Jakobsberg and Emilliano's Baptism!

Hej hej! This week has been crazy. Me and Syster Hong packed our bags, cleaned up our apartment and headed for the train station! Sweet Cassi and Melanie came to say goodbye to us and we took some last goodbye pictures with the district. It still feels weird not being in my first area anymore. Sundsvall will always have my heart. ❤

We arrived in Stockholm Central station and there where missionaries EVERYWHERE. Apparently that's how it is on transfer days haha! I saw so many friends and my new companion Syster Adamson. :) She grew up in Texas but moved to St. George, Utah. This is also her last transfer as a missionary before she goes home so I'm going to make it the best for her! ;)

She helped me with my luggage and we arrived to our cute little apartment in Barkarby. Super adorable and tiny and homey. And they have an entire cabinet full of godis so that was incredible. Jakobsberg is so cute and it felt surreal being there. It felt almost as if I left on a mission again, saying goodbye to my family in Sundsvall and not knowing anyone in this new place. ;) Gotta love missions and all the change that happens all the time lol.

Lots of people here speak Spanish too which is really cool! I wish I would of remembered my Spanish from high school but oh well. We went to a Peruvian families house for dinner and they made us these amazing tacos. The mom is going to the temple soon so she is really excited about that and we have been teaching her the temple classes. :) We also met with this amazing guy named Emilliano. He is this 15 year-old boy from Columbia who just walked into church one day and was super interested. Syster May and Adamson taught him everything and he agreed to be baptized!! I was super lucky to get to be in Jakobsberg and witness his baptism. :) Syster May and Syster Wilson in Jönköping got to come too! It was such a fun day. Emilliano has such a light about him and he says the most powerful prayers I have every heard.

While we were kontakting this week too its been hard, because people are a lot more busy here (har bråttom) in Stockholm to talk than they are in Sundsvall lol. But, we came across this one lady who was sitting alone on a bench. We came up to her and started talking to her and we started talking to her about hope and she got very emotional and started crying and telling us some things she went through. I don't even know why but all of a sudden I started bawling too. It was so weird because I only just met her but I had this burning feeling in my heart full of love for her. She said she felt like she could never be loved or forgiven for things she'd done in her life. I assured her that that was not true and that God loves us infinitely no matter what we've gone through in our life. She smiled and said maybe someday she will be Chrisitan again. It was such a powerful experience.

But yeah, it's been such a great first week! We also have bikes so thats super fun. I am getting so pumped for the Swedish Summer holidays coming soon. Valborg and Midsommar!! It will be fun to be able to be with all the Stockholm misisonaries for that. :)

My first Sunday was also great. The cutest couple from China came to church! Their names are Teng and Na. They only knew Chinese so I translated the entire 3 hours of church for them with google translate and they were so happy. :) I had a lot of experience with that in Sundsvall with the Persian speakers so it was a piece of cake. ;) They loved everything and were so interested in the Book of Mormon and asked so many questions.They are so prepared! ❤ I am going to take good care of them. :) Just need to find another Chinese speaker. We set up to meet them this week so I am so excited!

Anyways, its been a good first week and I'm excited to see what else Jakobsberg has in store this next transfer. Lovin' every second of it here. ❤ This really is the best work. Love you all and until next week, hej då för nu. :)

​Hejdå Sundsvall Distrikt. Love you all.

Same Distirkt as Syster McClatchie = TOPPEN!! :)

Emilliano's Baptism.

​First Companion selfie. ;)

Norway border and Transfers!

Hey everyone. :) This week was crazy busy. We got transfer calls this Saturday and sadly I will be leaving Sundsvall tomorrow. I can't even describe how much I love this place and I'm going to miss all my amazing friends here so dearly. I'm coming back for you someday Sundsvall, I promise!! I will be transfering to JAKOBSBERG! (pronounced Yaw-cubs-berry in swedish) I am so excited for this next adventure. This is the area my favorite MTC Comp Syster May started in. :) It is a little place just 15 minutes out of Stockholm. SO EXCITED.

Syster Hong crazily enough will also be leaving Sundsvall for Trollhätten for one transfer and then be coming back! So there will be no Systers in Sundsvall for 6 weeks. So sad! Syster Hong's Greenie didn't get her visa so hopefully they get them soon.

This was our last week together so me and Syster Hong decided to buy matching skirts and wear them our last Sunday here! Glad they have an H and M at every corner here. ;) They call it 'Ho-em' though haha. We also watched the rest of conference for P-Day. It was sooo great. Elder Holland's talk was just exactly what I needed to hear.

We then went to go visit Armin and Shirin one last time before we leave. They made us these yummy sandwiches and signed my buddy book. :) All of a sudden their sweet Persian next door neighbor came in and they all went off in Persian. When he left Armin informed us that he just invited us all over for fika and that they wanted us to teach them everything about the gospel!! What the what. So crazy cool! They are so prepared. ❤ We went over and just talked and answered all their questions and they loved everything. Wish I could stay and continue teaching them. Never going to forget them. :)

We were with Cassi, Celine, and Melanie a lot this week too. When we told them we were both leaving Celine started crying. It made me so sad! They seriously are like my sisters now and it's gonna be weird not being able to see them. Melanie is thinking about being baptized soon too! I wish I could be there for her baptism but I'll make sure to get pictures. :) They have family down in Stockholm so they said they would come visit me in Jakobsberg someday. Love them to pieces.

We had a funeral (misisonary funeral) for Äldste Pearson this week too. Since he is finishing his mission! We laid blankets on the table and laid him on it and put flowers all around him. We read him letters and poems that all his past companions sent us and sang 'God Be with you will we meet again.' It was sad but also fun. We had waffles and bacon too! Gonna miss Äldste Pearson so much! He was the best fun uncle ever. ;)

Me and Syster Hong then made a trip down to Täby for the night. Syster Hong had a meeting with the other training systers so that meant I got to go on splits with the Täby systers. :) So Fun! I got to be with Syster McClatchie and Syster Lund. :) It was such a blast! I went off with McClatchie and Lund went off with Syster Crawford. I can't tell you how much I love Syster McClatchie. She is friends with my friends in my stake back home! She knows Perry, Jamie, and Kendal! We were just talking about them all day and how we all need to meet up back in college next year. :) We had so many laughs too because were basically on the same level of Swedish and there were just so many funny awkward moments while kontakting people lol. She showed me all around Täby and she is already such an amazing missionary. I hope I get to be her companion someday. :)

We took a train back home to Sundsvall and started packing up our apartment. My last Sunday was testimony meeting and I went up and bore my testimony. I did a good job at holding back my tears, and then we then sang my favorite Swedish church hymn for the closing song. (pg. 156 Blott en Dag ett ögonblick i sänder) and I just started bawling. I was sitting next to Celine and she gave me hugs. Armins neighbors were at church too. :) In Sunday school we had no teacher so I volunteered to wing the whole lesson. I think it went alright haha thank goodness for the spirit. We went to Mashid's house after church and she made us the most amazing Persian pasta ever. She is so adorable.

Yesterday was our last P-Day in Sundsvall and our amazing mission leader Arto Kartanen told us he wanted to take us missionaries on a huge sight-seeing roadtrip! We all happily agreed. :) He came to pick us all up at four in the morning and we started our journey. Our first stop was a ski resort in a town called Åre! We weren't allowed to go skiing lol but Arto paid for all of us to take this trolly up the hill and explore the whole resort! It was sooooo fun and beautiful! We tooks tons of pictures and explored the snowy mountains. Afterwards Arto was like 'Do you guys wanna go to the Norwegian border?' :) And we were like YES!! It was such a great adventure. :) We made a few quick stops on the way back to some cool old swedish churches and camps, and then Atro dropped us at home. We said tusen tack till him for everything and went back home.

When we got to our apartment, there was yarn EVERYWHERE! The young women got our spare key and Yarnified our whole place haha! There was a note at the front door saying we had to roll up the yarn and it would lead us to a prize! 😆 After an hour of rolling it all up we finally got to the end of it will sweet letters from all of them and Marabou chocolate! It was the sweetest thing ever. I've said this like 10 times already but I'm gonna miss them SOO MUCH.

Phewf, that was a long letter. Thanks to you who actually took the time to read all of it haha. But yeah, my last week in Sundsvall was pretty much the greatest. I will cherish the memories I've had here forever and ever. I've made some of the bestest friends here and I know I will be back someday. :) This mission is honestly is the greatest thing I have ever done in my life. I'm so grateful for this possibility to be a missionary for the Lord and to be able to meet the people he has prepared for me to meet. I'm stocked to see what adventures lie ahead in Jakobsberg. :) Love you all and talk to you next week. Mee Bee Namet. (See you soon. :)

Kärlek,
Syster Davis

​Sys Hong, Cassi, Celine, and me.

​Sys Hong, Cassi, Celine, and me.

​BEST MISSION LEADER ARTO!

​Ski Resort!!

​Norway Border! :)

Squad goals. :) Me Melanie, Cassi, Celine and Syster Hong.

I love you Sundsvall.

Hey again everyone! This was a good week. Last P-Day was a very crafty day. We decided to bring all our swedish liohonas to the church and make scripture cases for our skrifter! We all cut out cute swedish phrases and glued them on to our boxes. Äldste Frankman just put a bunch of old ladies on his case to be funny lol so creepy. We also had a cereal party and ate tons of cereal!

It was a pretty sad week too though because I had to say goodbye to some really good friends. Sadly, I am leaving Sundsvall next week. Syster Hong got a training call last night so that means she's going to be training a cute little greenie up here! So excited for her! This means I'm getting the boot. So ledsen. Sundsvall has been so good to me these past 4 months and I couldn't imagine starting anywhere else. :) I'm so excited to see where I'll be going next! I find out this Saturday so I will keep you all posted next P-Day.

We had a few crazy lessons this week too. This one guy we taught wanted us to basically show God to him. We were like, 'uhh, sorry we can't do that haha.' And he was like well then he's not real. He told us he would only believe if his pillow started floating and letters started writing on it that God was real. We taught him about the holy ghost and prayer but he kinda just was playing devils-advocate to everything we said haha. He was nice though nonetheless.

We also brought some peeps from my family's Easter package to this sweet little girl in the ward who loves American things! She was super happy and grateful.

April fools day was this week as well. ;) We met up with Cassie and Celine and brainstormed what we could do to the elders while we talked to people on the street. We came up with a few funny things and as we went back to our apartment to get some things,we found them already in our apartment with our spare key pulling a pranking us!! Caught them red-handed! haha. It was funny.

This week was Äldste Frankman's year mark too so we had a mini bonfire outside of the church and roasted korv for dinner. He also burned a white shirt (misisonary tradition). It was so fun and reminded me of the good ol days back when I had bonfires at home.

Saturday and Sunday were just wonderful as well. We had General Conference at the church and had fika with the members between sessions. I had a mini panic attack because I couldn't find my bus card anywhere. I thought I dropped it somewhere in town or something. I said a mini prayer and we retraced our steps all the way back home. We got home and I looked everywhere and it was no where to be found. Syster Hong was then like is it in any of your pockets? And I was like no I don't think so. I looked through all my laundry and it was right there in my sweats pocket! Wooo! Prayer answered haha. Later in conference there was a talk about a family that lost their car keys and me and Syster Hong looked at eachother and chuckled. ;)

It was great watching the morning sessions of conference live though! It was cool knowing my family was watching at the same time as us. It made it just that more special. :) My favorite talks were Uchtdorfs (as always ;)) and President Tomas S. Monson's quoting Alice and Wonderland. Everytime they talked about missionaries too I got chills. You could feel them really talking to us, it was incredible.

Anyways I love you all and hope you all had a fun Spring Break and General Conference week! I'm not sure if I'll be on next week because a member is taking all us missionaries sight-seeing our last P-Day before transfers! Hope you all have a great week och jag är så tacksam för evangeliet och hur mycket det välsignar vårt livet. Jag är tacksam att jag kan vara en missionär i det här vackert land. Vi ses snart. :)
Kärlek
Syster Davis

Spring has sprung! (with snow still on the floor lol)

Saying Goodbye to our best friend Patrik from Lund.

April Fools...lol

Glad Påsk!

Nämen hej. :) Man this week was so fun. It started with us hopping on a 3 hour train down to Stockholm for Zone Conference! We decided to spend our P-Day down there and do some sight seeing. Stockholm is GORGEOUS! Reminds me of what New York City would be like. Stockholmska (the dialect) is beautiful also. I got to see my amazing trainer Syster Brink, my MTC comp Syster May, my favorite Syster Svensson, the new Systers, Äldste Moultron, Liddle, and Bentson. Well, lets just say I saw a lot of people so sorry if I forgot to add you. :) Love you all!

We stayed with the sweet Gubänggen Systers for the night and then had Conference the next day. It was such a great meeting. We talked about learning the language and the gift and tongues. We had this yummy lunch for intermission and we sat with Äldste Bentson and caught up on life. The food at conferences are the best. After we had another meeting and Syster Beckstrand gave this amazing talk on strengthening our personal relationship with the Lord. At the end they showed this slideshow with pictures of all our families at home and we all just started bawling! Did not see that one coming haha. We then had to sing 'Famlies can be together forever' right after and we could barely get the words out we were crying so much lol.

We had to run to our train back to good ol Sundsvall and bid farewell to Stockholm! It was a great trip! The Syster Training Leaders came and did splits with us too so that was fun! We got some Sushi and ICA salad and knocked on lots of doors.

We met this funny lady named Gloria this week too. She was born in Peru but is pure Japanese and only speaks Swedish, French, and Spanish. We found her name and address in an old pile of names and decided to go swing by her house and see how she was doing. We knocked on her door and she let us right in! She was saying she isn't very interested just nu but maybe later. We then asked if we could show her a short Easter Video? And she was like...you know what...how about you just stay for dinner?! We happily agreed and we had the yummiest seafood casserole ever! We took some selfies with her afterward and showed her the new easter video. She kept saying 'Whiskey!' when we were taking the picture so we snuck a little video of it. ;) She is just the cutest. By the end she was so grateful we came by and kept thanking us.

We had Påsk this week too! (Easter!) It was such a party. The amazing Öhgren Family invited 20 of us over and had an Påsk ägg hunt. It was one of the best easters ever. :) We had a huge feast after and played lots of games together. They had to most gorgeous view from their balcony top too. Me, Syster Hong, Celine, and Cassie sat on the balcony swing and had girl talk. It was such a great day.

Påsk Söndag was just as wonderful. We had a nice Easter meeting and talked a lot about the Resurrection. I got to translate Relief Society for sweet Shirin too since she only knows Persian. Google translate is a life-saver. ;) And not very accurate at times but its better than nothing lol.
We then went home and did some weekly planning and called and set some appointments up. It was such a fun successful week.

Seriously, being a missionary is one of the best things ever. It's probably the hardest, most tiring, but funnest, most rewarding thing I have every done in my life. :) So grateful for the gospel especially now in this crazy world we live in. Happy we got to celebrate Påsk this weekend and remember the Savior! So pumped for conference this week too. Wish you all the best April och vi ses nästa vecka. 'På grund av honom, kan vi leva igen.' :)

Kärlek,
Syster Davis

Stockholm!!

Pask Fest!

Us and Gloria

Us with little crazy Sara

​Öhgrens Balcony

Lovin' Life

Hey again! This week was same old same old. For P-Day all us missionaries gathered at the church and had a movie night (aka Mormon Messages or approved missionary movies...lol) It was fun. We all contributed to a huge table of junk food. We brought the Kladkaka and chicken nuggets. ;) It was soo warm this week too. It was a nice high 54 degrees and the sun was shining and I didn't even have to wear my huge jacket! Everyone was in stan tanning in the sun haha. So excited for the summer weather! We also went to go visit this one old lady investigator who was 'just flabbergasted to pieces' to meet lol. She spoke fluent spanish so her and Syster Hong chatted the whole time. I LOVE hearing spanish, it reminds me of home a little bit. They were like sorry we're only speaking spanish...and I was like ingen fara keep it coming I love hearing it! Right before we left she showed us her huge air-soft gun collection hahaha. Me and Syster Hong got to road trip to visit Härnösand this week too! We drove an hour out to meet with this nice guy who was so excited and insisted to meet and when we arrived, he never answered... It was a bust. On the bright side we got to see the gorgeous Härnösand. I took lots of pictures! This week was so fun with the youth in the branch as well. Us missionaries put on a mini MTC for mutual for them. We had different stations and they all got different pretend mission calls. We had Innebandy this week again too. :) It's my new favorite sport! We also hung out with Cassie and Celine this week. They are the sweetest ever. We got Thai food together and found this cool park thing and started swinging on this weird swing thing lol. Mots Kartanen also just back from his mission in Finland so we all went to his open house together! Celine's little sister Sara was jumping all over us and trying to do a swedish rap battle with Syster Hong. Sunday was awesome too. We had a lot of investigators in church so that's always fun. We sang in the choir again and had dinner with the Stegaby's too. :) We talked to some people on the street too on the way home. It was such a rough crowd. The first guy we talked to cussed us out and the second pair of guys said they were Christian! We were like 'Hej hej! Its fun meeting other Christians here in Sweden.' And they were just basically like, 'You're corrupt. What you're doing won't save you.' And lots of more stuff like that haha. We were just like what the heck we both believe in Christ why do you have to be rude. They were interesting. All and all this week was great. :) Never ever letting the haters bring us down. ;) I feel honored everyday being persecuted for Christ. He is the reason we're even here and I will always stand up for Him! I can see him blessing us everyday. Lovin' life so much and hope you all are too. Have a great Easter this coming Sunday. Jag älskar er så mycket och jag hoppas all är underbar. :) Vi ses senare! Kärlek Syster Davis

Beautiful Härnösand. Random buldings haha.

​Me and Hong.

Swinging with Cassie.

Selfie with my girl Celine.

Innebandy and the Mean Librarian!

Hej hej allihopa! This week has been good. Me and Syster Hong have just been loving life! The sun is starting to come out and the snow is melting so that's a blessing. :) For P-Day last week I gave Hong some more Sundsvall tours and we got some lunch at Expresso House.

We met some nice people this week too. This one dude we met at the library was athiest and said he was only interested in how we learn Swedish so fast. We talked to him about our språk study and that we said we believe God helps us mostly. ;) He chuckled. He then asked us what would be our reaction if our faith was not real? I said well, I guess I would be devastated because it's brought me so much happiness. I then asked the question back at him and said what he would do if he found out God was real? He was like hmmm, I would be like 'What the heck!!' haha. He was funny.

This week a lot of people 'Hade bråttom' (In a hurry) on the streets and didn't want to talk to us. It was rough and one night I said a prayer that we could just find one person that was interested. The very next day we talked to three people who switched numbers with us! :) Prayers work haha. I feel like the weather effects people tremendously as well. The dark cold gloomy days no one wants to talk and the sunny bright happy days everyone is at least nice to have a short conversation with us. ;)

We met with this investigator at the library this week too and this old librarian came up to us and was like 'We're closing soon.' And we like okay. :) She then turned around and was like 'Oh, one more thing. I know everyone is allowed to come here but if it were up to me, you guys would not be welcomed here. No one wants to listen to your crap and you're wasting your time being missionaries here. Just something to think about.' I was shocked it was so mean. Our investigator was shocked too. Sass here in Sweden I tell ya...

We got to go up to Umeå this week for Zone Training as well so that was fun! The Beckstrands were there and they made us this yummy lunch! We got to watch the new Påsk (Easter) Film. :)

During the weekend we set up branch Innebandy! It was the first time I've played it and its so fun! It's like hockey without the ice. I can't remember the last time I played sports probably when I was at the MTC! It was a blast and we all got Big Boy's after for lunch.

Sunday was great me and Syster Hong taught Sunday school with a totally of three people there. ;) It was great nonetheless! We taught about Andevärlden, (The Spirit World) and how big of a blessing it is. We then had Sunday dinner with Mattias and Jennifer Larsen's family. They have the cutest kids! Cute little Casper was showing us all his Rubix Cubes and he had one that was huge!! Like 100by100 or something. We showed them the new Easter film too.

It was an overall great week. Shout out to all my friends who recently started missions! I've been thinking about you all a lot. In fact I think about all my friends on missions and it makes me happy all the sacrifices you all are making! Missions really are the best and I love hearing about the adventures you guys are having! Love you all and talk to you next week. :)

Kärlek
Syster Davis

​Norrland Zone in Umeå!

Getting a tan in the sun.

​Norrtåg party with the District.

First week with Syster Hong!

March is here! We packed up all on Syster Brink's stuff and took her to the train station. As we stood at the door of our apartment for the last time, we just stared at each other and both burst into tears. We said our last prayer together and gave the biggest hug. We've been through so much together and I can't believe our little adventure together is over. Can't wait to see her again at Syster's Conference! Love you Brink. :)

This week has been a BLAST with my new companion Syster Hong!! :) She is from Arkansas and has been on her mission for 14 months. She is just hilarious too and I already love her! It was fun showing her all around Sundsvall and getting her familiar with the beautiful city. Just when when I thought it was getting warm too the blistering cold and snow made its return lol.

I showed her the hälsa steg (health path) me and Syster Brink always walked on, while we talked to people. I also showed her the cute hipster Sundsvall University as well. We had a lot of lessons this week too so that was fun! Some blåsts but whatever happens to every missioanry haha. We have already had so many laughs together too. It's gonna be such a fun transfer. :)

We had distrikt möte with the new district too. It's always fun getting to know new people. That's my life everyday. We all got lunch at the yummy pizza place called Play Pizza. Så gott! We met up with sweet Lisa Graström at Navet too and chatted with her and Maxime for alittle bit. For weekly planning we went to Hemmakväll and stocked up on snacks and godis.

I got a package from my sweet Aunt Stacy too this week so that was nice! Thank you Stacy!! :) Love and miss you! A letter is on your way. ;)

Söndag was great too! It was fast and testimony meeting. Seriously my favorite Sunday of the month. All these sweet kids went up and shared their heart and souls. It was hard not to tear up. I never want to leave this place!! These people are some of the greatest people I have ever met. When we got home we decided to make some homemade chicken fettchini alfredo. It was toppen and it reminded us of Olive Garden. ;)

I've been reading Jesus the Christ this week a lot too. I love learning about the Savior's life in detail. I'm learning so many things I have never thought of before and I love every second of being a missionary for Him. :) Even when it is hard, I just remember the things he went through, and remember I am not alone in this!

Hope you all have a fun March and Vi ses senare. :)

Kärlek,
Syster Davis

Kontakting in the freezing cold = mean people lol.

Missionary in the Ghetto.

First Sunday with Syster Hong!

Our cute little church building.