Irene

Hey there Family! How's it going for everyone this week? This week has definitely been a busy one, so I guess I'll just jump into it. On Wednesday we had zone conference in Göteborg and this was a special one because we had a 70 come! His name is Elder Patrick Kearon. He was the one that gave the scorpion talk in conference a year ago or so and has a really thick British accent. He was super cool! Basically the entire zone conference was him teaching us. It was so good! There is just something about the general authorities, they just glow! It was really awesome to be able to learn from him for the day. On Thursday we went to that members house for dinner. Her name is Elsey Hedqvist. She is a super nice old lady but holy cow, it is hard to understand her, ha ha! Her jaw shakes really bad when she talks so it is next to impossible to understand her. It's like when you plug and unplug your ears really fast while someone is talking. It sounds like every third word is cut off, so combine that with Swedish and it was quite an adventure for even Elder Sanders to understand what she said. The meal wasn't too bad. She didn't end up feeding us sill. She fed us a really fancy dinner with lots of grapes and cheese and stuff like that, it was good... for the most part. Then on Thursday night we got some bad news. We got a phone call from a random number and it ended up being Irene's förvatare. I think the best English word for that is administrator? Anyway, I guess because of her asburgers syndrome she has an administrator that controls all of her money and finances. She wasn't too happy about the whole tithing thing that we had taught Irene. She told us we weren't allowed to teach her any more, so um... yeah. That's not fun, but yeah, to make a long story short, we got things figured out and we can continue to meet Irene but, we need to kinda let things cool down for a while. So no baptism this Saturday :( kind of a bummer, but hey, we just need to keep teaching her and show her we care about her, not just a baptismal number. Things will work out. We just need to be patient.
So mom, you wondered where we email from? Usually we email from the church, but sometimes from the YSA center in Göteborg. It just depends on how early we want to get to Göteborg. It is definitely getting darker here and it's starting to get a little bit chilly at night. Soon enough it'll be dark at 3 in the afternoon! crazy! Sounds like Swiss Days and your guys' weekends have been awesome so that's good! BYU's stadium sounds like it has gotten quite the technology boost! That is super sweet! Well, fam, I don't have too much time today so I'm gonna run. I know I didn't get to all your questions mom so I'm sorry in advance! ha ha well I love you all so very much and miss you all like crazy!

until next week-

McKay.
Me with a the studs of the ward!
left to right - Martian Stulen, the bishops son, he just graduated the equivalent of high school here. He is super funny and will start his papers here within the year. Me. Christian Stulen, the bishops RM son. He served in greece and is now getting married in October. Björn Andersson, he is an RM who just got back 6 months ago or so. He served in scotland and speaks amazing English. Like you can't even tell he is a Swede when he speaks. He will be going to BYU at the start of the year.