Halllllloooooo,
Thank you so much mom for that
email. It was exactly what I needed and its pretty obvious that Heavenly Father
shows his love to us by giving us our families. Your email pretty much just
spot on matched what i'm going through right now. To me that's just 100 percent
proof that God is real and that the Holy Ghost let you know exactly what was
happening to your son here on the other side of the world. How awesome is that.
Its so sad for me to meet all these people who are so caught up in science and
technology that they see no need for God anymore. This city is pretty tough as
far as work goes. There is a lot of people who are absolutely not interested
and will even be mentally attacking at times. It doesn't get to me though
because I just move on to the next person and the next and the next until I
find the one who is prepared and ready. Its such a miracle to cross paths with
these certain people.
We are currently teaching this one
guy who was found in the city. He's a 27 Norwegian dude. Totally quite and shy
but not at all the same time. He's coming to church and all sorts of activities
which is awesome because its like he's already a member. We just have to teach
him, help him understand what he's getting into and have the spirit testify to
him that this is true. He doesn't doubt it but at the same time doesn't know
for sure. We got a new investigator with a baptism date. She is from Czech and
we were referred to her by a member because she's a cleaner lady and wants to
learn the language. So we've been teaching her bits and pieces of the language
and then last time the missionaries gave her a Book of Mormon. This last week
we taught language for a little and then brought up the gospel in a smooth and
almost sneaky way. I asked her how much she's been able to read and she said
only 25 pages. We were stoked (normal people dont read that much in a week) and
eventually invited her to be baptized on the 21st of December. She said she
would if she knew that it was all true. We're just worried that work will keep
her from coming to church although she would love to come and make new friends.
We had a way awesome experience
with the youth at a indoor beach party activity (snow is dumping outside). We
have about 4 youth but the activity had about 16 or so non members! what the
heck! is was awesome to see so many people inside the church socializing and
playing games with us. We had investigators come as well. We played dodgeball
and no one in Norway knows how to properly throw a ball. They looked at me as
if I was from another planet. USA baby. It was a lot of fun and really made me
love the youth of the church!! I want to do all that I can to help them out. I
know its tough, especially in Norway.
This week Elder Jones and I had the
idea to gather the whole zone together via google hangout to present what we
want to accomplish before the end of the year. It was stressful with all the
inevitable technical difficulties of getting 10 companionships and their branch
presidents on at the same time. It was also way scary for me because I have all
these missionaries and branch presidents staring me down wondering if I really
know what I'm doing. I need to have more confidence I've decided and I feel
like I'm constantly not where I want to be. I've also come to the conclusion
that I don't want to be just a good missionary, but just an absolute stud in
the church. Here in Trondheim I' surrounded by a 28 year old bishop and a 26
year old mission leader who are just on a different level of member in the church.
I want to be like them and just have that determination and ability to
influence others like that. General authority status. I want to be on that
level. I got some work to do... haha. But luckily I have this opportunity on
the mission to learn and grow.
Try not to worry too much about the
house. I can totally picture what going on right now. Enjoy everything this
week! enjoy your day off. We'll be having a thanksgiving dinner on Saturday.
Have fun! tell everyone hi and that I'm still loving Norway. I'm busy and time
is flying by and of course im living in the present and enjoying this
opportunity to live in an awesome city. I'd also love some pictures! Anyway,
thanks for all the love and support. I am truly grateful for the motivational
emails every week. Love you!
Eldste Skinner
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