HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE KING OF THE JIGGLY SQUAD

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JONNNYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY the icon of the entire mission and most of the tjejs on byu campus. We are all grateful beyond words for you. My brother from another mother 🥹 Eat some cake and do some Greg Lake dance today snälla!!!! 🥳🤑🤪🤩🙌

Things are good!!!! Here is the email i wrote last week ..

- Awesome awesome awesome lesson with Leif and our bishop. Leif is so ready for the gospel and so much fun to teach. Full of energy and talks so fast during our lessons and so many questions and wonder about it all. I love him

- Transfer news!!! My ninja rock star superhero of a companion Syster Nelson is off to Helsingborg, I'll be training a new missionary here in Kungsbacka!

- fall is here and it's my absolute favorite

And this week😃

- I love love love love love love Syster Keyser. We are having a good good time. Bonding over choir and books and pride&prejudice and a love of fall and Sweden. I love love love her and we are very jolly fellows here.

- ANOTHER awesome lesson with Leif with a member who is his age and also has lost his wife- we talked about the plan of salvation, but also were just witnesses to an apparently much needed conversation between the two of them. About how it hurt, about how it all happened-- but with an underlying belief that it was going to be alright. Sad soft laughing between two old men who I think healed a little bit in that moment. It was incredibly sweet.

- Pontus showed up to church in his white shirt and tie that Bishop bought him 😭

- Elder Child includes weekly updates of how much weight he has gained, email me for details

- we did språk study with a member this week and they gave us a lakrits taste test😖



Alma 16:16-17 especially to my missionary friends. The Lord IS pouring out His spirit to prepare people-- whether in Sweden or Argentina or South Carolina. I know and have seen that to be true.

I love being a missionary and I love you all.

HEEEJ DÃ…Ã…Ã…

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