October 24th letter

This email was a little late because the library Elder Arko uses has been closed for a while and this was the first chance he had to email this whole week! Also, some news from Elder Arko...they just got their first little bit of snow this week and it has stuck so he's pretty sure he'll be seeing white until March or April unless he moves somewhere else. It is now getting dark very early in Sweden. It starts getting dark around 4pm and is completely dark by about 6pm.

Elder Arko is sad he missed the hunt this year, but he did meet and talk with a native Swede whose Father has been hunting moose around those parts for most of his life, so that was very fun to hear about.

The Elders had their District Conference this week. It's like Stake Conference, but they only have a district. It was hard for Elder Arko because it was all in Swedish and they use too many big words over the pulpit, but he'll get it soon. They had fun travelling to Umeå with the Elders from Luleå. Elder Arko likes that he doesn't have to do the driving that the Luleå Elders do. They have to drive so much and so often.

The Elders have heard that Swine Flu has been running around Skellefteå pretty freely. Some of the schools have been closed because of it, so hopefully they will keep themselves out of that whole situation.

Elder Arko thanks everyone for the letters. Until Monday!

This is a landscape shot from up by Elder Arko's little old town of Skellefteå

This is a bridge at about 8pm up in Luleå, a town about a hour and a half North of where Elder Arko lives