Seeing old friends!

Hey this week was great. Monday, me and Syster May went down to stockholm for a short stund and walked down drottningsgatan. So many feels for the times I was there during the summer. Loved being there again. :)

This week we met with Jing and Chi this week too! They made us this yummy fika and we talked about the little things we can do in our life to strengthen our love for God and things to help us endure to the end. Jing said the closing prayer and it was so powerful. Really felt the spirit.

We met with the cute family history lady of Täby also! She was really excited to help us with our research and I was determined to find some swedish family but sadly I couldn't. Tyvärr. Later, me and Syster May went to sweet Azam's so she could cut our hair. I just got a trim but Syster May chopped all her hair off! Woo. That was exciting.

Marimba had us over for a little family home evening stund also with little Angela and Suzanna. :) We drew pictures, ate veggies, and played games and me and Syster May shared a little message afterwards. It was so fun. :) Love them so much.

On Thursday we had distirct meeting and Syster Clouse made us this amazing carrot cake for it. Me and Syster May have been trying to go on diets because we need to prepare but it's just so hard when everyone gives us so much deliciousness... Later we headed down to Västerhaninge to go on splits with Syster Eldrridge and Syster Hale!! :) I was so happy to see my sweet Eldridge again! The last time I saw her was when I was in a tripan with her in Syster Campbell back in Helsingborg. :) I stayed with her in Västerhaninge and Syster Hale went to Täby with Syster May. Me and Syster Eldridge caught up on life and had dinner with these sweet old ladies.

The next day we tried to meet a few people at the church but they blåsted. We couldn't complain though because we could see the beautiful temple from where we were. :) Loved spending the day with my sweet Eldridge again. ❤

Saturday the Assistant's investigator Margereta got baptized! :) She is this sweet old swedish lady. It was a beautiful service and she said she felt wonderful. The Clouses took us and the office to Chopchop after. Love our mini Täby family. Syster May and Äldste Hawkins decided to do a no surgar competition for the rest of the transfer. Whoever loses has to give the other 200kr. We'll see what happens lol.

Sunday a huge miracle happened. Me and Syster May both served in Jakobsberg and used to visit this sweet lady from Thailand named Jai. :) She moved out by Rimbo with her husband Kenneth which is now our area in Täby! We planned to meet her before church but we got lost sunday morning and could not find the bus hållplats due to all this construction. I said a prayer that if we were supposed to meet with them, help us be able to find the right bus. Two seconds after we turn around and the bus we need just pulls up next to us. What the! The Lord blesses us so much haha. We got to visit them, celebrate her birthday, see their cute new yellow house and make it in time for church as well! Great day. :) After church we got to go visit some of Syster May's distant relatives as well! So fun meeting them and they had the cutest little black poodle puppies I had ever seen. One of the daughters was interested in learning more about our beliefs too. :) So cool.

Such a great week! Full of many fun times and laughs with Syster May. :) On the last stretch. Only 50 more days. So wierd. Time needs to slow down! Till next week.

Med Kärlek,
Syster Davis

​FHE with Marimba and friends. :)

​Cute Täby Relief Society.

Mustafa

​Jai and Kenneth's adorable house!

​Scared to get my hair trimmed

Tjena! Glad Alla Hjärtans dag.

Hej hej. This week was pretty good. Monday Pontus and Suzie took us on a little road trip around Täby and Stockholm! They showed us all these cool spots and got us some gelato. :) We got saffron and pepperkaka flavor. Toppen. For dinner we had a little taco party for Äldste Päärkä's birthday at the office so that was fun. We then went trakting and this nice lady from Denmark invited us in and made us some herbal tea.

This week was Valentines day woohoo! Me and Syster May celebrated with a little Ben and Jerry's for two by candle light haha. It was just weird because I remember last valentines day with Syster Brink in Sundsvall and just talking to all these happy couples in the death cold. Fun times. ;) Seems like yesterday!

We met with this sweet lady named Mabel. We talked about the gospel of Christ and how we can växa our faith. We met with a lot of other great people this week but sadly I don't have time to write everything!

We went on splits this week with the sweet Hägersten Systers! I went to Hägersten with Syster Howlett. :) It was a great time and fun to work with her and meet new people. She is seriously the cutest person. She reminds me of a disney princess because she is so sweet and happy and whenever we would talk to people on the street they would always stop and listen because she just has the softest, most loving spirit and you can just feel it when you talk to her. ;) Love her!

We had a day full of service this week as well! Us and the elders went to go help move all of this furniture out of this house and had a little fika during the job. We then helped this member move around her furniture later in the day. It always feels good serving. :)

Sunday was amazing too! It was ward conference and so many old faces were there. :) Teng was there! and Lincoln and Spencer (former Äldste Archibald and Hemmingson). Literally so fun to see old missionary friends. :) But yeah it was a wonderful sunday! We had dinner with Pontus and Suzie and they were showing me all these Berlin souvenirers they had.

Sorry this is a rushed letter but time is going fast! Love you all and see you very soon. :)

Med Kärlek,
Syster Davis

​Gelato with Pontus and Suzie

Apple pie and lycka!

Tjena vänner. :) What a week. On Monday we went to the sweet Marimba's house and baked apple pies together! Marimba is the best. She got baptized last year in August and is the sweetest person you will ever meet. She has the cutest daughters as well. :) They had Min Granne Totoro (My Neigbor Totoro) in their little movie collection and I told them how much I loved Studio Ghibli. They were so cute.

The next day we had MLC! (Mission Leader Counsil) It was pretty fun. All the zone leaders and stls from all over come and we get ready for zone training. (This is all more missionary lingo I'm sorry haha). Syster Beckstrand made us some sloppy joes and the assistants gave us some more details about the new missionary scheduale. Syster Beckstrand gave a great bit on Accountablity as well and shared a cool story about how they had some of President Beckstrands Grandfather's old journal entries and some miracles that came form them. So cool. :)

We then took all the information they taught us and planned a whole zone training for the stockholm zone! Well the zone leaders planned most of it but me and Syster May got to do a section on Accountability at the end! That was pretty fun. We talked about the Anti-Nephi-Lehi's and how they wouldn't break their covanent with God because they knew how important it was follow their promise with him. We related it to us as missionaries and how we promised the Lord when we came on a mission to do His will, work hard, and serve others. Sometimes it can be hard but as long as we follow our promises, the Lord will bless us. :) It was a fun zone training. I was a little nervous to teach in front of a whole zone of missionaries but I think it went okay haha.

We visited this sweet Chinese family this week as well. :) Qi, Jing, and their little son Leo. :) Leo so adorable. JIng has been meeting missionaries for a while now and Qi has been a member for a while. :) We talked about the Restoration and Qi said when just felt it was true when she first heard about it.

We went on splits with the Stockholm systers this week as well. :) Syster Wagner came to Täby with me and Syster May went to Stockholm. It was such a fun day. :) Syster Wagner is seriosuly so great. We bothed served in Västra Frölunda so bonded on that and talked about how much we love Syster Heaps. ;) We miss her. We met with lots of people too and had a dinner out in Nörrtälje with the Parker Family! We drove out their with the office elders so that was fun! It was a great day and we switched back later in the evening.

Sunday was wonderful. This guy we met on the street came to church and was really postive so that was fun. :) Me, Syster May, Äldste Päärkä, and Äldste Pack all gave talks at church and we helped with the primary music. :) They were so cute.

It was a great busy week this week. :) Me and Syster May just love eachother. We can't really fathom how much time we have left. It has been so fun being with my sweet MTC comp again and seeing how much we have both learned and grown since day one. :) Our moms both met eachother at home so that was cute. Ahh life is good! Until next week. :)

Kram,
Syster Davis

Dying

That TÄBY life

Well everyone, it has been crazy. Monday I packed up all my belongs and said goodbye to some great people. Me and Syster Heaps had a fun last P-Day together. Seriously gonna miss that girl so much! We've had the best transfer together and I can't believe how fast the time went. Time goes so quick when you're having fun. :) We then had a trevlig middag hos the Angelini's and went to the YSA center FHE with Hasib! It was great to see everyone one last time and Hasib wrote in my book in Bengali so that was legit haha. What a dream this place as been! Missions are the best.

Tuesday we had another jammed back day of goodbyes! Felix took all us missionaries out for Thai food so that was fun! Our investigator Mehdi then took us out to fika too. :) We talked about the gospel of Jesus Christ and how it's the little things like faith and repentance and sacrament that build us up little by little. He agreed to be baptized. :) What a guy, gonna miss him. We then said goodbye to sweet Marie who was showing us all these pictures of her childhood! Such a treat. Gonna miss Marie and our deep talks with her. She brightens our day with her stories and life advice and her cool cats. ;)

The day of transfers finally arrived and I got all my stuff and the sweet Watsons drove us to the train station. Syster Watson gave me a little goodiebag with treats and gave me the biggest hug. Love them with all my heart. Said goodbye to Syster Heaps too which was pretty sad. :( That's probably the hardest thing about missions, so many goodbyes all the time. So hard. I hopped on the train to Stockholm! Looking out the window of the train and looking at the beautiful country always makes me emotional haha. Teared up a bit and thought how weird it was that this could be my last long-term train ride as a missionary. So many feels.

After a long train ride, the Jakobsberg Systers (Syster Wilson and Syster Shin) came and helped me and Syster May with all our lugagge! During all the hussle and bussle this hobo lady literally fell on my when the brake jerked really hard on the train. She ran out the very next stop...hmm sketchy, I looked down and realized the phone was gone out of my pocket..Fyy. :( We got to Täby centrum and had no idea how to get to our apartment and had no phone to call for help so we asked this random guy to borrow his phone and the office elders came to the rescue! :) The guy who let us borrow his phone said he was actually intersted to meet sometime so maybe that was the reason we lost our phone haha! We got settled in and read the cute area report the previous systers wrote for us. Me and Syster May are stoked to be together again. :) We laughed how usually when we get a new comp the first day is usually getting-to-know eachother day and we already knew eachother. ;)

The first few days were pretty rough without a phone but we explored our new area and talked to lots of people. We had district meeting at the office and it was weird being back in the same district I was 6 months ago! Fun to be back and to meet all these new people. :)

Church was just wonderful as well. After a long week of travelling, tears, excitement, new horizons, and new people, everything seemed to come together at church. :) Täby ward is darling! Everyone was so welcoming and happy that me and Syster May were here. They welcomed us in and it was fun to even see some old friends I knew from when I served in Jacoksberg. :) 4 people we talked to on the street came to church too so that was fun! Life has been great so far here in the town of Täby. So many great adventures ahead of us and just enjoying these last few months as a missionary. Trying not to think about how little time I have left but always so excited of the thought of seeing and hugging my family again. :) Making every second count då!

Hope you all have a great week and till next time. :)

Kram,
Syster Davis

​The Angelinis. Bäst.

Täby C. Our only kontakting life

​View from my desk. :) (and my godis fix)

Täby Kapellet!

​Visiting Alam på sjukhuset

It's been good Göteborg!

Hejsan vänner. :) This week was quite the eventful one. On Monday we had a fun dinner with our friend Joey Ocasio! He is a member in Helsingborg and happened to be here for work so we met up and he brought a little package his daughters made for us. So sweet. We got some spanish food which was amazing. He was telling all about his mission in London! So good to catch up and hear about Helsingborg too. Miss that place so much.

This week was special because we had Specialized zone training! The Jönköping sisters came and stayed the night with us and we got to the church early to help the Watsons make the lunch.
The Beckstrands and the Assistants came down to Frölunda to present to our zone the new 2017 standard of excellence and new mission schedule. There were many big changes! Later in the evening we all watched the missionary world-wide broadcast which talked about how the indicators would be cut down to only 4. We all looked at the Beckstrands because we had this whole training about all the indicators, and now we wouldn't have them haha. We all just chuckled and president Beckstrand held up the key indicator bookmark and said, 'You can all just keep this as a souvenir then! ;)' Haha Kind of excited for all these mission changes. I know all this missionary terminology probably sounds confusing to you all so sorry for that lol.

The next day we got back to the streets and talked to some peeps. We met with Yunlong later and Mattias came and helped us teach! We pulled out the dop calendar and he agreed to be baptized! So exciting. :) We had a dinner with sweet Rachel later in the evening and she made us this delicious potato casserole! She kept giving us swedish tips and we kept telling her all our favorite swedish words. One of them was, 'typ' (which means 'kind of') and she thought it was funny that we liked that word so much so she kept saying it and then winking at us. ;) She is the best.

The next day was our friend Marie's birthday so we took her out to lunch! We went to this burrito place called Tomtoms and it was to die for! Soo good. Mette and Tom had us over later that night too and Mette was showing us her maybe soon-to-be artsy knitting business on instagram. She seriously is the cutest thing ever. I told her I'd be ordering some sweaters when I got home. ;) As we were heading home, our phone rang and it was President Beckstrand! Oh no. Haha we had a feeling he would be calling us...He told us some crazy news that I would be moving to Täby next week with the one and only Syster May!! My MTC comp. :) Syster Heaps would be staying in Göteborg and I would be having another 1 transfer area. Crazy crazy!! We were so shocked and not at the same time. Sad to leave Göteborg but so stoked to be with Syster May again. :) It's gonna be great!

We went to IKEA for brunch with the zone for one last hälsning before we all would transfer and everyone was shocked I was leaving again lol. The Watsons were like, 'What the?! You can't leave already!' Gonna miss them soo much. And everyone! This seriously has been a dream area.

Sunday was great too, the last one in Göteborg. It was legendary. ;) Said goodbye to many great friends and took some pictures. We went trakting after church and this nice old swedish lady couldn't stop smiling when we told her we were here to teach people about Christ. She said she couldn't believe people our age actually believed still. She said we could happily come back next week. People like that are so worth all the rejection!! :) We then headed to the Andersson family for dinner. Makayla is from Berlin Germany and the dad is from Sweden! They have the cutest little son who they speak, English, German, and Swedish to. So cool he'll be a multilingual kid.

Anywho, it has been a great transfer and holiday season here in VF. I will never forget the people I have met here and all the fun times we've had together. I love this work and I will go wherever the Lord wants me to go. :) Life is grand and until next week!

Med kärlek,
Syster Davis

​Göteborg crew

​Ikea brunch

​Specialized zone training

​Gonna miss my Syster Heaps

​And Tim

God is good, all of the time.

Hej hej. :) Monday was great. Syster Heaps and I did a little arts and crafts and we dyed her hair! I trimmed it and she dyed in dark brown. Looked super cute. :) Later we played some Innebandy at the church for Äldste Nelson's birthday. We had some kladkaka icecream and sang happy birthday to him! We then finished the day with some fun contacting. This drunk guy was the only nice one who wanted to talk to us. Typiskt.

We met with our favorite Marie this week as well. We helped her take down her christmas decorations and talked about her fun 25 years working for SJ (train company in sweden) She told us it was the best seeing missionaries on transfer day everywhere with all their luggage.

The next day we had a few lessons but they got blåsted (canceled). So instead we got some swedish tips from the member who was gonna to help us with our lesson! The Watson's were there too and said they have noticed how exhausted we looked and they told us to sit down for a minute and eat some grilled-cheese and soup. ;) They are the best. Seriously they are our mission parents here in Göteborg. :)

We had a really solid lesson with this week as well with the help of Fabrice again! Our investigator only knew French so Fabrice translated the entire lesson back and forth from us to him, from him to us. It was funny when he got it mixed up at times and started speaking french to us and english to our investigator. ;) We taught about the restoration and the book of mormon and he said he was so excited to read it! Me and Syster Heaps were so happy and high on the spirit, we went home dancing singing this song 'God is Good!' It was a happy day. :)

We've had a pretty busy filled week this week and meeting a lot of new investigators. We had one last district meeting this transfer also and had a yummy lunch made by the Watsons.

We met with this sweet young girl from Poland this week too. She is such a sweetheart and said she has met missionaries for years. She wanted us to help her with her english homework and we happily agreed. :) We went in thinking it would be a piece of cake but it was pretty tricky haha. We all kept laughing together at how hard it was and how even us english speakers didn't get it.

Sunday was just beautiful and much needed. Always. So many great talks and lessons and so much of the spirit felt. :) In relief society we talked about Utchdorfs talk, 'Fourth Floor, Last Door.' Such a good one. Definitely can relate to that one. After church we had a yummy dinner with the sweet Jansson family! Their daughter Hanna just got back from her mission in Greece. She was so sweet and telling us all about her mission and crazy to compare our missions. We talked about how fast time goes as well.

Anyways, it was a great week. Took some fun pictures and just lovin' life. 'God is good, all of time! All of the time, God is good!' Just a quote form the song me and Syster Heaps love. ;) Hope you all had a good week. Hejdå for now. :)

Med Kärlek,
Syster Davis

January gloom

Tjena Tjena! This week was exhausting. We had a fun P-Day in the stores of Nordstan and got some carrot muffins. We then went and hit the streets later in the evening and prayed we would find some nice people and found this french guy who only new french but we gave him a card and he said he would come to church.

We went on splits this week with Syster May and Syster McClatchie as well! Two of my favorites. :) It was so fun getting to be with them again and catch up on life. Me and Syster May were together and we visited this sweet old lady named Sigbrit. We sang some hymns for her and she gave us some chocolate. We had a fun dinner the the Angelini's that night too.

The next day was the craziest rain wind storm we have ever witnessed. We had basically nothing planned that day so we were determined to go out with our big raincoats and umbrellas and talk to the world! Lol honestly didn't go too well. Our umbrella kept going inside-out and everyone thought we were crazy for trying to talk to people out in the rain. We decided to just tract some houses instead and Syster Heaps had to go to the bathroom so bad that we asked the next door that opened if we could use it. This really nice girl let us in and we talked for awhile and she asked us all about why we were here and our purpose so that was cool.

The next day we taught the Plan of Salvation to our investigator. Felix came along too to help which was nice. :) The Plan of Salvation is one of my favorite lessons to teach. Every time we teach it, it always just is a great reminder to me how grateful I am for the gospel. It gives us so much hope especially knowing where we came from, why we are here, and what will happen after. So much kunskap and kärlek its great lol. The Söderberg's had us over for dinner too so that was a blast! Vincent and Leo are so great and we talked about anime and art and other things we liked.

We had a great district meeting this week as well and talked about companions. We talked about how fun and hard it can be to forced to be with someone for 24-7. ;) I can't get over how grateful I am for Syster Heaps. :) We always have the best conversations and just love talking about life and just love doing the work with joy! We don't want transfers to ever come.

We went to a baptism in Utby this last weekend as well! It was such a spiritual day evening and the guy being baptized was from the middle east and was so happy.

While we were out contacting one day, we ran into the sweet Anna Ocasio! This sweet lady who was one of our best friends in Helsingborg. :) We hugged for a long time and caught up. Seriously such a blessing to run into her. Me and her daughter Alicia are soul sisters. ;) Miss their family so much and told her how excited I was to come back and see them in April!

Sunday was great too. The french guy we talked to on the street came to church so that was exciting. :) Fabrice (a french member) took him under his wing and translated the entire church for him! What a guy. We were so happy and he said he was so glad he met us and agreed to meet again this next week! Woot woot. :) After church the Johanssons had us over for dinner. We showed them the daily bread mormon message and how it is the little things we do in our life everyday that build us up, make us stronger, and help us come closer to our Savior. We love mormon messages.

All and all it was a tiring week this week and we learned a lot. Words can't describe how exhausted we have been but it is the best exhaustion we have ever felt. Knowing all our efforts are for the Lord and his work is the best feeling one can feel. Lovin' life. Tacksam för tiden jag har haft här. Alltid ska minnas min frälsare och allt han gjorde för oss. Om jag är ärligt är det inte alltid lätt att vara här. Det finns många gånger jag tänker varför kom jag hit? Det är så svårt haha. Men då tänker jag om försoningen och hur det var inte lätt för herren heller. Han gjorde det eftersom han älskade oss. Det är hur jag känner mot honom också. Jag älskar honom så vill jag göra allt jag kan åt honom nu och för evigt. :) Det är anledningen.

Love you guys and till next week!

Med Kärlek,
Syster Davis

Anna Ocasio spotted in Göteborg!!

Stole this picture someone took on our phone hehe