May 31st letter

Life has been pretty crazy for Elder Arko. He had a great time helping the new missionaries get where they needed to be, get the missionaries leaving packed, and a lot of other things. It really was quite the adventure and he will have to go through it once more.

Two weeks ago the Elders went to see the ceremonial changing of the guard in Stockholm. Elder Arko thought it was kinda funny. He says the Swedish army doesn't seem that impressive. And no they weren't dressed like vikings, but they did have very shiny and pointy hats!

After that, they went to the Vasa Museum...Elder Arko knows his father will be more interested in that than anyone else :) For those of us that don't have a history book in our head, the Vasa is a ship that was built in the 1600's and unfortunately sunk on it's maiden voyage.

It was very interesting and fun for Elder Arko to go to a real museum.

Elder Arko's new companion is Elder Blaylock. He's from Virginia and has been out in the field for about 6 months. Here he is striking a pose

The two new assistance are Elder Hanes and Elder Ahola (for those of you who don't recognize these names go ahead and check the roster of missionaries that went to Sweden when Elder Arko did. That's right, Elder Arko is in the office with two people from his group! AND Elder Hanes was Elder Arko's MTC companion so you can imagine their excitement! Elder Arko is in pretty high demand since he's training three office workers now so that's all from him for now.