April 10th letter

Elder Arko had a pretty good week! General Conference was VERY GOOD! He still hasn't had a chance to listen to the whole Sunday evening session because of the time difference and all.

The Elders have had a few good experiences with teaching. Nothing too ground breaking, but just good teaches where they help people understand more about what we believe or in some cases people accept more of the truth. It is really strange for Elder Arko being a half-time missionary because one second he is entering data into a computer until 5:00 hits. Then, the Elders go tract or teach or whatever. It's definitely not as fun as being a real missionary for him, but it's still got it's pros. Elder Arko gets to help supply the mission with all the materials they need and also helping them with travel or just information they need. Elder Arko is glad they are a small mission or there might be too much to do on the busy weeks.

And for PICTURES!! He knows we all love them. This one is pretty self explanatory :)

He got that shirt from his sister Jen (Me) and her hubby Ben :) so thanks to both you two. It caused Elder Arko to start making up lyrics about men in white while he's been walking around with that beat in his head. Maybe he should actually record it :)

This is a picture of his district this transferHe is companions with the two standing in the back and one of them is actually going to leave for home in about 3 days so :) excitingly nerve racking for him!

It is interesting for Elder Arko to see the process he'll probably go through when he gets that far along! Scary thought. They have had 2 out of the 3 Zone Conferences for the mission so far and they both went pretty well. Elder Arko doesn't get to go to all of them, but he does get to hear a lot about them. Elder Arko has his zone conference this week and it should be fun!

Elder Arko has been trying to learn Swedish a little bit better. He feels like he's hit a plateau in it so he's going to start studying it more extensively. As always it's a challenge, but he did get a compliment about how his grammar was almost perfect. He's not sure if the guy he was speaking to was just not paying attention or maybe he was just lucky, but that was cool for him.

The couple who is in the office with Elder Arko are just hilarious and really fun to be around! :) Their names are the Lundquists and they are from American Fork, Utah so right around Elder Arko's neck of the woods! Well that's all for this week! Elder Arko hopes you have a good week and enjoy the pictures!