I'm so happy to see all these people getting out on
missions. Although it means I probably wont see them for a while, I'm excited
for Tom and Melissa. I can say that the mission is the best experience ever.
Its frustrating and hard sometimes and I've been pretty disappointed week after
week of not really having any cool people to teach constantly, but I'm still
seeing cool little miracles everyday. I'm loving all the personable little
lessons that heavenly father is teaching me. I'm loving the opportunity to be
in this part of the world. I'm loving it and its amazing to see how fast time
is going by. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing everyone again but i'm
not necessarily looking forward to leave this place.
Things are going great for me though. I'm really just trying
to work on speaking more norwegian throughout the day so that I can be better
at finding and teaching the gospel to people. Whetten and I are doing a good
job and feel like we're doing all we can but there's just not been a whole lot
of exciting news in our area. Our zone is really struggling as well.. well the
whole mission is kinda struggling. Its pretty stressful but at the end of the
day the only thing that matters is the confirmation that I did what I
wassupposed to.
I had another awesome trip up in Tromsø. I was with elder
Henriksen who's a funny redheaded norwegian dude. We had a good day of finding
some people via contacting on the streets and knocking on some doors. At the
end of the day we ate some whale meat with brown sauce and lingonberries. The
northern lights also came out that night as well. It was insane. The next day
we flew back home early early in the morning. It was a crazy story but
basically we trekked across the island through the snow to get to the airport.
Thats an extremely long, memorable, symbolic, spiritual story cut short. I
don't know how we made it on time but we did. We had to walk and run because
the taxi's were all busy and it was too early for busses. I learned a lot from
that trip. I know for sure that heavenly father was teaching me something about
life through that crazy adventure to the airport in Tromsø. When we made it
back to Trondheim, we spent pretty much the whole day hometeaching old people.
And I mean old people.. diapers and pee
pouches strapped to their leg old. There norgwegian was something else too.
Umulig å forstå. Also got too see some crazy northern lights here. Back to
back. Amazing right above our back porch.
Be happy that your not super old. I know life is a challenge
sometimes, especailly mentally. Just try to enjoy each day and be grateful that
we understand God's plan and have already started taking the necessary steps
that can bless our lives here and now as well as in the future. God really is
our loving heavenly father and this is his son's church. Don't worry about all
the other unimportant distractions. Keep working hard.. I really appreciate all
of the love you guys give me. Love you!
Eldste Skinner
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