You're getting snow? Dang thats no fun.... ITs been pretty warm here actually. Like 15-17 degrees. Its been awesome!! ANd sunny. I have been loving it a lot. Thats good america is doing alright. That isn't good about forgetting god though. As long as you guys are still doing good!!!! :) It sounds like you guys had a pretty crazy week. BUt it sounds like it was a good one. Is that weird not having so many crazy busy days? THats cool you saw r. THat is crazy that school is that close to being over. THat didn't start that long ago. we hear from each other every once in a while haha I have a letter i need to send to her... Ah well,
Are my letters hard to figure out sometimes? haha thats alright. i kinda just write until i stop thinking of other stuff to write haha. And norwegian words sometimes describe things better than english haha :) We do a lot of blanding. Hows reids eye doing? That is a pretty good one! haha i always thought that was a funny quote. "I sometimes wonder why that frisbee is getting so big. ANd then it hits me" :) Or something like that. Ouch haha. Thats cool the twin houses are for sale. Do you think they'll go? I hope so. I thought that was an awesome scripture with a lot of help and promise in it. the scriptures are awesome. I love my personal study time every morning. THey help me so much. TOday i read in alma 42 ll about the atonement and the plan of salvation and how they all work.. Its pretty awesome. Pretty deep. It just makes so much sense!!! But it sounds like you guys had a fantastic week this last week. Lots of cool stuff. Jacob has now experienced junior prom! Did he survive through all the stress of being in charge of it? HE didn't have too many people upset with how it was run? haha jk. They probably did a good job. THey probably had better date ideas then our group ever had. ha we had fun though. I thought that was a super funny story about seth and jacobs date though. hahahah JAcob is getting too fast. 4:56 on the mile? THat's ridiculous. wow. but anyway. YEah. We have had a really good week.
Monday night we went out after pday was over and talked to people. It wasn't too successful. Tuesday was really cool. We went to oslo for a zone conference. It was awesome, i got to see a bunch of missionaries i hadn't seen since the mtc and some that i served with in bergen. It was really cool cuz elder W was there and he's the new ap. SO thats cool. THat was a fun trip. We were gone the entire day. with almost three hour train rides both there and back. We accidentally got our train time to come back 10 minutes late. so our tickets that were pretty expensive were no longer good and we had to call the aps and have them come back and buy us new tickets cuz we had no money. THen we had about an hour til our train came so we went and explored oslo a little bit. THat is a pretty big city.IT was cool. zone conference was a lot about how to work with members so that was good for us. WEdnesday elder b had mini surgery on his toe for an ingrown toenail that he's had since october. I watched. IT was gross. Other than that we just tried talking to more people and we went to the bishops families for dinner that night. IT was a nice visit. They are so good at missionary work. THe whole family. THeir twin 8 year old girls gave their school teacher a book of mormon and invited her to church. I thought that was awesome. Thursday we had weekly planning. WE tried coming up with ways to help the whole ward get excited about missionary work. We also had a j dub kid called and did an interview over the phone for his school project that was cool. His teacher told him that we don't use a cross, instead we use a giant sword or something like that as our symbol. I thought that was interesting. Kinda funny. BUt that night we had the ward activity. THey have ward activity night every thursday, they usually have something for everybody to do, youth, ysa and adults. We are required by the bishop to be there to get to know any non members that come and to get to know the members well. ITs pretty cool. The deaf member that I was talking about before, was there, but the adults didn't have an activity, the young men went swimming somewhere else, the young women leader said no to letting him watch legacy with the young women, and the ysa were playing risk and he didn't want to learn a new board game, so the mmk and one of the bishopric members was telling us to improvise something for us to do. So we finally decided to just watch a disney movie with him because we didn't know what else to do. It was really good. HE enjoyed it a lot. HEs a way cool guy. We go and visit him every week. So i am learning norwegian sign language. Pretty cool! but we are just trying to keep him active and worthy so it was good for him i think. We watched tangled in norwegian. He loves movies so it was good. THen friday was pretty cool. WE did studies and then we got on a bus and rode into skien. We decided to randomly just take a bus back when we got there to go back to porsgrunn. Right when we got off the bus a lady calls out to us and then asks us if we were mormons. She told us how much she loves mormons, and then some guy walks up next to her and says hey we've got two elders here! SO i talked to the guy as elder b talked to the lady. THe guy, ** tells me about how he's been talking to a mormon online a little bit and he'd read a bit in the book of mormon. He asked if he could get a copy of the book of mormon. I said of course I've got one right here. HE was so excited. I gave it to him and he was super excited. I said we could come talk about it more if he wanted. He said of course! HE had some weird views. HE talked about how he believed in all prophets and religions and stuff, but he said he would meet again. He gave me his number and said to call him and meet up after he's found an apartment then he and the lady had to go. apparently they are friends. So they left. Elder b got the ladys card and she said to come over whenever. We were blown away. IT was awesome. Then later that night we went to go visit some members in bø. So we had to take a bus for an hour to bø. It was 2 ysa and a married member having guys night while his wife was away. So he made pizza. He told us it was his famous spicy pizza. AFter a couple bites my mouth was on fire. My eyes were watering, I accidentally rubbed them, my nose was running and i was sweating. ANd they had no milk. Cuz he's allergic. Somehow i ate nearly the whole huge piece that he gave me. Elder b had stopped after a couple bites. and everyone else seemed to be doing pretty well with it. I literally couldn't eat more my mouth hurt so bad. So after several drinks of water. me and elder b figured it was a joke. BUt it took me longer to realize that. SO i ate a lot. Eventually after a while the married guy admitted to putting daves insanity sauce on our pieces only. It was awful. I tried eating a normal piece afterwards and i couldnt. My mouth made everything that went into it hurt. One of the ysa tried a bite just to see how bad it was. HE felt really bad for being a part of it after that. It was kind of funny. I thought the whole thing was pretty funny but painful at the time. THen on saturday we had sport and we played soccer outside. It was awesome. It was super nice out. Its been a while since i've played. THat night we went to *** house ( the deaf member) and he made us greek lasagna. And we taught about the atonement.. IT was cool. I like visiting him. Sunday we fasted and went to church. We were hoping for a member dinner, but we didn't get one, we had not very much food at home either. So it ended up being us splitting 4 eggs for dinner. But it was good. THen we went kontakting a bit. We almost didn't stop to talk to this one guy on a bench but we decided to halfway through passing him, and we had a super long talk and got his number and committed him to coming to conferanse on sunday or saturday. HE was way cool. THen we went banking. Most of the people said no, but we had a cool talk with a girl who had lost her voice because of a virus, so she was learning to speak again. She said she wasn't interested, we asked if she's ever prayed before and she said she hadn't tried that, we committed her to try and then left. It was a cool experience. Then we went to another house , and it turns out it was the house of the lady that ran up and stopped us on the street. SHe let us in even though she said she was leaving. WE had a good talk, shes met missionaries several times before. We met her husband and we and a good talk. SHe does homeopathy stuff, i thought of you mom. SHe talked about ear acupuncture stuff, elder b mentioned some back pain and she did ear acupuncture on him for free. It was funny. But they invited us over again next week. SO that was cool. All around this was just a super awesome, miracle week. Lots of interesting stuff lots of cool stuff. SOrry its so long!!!!! I hope it all makes sense. I thought a lot this week about setting goals that are more personally driven, so ive been trying to set more goals that are more of inviting people to do something, and that drives me to invite instead of just expecting people to meet and be baptized. SO far it is working!!! I love you guys! HOpe you have a great week!!!!
Love eldste blake NEwey
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