Hey Everyone!!!!
I don't know much of what to say about this week. It was pretty good. I'll tell about what happened yesterday I guess. WIth background stuff. So There's this guy named * that we see in the main street quite often. Usually he is quite drunk. HE likes talking to us and giving us hugs and crying and all that good stuff whenever he sees us. Usually we give him a spiritual thought or something. HE's improved a lot since I first met him. THen he said he didn't have an alcohol problem, we've given him a book of mormon and he apparently reads it every day. But he has now decided that he does have an alcohol problem and he really wants to stop. So we are trying to help him a bit. We saw him on saturday and stopped him before he walked into the bar a less active works at... but we stopped him and told him to come to church. In between sobs and hugs he promised us he would come and we gave him a word of wisdom pamphlet to read. And we said a prayer with him. Hes a super interesting guy... Super emotional when drunk. But so he promised to come to church and then decided to go home to sleep instead so he would be more sober for church. I made him promise not to drink before church. But then church came yesterday and he showed up! With a suit jacket on over his half unbuttoned shirt! so that was exciting. We had a few members come up and tell us that they thought he'd been drinking that morning and we were just saying ya.. we know... we are working on it. But he loved priesthood meeting. THen he stood up and said he had to go for a little walk and he'd be back. But he never came back.. SO after church we met with bishop and talked about how we'd work with members and such but then we decided to go visit *. HE wasn't home but his neighbor leaned out his window and told us we were lost souls. HE then held up the satanic bible and explained to us why we needed to read it and why we were wrong. Then I told him to read the book of mormon and pray about it. He said no, and we declined his book, and then left. I thought it was funny. THe later that night we talked to a drunk old man sitting by a fountain, he told us to sit down so we thought he was positive. No matter how much norwegian we spoke with him he didn't believe we spoke it. Then in english he kept telling us how much he didn't like us telling him what to do. During this all he was doing a really high HEHEHEHE and punching our arms really lightly. THat conversation didn't last long. IT was funny though. THen later in contacting some guys dressed as pirates stopped us and asked what we were doing. So we told him about what missionaries do. ANd they invited us to their pirate party which is tonight! So we'll see. haha. :)
But so everything is going great here! Life is great. I am pretty excited to keep going here in moss. SOunds like you guys are doing great for you guys though! Glad tanners feeling better. I can't believe jacob ran that much. THat's crazy. I wouldn't make it. haha Way to go jacob. Tanners face still looks fuzzy. haha. SOunds like it was a good week though. Hope you guys have a happy canada day tomorrow and a good 4th of July on friday! I'm jealous. SOunds like fun. But you're right being on a mission in norway is pretty cool too. :)Studying is the best. I love personal study in the mornings. It is the best way to start the day and you learn so much! We've been focusing a lot on the uses of the book of mormon here the last couple weeks. So I have learned a lot about how important it really is. ANd how literally everything hinges off of the book of mormon for our investigators. And then just spiritual confirmation. Im trying to be able to be more in tune with the spirit lately though. I want to be able to understand and act on every prompting! SO thats probably a lot of what i'll study this week. But Ya. I hope you guys have a great week! Love you! THanks for your prayers!
Love Elder NEwey
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