The glasses were just in the apartment here when I got here. They are fake. :) I thought they were funny. haha. Two months vacation sounds great. haha. I wouldn't take it though. That is such a long time. Luckily there are a few who don't take it. So we have a few members at least to visit haha. WE are really getting on these members. They have a lot to offer with being the highest concentration of mormons in europe... haha I think serge (from Saratov Approach) might have kidnapped ***. HEs kinda disappeared. We have no idea where he is. haha Im sure hes just on ferie or something...
Its a really good activity with the book of Mormon. It's so cool. YOu realize the book really is about Christ.IT is all about him. I'm almost through second nephi in it. Its really cool to experience. Jesus the Christ is awesome. It has a lot of detail and stuff that really explains it all. IT's so cool! I haven't read too much of it. But what i have read, it is awesome. He really is our Savior. Our Redeemer. The Messiah, the Creator, All the names he has! Its So true! I love it. I am so grateful to him. Why would you not want to share this with other people. It's amazing.
That's cool you had tucker and his family over. They really enjoyed that rodeo... SOund like you all had a good time. THat's good. Where did the extra mattress come from? haha You guys got to spend lots of time with family. THats really cool. Josephs 8 now? wow... Crazy. haha I remember being excited for a journal... I remember not too long after my 8th birthday we went and picked up robert from the airport after his mission. ha Crazy. I just remember looking at my watch in bed wondering when we were going to go. THat was a while ago.
This last week was good here as well. Monday night we went out trying to find people. WE tried a less active family. They were busy but we got another appointment. SO that was good. Tuesday. we taught ** the jw... and president called us and told us that he was going to come down and visit us the next day. so wednesday president came down and watched our studies and our weekly planning. HE went kontakting with us for an hour too. It was good. He left after that though. THat night we had a lot going on. WE had a dinner with a member family, they are way on board with the whole missionary work thing. They have a few families they are wanting to invite to church. THen we had mmk and discussed how we are going to continue our plan then I went with the mmk to visit another member family while elder g stayed at the church with another member to set up for our language class and get that started till i came back. THen we had our language class which was good. It was a good day. Thursday we had our distrikt leader and his companion over for splits. we did some banking. Taught **. visited a member family for dinner, visited a couple less actives. and it was all around a good day. friday the whole zone went up to oslo to have a zone skills training thing. WE were there for about 7 hours . We thought it was going to be just practicals. Which there was a lot of that, but it was a really fun actually. WE learned a lot. and Hopefully we take those skills and use them. It was the last time I got to see elder W. That was sad. He goes home next wednesday. Pretty crazy. WE also found out elder bednar is coming to norway in september for a special stake conference, and he will have a 3 hour meeting with the missionaries afterwards. SO that is pretty exciting. Saturday we tried using our new skills and decided to go banking until we found a miracle. WE were out for 5 hours and nobody wanted to talk to us... but finally we found a muslim man who took a book and said he would read it and we could come back after ramadan. So that was really cool. And we felt happy the whole time. So it was good. Sunday I gave my first real talk in norway. I talked about member missionary work. I felt like i did terrible. I still don't do so well with talking in front of people. haha But one of the ladies said she wishes she could tell my mom how proud she should be of me. THat made me feel better haha. So that was my week. One thing I've been thinking about is the hymn be still my soul. One of the best hymns ever. I love it. WE really don't need to worry. CHrist is on our side. And all will be alright in the end. ITs pretty amazing. REally gets me every time i hear it. THey don't have it in norwegian though.. ah well.
ANyway. THis is long...... I hope you guys have a great week! I love you! thanks for your prayers and support!
Love Elder Newey
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