Swedish is fun but the beds are rubbish

Hello family!

i don't have much time so i'll try andtellyou as much as i can. i miss you all somuch! my companion's name is sister wood and she's been really fun and nice to me. this first week has been really hard because i miss you all so much! the beds here are rubbish, but i'm so exhausted that i sleep just fine. the work is hard! we're in class pretty much all day and it's hard! swedish is fun and i'm picking it up pretty well. there's just so much of it. our teachers are great their names are borther nielson and borther norden. bor. norden is from sweden and he's actully my age. it's weird. bro neillson is really fun and crazy! Our district is great. there's a sister in our branch from cornwall!her name is sister west and she knows maribel. she's so sweet and just loves everyone. there's so much love here. our branch is awesome. we have sacr4ament meeting on sundays and i'm playing the piano this week. not anything special, just for the meeting...like old times! there are 15 missionaries going to sweden in our branch. the 16th one went home a few days asgo. we have 5 gym periods a week and that's fun except when we have it in the morning. i don't like excercising at 6:30 in the morning so i walk a few laps around the track and then just "stretch" for the rest of the time. we only have early gym on 2 days though. we had an amazing devotional with elder perry last night. he's so awesome. he talked about working with companions. it was good, this past week has been kind of crappy. thank you so much for all of your letters! how did we not discover dearelder before now? also, thank you for the cookies! they are so good. aunt toni sent me 2 dozen kripspy kremes yesterday and my roomates and companion were all very excited. and jake's package was a posh pen. it's pink and engraved. it's so nich i almost don't want to use it. i love you all so much. i gotta go before my computer kicks me off. i miss you and you all have letters in the mail. i can only write and email on p-days which are wednesdays. i'll try to have some pictures for you next week. oh and mom, could you send me my music binder that i left? i want to audition to sing at a fireside. we had an awesome one last sunday with brother and sister beeson who work here and sisterbeeson reminded me so much of you mom! i'm glad the slap dance went well and thank you for the story about grandma! it made me laugh and cry. sarah, congrats on honr choir! you will love it. always practice your CPR. that's the way to get hired--perfect CPR. Joe, stay sweet and funny. john, you're hot and smokin'. i love you! mom and dad i miss you so much. i wish i could talk to you! i'll write more next week. love you!

love,
sister elise

p.s. we get to take walks to the temple on sundays. it was amazing. i didn't want to come back. i miss you! love you!