Örebro Part I

"O be wise; what can I say more?" Jacob 6:12
 

This town will always have a special place in my heart!  I served in Örebro for almost 7 months, over a third of my mission. I only had two companions during that time, Sarah Gambles (for a little over 2 months) and Camille Hauglid (for four and a half months).  I love these two!

Syster Gambles!  Right before she left Örebro to head to Malmö (more about that in a bit)

There were a lot of fun moments in Örebro and I certainly met people who changed my life. Since I was there for so long, it is most definitely fitting that I split up Örebro over a couple of different blog entries.  

Örebro was one of those transfer calls were I immediately just felt it was right and where I was meant to be.  It was certainly an immediate feeling of confirmation.  Since I was there for so long, it seems like someone agreed that it was where I was needed at the most (it might have been where I needed most as well).

I first got to Örebro on the 12th of June, 2013.  At the time we had four sisters serving in the city.  I was to finish up Sister Gambles's training.  Sister Gambles is one of those really funny people you meet... we had a lot of silly times to say the least.  She taught me a lot about writing better journal entries (which is why the quality of my journals increased dramatically during my time here and I thankfully held on to that for most of the rest of my mission--now if I can just keep that up now... but I digress).

I discovered the solar system while I was there:

Look!  It's where we are! We're here! We're here!

Sadly... This was made after Pluto was demoted, so it was not included.  But you can walk down one of the main streets of the town you can find all eight of the "actual" planets (the last one is on Svampen):

The water tower that you can actually go to the top of and see the entire city.

A couple of moments from my time with Syster Gambles:

"We found Cherry!  That is all."

We played SOOOOOO much football together (that it justifies the use of 6 o's believe me.  We played every Wednesday and Saturday with the ward and our investigators).

Our district was the four sisters in Örebro as well as the 2 elders in Västerås.  We went back and forth between the two cities for district meetings and they came for a p-day at one point (we went hiking with the other sisters)

Elder Tietjen, Elder Packer, me and Sister Gambles at the top of Svampen

We found one of the live action role playing stores and the elders had to try some of the equipment.

We had the opportunity to work with some wonderful people during my time with Sister Gambles.  We first met Moses and Frezghi while we were together and I got to meet Cherry and Balan during our time together.  Let alone all of the other great people we had the opportunity to work with.  I honestly cannot begin to truly name all of the wonderful people I met.  


My companionship with Sister Gambles came to an abrupt end on August 21st.  We had thought that we were missed in the transfer calls the previous Saturday (none of the companionships in my district had received a call), but things changed suddenly at 4 pm on August 20th.  We received a call from President telling us that Sister Gambles would become companions with Sister Miller (one of the other sisters serving in Örebro) and be opening a new area in Malmö, while I would become companions with Sister Hauglid (who was then currently Sister Miller's companion) so that a pair of elders (Elder Muirbrook with an elder from the MTC) could be whitewashing in to take over the new area, starting the next day.  Change was in the air...