We went up to Moss to watch that broadcast on missionary work. WOW. I was so pumped to hear all those talks and the music and videos were awesome too. Holland is amazing even when he's just conducting. The spirit really testifies that everything their saying about how missionary work should be done, is in fact true. Knocking on doors is old school and a waste of time most of the time. We have all these missionaries out in the field and there is so much potential. We really cant do it alone though.. the members play an even bigger part in the gathering of Israel. I wish that we could just show that broadcast in perfect norwegian in sacrament meeeting. I was really bummed because not a single member from our ward was there. So sad. We have a great ward and they do want to help but they just dont really know how/ go to the meetings that teach them how. It can be frustrating but we'll do our best to help and teach them. I really like the analogy perry used with little kids playing soccer. We all need to be better at recognizing our own specific roles and working together to fulfill our common purpose, building up the Lord's kingdom.
This week has been really tiring and most of it was spent under an umbrella. We are trying to find new investigators to work with.. preferably families so we've done a lot of knocking. Knocking is only good because I can practice my norwegian but it is pretty much a big waste of time when you do it day after day. We did find some cool people and got them even more curious about life. All of our investigators right now are in the early stages of conversion, like we're teaching them how to pray and stuff like that. Its great, but its a long process.
We're starting a norwegian language class this week so we've been putting up flyers... we've been getting calls so hopefully it turns about to be a fun way to meet people. We're doing norwegian class because there are a lot of foreigners here who want to learn the language and most of them have a basic foundation of english for us to work with. We'll see how it goes. While putting up flyers we were totally being led by the spirit without knowing it, We met a sweet muslim family, a recent convert who we lost contact with, and a former investigator who wants us to come by sometime. We were definately put into other's paths that day.. it was almost creepy. So blessed.
I had a practice driving test this week with a traffic school. they wanted to make sure I didn't need a ton driving classes before my license test. It was So much fun to drive a nice new car. It was some 4 door hyundai hatchback. I swear the manuel cars these days are pretty much impossible to stall, so smooth and so much fun. I have my driving test on August 29th. I chose to do it manuel just for fun and here in Norway you have to take it manuel in order to be able to drive both manuel and auto. All the cars are automatic on the mission but you never know what will happen.
Nothing too crazy happened this week, I've just been physically exhausted from all the walking. I'm still alive and thriving in norway. Its a great place, I am so lucky! I need to send better pictures to you guys. I'll work on that.. its just hard because I have so many. Try not to die in the heat. Happy 4th of July!! Take pictures! I love you all, tell everyone I say hi.
Eldste Niklas Anton Skinner
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