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Elder Arko has been getting settled in to His new area and trying to get to know the people in His new branch. Elder Arko and Elder Depew have been visiting with a lot of less active members and trying to help them start coming back to church. There had also been an unusual amount of snow this past week. The members have been saying they haven't seen this much snow in 3 years down in that area so Elder Arko is convinced that the cold is just following Him everywhere He goes.
Elder Depew has been out on his mission for about a year and is a pretty laid back kid that is pretty sarcastic so Elder Arko has had fun being companions with Him so far. They've had a few good instances with tracting and teaching already. They tracted some student housing and got let in 4 times in 2 stairwells to teach and it went pretty well. They're looking forward to seeing if any of them become investigators soon. They were also sad to see one of the newest members in Karlskrona (which means Karls' crown...Elder Arko doesn't know what that translator was thinking) move back to Africa. The good news is that He should be able to keep contact with the church and has a very strong testimony.
This is Elder Arko's new bike :) It is a very nice luxury item for missionaries and Elder Arko feels very lucky to have it.
Elder Depew has been out on his mission for about a year and is a pretty laid back kid that is pretty sarcastic so Elder Arko has had fun being companions with Him so far. They've had a few good instances with tracting and teaching already. They tracted some student housing and got let in 4 times in 2 stairwells to teach and it went pretty well. They're looking forward to seeing if any of them become investigators soon. They were also sad to see one of the newest members in Karlskrona (which means Karls' crown...Elder Arko doesn't know what that translator was thinking) move back to Africa. The good news is that He should be able to keep contact with the church and has a very strong testimony.
This is Elder Arko's new bike :) It is a very nice luxury item for missionaries and Elder Arko feels very lucky to have it.
The Elder have a very big area now so they spend a fair amount of time traveling to other towns to visit people or do work. It has been really fun for Elder Arko to see how different missionary work is with a car. Being on the coast is also cool for Him except the wind is usually blowing so that is kinda rough, but no big deal.The members in Elder Arko's new area are pretty dang cool and they are all real nice. I'll try to get you some pictures of around this area soon so that you can see what the landscape is like but I kind of wanted to wait until the snow melted and the spring in Sweden started coming out.
This is a picture of their chapel
That is all for this week! Elder Arko will talk to us all next week for another chapter in "Adventure Sweden"!
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