Finding My Voice: I still can't think of something witty to put here

Hey everyone!

Another week come and gone! We had Zone Conference last Tuesday which certainly speeded things along. We had to travel to Stockholm for it. I kind of miss being able to go the city every P-day, but then I'm glad that we can do just do things here in Örebro. Last P-day our elders came down from Västerås and we went on a hike and saw the water tower I mentioned before. I've included a somewhat normal picture of them from that day... and one that is not so normal (we found a pretty cool store though! Tons of board games...though I can't really buy anything from there, because board games are bulky...)

One of my favorite memories of the week... Balansama talking about one of our other investigators. "He always says he's busy. What is he, a businessman or something?"

It's been raining all week (and by rain, I really mean thunder and lightning storms complete with random spouts of pouring...thankfully we have not been caught unawares again), which I gather is pretty typcial around August.

I got to translate for someone from Swedish to English the entire Sacrament meeting on Sunday...which I was happy that I was able to do most of it... I also played another piano solo in sacrament meeting, Paul Cardall's arrangement of He is Risen. Even though I've played so much, I still get nervous. Yep.

I've also been getting that writing itch again, so we'll see if anything comes of it. I just can't let myself get distracted haha.

1) Cherry - he's doing pretty well, but it's been a more difficult week to meet with him. We hope that once things settle down with school starting everything will be better. He's most definitely still interested, but busy with his job finishing up.

2) Eric - he's making a lot more progress now. He really wants to learn more about Joseph Smith. We believe that learning a little more about the prophet will help him gain a stronger testimony of him.

3) Moses - loves meeting! He has a lot of questions in general, mainly because of his experiences with religion in Africa. He definitely feels strongly about continuing to meet with us, at the moment though he's just not sure whether or not someone can be baptized again. He loves learning about Christ though.

4) Frezghi - definitely wants to learn more. He's pretty much just waiting for his answer to confirm that this church as true. He does say that it most definitely makes him feel good!

5) Rose - is still doing well and really wants to be baptized. It's still hard just to help her get to church. We're hoping that things will become easier once the train schedule changes for fall.

6) Love - still loves to read from the Book of Mormon, but she's been really busy with her new job as well.

7) Balansama (new convert) - is just doing so fantastic! He's definitely a missionary and he talks with pretty much all of his friends about the church. He's excited about the priesthood and he wants to become more involved with the ward by learning Swedish. He wants to be able to bear his testimony in Swedish in one of the upcoming fast and testimony meetings.

8) Victoria (inactive) - loves learning more about the church and she definitely wants to keep coming! She's come at least four times now since the beginning of June.

Scripture - D&C 3:1 -"The works, and the designs, and the purposes of God cannot be frustrated, neither can they come to naught." His will will prevail in the end. We do not have to worry about who will be the victor, we just need to decide which side we would like to be on.

Love,

Allie.

Some pictures:

me, Syster Gambles and Pontus and Pihla (our ward mission leader and his soon-to-be wife. They're getting married this Saturday. She actually served here in Örebro for 10 months back in 2009/2010. She's from Finland.