Prekæs!
I'll start off
by saying that I finally have had fish. It was salmon so I excited to
try it since everyone says that its not that bad. It was super fishy
even though they covered it in sour cream and chese, wasn't a fan but at
least I tried it. I would have it again if I had to though. The next
day for dinner was even crazier. We ate like vikings with these two
older awesome less active ladies. They had al seven of us over to try
some interesting foods. We had a salted lamb leg on flat bread with
homemade butter. It looked like roadkill and tasted like super salty
jerky. The salt in the raw meat preserves that leg all summer long they
said. After that intersesting appetizer, we moved on to the main course.
Whale! They grilled up whale meat and it wasn't that bad. The meat is
naturally black and super tough and dry, didn't taste like fish or beef.
It was a great experience to say that I've eaten whale but don't ever
want to do it again. Save the Whales.. because they're really not that
good to eat. The tastiest part about the meal was that they brought us
Dr. Pepper from sweden! A meal I'll never forget. Another wierd thing I
had this week was a hot dog on white bread with shrimp salad and mustard
and ketchup. Some how I forced it down. Fortunately helena from finland
gave me some finnish pola or however the heck you spell it. The mission
is crazy and the members torture us by over loading us with their food.
Yesterday was the Sant Hans Aften, the longest day of the year. We
celebrated it with some family's from the ward at Vispen. It was fun to
throw on some normal clothes and run around with the kids. We played
frisbee, volleyball, and raced. The kids in this ward love us and are so
fun to be around and practice norwegian with.
This week I met a bunch a cool people on the streets and hopefully
we can start teaching them. This one chill black dude from Ivory Coast
was fun to chat with, he started by laughing at us and asking us why we
were wearing white shirt and ties. He was fun to joke around withand we
really open his eyes to the church. He might come with his daughter some
time when he's back in Fredriksatd (he lives in Oslo). It seems like
all the potential we find, we cant teach because they live somewhere
else so we just have to refer them to other missionaries that are closer
to them. I was in Halden for splits this week with Elder Peterson who
is going home in a month. We had a crazy day of contacting crack heads
and all types of people. At the end of the day we suddenly figured out
that I had 7 minutes to pack all my stuff including my dyna and get to
the bus stop. After throwing everything in my back pack, stuffing my
dyna, and sprinting to the bus stop, we barely made it. It was classic
missionary.
This week we're getting a young man from the Oslo ward to go on a
"mini mission" with us this week. So basically he's gonna work, eat, and
sleep with us all week. Its gonna be so fun. Great opportunity for us
to get him excited to serve a full, 2 year mission. It will also be
great to get alot of norwegian learning in. I'll let you know how that
goes.
I'll keep praying for isoaiti and isoisa! I was hoping we could go
see them right after my mission. A lot of missionaries going home are
getting picked up by their parents, touring around norway, and then
going home. The church still pays for the missionaries flight home. Just
an idea that came to mind, you and dad could do with me if you want.
And we could like take a train over to Finland through Sweden to see
them again.
Love you so much! thanks for the email. Im glad that drop box
thing works, I have a lot of pictures and It would be a good idea to
back them up on that but i dont know how much storage I can have. Its
awesome because then you can see the pictures too. Keep enjoying time
off work. Have fun with Daniel and Ivy! What about Ethans parents in
Montana? Tell Ethan congrats and Sabin hello. Vi snakkes!
Your Son,
Eldste Skinner
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