and he also want's to be a dentist.
On Tuesday we were at the Holmdahls for "Awesome Tuesday" as it has been dubbed, and it was awesome.
I think I have completely adjusted to missionary life, It is just super normal now which is really nice. Elder Brown and I are plugging away, we got 19 lessons this week!
The Newells are going home in a few weeks and we are getting a new mission president which should be pretty interesting. everyone I have asked says that when you get a new president it is like night and day, so I'm interested to see if this is true.
We played soccer on saturday again, but only Daniel was there so it was just five playing... it was way fun though!
other than that things are super good!
Love you guys!
this was at the viking graveyard, we went there today. It was super cool!
Me and Elder Brown
cool flowers I think I might be alergic to them though because I was sneezing like crazy afterwards
Bus stop on Sunday
so I didn't mention it but we went to Enköping on Thursday which is another city in our Area, and while we were there we visited a less active family which was super cool. While we were there we saw this sick bike, somebody was doing a long trip I guess.... super cool.
We also saw this little three wheeler thing....
Oh and on Friday we got bikes!!!! this was right after soccer courtesy of Daniel.
we also saw this car in Enköping
before we played soccer we climbed this monkey rope thingy... courtesy of Daniel.
on the way back from the viking burial mounds today
another cool car
at Steve and Kirsti Holmdahl
I think I was asleep on the bus
Me and Elder Brown
Me and Brown being goofy
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