IT may not be a good thing, i started punching my companion for every yellow car i see.. Yeah i started bingo. And then he threw in Citroen cars. And they are fairly common. So i have a sore arm sometimes. But its ok. The talent show was just alright? Jacob didn't follow up last years performance with a comeback backstreet boys performance? That's disappointing. Im sure taylor did a good job with mcing. That'd be funny to watch. Im sure reid is loving march madness... March is almost over!!! Crazy! Time goes by way too fast. Its pretty weird. Time really has a different perspective when you are on a mission. I hope your bracket gets lots of points! haha Im glad im staying here too. It really is a good place we are getting pretty close with a lot of the members. We have a couple member dinners every week. So that is really nice. We have a lot of contact with the bishop and his family. We switch off with the sisters in the area every other week to go and eat dinner at their house. Then we kind of go around and find other members and ask if we can come del a thought with them and they usually say yeah come on over for dinner!! so that's nice. SUndays we usually have a member appointment, and if we don't, the mmk invites us over for dinner. HEs a good guy too. HE was a cool family. HE has a son who is 19, just finishing up videregående skole and then he'll go on a mission. HEs a good kid. WE've gotten pretty close to the elders quorum president too. His name is ø. HE came home from his mission in washington dc a few months ago. HE never met the orme kid who was there but he knew they were in the same mission. I thought that was cool. Bishops family is awesome. Their oldest kid is 16 his name is e, HEs a cool kid too. We have used him to help us teach. THey have 3 other daughters two are twins, and then a son who is 11. His name is p and hes funny. HE kinda reminds me of reid sometimes. ELder b still thinks bishops wife likes me more. I think its funny. THey still mention greg a lot when we visit them. How did you meet him again? ha I think its funny. SUper cool family. THey are doing a lot of missionary work. Bishop has a huge list of names that he wants to work with to try and get them to learn more about the gospel. Its awesome, but he needs to focus on one or two, its funny sometimes we'll ask him about a person to see how its going with them and he won't remember exactly what he was going to do with them, so we got him to focus on one or two people at a time. THat will be good for him. Yesterday was pretty cool, after we actually got to church. I was pretty sick in the morning. I threw up 4 times starting at 2 am. But we went to church of course. THere was a lot of visitors because one of the members was blessing their baby. SO i had to tell a lot of people no to shaking their hands. I was feeling pretty good at that point though. THe Lord really helps when you try to do what's right. After sacrament meeting i stood up and looked around and saw k. a., the son of the guy who gave me the sweater in bergen so i went and talked with him. THat was really cool. THen his dad walked in too. THat was cool to see them. THen we went to the ward choir. It was funny. ME and elder b were the only two guys at first. WE've decided it's one of the most intense ward choirs. THe lady conducting is pretty funny. AFter that we went to familien å for dinner. THeir another member family here, their son is actually serving his mission in norway. They live out on an island so we got to ride the ferry out to their island. IT was pretty cool. IT was sunny and slightly warm so it was awesome. We had a pretty cool teach earlier this week. We helped the sisters teach a guy. THey are probably going to hand him off to us, but i think we all four will teach him. HEs a really humble guy who loves his family more than anything. His family lives in ** still and he is working trying to provide for them. He doesn't feel like he can be with his family, because of mistakes he's made in the past. BUt we kept telling him about how the gospel can help him find forgiveness, and that the savior paid for all of his sins. He speaks english better than norwegian, but he wouldn't speak english with us, and he didn't want us to speak english either because he is trying to learn norwegian better. IT made it a little hard. BUt we tried to help him understand. THere was a couple times we went off in english and the spirit was extremely strong. HE just kept saying he hopes that he really can find forgiveness but he doesn't quite believe it. It was a really cool teach though. I hope his norwegian understanding improves, or that he lets us teach in english, because its super important that he understands this!
ANyway. Elder b is pretty excited to go home... He's working with his mom today to sign up for classes for this fall. ITs pretty crazy. THere are still good things going on here but its still got a lot of improvement to go! We are working. Mom, i found a note from you that i stuck in my wallet at the beginning of my mission with your favorite scripture on it, so i studied that for studies this week. I thought it was awesome. "Believe in god, believe that he is" Believe that man cannot comprehend that which the lord doth comprehend. I loved it. WE used that in a spiritual thought later on that day with a family we were visiting. It was really good. Powerful verse.
Well this email ended up very long. BUt i enjoyed writing it! HAha THanks for your emails and thank you so much for your prayers they mean a lot! Jeg er så veldig glad i dere!!!1
Med store klem haha) eldste Blake NEwey
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