Heyyy
Its been an awesome week. Valentines day was nothing special
but that's alright. Enjoying the break from worrying about the women. It
finally rained today. other than that its been super dry and windy. I guess
there's been some crazy fires up here while its snowy down south. I don't think
I'll ever expereince a real winter. Its hardly ever been in the negatives.
What made this week so awesome was our trip up to Bodø and
Narvik. Eldste Whetten and I had our meeting here in Trondheim and it was
pretty good but it was kind of the same experience that you were mentioning
last email. Sometimes its harder to get others as pumped about something as you
are and sometimes the thoughts just aren't flowing. After Trondheims meeting we
headed up to Bodø to give the exact same meeting with only minor adjustments.
For some reason this meeting was a million times better. It seemed like
eveything was flowing.It almost seemed as if the spirit was being more helpful.
I don't really know why the two were so different but i'm grateful that
everyone seemed to get something out from it. Here in the north, things are really
starting to turn around. We've had some areas that are starting to get things
going after weeks of not having anything. Our meetings and training with our
missionaries are starting to pay off. Prayers are being answered! We went out
on the streets after our meeting in Bodø and found all sorts of people for the
missionaries there to start working with. They were pretty pumped. I totally
feel like i'm blabering on about lame stuff but it was a pretty cool experience
to just jump off a plane, gather a bunch of missionaries together, and then see
them get excited and motivated. It the best feeling to go into a place and feel
like you did exactly what heavenly father needed us to do.
Its was way sweet to fly into narvik and work there all the
next day. I was with one of our district leaders and we had some awesome
experiences with finding. I even got to see most of the members and one of my
favorite investigators there. It was such a trippy experience. Not as wierd as
I thought it would be though.. but almost comparible to going home to san diego
because I felt like i knew the area and people so well. I had a lot of fun and
came across some julebrus (christmas soda) that's been gone for a long time
here in trondheim. Also there's this new norwegian chocolate bar with oreo bits
in it.. unbelievable.
Norways been tearing it up in the olympics. A member here in
trondhein keeps us posted with the medal counts. Norway was apparently expected
to have a better year though. I had no Idea they competed so well compaired to
the bigger countries. I catch glimpses of it every now and then from walking
past restaurants and stuff. While we were sitting in the airport I saw about 15
minutes of the norwegian curling team and their cool pants. I saw 2 seconds of
snowboarding and it about killed me. That and seeing a 1 to 1 score in overtime
between finland and canada. I hope finland freaking won.
Thanks for being so good at writing me and keeping me
posted. To be honest its kind of hard to ever know what to say for me because of
how fast time flies by with just about the same things happening every week. No
day is ever the same but i'm terrible at remember exciting little things that
happen that are worth really mentioning. I'll try to pay better attention. glad
to hear that you had a great week and got to see pilvi christensen. Enjoy your
new shoes and appreciate people for who they are. Everyone is different for a
reason. Your don't need to be
"loud, out going, good looking, high energy" to be a sucessful
person. Imagine how annoying the world would be if everyone was like that. You
already know that though. Its just something I've learned a lot lately. Be
yourself and don't feel like you have to have this and that sort of personality
to be a good missionary/ person. Annyways I'm done rambling:)
Vi snakkes neste uke. Love you!
Eldste Skinner
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