Elder Paxton - Sweden Stockholm Mission

  First off, just want to thank everyone for the Birthday wishes!  I had a wonderful time here in Sweden! Måndag: Today we went to a castle that was pretty cool! It is one of the most popular ones by Katrineholm, not Sweden, and that was super cool! The walk there was so nice and we had a lot of fun! We then had an experience I will never forget! We were out knocking and the first door we knocked on opened up and you could see the smoke coming out of the room! The man and his wife look at us and the man said "oh you guys are with the church, come in" and we didn't want to because that was not a great environment and said maybe another day and his wife said that they were drunk and that it wasn't a good time either but the man places his hand on our shoulders and kindly Guided us in his house to the living room and we heard the same story 5 times about his life and every time we would ask to leave he would start over again! It was so hard to understand him because he s...

  Måndag: We had a pretty chill Pday and took some time to rest. While we were emailing home the person we were planning on teaching called and said that she had a fever and we don't want to get sick so that didn't end up happening so we went by some people that we would like to start teaching and most of them were busy but said that we could try again. Then we had a FHE with our member mom here in Katrineholm. That was really good and we talked about how trials shape us into the person that we are. We also watched the refiners fire which is a great little video and I highly recommend. Also cut my hair for the first time and that went very well actually, I was very nervous Tisdag: We had a lot of time to find and that was great. We have lost a couple of people that we normally teach which is sad but gives us more time to find more people to teach! Then we went to a språk cafe to learn us some more swedish and be able to just talk with some native speakers and that was really ni...

  Monday: We started off by going to a cool castle that was so pretty and had a very cool lake by it! I loved the colors that they had and wished that the trees had leaves on them and that would have made that experience so much better! Then we went and had FHE with a member and that was fun! We had some curry chicken and that was good! We talked about repenting and trying to be the best we can.  Tuesday: We had a said experience today because one of our friends that we have been teaching very regularly dropped us and said that they don't want to meet anymore, which was really sad and was hard for me because I was becoming really good friends with him! We then went out and did some knocking and we found someone that said we could come back and that was exciting! We will see if we can meet with him sometime this next week. Then we traveled to Stockholm and stayed the night there because of Zone Conference! We stayed with the Assistants, Office Elders, Linköpings, and Noköpings....

  Monday: We had a barbecue with all of the Elders quorum and we had some Hot Dogs and let me tell yah that Sweden does it right when it comes to Korv . We also had some cooked peppers and those were really good as well! We then tried to contact all of the people in our area book that would disappear after the 31st because of some laws here in Europe saying that we have to give people a notice that we have there number. But we were able to at least send all of the people that we had a text and if they are interested they will now be able to text us back. Tuesday: New Years Eve! We started off with some good old book of mormon study and that was great! able to get some great readying in! We had a lesson with one of the people that we are teaching but then he didn't show up and that was sad! We then had a nice dinner with a member here and we had some very good Swedish food that was amazing! We had some great orange flavored sauce that was to die for! Then we went to the branch presi...