Helquist, Emma

Tjena!!  Said goodbye to Syster Cook and Syster Bryson this week, absolut legends.  Picked up my cute new companion, Sys vicnent!!  Fun faces about her:  - Ran a marathon in disneyworld - fave Taylor Swift album is Red - cracks her back as often as me  - family from malmö  AND WE MET BEFORE! Her and her siblings came for kicks and gigs to Sweden and visited our ward. We joked about being companions and now we're here!  Can't wait to see what this transfer brings with her :)  We had some ~bike riding miracles~ this week.  1) got #lost on the way to a lesson but waved and started talking to this guy who said we were the first people to talk to him on the streets in 3 years, gave him a book of mormon and we're meeting this week!! 2) EVA! Waved to her while riding our bikes and knew we HAD to go back. Had a wonderful conversation with her and she's been messaging us all day about how pumped she is to come to church.  (Ps: the sun came out to...

Tjena!! There we were, sprinting to make the bus with a whole BUCKET of Thai food our friend had given us.  We were sweating in our coats but knew we HAD to make this bus. Why?  Because we met the cutest lady from Zimbabwe (Sys cook was there last year !!) and saw another one of our friends we were going to meet that night.  He's going through a bit of a rough time, so we got to give him the food and walk to the church together.  It was so simple but such a powerful reminder to me that God is in the details of our lives - he knows where we need to be to help others and why.  --- Other highlights: - Aboud brought a whole thing of baklava to a lesson. Incredible.  - 2 of our friends committed to keeping the word of wisdom, incredible! - president Davis's advice for my goals as I end my mission: "teach and baptize." Incredible.  - Had zone conference and got cardigans for the whole zone, incredible! - went on a night run, measured my stride rate, not sure...

Tjena!! Let's talk about inspiration: We felt STRONGLY prompted to start a free English class in the area. So 2 weeks ago we created a quick post, and added it in 2 groups on Facebook and called it a day!! A few people reached out and we sent the information, excited to be able to help out.  On Monday night we met Aboud. Within a few minutes of talking in his perfect Swedish I had the strongest feeling we would teach him.  And that we did! We met again this week and he said the following "it took me 30 years to find all this out?"  He came to church on Sunday and bounced around from person to person, introducing himself.  God works in mysterious ways  OTHER HIGHLIGHTS://  - Made Swig drinks for this cute couple we're working with. He had his daughter come in this weekend to meet us. We WILL be starting a soda shack in Sweden mark my words  - church was PACKED with people this week, wasn't enough places (haven't seen that many people in any church in 16...