I apologize for the lack of letter last week.. We had planned on touring Malmö a little bit and then hitting up the laserdome. Which we did, and it was super rad, although the rest of the week I was ridiculously sore because I just crouched in the corner during the game and sniped the whole time. Ha, it was so good though.
These last few weeks have been super different from any other weeks of missionary work I've experienced, because that seems just to be the nature of Malmö. We lived in a four man for a long time, which is a party every night.. but makes it tough to plan and such.
So we spent two days last week just moving our stuff to the new apartment, and IKEA shopping with the apartment couple (The Tolleys from Missoula Montana! Did not know Jordon or Katherine, but they did say they fed the Zone Leaders a few times, so they may have just forgotten) in order to stock everything, and they actually signed a fourth apartment here in Malmö... so we'll pull a Sundsvall and have 8 missionaries here in Malmö including the older couple come September.
The mission is blowing up though with missionaries.. we get 20 or so every 6 weeks.. and we've now doubled the missionary force from last year at this time.. crazy stuff.
The area we live in is super nice, and the apartment was furnished by the people selling it, not the mission.. so we walked into an apartment with a big screen TV and a PS2 ready to go.
We turned on the TV and found out we have connected cable.. so we turned it on as a joke to take pictures and such and may or may not have ended up watching 20 minutes of a soccer game in our apartment. Ha ha ha. It was pretty funny. Don't worry, they're both in the storage now because it may have become a routine thing.
The Malmö Festivalen (which is just like summer days or whatever you call it in Utah, but ten times cooler) has been the main tourist attraction this week. I've heard more American English on the streets than I have Swedish. The new convert Tabby (have I told you about her?) Takes us out to lunch frequently, and we had some super good food, and walked around listening to the free outdoor concerts, while getting free stuff from all the random companies. We'll hit that up a little harder today.
There's this Graffiti wall in Malmö that's about 90 feet long, dedicated to just Graffiti.. it's totally legal and everything as well.. and last week the worlds best graffiti artists came and painted the entire thing! So cool. So with that, and the skateboard competition by the beach... we've had our share of random timefiller activities that keep us entertained when things are a bit tråkigt.
Despite what I've described, we do actually do good work here in Malmö. Although coming here, and being in the midst of trials kind of made it hard to see that. Yet while riding a bus the other day, which we do all the time, I just realized Malmö II is doing better than I thought it was.
It's been cool to see God guide the work in the midst of my afflictions. I've been a bit scatter-brained because of it, but still God is guiding people, and letting me see the Gospel effect and change people's lives.. even in the midst of all the worldliness around every day.
It's been tough, but I appreciate everything so much more because of it.
Love you all.
Alma 36:3
-Äldste Sargent
These last few weeks have been super different from any other weeks of missionary work I've experienced, because that seems just to be the nature of Malmö. We lived in a four man for a long time, which is a party every night.. but makes it tough to plan and such.
So we spent two days last week just moving our stuff to the new apartment, and IKEA shopping with the apartment couple (The Tolleys from Missoula Montana! Did not know Jordon or Katherine, but they did say they fed the Zone Leaders a few times, so they may have just forgotten) in order to stock everything, and they actually signed a fourth apartment here in Malmö... so we'll pull a Sundsvall and have 8 missionaries here in Malmö including the older couple come September.
The mission is blowing up though with missionaries.. we get 20 or so every 6 weeks.. and we've now doubled the missionary force from last year at this time.. crazy stuff.
The area we live in is super nice, and the apartment was furnished by the people selling it, not the mission.. so we walked into an apartment with a big screen TV and a PS2 ready to go.
We turned on the TV and found out we have connected cable.. so we turned it on as a joke to take pictures and such and may or may not have ended up watching 20 minutes of a soccer game in our apartment. Ha ha ha. It was pretty funny. Don't worry, they're both in the storage now because it may have become a routine thing.
The Malmö Festivalen (which is just like summer days or whatever you call it in Utah, but ten times cooler) has been the main tourist attraction this week. I've heard more American English on the streets than I have Swedish. The new convert Tabby (have I told you about her?) Takes us out to lunch frequently, and we had some super good food, and walked around listening to the free outdoor concerts, while getting free stuff from all the random companies. We'll hit that up a little harder today.
There's this Graffiti wall in Malmö that's about 90 feet long, dedicated to just Graffiti.. it's totally legal and everything as well.. and last week the worlds best graffiti artists came and painted the entire thing! So cool. So with that, and the skateboard competition by the beach... we've had our share of random timefiller activities that keep us entertained when things are a bit tråkigt.
Despite what I've described, we do actually do good work here in Malmö. Although coming here, and being in the midst of trials kind of made it hard to see that. Yet while riding a bus the other day, which we do all the time, I just realized Malmö II is doing better than I thought it was.
It's been cool to see God guide the work in the midst of my afflictions. I've been a bit scatter-brained because of it, but still God is guiding people, and letting me see the Gospel effect and change people's lives.. even in the midst of all the worldliness around every day.
It's been tough, but I appreciate everything so much more because of it.
Love you all.
Alma 36:3
-Äldste Sargent