January 11th letter

It has warmed up a little over in Sweden and Elder Arko is only dealing with temperatures right around freezing the past few days. The Elders had Sharpening this past week and it was really fun for Elder Arko to get together with other missionaries and just have a little break from the day to day life. On their way to sharpening, there was a line of cars in front of them making them have to slow down on the freeway. The Elders wondered what was going on and then they saw a herd of reindeer that were crossing the road! Elder Arko scrambled for his camera and only got a few pictures, but this was the best one.If you look closely you can see some of them have collars on. The Sami (Suomi), or natives, can herd and own them. It's apparently quite expensive if you hit one that is owned. The Elders were very tempted to stop and try and get one to cook for the meeting they were going to :)

Some more exciting news is transfers are next week! Elder Arko thinks he'll be staying in his current area, but he's not sure. He is hoping to stay because seeing the Aurora Borealis is something he hasn't done yet, but really really wants to!

One thing that will keep the Elders busy is and English class! They have started doing it to help a few people out. They have also received a new load of potential investigators because of it. Elder Arko has had some good tracting recently and gave out 3 Books of Mormon.

This is their meeting house after a pretty good snow storm. Elder Arko and the others had a good time keeping the snow off of it.