Elder Jackson Kent Calder

Hey, everybody this week was super good. I don't have a ton of time to write an email right now. But I thought I would at least write something so that you all heard from me this week.  The highlight was that I went on split with 2 other elders. (Also im technically not a greenie but my swedish is still greenie level since ive only been in sweden for a transfer) And this was cool because they came out at the same time I did on the mission. And so our Swedish wasn't very good.  And I got to see the gifts of tongues work in real motion through us. This experience helped me build my testimony of the gift of tongues because we had a lot of great conversations in Swedish. And my Swedish has never felt so good. And it was because God helped me with it, so that was really cool. Another cool thing this week is that me and elder Sonomon works really hard. we decided that we were going to reach all the goals that we set and we went out and we had a ton of lessons and worked hard.  ...

Hey everyone! Life is good up here in Sweden! I'm not really sure how to start this so we're gonna just start typing and see where this goes haha. This week has been really good! Me and Elder Sannemann have been grinding up here. We had to drop a lot of our friends this week because many of them weren't progressing which has been a little hard. Our APs told us though that faith to drop is faith to find new people so we have been hitting the streets HARD. This has been super fun. I wish I would've counted how many times we heard "jag har inte tid" which means "I don't have time". We heard it constantly! Swedes are so funny though because they are all antisocial. They put their big headphones on and their heads down and they get so shocked when we stop and talk to them. A lot of them prentend they didn’t see us and just keep walking.  When we stop and talk to people, some people really open up and we have the opportunities to have cool lessons with...

We got pur transfer calls yesterday, and me and Sannemann are staying together for one more! Im super excited to stay in Sundsvall for Christmas.  I dont have a ton of time but here's a few things that happened this week -    Had zone conference in Umeå. I got to see Äldste Christiansen and spend the weekend with the zone. We went on a beautiful nature hike on P day. -  Zone conference was awesome! The Lakes are the best mission presidents i could ask for.  - We went to a recovery group with one of our friends and it was pretty cool. Everyone went around and was super open. They talked about their struggles and everyone else listened and helped them out. It was an interesting experience but definitely one i hope I remember.  -  We drove to Ovik for in person District conference and Ovik is beautiful! It was super fun and we had to get the kabob pizza. -  we did a lot street contacting when we could which can be hard. We try to have fun when we do ...