Örebro Part III

I feel like this picture describes our relationship rather well... we had a lot of goofy times together! 

Camille (Syster Hauglid) and I became companions on the 21st of August and we stayed companions until the end of December.  A running theme of our companionship was that we always felt that one of us would be transferred at every single opportunity and it just never happened haha.  I quite enjoyed our time together (and made one of my best friends for life!) during those four months.

We first welcomed the new elders into the area...(we had an interesting relationship with the elders... but we definitely loved those two haha) Muirbrook and Lundquist (Lundquist was fresh from the MTC)

Our first weekend together ended up being my birthday (we ended up celebrating Camille's birthday during our time together as well).  As well as both of our 9 month marks!  

So... we had a rather interesting start to our companionship, because two weeks in... on the 3rd of September, we were swinging by some people that used to investigate the church and we came acroos a set of stairs that were in the arrangement of the following diagram I just drew:

Notice that there is something rather odd about that last step?  Well... I didn't notice that.  At first glance it just appears to be a normal step, but as we know first appearances can be rather deceiving.  And this resulted:

 
It was quite the nice sprained ankle... let's just say that it hurt a little bit.  And I couldn't really walk on it.  I was on crutches for awhile... but thankfully we had some amazing ward members that took care of us in my moment of clumsiness.  It took us about 3 to 4 times as long to walk anywhere during this time... and I was more than a little loopy from all of the pain killers that I had to take.  Let's just say that Camille got to know me extremely well, extremely fast haha.

We had the opportunity to see many wonderful people be baptized in the ward during our time together (especially between the two companionships) and I loved seeing the changes that people made in their lives.  It was funny that two baptisms that we had with a couple weeks of each other had the completely opposite experience (one was majorly stressful to plan and the other was the smoothest baptism I had on my entire mission).  Actually the picture below was taken on the second one (I wish I didn't cause half of Camille's face to be in shadow.. but oh well *shrugs*):

District picture: Elders Lundquist, Packer, Johnson, Muirbrook, me and Camille

 Here's a video that highlights the awesomeness of our elders:

We discovered the wonders of speed-walking during October General Conference:

We had various members in the area that were telling us that we should have a prank war between us and the elders.  Camille and I knew that if we did such a thing we would not be the victors in the end... retaliation would be harsh.  But we still wanted to do something so we came up with the most wonderful idea.  We bought 16 KEX bars, two random kid toothbrushes, random Book of Mormon figures, ribbons and somewhere between 50 and 100 notes with random inside jokes.  We decided to eat at the restaurant near the elders apartment and then drop the lot in the elders mailbox... well we totally ran into the elders at the restaurant (and covering the fact that we were there to surprise them... haha).  But they didn't catch on to us and we were able to drop everything in. Definitely a productive use of a p-day. I say that we won the "prank" war in the end =)