Hallo Dåkker!
Hows it going this juletid? Juletid(Christmas Time) is the best. THere are so many cool things happening for christmas. Christmas is kind of 4 days long here. They have lille Julaften 23rd, juleaften 24th which is their main holiday where they open presents and jule nisen comes and visits them. Then 1st juledag 25th and 2nd jule dag 26th. We are being fed almost every day next week. Next sunday we are going to a family's for dinner after church, then monday after p day is over, we will go to a members for dinner. then for juleaften we are going to a members house and she is bringing investigators with her. SO that will be really cool. Then actual Christmas day, we will be going to ***'s actually. She is our american investigator that we brought ** on a teach to. She is so cool. She just needs to come to church as soon as she doesnt work every sunday. Luckily its only a christmas season job. But she has christmas off. So we are going over there with a tree and games. We will hang out there for the day it sounds like and I will get to skype you guys from there. I am excited for that. send christmas day we are going to another members house. SO that will be cool as well. THat whole week we are basically told just to do member work, because nobody really listens to us because they are too busy with their own christmas stuff. I think thats ironic. BUt it will be awesome. We will do some good stuff. I love christmas time. Thank you for the package!!! I got it on thursday I think it was. So it's awesome. Dont worry I haven't opened the presents yet.. haha. But the 12 days thing is really cool. I was truly inspired by this mornings. So thanks to Jacob for his pictures of himself because he's so inspiring. haha It made me laugh. Elder W thinks jacob is funny too. And a little weird.Just from pictures. Our area is dropping a little bit right now because of the christmas season ha. We have a very long list of people who told us to contact them after the new year. So right its a little slow teaching wise, but we are definitely still keeping busy. *** obviously is still doing awesome. We don't have a for sure baptismal commitment yet because she hasn't been to church and she won't quite commit yet. SHe loves our work though and loves when we meet with her. We went to dinner at her house last week and took the missionary couple. IT was really cool. We had dinner, she gave my comp a norwegian sweater and promised me one when she finds all of them. We read helaman 5 with her. It was way powerful. I felt the spirit way strong in it. She is just a way cool lady. I hope I get to stay here til february. THat'd be nice to keep working with her. Otherwise id leave in the beginning of january. Its been really good though. Bergen is awesome. I love it here, so I will probably get moved.. ha I ve heard that's how it works. I'm finally to the point where I can understand some people and have some conversations, but I still struggle sometimes. THat's cool about andrew, that'll be a cool mission. I think I just talk about the english people the most. Cuz they're what I remember the most cuz I understand them. Plus the norwegian people don't really like to talk. And with the different nationalities here, we teach a lot more non norwegians. I've talked with people from all over the world here, few from the us, ghana, malawi, france, latvia, spain, peru, norway, sweden, denmark, england, ethiopia, iran, iraq, uruguay, syria, china, japan, india, germany, poland, romania some other african countries, and just all over the place. Its pretty cool to see all the different nationalities and differences in customs and stuff. ITs pretty cool. Their languages are pretty crazy to hear sometimes too. BUt its awesome. Most of them speak norwegian or english so its cool. THat's cool you're done with christmas shopping. That'll be nice. Whoo more money! Tell Grandma and Grandpa thanks. I dont know what I'll use that money for yet, something good for sure. Im pretty excited to skype you guys next week too! Ill speak some norsk.. I do know a ton more, its pretty crazy how much i've improved already. Its kind of funny, I speak norwegian with a scottish accent sometimes. I can't even do that in english so I thought that was funny. Its pretty fun speaking norwegian. It's just understanding people that is hard! IT's alright though its coming. Sounds like you guys are way cold! Its pretty warm here. I havent seen the sun in forever. It comes up, but its usually covered by clouds and when it does come up, it isn't very high. It usually doesn't go above the trees. So thats a little disappointing. But its good though. I feel fine. I might have to find some. But I think Im doing pretty good. The church is still true! No matter how many times I am told its not. Or how many people I see turn down the chance to hear it. ITs hard for sure. But something that wasn't true couldn't make me this happy. TO see people accepting it or just trying to come closer to christ helps me to put everything else in perspective and realize that there is nothing else that could bring greater joy than the gospel. I love it! And I get to be on the front lines of it. Its awesome. I hope you guys have a fantastic week! Listen to lots of christmas music and do fun stuff!:) Love you guys!
ELdste Newey
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