Hey!
Sounds like you guys had a way fun week. Pyry is awesome,
they hook me up with some sweet packages every now and then and its always the
best surprise. Is he still flying helicopters? I think that would be a sweet
job! I still remember being in Finland when Jakob was born. I didn't know that
he speaks swedish though. Thats pretty cool.. swedish is almost the same except
for some different funky sounds and words. I think Swedish is sweet.
This week was sweet. We had some crazy 10 degree days. The
winter seems to have never come and its starting to warm up to springtime.
President came to Trondheim this weekend for some interviews and to speak in
church. That was pretty fun.. he's not sending me home or anything.. He also
got to join us for a ward activity. We had a quiz night. It was a lot of fun,
the ramona oaks ward could do something like that.
I think I'll be
staying in Trondheim at least one more Transfer but who know's anything can
happen. I'm totally fine with where I'm at though and have know complaints with
how the mission life is going. Just trying to get some serious momentum in the
area. We're still looking for those who are really going to progress and become
converted. Everything will work out if we keep working hard. We've really been
trying to get our investigators to church (been a struggle for the whole
mission). It really makes a big difference in the progress of those we're
teaching. On Sunday we had about 10 or so who said they'd come to church and
only 2 came. I'm grateful for those 2 though.. better than the usual 0. This
sweet lady from Iran came and brought her kid. We just met her on the streets
and invited her to come to church and totally came, we haven't even taught her
yet. She and her 8 year old son are not shy at all, its so funny how people are
different. The boy just totally just says goodbye to his mom and goes to
primary to meet the other kids. It was cool. We were hoping our member that
speaks persian would be there to talk to
her but he wasn't. He's a new convert and seems like he's starting to get discouraged.
We've been trying to get a hold of him along with the rest of the ward, but his
adress is wrong on the record and his phone has been lost. So we were called to
go spec ops and find him. We prayed and were lead right to him on saturday. It
was intense. It was a beautiful warm day with a bunch of people out in the
streets and we were totally spiritually guided to him. We found him standing
scattered amongst the multitude of people between a hipster jazz band a bunch
of communist paraders... interesting day. Later that same day we found this
sweet 86 year old lady and taught her. She gave us some orange Fanta and sang
to us as she played the guitar. Classic old Norwegian lady except not mean and
she said she's never too old to learn new things. Going back on tuesday to
teach her with some members who can sing with her and teach the gospel with us.
Next week willl be great. This week I'll be flying up to Tromsø again for
splits. I know, poor me.. flying all over Norway every week. Whetten and I were
talking about this last week.. him and I are undoubtedly the 2 most expensive
missionaries in the whole world. please keep paying your tithing.. I have no
excuse not to when I get home.
I got a fresh haircut today. I went to this legit place but
I had a newbie-chick cut my hair for "cheap". She did a good job and
it was better than cutting my own hair or going to the muslim chop shops.
Still loving Norway. Its a great adventure. Enjoy working.
Have an awesome week, thank you for being the best. I think about how great of
a mom you are all the time and all my comps know you're awesome too. Love you!
Eldste Niklas Anton Skinner
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