And so Life is Good

Dear Family,
This week has been a good one, there were of course harder days with all that's gone on, we went to Elder Bailey's memorial in Västerås yesterday. Which was good, but also it made it feel much more real.
But sorrow has not been more than we can handle, nice thing about a companion is you never have to go through things alone. I hope I was a little bit of help to my own companion who knew Elder Bailey very well...
I also... turned 20 this week. I'm pretty much ancient. Haha, JK, it feels that way sometimes though. But it was super good. Sister Pieksma was SO sweet. She made me eggs for breakfast and than we had made carrot cake together the night before and took it with us to Umeå (which is where we have distrikt meeting because that's where the distrikt leaders are) and that was super fun. And then we had pancakes for dinner... which was yummy, and you know how I love breakfast for dinner! And then we ate ice cream that night. Which... was delicious. And she just made me feel super special the whole time.
I also did get your package... and I love those fuzzy pajamas... They are SO comfortable and I just love putting them on! Also, the jumprope is AWESOME. Sister Pieksma also has a jumprope and we're going to have jumprope competitions for morning exercise... She'll probably win.... But I'll still get the exercise! And thank you for sending me more melatonin! It was a wonderful birthday present! And... Kind of funny. I got a letter from Dallin... mind you he didn't mean to send it for my birthday, he was just responding to the letter I wrote him a while back... but it happened to come on my birthday, or it might have been the day before... but either way, it was awesome and I loved it. It's wonderful reading about his mission through his letters home, but it was also nice to have one all for myself... :D
Congratulations to Keana by the way, for the second place win!
And Taft, well, you're just awesome, so congratulations for that!
You guys must be doing something right if the Lord keeps giving you more people to serve! (What's your secret?) That's such a wonderful feeling, when there are people out there that the Lord is entrusting to your care. I hope you realize just how valuable that is, although I'm sure you do.
I want to learn how to juggle... and whistle... and in general how to be amazing. But that can wait till after the mission.
But anyways, let me get on topic... maybe. What happened this week... Not much really. Which is really strange, because there are 7 days in a week and I know that we're always doing something... so I should always have loads to talk about... but for some strange reason I don't. I promise that we're doing things.
Although we got invited to this Fika thing and we went... and it was a bunch of members from... a church... still haven't figured out which one... and they wanted to convert us... it was interesting. It was interesting because they kept talking about when they 'were saved' a.k.a. when they had accepted Jesus as their Savior. And I don't know... it was weird to me, because... I don't know, just the thought that it's 'that simple' and it both is and isn't. We have to accept Jesus as our Savior. But it isn't just a one moment thing and then we're saved. It's an everyday of our lives sort of thing, where we give our all... and when we mess up, well, we keep going, change, improve... It's a life long pursuit... and so I can't point to 'one time' when I 'was saved'... Oddly enough they didn't let either Sister Pieksma or I talk about that, they quite pointedly avoided asking and then changed the subject if we tried to say anything, we weren't there to ARGUE with them though, so they didn't need to be SO worried.
But... Yeah... Um... What else happened this week... Well... We had a hard week this week. So... not much happened.
Except, it was SO amazing, we contacted some woman on the street, and we asked her what was important to her in her life... Do you want to know what her answer was... Jesus Christ.
You can't even IMAGINE how bizarre that was. And it was a SWEDE. I was like.... Wait... what... ??? Is this for real happening, it was a little stressful actually, I hadn't had such a positive answer in so long that I had almost forgotten how it felt and how to react. We got her number, but we haven't contacted her yet as we've been in Västerås... but I'm super excited... I'll let you know how that goes this week!
I feel like this is the shortest email I have ever written in my history of Family Emails home. I don't know what's wrong with me! I mean... I even have ENERGY this week!
Well,
I really really have tried to think of things to say, and while it isn't very often that I pull mind blanks (lie, it happens all the time) but I can't think of anything.
So I'll just tell you that I love you and that I've spent nearly a day of my life on trains this week... and I'll be spending about a day of my life on trains next week... and those things are quiet as the grave because Swedes don't talk... but... we talk... so... yeah. But sometimes it's a pain being in such a large mission the transport takes a while. Eh, it's fine, it gives us lots of opportunities.
But really, I'm going to say hej då for now and then make sure that I have PLENTY to say next time around.
I really don't know why I can't think of anything. I've even been making sure I write in my journal more consistently so as to make sure I can remember my mission. This is so bizarre!
But, the important things to say are that I LOVE YOU!
That I'm happy, that I hope that YOU are ALL happy.
That... You know, as Dad said in his email to me. Life is good because the gospel is true.
And so Life is Good.
What more can I say?
One question-Two actually... How is Dad's leg? and How is Keana's stomach? Is everyone else doing ok? No injuries or sicknesses or random unexplainable pains that I need to know about? (Got to keep my prayers up to date!)
Love Ya!
Be happy,
Love,
Sister Kjanela Fawcett
Happiness does not decrease from being shared!