Først
og fremst så er jeg glad i dere! Thanks for that awesome package you
sent me. I can tell you guys know exactly what I like. I was so stoked
get some american halloween candy and some old spice Fiji. I cant wait
to try on my new Vans shirt as well. I love it. Of course, I'm already
putting my bookmarks to good use. You are the best.
As
always this week was awesome with all of its ups and downs. I was
fortunate enough to get to spend a day with Elder Halvorsen and Nielson
in my former beloved kingdom of Drammen a.k.a D-CiTY. It was so fun to
get to see my friends over there. It was snowing that day so I got to
see Drammen in a different light. I also got some snowdriving
experience. Holden was probably more sketched out than I was but that
was a new, fun experience. I got to do some language study/ kebab pizza
eating with Marcus although he mostly made me miss snowboarding. I also
got to eat dinner with the Brownlees (mission leader who had me pitch).
They made ham because they knew I liked it as well as some delicious
cinnabon cinnamon rolls. They're currently working on getting this
family invited to come to a christmas concert at the church. I paid my
favorite muslim barber a short visit and he chopped me up way nicely. I
also got to help one of the kids Elder Halvorsen and I baptized, write
his first talk. Remi is now working on sharing the gospel with his
friends and family members. So many good things are happening in Drammen
and its cool to see the work continue to go forward over there. I'll
admit that sometimes it makes me so frustrated and jealous that I'm not
over there anymore. Holden and I vent to eachother all the time about
it. I know we are needed here and we're working on some out of the box
methods to get some energy and excitement flowing here in Sandvika as
well.
As
a mission we're really trying to focus on serving, loving, and working
with the members because we know thats the only way we'll get to see
some real growth here in Norway. We're blessed to have a lot of support
from the two stake presidents who are encouraging the members to study
Preach My Gospel. So basically we're just visiting the members and
inviting them to study PMG so they can get excited and fearless about
missionary work. Hopefully we can start getting some solid referrals.
It's
amazing to see what truly converted and even consecrated members can
do. We had a baptism here in the ward on sunday for a 13 year old girl
the sisters have been teaching. Her mom has recently been reactivated
and made it a point to make this baptism epic. Long story short, she
invited like 3 non member families to come to the baptism. Despite
pictures being taken during the ordinance mixed with clapping and
screaming directly following, it was a pretty sweet missionary
opportunity.
I
don't have a whole lot of time left but I'm trying not to think about
that too much. I'm happy and still loving missionary work. It's most fun
and rewarding when I go 110 percent. Our area is still hard to get
going but I'm grateful that its a little bit of a challenge that Elder
Holden and I can handle. We put the passion in the work to avoid the
pains of knowing we could've performed better. We have a lot of fun
too.
Hope
you all have an awesome week. We're headed to IKEA to get some cheap
food and furniture! should be a sweet P day.. Love you :)
Eldste Skinner
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