9/24/13

GRATULERE MED DAGEN MOR!!!!!!

Hope that is going good! Today I am doing great. Everything is going good. Sounds like we are on track to get into norway on october first! We got our travel plans on friday. At 730 we are supposed to leave here. Our flight from salt lake leaves at 12 30 I dont remember how long that flight is, but it goes to dallas. Then we have a couple hours there, then we fly over to england. That will be a long flight....... We will be in london for 3 and a half hours, then we go to oslo. We asked the travel office to make sure we had our visas. They told us they don't know. They also said that if we don't hear anything we are fine so hopefully since we havent heard anything, we are fine. I am getting pretty excited though. It will be awesome. Going to be an awesome but different experience. Some cool things our teacher told us... I guess they're cool kinda... but Norway is so expensive that we use the $10,000 that pays for our mission in like 3 months. After that we go off of the money from other missions in like south america and stuff. Though that was interesting. Also since its so expensive to move missionaries around at transfers, we have 12 week transfers in norway. Thats crazy. That could be a good thing, and it could be a bad thing. Music in other languages is awesome! I love singing the hymns in norsk. Theres a song thats only in the norsk hymn book that is awesome. Its called Jeg sier deg o guds lam å stå. good stuff. It is kinda creepy though. Pretty awesome. My teacher said it is just a very norsk song. Thats awesome my plaque is up. Sounds like babysitting is a lot of fun... Have you missed those days at all? haha  My companion is eldste J. Birthday.... hmmmm,....I dont know exactly. I know that I am probably going to buy another thing of luggage here. Its 40 bucks. But I think im going to need it for sure. I leave literaly the morning after my birthday so i dunno what will be too useful. Something that a missionary can use on the plane to keep me entertained or something. Maybe one of those ties that blow up like a pillow haha. just kidding. I dunno. Anything would be awesome! I am just excited to go to norway for my birthday. I think we counted and we will be travelling for 20 hours total... Thats a long time. Other than that I think i am good...   My week was pretty good. Travel plans were definitely a highlight. A couple weeks ago I saw reese  in the temple. He went through a session with me. I think I forgot to tell you guys that. So yeah. I dunno. Pretty exciting. just lots of class time and stuff. I am actually working on a letter for you guys that I just write about my day at the end of the day for this last week. So you can see what its like here kinda. But last friday I had a cool experience. Our teacher had us all say a prayer and told us to ask a sincere question. Like if Norway is ready to be converted or something like that. I started my prayer, and I just wanted to know that God was listening. Cuz for a few times he had us do something like this, I didnt get an answer or nothing happened like I thought it would. So I just asked. I sked if he was listening, and then I just waited. I waited a couple minutes and didnt really feel anything. finally I started saying something again. Immediately I just felt like someone was right next to me listening to every word I said. And I just felt like he cared about every word as well. It was an amazing experience! He really does listen to our prayers!!The mtc is just awesome. SO many experiences like that. So anyway, yepp I got the salsa! I read the letter at first and thought it was homemade salsa. Little disappointed when I saw it haha just kidding. I was excited. We will probably eat that today because we havent had much time before. I am excited for my birthday! I probably will get ice cream because they usually have it on sundays! but it is also fast sunday... so we will see I guess. But I am excited. Cant Think of much of a better present than getting to go to norway to preach the gospel! Everything is still going great! So I get to email on saturday I think before we go so I will email you then or maybe some more later today. Keep writing! I love to hear from you all!

Love Eldste Newey