4/7/14

Hey! SO conference was awesome. Its so weird watching it in another country but it was still just as good. I was loving it. We watched the saturday morning session at 1800 saturday night.  and we watched the priesthood at 11 sunday morning and the sat. aft. at 1300 and the sunday morning at 18 last night. THen we watched the sunday afternoon one this morning. It was super good.  WE watched it all at the church all but the one this morning were with lots of the ward members.  They had a pot luck after the saturday aft. session.  IT was good. Lots of good food.  There were so many good talks. I think one that stood out to me the most was president monsons talk about love. THat was one thing i decided to commit myself to, was loving everybody who is put in front of me. I thought it was awesome when he said that the people even in the grocery store parking lot are there for us to love.  SO that is one thing i really wanted to focus and change. :) Its so awesome what you learn from conference.  I thought it was awesome to have aidukitis speak in the sun. aft. session. HEs super funny! I remember when he came to our stake conference.   I got to watch them all in english, because we didn't have any investigators come. IT was a super cool conference though. I really liked elder eyrings talk about priesthood heros too, MAde me think a lot about who are my priesthood heros and why.  

Sounds like you guys had a good week though! Thats good that the houses will go fast. I hope so. JAcobs getting too fast. Im glad reids eye looks normal again.  I could see rylee wearing lots of colors. I'm wearing a gray tie now... dang...  THat'll be cool to see grandpa smith. Tell him hi.  I've thought a lot about faith and hope and what they do to support each other and what the difference is. I haven't gotten any stor conclusions yet. BUt i like thinking about it. I love thinking about hope.  HOpe sometimes seems easy. TO say we hope for something. But then we have to make that leap and have true faith. And that comes with more of a willingness to act.    WHat was your favorite conference talks?  THat's sad that dad was gone for a while.  

THis week was a good one. WE had a goal as a zone to place 80 book of mormons. THat meant each companionship had to do at least one each day. or 7 through the week.  WE did 6. There was some cool experiences with that. IT led to us doing a lot more bearing testimony of the book of mormon and why it was important. SO it was pretty cool. THis week we are focusing on inviting to church. SO that will be good.  I cant believe it is already april!!! Im blown away how fast time flies! I wonder how much longer i have here in porsgrunn.... At least 10 weeks i think... Im excited to see what it is like in the warm weather.  ITs been off and on. SOme times its warm others its chilly. Usually have my rain jacket with me just in case. TOday is pretty nice. WE are going to play some frisbee golf with ø today. SO that will be fun. Get us out of the church today! whoo!  BUt anyway. I love you guys and I hope you have an awesome week! Jeg er så glad i dere!!!! 

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