March 24, 2014

Greetings!!

The only thing that is constant is change. Deep philosophical quote of the day. Ya Elder Whetten is gone so that leaves me still here in Trondheim. Totally OK with me. This ward has a lot of cool members and I think this city is pretty special. Of course there is a part of me that wants to keep moving around and seeing other parts of the country.. like the west side but I'm living it up here in the North. The weathers been sort of weird. It was contantly snowing but then we've had some amazingly warm spring days that melted all the snow. The days definitely are getting longer and its exciting to feel actual warmth from the sun again.

Elder Clarke and I are getting along great. Ever since the new transfer started last week, I've been stepping my game up more and trying to go even harder. I've noticed a big difference in the work. It's amazing to see what a little extra effort can do. We've been super busy the last past couple of days, running from appointment to appointment and just keeping things balanced and organized. We've also just been pounding down on short 10 minute visits with members and just helping them feel the spirit and energy of missionary work. We just stop by really quick and try to get as many people involved as possible. We're so lucky to be able to teach our sweet old lady investigator. She continues to play the guitar and sing for us. It's super convenient because she has nothing but time for us and has no objections to us bringing members to teach with us. The spirit is present everytime and its super uplifting for the members as well as us. We're coming together and slowly our grandma is making progress. We taught her three times this week. She's been reading and on Sunday she even came to church. We picked her up and made the walk to the church. It took a while but she's 86 years old and made it there and back without a walker or anything. We also had our awesome hippy dude come to church. He was conveniently on his little 2 hour nature walk that morning and agreed to stop by and stay for sacrament meeting . It was "pretty neat".  So ya we've been pretty blessed. My heart is in the work and I'm really feeling like the Lord is blessing me for that. I don't always get to notice the progress of my areas but not i'm starting to see a little. Hopefully it will keep getting better and better.

Had a pretty cool experience with our hippy dude. We taught him about prophets and absolute truth. Things went great and he accepted the fact that.. Yes, we are here on the earth and there has been some sort of  process to get us here and that there is a purpose for it. Although there are many different ideas and beliefs and what not, the truth is the truth. the beautiful thing about truth is that the Holy Ghost can testify to us truth in a way that is recognizable to us personably. So that went seet and we also got to improve our relationship with him by having a little hippy Jam sesh while we waited at this house for the bus to come. So the three of us made some sweet music for about 10 minutes, he liked it especially with my technique for playing the drum.

I've been reading alot about Tony. Blows my mind to learn about him. Proud to be his great grandson and be here in his home country. He's a stud at gaining revelation and being in tune with the promptings of the spirit. Amazing to me.

Well I've got a crazy week ahead of me. Zone conference this Thursday here in Trondheim. Exciting time for us missionaries in the north being able to come all together. I'll try not to get too overwhelmed by getting everything ready for that... It'll be great though.

Thanks for still being super hardworking, supportive and loving. Have an awesome week! Love you

Eldste Skinner