Sweden - August 26, 2013

Well the biggest thing...we didn't escape transfers last week. Last Tuesday, we got a call from President Newell at 4:30 pm saying that Syster Gambles would be transferring to Malmö with Syster Miller (one of the other sisters here in Örebro) as her companion, and that Syster Miller's companion, Syster Hauglid, would now be my companion, and that we would have elders in our ward. So then on Wednesday at 2:00 pm, Syster Gambles and Syster Miller left and at 5:00 pm Äldste Muirbrook (he's been out about 19 months) and Äldste Lundquist (fresh from the MTC) arrived. Now I'm officially with Syster Camille Hauglid from Spanish Fork, Utah. She's 19 and went to BYU for a semester before coming out to Sweden. Her parents are both professors at BYU.

I'll still be working with my old investigators, except that I won't be working with Balansama anymore sadly. He'll now be working with the elders. Even though I know I'll be seeing him on Sundays still, I'm going to miss him. But he did send me one of the sweetest texts for my birthday (he wasn't able to come to church to tell me in person).

The Lohman family invited us over for dinner yesterday and they even made a cake for me for my birthday, which was extremely sweet of them.

Moses - We've went over the law of tithing and the plan of salvation with him. He doesn’t completely understand the sacrament as well as the concept of repentance, but we hope to be able to help with that this week. He came to church.

Frezghi - We taught him the plan of salvation, which he really seemed to like. He wants to know more about baptism, which we are more than happy to oblige. He also came to church.

Love - we talked about the importance of prayer and scripture study.

Mehtop - still excited to learn more!

Cherry - Syster Gambles leaving was extremely hard on him. He started school up again though, so I hope that makes it a little easier for us to meet with him. He still wants to meet though, which is good.

Eric - He's been busy with hospital visits again this past week, but he wants to meet us either today or tomorrow.

Fredrik (recent convert that transferred to my area now) - We taught him about temples as a follow-up to a Sunday school lesson on family history last Sunday.

Love you all!

Allie