Elder Jackson Kent Calder

  This week has had very extreme ups and downs. It's been hard to be reassigned not going to lie, and seeing a lot of my friends go to Sweden and my sister go to Germany has been awesome! It just kind of makes me want to be there too. I know I'll get there though. I'll be flying to Washington D.C this Wednesday night and going to the Swedish embassy on Thursday. So if any of you happen to be in DC or in the salt lake airport... watch out for me! But It should be an adventure and I'm excited for it! One super cool thing that happened this week was we saw transfer boards. Me and Elder Cook are staying together in the same area, but with a new companion. For some reason trio training is super popular in this mission and they will have a trainer train two missionaries together. It's been fun to get to know a new companion. His name is Elder Adam Joyner. He's from near Pasadena California and his dad works at Disneyland. Bruh how cool is that. He is also a reassignme...

  Hålla mina vänner!  Sorry that this email is so late, that's my bad. After I sent my email last week I started to feel sick and gross because I played basketball and that happened today too! So that's two weeks in a row for those who are keeping track at home. Might have to stop hooping on mondays... nah I could never. I got my invite to DC last week and I got my travel plans! I leave August 30th and like 11:45 PM and fly through the night to DC and I fly back to Utah overnight the next night. It should be a fun trip and a cool experience to jailbreak my mission boundaries haha. I went on exchanges this last week and I had the best experience!! We pulled up to this guys house and he was so upset. He talked to us about how hard is life is right now. His name is Will. We got the opportunity to talk to Will for like an hour and just answer his questions about life! He told us how he struggles with smoking, and for some reason the scripture Ether 12:27 came into my mind and we r...

  i am currently writing this email while my companion monitoring a Bidding war for his families ranch in British Columbia, and i think it is the funniest thing ever. This week has been so great! I'm growing to love the people I serve more and more. The highlight of my week actually just happened this morning. I got my invitation to go to the Swedish Embassy in Washington D.C!! for those of you who don't know this is a necessary step in getting a visa for Sweden. This is the first thing I've heard in nearly 4 and a half months about my visa so I'm so happy. I don't have it yet though so keep the prayers coming haha.  One of the most random parts of the week is my zone leaders, me, and my companion have gotten into checkers. It sounds so lame but its actually been fun. The only problem is that we all get crazy competitive over these stupid checkers games and it has caused some tension.  I don't know how many of you saw but last Sunday I shaved my h...