Happy Easter!

We are in for a special treat this week, Easter and General Conference! I'm looking forward to it! Life in Borlänge has been good! This week actually warmed up a ton, so a lot of the snow has been melting! Spring is coming so fast! Haha, now there are giant giant puddles that freeze solid in the nighttime, but hey, Spring is still on it's way. The week has been a busy one, so I'm going to hope right in.

This week we had splits. And man, it was an adventure to say the least. So the plan was for me and my companion to travel down to Uppsala (around 1.5 hours away by train) and then for me to pick up an elder from Uppsala and come back to Borlänge so we could work here for the next day. So we went down on Tuesday night, but on our way to Uppsala, we recieved notice that our seats on the train back to Borlänge had been cancelled, so we couldn't come back that night. So it let to us having a surprise sleepover with the Uppsala Elders. Which was fun and everything, but I hadn't packed any clothes or anything because I had planned to be back in my apartment that night. So we had lots of fun and stuff, but it was difficult to travel around Uppsala without bus cards! But we got everything figured out and the rest of exchanges went well from then on!

Something we went to this last week is called a språk cafe. It is an place where people gather every Thursday to just speak Swedish and practice with each other, but we went because we were meeting an investigator there. But being there was super cool, and we actually were talking to someone there and they were really interested in the church, so we gave them a card. And then, him and his wife showed up to church on Sunday! It was super cool and way awesome to find someone who was so ready and willing to come to church with us!

One last cool thing. So the church is not doing a full world-wide Easter initiative this year. But the Europe presidency decided to do one for all of Europe. So they made a video, we have cards, and we are doing things with ward members here in Sweden, so that's super cool! But I decided to share the video with you all because there isn't much of an initiative happening in the US, so here is the link to the video (haha, I should send the link that is in English, not Swedish). I really enjoyed it!

http://www.lds.org.uk/jesus-christ-is-always-there-easter-2018?lang=eng-gb

Have a great week everyone! Don't forget to watch Conference and to remember the real reason for Easter!


Elder Nelson


Pic 1: We made banana bread (and it didn't even turn out badly!)
Pic 2: We found a giant horse statue thing!
Pic 3: Språk cafe
Pic 4: A member made us an awesome lunch!