11/3/14

Hey Everybody!!!!

I dont think I like having the sun setting when i come out of church at 2:00 .  Its so weird... Im trying to get used to that. Ill have to go buy those vitamins. Theyre so expensive here though.  Ill get them though. ITs better than being depressed. We are going to have a district meeting about keeping up our motivation and energy this week. SHould be good. THis last week was way good.  We had zone conference in trondheim on friday. But we live so out of the way that we took a plane the night before and came home on saturday so we were gone for a few days.  Trondheim is a way cool city. Id love to serve there some day. It was cool to be around other missionaries again.  Its so weird to be so isolated.  haha district meeting over skype is weird. Kinda unfortunate.  But the conference was really good.  WE talked a lot about working with the members. THat will work great up here... haha jk president mentioned something about if it doesnt apply too much where you are use it later. IT was really good though. We can still use it on our few members.  After the conference we went and got kebabs with some missionaries down there. It ws good. There were a lot of people dressed up because it was halloween.  But then we went back to the church and had game night with the ysa in that ward.  It was fun. We left about 10 the next morning. I had to take 4 planes this week.  Crazy.  One the way down, we had to fly all the way to oslo then back up to trondheim. It was a lot of travel time. I think about 7 hours til we were finally where we wanted  to be. The way back wasnt so bad. WE just went to tromsø then alta. It was good. Planes arent bad at all.  Ive been on about 26 or so i think now on my mission. FLying is cool.  We really are trying  to find new people up here to teach. We have a few investigators but nobody  is really progressing too much but we are trying to find more. WE got an office referral this morning. So that will be good to follow up on tonight. hopefully it was real haha. I still love this area. The branch is doing well. Testimony meeting was good yesterday. Almost everyone there bore their testimony and we filled the entire hour. We dont have to do too much in church actually.  We set up the sacrament.  A new convert blesses it  usually.  I have spoken two of the three sundays here. But thats just cuz one was testimony meeting and the other was my first sunday.  SO not too bad. It would be good for me though. I need to learn how to talk in front of people.  haha ITs really good though. The members are good people.  We just need more of them. Its pretty cool, theres actually been 4 baptisms here this year which is incredible. 2 of them moved though to other parts of norway. The other  two are active and have the priesthood. One from nigeria and one from the ukraine. pretty sweet. I love it.  Its been snowing pretty much all day today. we came home to snow on saturday so we have a bit haha. The light is so weird. When the sun goes down  it makes a weird glow. Everything is kinda yellow. I got a good picture of it yesterday.  But everything is going great. 

Ill have to get those vitamins today then.  Sounds like reid had a great birthday. Thats awesome.  Jazz game so cool.  And they won too! Are they doing good this year?? ha nobody likes basketball in norway.. I love jacobs costume. Thats great. Did he learn  the song too? I think rylee definitely looks like a ninja.  How could they not see that? Other ideas for christmas package... hmmm. mike and ikes.. haha I cant think of too much else right now. ill think about it though.  I have thought a little about college. I figured better safe than sorry and i should probably re apply to utah state.  I havent thought a ton about it but i think i should apply just in case because the deadline i heard is in december... so i better look into that.  But i think thats all for now. but I hope you guys are doing great! I love you all! Thanks for the prayers!

Love Elder Newey