To start out this email i'm going to first address
this whole summer weather situation. It sucked. There is a reason why
i'm not in brazil or one of the hot areas around the world. I'm not sure
if there were any records set but this is definitely an abnormal summer
here in drammen at least. I'm getting the sickest tan lines you could
imagine though. Been taking advantage of the tasty Norwegian water and
produce. Yesterday at sacrament meeting we had some gnarly thunder
storms and lightning strikes literally right outside the church. It was
interesting because the second the primary kids went up to sing, it
stopped completely and then immediately resumed afterwards for the next
speaker. Weather is fun and keeps things interesting.
Its been a pretty tough week though around the mission. Hopefully
people will start coming back from vacation so we can build up some more
momentum that we've been trying so hard to hang on to.
Focusing
on the positives though, We had one of our investigators decide they
wanted to get baptized in September. So as of right now, we have 4 who
are lined up to get baptized in august and September. We're really
blessed and working on getting more but we really need to do our best to
help these people who are committed to be fully ready for it. We'll be
having a baptism this Saturday
(assuming everything works out) with our liberian guy. He's a humble,
sincere and honest guy and he really appreciated the help moving this
week. We're stressing a little because we're not able to meet with him
as much as we'd like to because of his busy work schedule. We'll have to
wait until the day before the baptism before we find out if its
actually going to happen. So we'll just be praying like crazy that all
the planning we're going to have to put into the baptismal meeting will
make for a solid baptismal meeting with him actually being baptized. Fun
stuff! I have faith that everything will work out.
Homeboy Holden is gone and so its been a pain to get adjusted to
the change. The good thing though is that Elder Halvorsen and I work
equally as hard. Hopefully we'll get to see the same sort of dream team
magic here in Drammen and the Telemark zone. Halvorsen and I are way too
much a like though, its almost like we're brothers. Always thinking the
same thoughts. I like working with him because we can joke around with
each other even when we're stressed out of our minds wondering why in
the world nobody wants to listen to us!
I'm so happy to hear about all the cool things going on at home.
Sounds like a lot of friends and family are having really cool
missionary experiences and I hope you guys are too. Did you invite the
cholos over yet? haha. Great to hear that you're getting that new
job-opp! You'll do great but if you're anything like me then you're
probably questioning and doubting that haha. Just pray sincerely and
constantly and even on your knees when you can. I promise you'll know
what you have to do and then be blessed with the focus and energy to do
it. Create a vision and then some plans on how you can achieve it. Short
term and long term goals and all that good stuff. Its exciting to have
change come around so that you can repent and start new habits.
Missionary work really isn't all that different from any other type of
work. Instead of money though you get some sort of weird satisfaction
and joy that isn't explainable yet far better. Love you! have a great
week! snakkes neste uke
Eldste Skinner
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