I'm in Sweden! (If you couldn't guess). My first area is Västerhaninge of the Stockholm Södra Zone (Stockholm South).
My area is actually the one with the temple, so I pretty much get to see it every day.
Speaking of training, it looks like I will be training extremely fast. I knew that this was a possibility since like week 2 of the MTC, but it's still a little intimidating to think about. The next transfer coming in from the MTC has 18 missionaries - sixteen of which will be sisters. And with my group from the MTC, there's approximately 20 sisters out in Sweden, so doing the math, the likelihood of training by May is pretty high.
Learning Swedish is a bit frustrating actually. I can understand (or least get the general gist of the conversation) a lot more than I expected, but I feel like I can say very little. A member here explained it perfectly: the average person has a 2000-4000 word vocabulary they use regularly and then an educated person has more of a 6000-8000 word vocabulary. So you take that person with a 6000 word vocabulary and force them to be limited to maybe a 1000 words if even that. I do know more than what I think, but it's forcing the 22 year-old writer/law school attending version of me to talk like a 5 year old and let's just say I'm not accustomed to feeling like that.
Now as for the work, we're currently working with several inactive/less active members as well as building our relationship with the ward (and teaching practice lessons with them). We have several potential investigators and old investigators that we hope will become actual progressing investigators. We have a couple of progressing investigators already, but I haven't had the chance to meet any of them yet, so I can't say that I know much about them.
I hope that your weekend together was fun! It's exciting that Jared only has a few short weeks left before he heads out.
Love you all!
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