Hey guys!!!
Alta is awesome. Its so different here but i love it. Im going to really enjoy being up here. THe city is pretty small, but the branch boundaries are bigger than all of denmark... We cover a big area... but we dont go to most of it. There were 9 people in church on sunday. 2 missionaries, an investigator, the branch president and his wife, a less active member, the mission leader and the member lady and her son that we live with. It was awesome. Its so different! we meet in a little tiny building that we rent out on sundays. THey have to have 20 people that come regularly for 3 months or so to get a building to ourselves. So we are working on that. THeres 40 people on the list though. so we have a lot of people we can reactivate too. Our apartment is the loft of a member lady in the ward. She has a 50 year old handicapped son. HEs super talented with music. He plays piano writes music and plays guitar and the baritone as well. He loves the missionaries. HE makes it fun. The house is on a farm. I feel like im at grandma and grandpa neweys house. Its way cool. Theres a couple dogs and a bunny, and they dont have any other animals themselves but they let other people use it so theres sheep and horses out sometimes. ITs super cold. At least it feels like it. ITs been about -5 C. Its snowed a couple times. BUt theres not too much left right now. I guess the night before i came the northern lights were really strong. I saw a little bit last night. It was so cool!!!! I live in the arctic now! ITs so crazy. I love it though. Im definitely using my coat now though. ITs not too dark yet. IT starts getting dark around 5 now. Im told by the middle of november the light will be gone.. THat will be fun. I should probably find some vitamin d to start taking... The new companion is cool. His name is elder P. HEs a cool guy. HE goes home at the beginning of january. SO ill probably be his last companion. District meetings are weird here... we have to do them over skype because we are so far away from the other missionaries. Next week we get to do it in person because i have to go to tromsø to interview their investigator to be baptized. ITs only elders in the district. ANd a senior couple. There all cool from what i have seen. Elder k and s were in the mtc with me and theyre both in tromsø. ITll be good to work with them again. THis week was awesome. It was a good week to start off the transfer. We had a challenge from the zone leaders to go out and not come back in until we found a new investigator or it was time to be inside. So we decided to double the goal and go for 2 new investigators. WE had geir pray for us and then we went to go try a tryback before banking the rest of the day. The tryback let us in, introduced his family of 4 and then we taught them. ANd they told us we could come back! So we found 4 new investigators. We were way excited!!! the next day we found a former that told us to come back too. So we are really hoping they all stay positive. Im loving this area though already. ITs so cool up here. I really hope that something in the gospel interests the family though. THey told us to come back, but they also said they werent planning on changing religions. But thats what they all say at first i guess :) SO we will be fasting and praying for them. BUt thats how things are going here. THanks for all the love and prayers! love you guys!!!! Have a great week.
Love Elder NEwey
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