Im gonna start with last P-Day. (7 days ago) This was my first real P-day because we were really busy for the first one so i didnt get to do any cool stuff but this one was good. We took a bus out to Tromøybruet, the bridge that goes accross to the island right accross from us. Its a super huge high up bridge and its an awesome view! I will attach some pics at the end. We crossed over it and started exploring part of the forest on the other side and we found a mini abandoned lighthouse which was cool, and its just awesome to have some adventures in the forest. Missionary work is kind of an adventure, but its not the same as going out and doing stuff like that. Also it was very refreshing to wear normal people clothes in public. 10/10 would reccommend doing once a week.
Anyways, on wednesday we got to take a train up to Drammen for my first zone conference. It was really cool to be surrounded by so many awesome missionaries! Its easy to take it for granted in America, but here I have really grown to appreciate having so many spiritual people around me because of how few members or even religious people there are. I have a story about that, which i will address later because im getting off topic. At zone conf, I got to see 3 of my MTC homies. I like my new companion a lot but its good to see the people that i became friends with way back in the olden days of the MTC. And its fun to travel and see new places because Arendal is pretty small.
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| Oslo Fjord Zone Conference |
I am adjusting to missionary life just fine. Our lifestyle itself is pretty simple and easy. The hard part is the missionary work. Finding people who are interested is very difficult, but its ok. We had a couple cancelled appointments this week, but we had one succesful appointment with Mira, a very interesting Hungarian lady. Shes been an investigator for like 3 years (a long time). Idk how we got onto this topic but I explained to her that baptism just had to be done by immersion, it doesnt matter if its in the baptismal font or in a lake or the ocean. She was very surprised by this and said that was the only thing keeping her back from baptism! She was just afraid of the baptismal font because shes a little bit paranoid and thinks its like a trap and we might try to drown her. But if its in the ocean she can just swim away to avoid being drowned! So we may or may not be having a baptism soon haha. Like i said, shes an intersting lady and needless to say there are a few things she needs to understand better before we can baptize her.
On Saturday there was a baptismal service in Kristiansand that we got to go to. There have been I think 19 baptisms in all of Norway in 2017 so its a big deal when one happens. So we went and it was awesome even though we didnt know the lady.
I mentioned earlier that i have a story about it being nice to be around other religious people. Yesterday evening we were tracting. We were mostly just getting shut out a lot. By the time we got close to the end of this long street, there had been several people tell us that we already came and knocked on their door a few days ago. We definitely werent tracting in this area a few days ago, so we started thinking. Who else goes around knocking on doors talking about religion? JEHOVAS VITNER! We got to the last house at the end of the street and banked on the door. The man who opened the door started talking to us and we realized that he was the JW who had been going around in this area! We realized that when his wife came over and gave us a JW pamphlet. We actually had a good pleasant conversation with them, and they were by far the most kind and open people we had talked to that evening. I have heard a lot of things about the JWs, but my first experience with them in Norway was very positive haha. It was good and refreshing to talk to someone who was at least interested in religion, even if they are not LDS.
Happy Halloween! Halloween is celerabrated in Norway. Its a really new thing though, like its been developing over the last 10ish years, and its definitely not as big as in America but its becoming more popular. Pretty much all American culture is popular here. Everyone listens to american music and wears american clothes and stuff. I kinda expected to get here and be surrounded by tons of Norwegian culture but its not that different here except for the language, and people dress better haha.
So thats about it for this week. I hope all of yall are having good lives. Ha det
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