Oh my goodness I am actually in Norway! It's so crazy! I don't even know how to describe it all. It has just been a crazy but amazing experience. So yeah. Monday morning we took off on our plane to head to dallas. The plane ride wasn't too bad. Only a couple hours and I would've talked to the lady next to me, but she didn't speak english.... or norwegian. So I stared out the window for the whole ride. Pretty crazy. I dont mind flying too much. So we landed in dallas which was a huge airport. We kinda just hung around for a while.... I got to talk to tanner that was cool. I didn't get to talk for too long because they called us to go check in our passports. So finally we boarded the plane and headed off for london! 9 hours..... holy cow. That was a long flight. but it was cool . I slept for about half of it. so that was nice. The rest of the time I kinda just talked with the elders I was sitting next to and reading scriptures and talks and stuff. Not too terrible though. So then we landed in london. That was weird... First time in another country. That was interesting. Pretty exciting though. We couldn't leave the airport so we just sat around inside the airport for a while. Sorry mom I didnt get to taking any pictures of the airports... But so finally our last flight from london to oslo came. So we all boarded up. I was next to elders again. That's probably good because I ended up throwing up right after take off... I blame airline food.. It did seem a little sketchy. So then we eventually got to oslo. Just staring out the window at the land was beautiful. It is an amazing country. So eventually we finally all found our bags and found the mission president and his wife. They helped us exchange currency. and then they ran us to the mission home. There they fed us a big dinner and talked to us about where we were going and what we should expect and stuff. They sent us to bed early and the next morning we got up at 630 and all showered and stuff. Then we had a homemade breakfast and a little orrientation thing. That was good. Then about 2:00 we headed to our planes. So yepp I am in bergen! super awesome place. They get 300 inches of rain a year here..... It is raining almost all the time. I'll probably buy a rain coat today sometime. So yeah back to wednesday when we got here, right when my comp picked me up, we went straight to the church where we were teaching a language class. I was thinking how can I teach the language, I barely know it! but i didn't have to teach. So after that we teach like a 10 minute lesson on the book of mormon and ask if anyone is interested in learning more. Some of them say yes. So thats way cool so we set up appointments and stuff with that. Then a while later that night we had a lesson with a guy named A****. He has a baptismal date for the 26th. But he didn't come to conference and we don't know why. So I think we have to change his date. but I hardly understood anything that was being said in the discussion! they talk way fast. but so that was my first day. Thursday we taught a lady named I****. It was the first lesson with her but she accepted it . She seems super positive about it. Her family went inactive when she was 7 so she was never baptized and she doesn't know much about the church. But she really wants to find out more and find out for herself if it's true. She just seemed to ask all the right questions and I think she should be a really good investigator. I gave her a baptismal invitation and she said yes if she finds out. but that was just one awesome experience. There is a lot more success here than I though there would be. so conference was awesome. We had an investigator from america who came with us. He's really positve and I could see him being baptized. But that might be in the states. But this was the first place he's found it before. Super exciting. The Things are just going really well here. I'm super excited to be in this work! conference is awesome. We watched the saturday morning session saturday night and then all but the sunday afternoon session on sunday. We watched that this morning. It was a dang good conference. Norway is seriously just beautiful. I'll send a few pictures that I have taken. But I am doing really good! miss you guys but I know that I am doing what is the right thing to do! Im super excited to be here in the bergen ward. The people are super nice. There are 4 elders and 4 sisters in the bergen area so we all work together. The work is picking up here. And it's going to be really good. You should see my walk home. I walk through a forest pretty much. I'll take a picture of that sometime. I wish you guys could see it. Any way I am loving it. Super happy and excited. hope you guys are doing good as well!
love eldste newey
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