June 17, 2013

Happy to hear you all had an exciting week with the promotion and the graduation. For Melissa and classes i'd just say good luck with getting classes. Don't wait to sign up, get on a good fast working computer, don't be afraid to sign up for online English or even online American Foundations if you cant get into an actual class. Don't sign up for too many credits but there's not too much to do in Idaho so you should be good with time to study. I had classes everyday and it was a little spread out which I thought would suck but I ended up liking it. It didn't feel like I was zoning out because I was in school for hours at a time. That's about all that I can think of for BYUI right now, other than that just have fun.

This has just been another fast paced week, filled with blessings. We met with one recently reactivated member and taught her 13 year old daughter the restoration and then talked about baptizing her. She says she wants to be baptized but her mom wants to teach her more first. We told her mom that we've been called by God to teach and we'd love to help her teach her daughter. But she kinda didn't seem super motivated to make it happen soon. Its really hard to get appointments with the daughter because the mom is always busy with a crazy work schedule and doesn't want us to teach without her. So its kinda frustrating with not being able to teach as often as we'd like to, especially when the 13 year old comes to church every week and wants to be baptized. I know it will all work out in God's timing.

Finding people to teach by knocking is never really that fun but we found the "promised street" parallel to the glomma river here in Fredrikstad. We met some really cool people who nice to us and willing to talk to about the Book of Mormon and the purpose of life. We found 4 or 5 potentials on that street and we hope to get some investigators to keep teaching. It was truly a magical knocking session... I don't know what we did different because they are definitely not always like that. While contacting on the gågate, we stopped and talked to this lady and then somehow family history got brought up. We invited her to family history night and Tuesday and we found out she actually came and had a good time! Hopefully she keeps coming and becomes curious.

Church yesterday was packed! So awesome, most people I've sen since I've been here, partially because it was invite a friend to church day and it was stake ward conference. I wish the members realized that they can always invite their friends to church, not just on special "invite your friend to church days".

Today was a super sweet Pday. We got to golf with those pro's for free today and they fed us mexican food and Kool-Aid. They were awesome coaches and I really started to get my swing down at the driving range. They actually knew what they were talking about and when I listened to their advise, I immediately saw better results. It was so much fun. What awesome ladies!

Its been a great week, time's flying by, it kind of feels as if I write you everyday. I love getting your emails and hearing how things are going back at home. I love Norway and I love and miss you all!

God Sommer!

Eldste Skinner