This week was crazy! I live in Hamar now. I had about 6 hours on a train before arriving in Lillestrøm, where we stayed the night with the zone leaders and had district meeting the next day. I have an awesome district this transfer! My companion, Elder Sadler, is really chill and funny so this will be a good transfer i think. After the meeting I got to drive from there to Hamar, which is about 1.5 hours. I had not driven since August so that was a little scary but we arrived safely.
The next 2 days were spent shoveling a ridiculous amount of snow as a service to a couple ladies in the branch here. They both lived across the fjord, between Gjøvik and Lillehammer. According to one of them, this February has had higher snow levels in that area since before they started keeping records in the 1800s. So we had a lot of work to do. Between those 2 houses we spent almost 10 hours in 2 days shoveling over 4 feet of snow off of roofs and patios. Så det var gøy.
Hamar is pretty cold and snowy right now.
The rest of our time this week was spent getting me moved in and unpacked and stuff. Also I finished knitting a tie (:
When church started there were about 15 people (most of them old). Then an American mormon family of 6 showed up. They were visiting from New York City for skiing in Lillehammer, and we got to translate for them. There are about 100 members in the Hamar area, but 15-20 that come to church. The branch area takes about 5 hours to drive across so travel is an issue for a lot of people. The branch President lives almost 2 hours away.
The weather is still cold and snowy and cloudy so i actually havent seen the sun since i got here but supposedly the sun sets at 5:15.
Heres a video of me pushing a giant chunk of snow off Reiduns roof 
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