Conference

 How is everyone, are you having fun because I sure am! This week has been crazy fast. We have been so busy and just go through the day and it feels like it is still morning. I am doing wonderful over hear in the motherland and have adjusted well.  It is starting to get cold really fast❄️ We have had a couple of lessons and they have been great and I have felt the spirit confirm to me that what we teach is true every time. Cool story, my Swedish has improved significantly while being here. I have seen the gift of tongues helping me every day, whether I understand stuff better or I just remember words that help me express myself, it just feels like everything is sticking.  This past week has had a lot of meetings involved: first we had MLC, because my companion is a split Zone Leader I was able to participate and I loved hearing what others have done to help with the missionary work in there areas. Next I had to go and get my picture taken to receive my Swedish ID, and we were able to meet up with Äldste Ward because he had to come to Malmö to do the same thing! We then had district council and I finally got to meet my new district, which is so small compared to my district in the MTC (which no district can ever come close to) and wee talked about being more approachable for the Swedes and understanding that they know little to nothing about the gospel.  One of the cool things that we did was we taught a class full of 18 year old's and when the teacher said they could leave only three of them left and the rest stayed!!!  We didn't get any of there information so that was a bummer but they all had a great experience with the missionaries and sometime in the future they will be able to talk to them.  We were able to have two member meals this week but none of them included traditional Swedish food so nothing to report on that aspect.


I loved conference and was able to get a lot out of it.  I really liked when Dieter F. Uchtdorf said "Discipleship is not about doing things perfectly but doing things intentionally."  If you were unable to watch it I highly suggest that you watch it because it has helped me out already and I haven't even seen the last session yet🤷🏿‍♂️ but that's only because of the time difference. 

love hearing from all of you
Äldste Paxton

1. Cool building 
2. Cool view
3. Funny conference meme😂




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