October 18th letter

Elder Arko had quite an exciting week. The Elders did their first Religion class at a local high school and it went really well. They did a short first lesson about Joseph Smith, The Restoration, and The Book of Mormon. Then, they had some good old Q and A where they got into the Word of Wisdom and the Law of Chastity. Elder Arko thought it was a BLAST! The best part was they had visited the same students previously, but it was for their English class so the Elders didn't speak a peep of English (other than when they accidentally slipped into it) so when they came back and were practically fluent, the students were rather surprised. That was extremely fun for Elder Arko!

It is starting to get cold in Sweden. The short sleeves have gone into the closet and they don't seem to want to come out for a while. The Elders woke up to frost on the windshield of the car a couple of times this week and the temperature has been hanging around 10-5 degrees C (which is around the 40's F) for those of us who don't convert temperature too well.

The Elders also traveled to Lund for a Zone Conference and were able to receive some fabulous instruction on missionary work among many other things. Their branch also put on a music and poem night so people could play a little something or read a poem. They had about 4 or 5 people that performed, but each one did multiple things so it seems like it was a success. The Elders were only able to make it for the last half hour so they didn't see the entire thing, but it was still nice.

Now for the pictures. Here are the Elders trying to figure out an apple pie...lucky for them an investigator was helping...and...pretty much made most of it. The spice drawer was just too much to handle.

Here is the final outcome. Doesn't it look great? Well, that is all for this week. Elder Arko hopes everyone is doing great and sends his love.