I Almost Forgot

 So, I almost forgot to tell you guys about this! So we were in the city of Landskrona on Thursday and we saw this awesome church so we took a few pictures and then we saw that it was open. We decided to go in and take a look.

 It was the coolest old church! And then we walk up to the front and see this amazing painting of Christ! 

 Well, a priest comes up to us and is like..'You guys are from the Mormon church huh.' and we're like 'Yeah!' and he pointed to the painting and said that it is a Carl Bloch original and has been in Salt Lake on display for the last year and they just barely got it back. The church borrowed it from them.

 The priest told us, 'We must say, it came back in a lot better shape than when it left. It was cleaned, repaired and everything.' So that was pretty cool! He welcomed us to look at it and take pictures. He was a really nice guy. So that was pretty cool!

After Skype Blues

Well, I'm not gonna lie, it is a little hard to email after skyping last night! It's just not as fun when I can't see and talk to you guys! ha ha. But that's okay, I still love it:) So it really was so fun to Skype and see all of your faces and talk to you! Happy mothers day again mom! I love you so much! And miss you like crazy! I hope you know that. It was so fun to see the girls and talk to them! It seriously amazes me every time how much they grown in between each time I see them! It's kinda scary to be honest! ha ha. Mom, you asked what the biggest thing is that changed since last time I talked to you all? Hmm...it's hard to tell actually! probably the girls, a new little one added to the ranks, and I noticed a new decoration or two on the desk. ha ha What's the biggest thing that changed about me?


So today we will be heading in to Malmö. I need to go in to the migration offices there to renew my visa so that I don't get deported. ha ha So that should be fun.

Nothing else too exciting happened this week that I didn't already talk about yesterday. We were able to set a baptismal date with our new investigator Alexander. Please keep him in your prayers along with Robin. We are really hoping that they can both be baptized before the prophet comes.
Oh I almost forgot! I have an important update on chill kitty! ha ha We saw him again on Saturday! He was chillin' outside our apartment when we left the other morning so we paused and pet him for a while and then had to go. It was pretty funny to see him again though. ha ha.
Well family I know that this email is really short and I feel super bad but we need to get going to Malmö so that we have time to get through all the immigration stuff I have to do to renew my visa but please know how much I love each and every one of you! I miss you all so much and can't wait to see you again, but until then, I love this work and I love Sweden! I truly love this gospel and am so grateful for it in my life and the joy it gives me. There really is nothing like sharing this gospel with others. It is the most gratifying thing ever! I love it! I love you all! Have a fantastic week and I'll talk to you again soon!

Love-

Äldste Keetch.

Hey there everyone!


Man it seems like just a few day's ago that I was emailing home... oh wait... it was! ha ha It was definitely super nice to just have to go from Wednesday to Monday instead of Monday to Monday this week! ha ha.

I'm glad to hear that all is well at home! Thing's are going so so so well here! So earlier in the week we got some really exciting news! (I'm not sure if i already mentioned this) The prophet is coming to Sweden!!! He will be here on the 9th of June. He will be in Stockholm for a Nordic regional conference that will take the place of stake conferences for Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Iceland. We are not sure if they will do anything special for the missionaries but we are all hoping that we will get to go up and see the prophet. So then on Thursday we flew to Stockholm for mission leadership training and president and the assistants announced that we will be having a mission goal of every single companionship in the mission baptizing before the prophet comes! We are so stinking excited! As they announced it it just felt good and felt like this was truly an inspired goal from president. So then on Friday we had zone training and we presented this goal to the rest of the zone and it went really well. We read out of Ether together about the bother of Jared and how he smelted the rocks out of the mountain and took them up to the lord. We compared that to our goal . We can't just decide this goal and then just say "okay heavenly father, help us baptize" because he will just respond as he did to the brother Jared and say "well... what do you want me to do about it?" ha ha So we have to pray and do all we can with our investigators and then take their names to the lord and pray for his help with the rest. So what we did is after reading about this in Ether and discussing it we pulled out a bag of white, decorative stones that we had bought at the store the day before and gave one to each member of the zone and had them write the name of the person that they are going to baptize in the next month on the stone and then take the stone and call down the powers of heaven and ask the lord to "touch the stone". It was really a pretty good meeting and I think everyone liked the thing with the stones and the brother of Jared.

So then, on Sunday, it was fast Sunday and as a mission we fasted for this new goal that we have and wow did we see the blessings from that fast in church! We met with the bishop before hand and let him know about this goal and then in testimony meeting bishop got up and bore his testimony about member missionary work and then told the ward about the goal and it feels like they are all really excited for it too so that is awesome! All in all, on Sunday, we taught 7 lessons, which is really good seeing that we usually average 20 for the whole week, we had three investigators at church, we got a new investigator, and we set a baptismal date with Robin! So that was amazing! He decided to be baptized on the 25th of this month and I'm pretty confident that it will happen. It is looking like Elder Brown and I could have 2-3 baptisms before the prophet comes, not just one. So please pray for Robin! Also if you could all pray for a man named Alexandro. He just randomly walked into the church from the street after church and wanted to see a priest. We told him we didn't have a priest but that we were missionaries and could talk with him. Well he wasn't in a very good place. He was on the verge of suicide and had already tried twice before but had failed. We talked with him for about an hour and testified to him oh the atonement and the comfort that comes from the savior. We prayed with him and then set up an appointment with him on Tuesday so hopefully we can continue to help him see the hope that is in Christ. So please pray for him!

As for the mothers day call! Would 5:30 our time work? So that would be like 9:30 am your time right? We should be able to Skype so if you could send me your Skype name again mom that would be great! Ah man I can't wait!

Well family sorry this is pretty short but I need to head for now but I'll talk to you all on Sunday!

Love you all so so so much!