Monday, February 3, 2014

"Norway is still $W33T" - February 3, 2014



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Another Pday. super crazy. I don't really have a favorite day of the week but usually our preparation days are the fastest and sundays are the craziest with church. I forgot about the super bowl to be honest.. but I do know that I missed out on the Winter X-games! Lame. I heard about it from these 4 dudes we talked to in a college parking lot late one night. Apparently Torstein Horgmo (one of my favorite snowboarders) is from right here in Trondheim. They say he's usually traveling around but you can see him around in the city every now and then. I'm going for the miracle baptismal story with him. Torstein won the gold medal for best trick last year I'm pretty sure.
This week was pretty sweet and I learned a lot about listening to the spirit. These 4 guys I just mentioned were found because of the spirit. We were totally lead to them after our appointment didn't show up (its been happening a lot lately). It was cold and almost time to go home but for some reason we felt like we should start heading over to this bridge towards a business school even though it didn't make the most sense due to the lack of people to talk to. Straight darkness and no one in sight. So we start going but later feel like its a dumb idea. So we turned around. After we turned around to take a more normal route home we start second guessing ourselves (maybe by this time its triple guessing). So we stop again and then just say a prayer asking for some direction. Long story short, we end up going over the bridge and then eventually find these dudes throwing an american football under the orange amber parking lot lights. Its not an every day sight to see so we just went up to them and asked what the freak they were doing. They were cool and then became interested in what we were doing. Stookey talked to three football dudes and I talked to the snow boarder friend. We connected really well. I told him about how much i miss shreddin but about how its totally worth giving up tp share what I know to be true. He's not getting baptised but at the very least, he now knows that mormons are somewhat normal people. I was grateful that we listened to the spirit even though it didn't make a whole lot of sense. I was also grateful for the reminder that I have certain people here in norway that i'm supposed to connect with. I was also happy to learn that this is the worst winter for snowboarding since the 60's. At least here in Trondheim. There is no snow at all. 
Another fun fact..  I went and visited some less actives in Hell this week. No joke. There's a place here in trondheim over by the airport called Hell. We taught some awesome members and invited them to say peace out to Hell and come to church. Unfortunately they chose to stay in hell.
 Moves call was yesterday. Stooks and I are no more. To keep the streak alive of not being with a companion for more than 6 weeks, I'm getting a new companion. Its actually just elder Whetten (the other Zoneleader). Our mission is now semi back to normal so I'll be serving full time with another ZL. No more district leader responsibility either. We're getting Elder Clarke to run the district now. He was in the MTC with me. (now this is where melissa does a mini freak out and facebook/instagram stocks his girlfriend to let her know haha ;))
Good luck with everything back at home! keep it going! Love you all a bunch:)

Eldste Skinner 

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