Week 6- Last P-Day in America!

Wow! Crazy to think that I will be heading to the airport to fly to the coolest country ever! Well behind America of course.  This week, we sent off the rest out zone, it was really sad to see them go, but I am so excited to hear about their adventures in Finland and Denmark!  As for the Nords and the Swedes, we head out Monday morning at 4:30 a.m.! Yesterday, we got some new missionaries in our zone! 5 new Danes and 5 new Finns to replace the old ones.  They're all way cool and super fun. I'm kind of bummed we only get to hang out with them for 4 days, but what can you do?

So, this week was awesome devotional wise. We were able to hear from Bishop Waddell, 2nd Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric. He is so awesome! He talked a lot on a quote Elder Bednar said a while back, "Start right, Stay right and Finish right" He also talked about the difference between an inward and an outward missionary.  It was nice to be able to humble myself and look at what I am doing wrong and fix that rather than looking at what others are doing wrong.  He said two things that really stood out to me. They were, "Seek and ye shall find whether it be for the good or the bad" so true! If you look for the good in someone or something, that is what you will find! Same goes the other way around, if you look for the bad, that is what you'r going to find.  The next one is "How can you expect a perfect companion if you're not one yourself"  I invite you all this week to seek out the best in people! Look to their strengths, not their weaknesses.

Yesterday, we had a Worldwide Missionary Broadcast held by the Executive Missionary Council. It was super cool to hear all of their insights on missionary work.  They also made a few changes! So now instead of having 9 "key indicators" (the numbers that we send into church head quarters) We only have 4. They also changed the schedule a bit. Now it's a lot more on the missionary on when to do things. Not everything is so set in stone. P-days we get a little more time and best of all, we can now go to bed at early as 9:30!! Never in my life I thought I would say that. I'm so drained by the end of the day, I can't wait to get to sleep. 

Other than that, pretty normal week here at the MTC! It's weird to already be packing up and getting ready to leave! Sometimes I feel like I just got here, and other times I feel like I have been here for 2 years! I'm so excited to get back out into the real world and teach the people of Sweden!  Pretty soon I will be one of the chosen frozen :) 

Have a great week! and Keep the Faith

Us and our teacher Brother Cheney

The Scandinavian Zone together for the last time.

The Swedes.

Me, Elder Fielding, Sister Zander and ??