Week 12: Staying in the Bahamas of Norway!

Norwegians like trolls. Sinnatrolla translates to the angry troll.

Transfers are this week!!!!! And............. i'm staying in Arendal with Eldste Brooks. I'm really happy about that though because I love Arendal and I'm excited to spend Christmas here. I love our branch here and know almost all of the members. They don't actually invite us over for middag very often but there's only like 40-50 of them and I see them for 3 hours every sunday so i'm familiar with all of them.

I am loving the cold! It's so fun! I like going out in my big warm clothing and not sweating and seeing frost and frozen puddles so it's awesome. I've heard Arendal compared to " the bahamas of Norway". Yes it is the least cold place in Norway. No it is not the Bahamas. It's usually right around 0 degrees Celcius, and I slipped on my first ice this week. The issue was the puddle was only partially frozen so it was solid enough for me to slip on it  but thin enough that there was still a lot of ice cold liquid water under it. So I got soaked and that was cold but it was funny so #worthit

There is no snow yet. I've asked some people here and they've said that they don't get much at all here. Maybe a few inches in december/january but that's it. One awesome thing though is that the city puts up a ton of Christmas trees everywhere so when we go contacting on the gågate there are like 2-3 trees all lit up in front of every single shop in town so it's really pretty. And there's Christmas lights hung up everywhere. 

P-DAY: We went to Grimstad to find a second-hand store that we heard was good, because I need a scarf and hat for winter, and i'm cheap. I don't think we found it, but we found 2 other little ones that were cool but didn't have what i was looking for. So we gave up and went on a hike near the town up a cool hill called lille binabb where we found a stray cat that liked us.

Stray cat on lille Binabb (ok maybe it didn't like me that much)

Lille Binabb

Lille Binabb

We went back to Longum this week for one of our appointments and got sent away as soon as we knocked on their door again. So that was a little disappointing. The other follow up appointment is scheduled for this Friday so we'll find out if that one goes through.

We had another fun Finding week: We found another tiny town about a 30 min bus ride away called Kilsund. That was fun and we found 2 potentials there. Also Kilsund was one of the most beautiful places I have seen so far here in Norway, and that's saying a lot. Pictures are included below.

Kilsund

Kilsund

Also this week I hit a big landmark on my mission. We got our first official investigator that was found and taught completely by us! Before this point we had gotten 2 other official investigators, but they were either a referral from a member, or a previous investigator who became re-interested. So i'm pretty proud and happy about that.

Ha det godt dere!