Hello Again Family

Oh it is so good to hear from you all again! i look forward to p-days so much. They are the best. Going to the temple and feeling the Savior's and our Heavenly Father's overwhelming love for me, and then coming back, reading letters and emails and feeling my family and friends overwhelming love for me! It definitely is a refueling day for the rest of the week! mom- thank you so much for my package! The socks are great and those cookies were amazing! They didn't last long between me and the district. So how are things going at home?? That's hilarious about dad picking you up in the work truck mom! ha ha I'm sure that was just the chariot you were expecting! ha ha So I want to apologize right now if my English grammar gets progressively worse. ha ha Swedish spelling and grammar are already getting to me. So if I'm spelling things with k's instead of c's and f's instead of ph's that's why. ha ha It's insane how quickly we pick things up! Even though I definitely don't feel like I'm good at Swedish yet, it really is amazing the amount I can speak already. The gift of tongues is definitely real. On the subject of the language, I have actually been wanting to fast for the language lately and that would be really cool of you and dad if you want to fast with me. I would never expect you to but if you are willing I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks for offering! Does Thursday(tomorrow) work? I will be doing a 24 hour fast starting after dinner tonight. If that doesn't work just send me a dearelder with a date in the next week that works for you guys because any day works for me. Thank you so much! That really means a lot to me. So, oh my goodness konferens was amazing! I loved every minute of it. How it worked for us is we attended each meeting in the big gym/devotional building. So we would go, watch the session, then eat lunch/dinner and have a temple walk then go back for the next session. Rinse and repeat for two full days! Doesn't sound great but oh man it was! I can honestly say i got more out of this general conference than all others I've watched combined! ha ha Really truly! I really loved President Uchtdorf's talk on Sunday morning too mom! The two word sermon. ha ha That was great. President Monson's talk on our call of duty was great too! One of my fav's. was Elder Kollieker or however you spell it was great too dad! oh and then Sunday night after conference we go a really cool devotional speaker! Vai Sikahema! That should ring a bell for at least dad and Tyson. He was awesome. It was more of a relaxed, fun devotional but it still had a great message. He is a sports caster for the Philadelphia news now and show'd some clips of how he subtly and not so subtly promotes the church through that position. It was great. ha ha. oh and dad that is super cool that Elder Soares was your comp! Man you got some famous comp's! your turn is coming, you just wait! Oh I can't believe I had forgotten to tell you guys until now about the other Elder Keetch! He left a week ago Monday but yeah he was in Elder Anderson's group, we talked like one of the first nights about how we are semi kind of related. ha ha There is no sign of an Elder Neilson yet but he probably comes in today, I saw some new Korean Elders so I'll have to check that out! Elder Linge left for Sweden yesterday. I'm not gonna lie, it sucks losing him. He was the perfect first comp for me. I'm sorry your ankle/Achilles heel is no good dad! Hopefully it gets feeling better! Well I believe I'm just about out of time so I probably should head for this week. The renovations at grandma and grandpa's sound pretty crazy! I can't wait to see! You'll have to send me some pictures of that and of Cod and Aub's when it starts to take shape too! Well mom here is a big virtual hug for you! Feel free to use my woof (not wolf, woof. ha ha) blanket whenever you would like! It's a good one! Dad you get a email hug too. ha ha Give mom a real one for me. She really likes to be hugged. just FYI. ha ha Give the girls a squeeze and a kiss for me! I miss you all so very much! But, I wouldn't choose to be anywhere else in the world right now. Give megs a big hug for me too next time you see her. She's amazing. I love her. Well I love you all so very much! And until next week, as Elder Maness says every night, the church is true and I love you