There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds

Dear Family,
As always it lifts my spirits to hear from you. And the first thing I want to say is I hope you get over your cough. They are so annoying, especially when they don't let you sleep.
My advice to Keana, if she's going to miss Dallin, write Dallin. It makes missionaries feel loved when they receive mail (or emails, but Dallin doesn't have that option now). So let Dallin know you miss him by writing him.
And Mom, that is SO exciting what you did with your students. I can only imagine how fun it would be to work with people from all over the world. And it is such great experience!
As for my week... There have been many fun adventures. Tuesday night we were teaching Najib, with a translator, and suddenly, in the middle of our lesson, the church alarm goes blaring. I nearly screamed it terrified me, so i went running to turn it off, apparently our ward members who had been at the church didn't realize that we were still there so we needed to call the alarm company so they didn't send someone here. So we take some deep breaths and go back to our lesson. Well, next the translator's phone dies, and just as we were inviting him to be baptized... So that invitation will be extended another time. He said that there are some problems he has with it that he can't explain in English... So... Yeah. So we finally say goodbye to him and we go around making sure that everything is squared away, lights off etc. And you know me... I have... an active imagination at time, and I heard some random noise and my mind jumps to... we are going to die... someone is in the building and we are going to get murdered. Just at that moment my dear companion decides to whirl around and yell. I SCREAMED. I was so sure that my life was coming to an abrupt end.
But no, my companion just wanted to scare me. How rude. :D
Wedenesday the most exciting thing to ever happen happened. What is that you might ask? We went and we taught an High School class (in a non persuasive way) about what we believe. They asked SO many questions. They were so interested. They were... Amazing. And it turns out that one of the boys in that class is a less active. It was exciting and fun, and while we don't know what the effects will be... it was definitely awesome, and I feel super positive. That will also be happening this next Friday... so... PRAYERS! (By the way, this was the paragraph that got edited out for Sister Richins. So now you know what we were so excited about last week... Super exciting!)
Also... we got to go to Bonnie's to make food for Thanksgiving Dinner. A) Bonnie is awesome and I am going to miss her so much when she leaves on Wednesday for the states. B) Bonnie is amazing. C) I really like making food. D) I really like eating food. E) This sounds super stupid, but I didn't realize it was possible to make bread in anything smaller than four or five loaves. F) It gave me a desire to make more bread, hopefully I'll still have that desire when I come home. G) Bonnie is amazing and we had a wonderful discussion as we baked. H) It was just a really good day. I) it made me really want to celebrate Thanksgiving. J) I realized how dependent upon Calenders I am because I couldn't remember which Thursday Thanksgiving was and I couldn't just look at a Calender. K) I finally had to ask someone. L) I really hope I get to celebrate Thanksgiving next week... I really like Thanksgiving. M) I was just reminded of how important it was to be grateful, and all of the wonderful things we have to be grateful for. N) Now that I've gotten all the way to N I really just want to go all the way to Z... O) Bonnie also helped me make one of those awesome tiles with things written on it. P) It says 'With God All Things Are Possible' Q) It's really a lot easier than you'd think... I managed to do it after all. R) But back to the Quote, isn't that so true. With God we can do All things. S) We also tried to make English Toffee... It was turning out really well... and then the chocolate didn't melt, so we tried putting it in a warm oven to melt the chocolate... we ended up with an interesting, slightly burnt, but nonetheless delectable creation. T) Toffee (Or what ever it was in the end) is really really delicious, and not as hard as I used to remember it being. U) Bonnie really spoiled us. V) Really that day of helping Bonnie make things and what not was super fun. W) I Love Bonnie! X) Kay, now I'm struggling to come up with things. Bt I'm super close. Y) When you see Bonnie in America give her a hug from me. Z) I feel as though I did a pretty good job of everything in this list of 26 had to do with Bonnie, making things with Bonnie, the things we made with Bonnie, Thanksgiving, which we celebrated with Bonnie, or the list itself. I call that a success... I also call that Kjanela getting carried away with lists and random things. And it's a good thing I'm a fast typer or I would never have time to say everything I want to in an email.
After the Thanksgiving Dinner, which was delicious and fun, we taught Maria, with Nancy. It was wonderful and we talked about the Plan of Salvation. Jump forward to Saturday night... Maria had been thinking a lot about what we taught her... She had SO many questions. It was amazing, she had put thought into it, she was searching for understanding, and she was just so curious. I imagine it was a bit like teaching me (except better, because her questions were always on topic) but she loved to say 'un otra pregunta...' Which was like my favortie ever thing to say. It was always dangerous to get me started on questions.
Or talking for that matter, I tend to ramble.
Then Thursday... we went to Göteborg because we had a Zone meeting on Friday... but it was a four hour trip so we went the night before and stayed with the Sisters in Kungsbacka. Can I just say that Sister Missionaries are THE greatest. We are all so strange and individual and when we're together it's fun and everyone pretty much just loves everyone and... we're all best friends instantly. Or it feels like that.
So Friday was the Zone meeting... It was really good, we took it back a step, there was no deep doctrinal message, it was just about how we can deal with stress in the life of a missionary. Which... is a good thing for me to work on. It gave suggestions and advice about almost every aspect of missionary life that can be stressful. It's really a nice little pamphlet, booklet, program thing that the Church has come out with. I'm going to use it. Which... is why they gave it to us.
But pretty much Zone Meeting was awesome and I got to see so many of my MTC group, and it was great to see them again, and see how they're doing, and just... Yeah. It was super fun.
Then Saturday, we went to Hässleholm, and we were teaching a man named Ronald, and we were teaching him in English, (he speaks no Swedish) and after we taught him a Young Man came up to us and said 'Are you American.' Obviously we answered yes. 'And you are missionaries.' Again, yes. 'I really appreciate that. Sweden really needs it.'
Isn't that amazing! I feel like it has happened several times in the recent past that people have come up to us and Thanked us for what we are doing. For trying to spread the light of the Gospel around. People want the joy that the Gospel can bring. It's wonderful, we're actually meeting with Jakob (the young man) tomorrow. Pray that we can teach him what he needs to hear.
And then last night we taught the Barahonas, they are less actives, but they have a nine year old girl who has never been to church. Her face lit up like a star when we told her that she was a Child of God. It was absolutely beautiful.
And it is absolutely beautiful. We are Children of our Heavenly Father. We are his CHILDREN. He LOVES us. He is our FATHER. Ah, the beauty of that fact. The hope, the joy, the love that fact can give us. I love Mom and Dad to the end of the earth, I trust them, I depend on them, I take comfort in the fact that as their daughter they will always love me (Call me to repentance, think I do stupid things, and get frustrated with me, yes, but still, they'll always love me.) How much more confidence can I have in my Heavenly Father's infinite love. I just... This knowledge, is something I am so grateful for. I love 'A Child's Prayer' and the answer in the second verse. 'Pray he IS there, speak he IS listening, YOU are his child, his love now surrounds you. He HEARS your prayers...' Ah, I love that song. I love what it means to me. I love that I get to share the message of that song with the people of Sweden. And I'm so grateful for Mom and Dad and the fact that they worked so hard to teach us Who we are. Of the divine potential within us.
Ah, some other information about this week. Saturday, I actually had quite a bit of energy, I think a mixture of having Zone Conference the day before and of getting a decent night's sleep might have been the cause. And it turns out Sister Richins had a lot of energy... We laughed at EVERYTHING. It was great (We also got good work done...) But we laughed at everything. And can I just say that laughing is an amazing gift, we should all be grateful that we can laugh, it's so much fun. And it reminds me of the wise words of Gordon B. Hinckley 'Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.' And 'We need to have a little humour in our lives, we better take seriously that which should be taken seriously. But at the same time we can bring in a touch of humour now and again, if the time ever comes when we can't smile at ourselves, it will be a sad time.' And we do take serious that which ought to be taken seriously. We just also find humour in everything else. (Oddly I think we both had a lot of energy, but also were still a little on the sleep deprived side because we laughed at somethings that were probably only funny because we were tired... does that even make sense?)
Something sad. We couldn't get a hold of Jannika this week for the longest time. When we finally did she said she wasn't sure she was ready for the gospel and the change it would require. We weren't sure what to say and we just testified that it could bless her life. She said she knew that that was the case, but she needed to be ready for it first. We told her we were always there for her, and that we would try to keep in contact and she was always welcome. We hope... we hope she'll feel ready for the church and that she'll continue to read the Book of Mormon. But the gospel does require change from us, in return it blesses us SO SO much... but it does require something on our part.
Random fact, two days into my time in Sweden... I lost my magnet name tag. This was very sad to me, because that meant I had to use my pin name tag, which enjoyed attempting to destroy my shirts... very sad... and... Friday... I got a new magnet name tag. This is very exciting because now my shirts will no longer be in quite as much danger of destruction. We should rejoice in the simple gifts.
I also discovered that I somhow have my MTC companion's dictionary... hopefully she has mine.
Oh, I also forgot to mention that on Sunday we had the primary children's program... ah, I LOVE primary... and I LOVE Primary songs... and I just think that the primary children's program is the best. And it made me really really happy.
The primary must be a crazy place to have a calling in. The people who work in the primary are AMAZING. (As are people in Young Men and Relief Society... :D)
Well, Life is wonderful. The gospel is true, it blesses our lives beyond measure. And I love all of you SO SO SO much.
That's really all now,
I love you ALL so mycket! I hope you have a wonderful week, and that you get over your cough, and that you don't spread your cough, and that happiness and joy rain down upon you... or snow down upon you.
Love,
Kjanela
P.S. I forgot to say, Thanks again Dad for the thought and information on goals, that has been wonderful food for thought this week and I'm trying to thoughtfully and prayerfully decide what goals I need to make right now.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
You don't need to be sick to get better.
You'll never see the stars if you're always looking down. (And the stars are SO beautiful! And so are clouds... so... Look up!)