10/14/13

Week two in Norway... Wow just awesome! I can't believe how awesome things are going here in bergen.   SO yeah... THe plane ride was fun except for that one part. Ha I blame the airline food though. It didn't taste right anyway. Pretty sure it was just cooked up in a microwave or something. Didn't feel right after that...  So kinda funny, My companion is Elder W** haha. He is my trainer.  Hes way cool. Definitely helping me out a lot to get adjusted. We do get along pretty well. We have fun.  President seems pretty cool I didn't get to talk to him to much but yeah I like him.  We have zone conference this week so I'll probably talk to him then.  I am having tons of fun here. Lots of amazing things happening. There is one kid we are teaching, from the states. I think I talked a little about him last week. But This week was a really good week with him.  He's read half the book of mormon in 2 weeks. So thats really cool.  Every lesson we see him teach himself with a little bit of help from us and tons of help from the spirit. IT is amazing.  Every time we meet him, he just seems super excited about the gospel and just everything about it. He just wants to learn more and be a member! Everything we tell him he just accepts and gets excited about.  We think it's funny, he told us, most people come to norway to party and i'm here learning about the gospel! we think it's awesome.  He is way ready. We asked him about baptism and whether he wanted to be baptized here or in the states when he goes home. He quoted the scripture in mosiah about here are the waters of mormon, and said he felt like he should be baptized soon. So we have a date with him on the 9th. Pretty dang awesome.  Just last night he told us he was writing a letter to his parents to tell them he is becoming a member. He said it is three pages long! ah! I'm pretty sure its probably pure testimony. I'm way excited to see how that goes. He wants to get baptized in a fjord too.  THat will be way awesome.  THats just one of the awesome investigators I am working with. THe work is really going pretty strong here in Bergen. Its awesome.  SO here, we do a lot of street contacting. I haven't been knocking yet.  The classes bring the most referrals, but they don't always come through.  Most of the time we walk or ride the bybane, which is a train thing. We have a car for a little bit, while the couple missionaries are in oslo for a transfer. We don't use it too much though.  Mostly just if we need to go long distances which is possible cuz our area is pretty dang big. The time difference wasn't too bad to adjust to.  It's pretty weird to think that its 3 am where you guys are! weird! But I am just doing really good.  The weather has actually been pretty good the last couple days. Tuesday we got soaked through, but the last few days it has been pretty much sunny and fairly warm Thats one nice thing about being on the coast. Not too cold. At least not yet.  It is super pretty here though.  I need to take more pictures.  I'm going hiking today so I'll do that today. Conference was great.  There were such good talks! Uchtdorfs was definitely good.  His from priesthood worked really well with it and it was my favorite. Mostly I remember the part that says we can't be champions without trials.  I really like that. It has to be hard sometimes. If it wasn't hard, we would never be stronger.   Something I've already seen here in norway is that hard times come, but after hard times, there is always something good at the end.  It is just truth! THats good to feed the missionaries! It helps a ton! Ive only had one dinner with members so far and we had an investigator with us. But we have a few more dinners this week already scheduled, so they take care of us here. The people are awesome! I still haven't had any real norwegian food except for maybe a kebab. THose are good.  oh and these hotdogs I'll send you a picture of.  But thats cool for christina Good luck to her! Anyway, this was a kinda long email... But I hope all is well! I miss you guys! THis church is true! never forget it. Christ is at the head and his will will be done. No matter what! Good things take time, but if you bear them with patience they are amazing! Hold to the faith! and know that with God, You can do it Now! love you guys! see you in two!

Eldste Newey