We went to Jotunheimen on P-day and that was amazing!! Jotunheimen is a big National Park in our area, which has the biggest mountains in Norway and all of Northern Europe! It was super different from the rest of Norway that I have seen. The only animals we saw were a small wild guinea pig and an arctic pigeonsaurus. Everywhere I have been up until now has lots of forests, but Jotunheimen is high elevation and surprisingly barren, it was beautiful and really awesome to see that unique part of the country. We hiked an awesome mountain and got lots of pictures. Here in Hamar it has been nothing but blue skies and sun for the last couple weeks, so we didn't expect / plan for the amount of snow that was still up there, but it turned out awesome!
The rest of the week was also great, because Elder Steele and I are working really hard! We got a new investigator and we would have had someone in church but his car broke down on the way and he got there right as church was over. We'll get him next week.
Cool Story: We don't have a ton of opportunities to teach people here in Norway so we get LOTS of time to try to find new people to teach. On Thursday this week, we spent a little over 3 hours in the afternoon walking around in the heat going door to door and had no success at all. We gave out 0 Books of Mormon, nobody said we could try back another day, or anything like that. Most people would call that a non-successful day. So we felt a little discouraged and exhausted by the end of that day. But we're missionaries so we don't give up that easy. The next day, we went back and gave out 4 books and had 2 new potentials after about 15 minutes! I'm going to tell the story about my favorite one. Elder Steele and I were walking down the road when a few friendly 6-7 year old boys rode up on their bikes and asked us who we were and what they were doing. When we told them we were giving out free books about Jesus they got really excited and asked if they could have one! So we gave them a book and they asked when we could come back. We said they would have to ask their parents first haha. They agreed and one said "Jeg synes egentlig det er... super bra!" (I actually think that is... super good!) so that was the quote of the week!
Cool Story: We don't have a ton of opportunities to teach people here in Norway so we get LOTS of time to try to find new people to teach. On Thursday this week, we spent a little over 3 hours in the afternoon walking around in the heat going door to door and had no success at all. We gave out 0 Books of Mormon, nobody said we could try back another day, or anything like that. Most people would call that a non-successful day. So we felt a little discouraged and exhausted by the end of that day. But we're missionaries so we don't give up that easy. The next day, we went back and gave out 4 books and had 2 new potentials after about 15 minutes! I'm going to tell the story about my favorite one. Elder Steele and I were walking down the road when a few friendly 6-7 year old boys rode up on their bikes and asked us who we were and what they were doing. When we told them we were giving out free books about Jesus they got really excited and asked if they could have one! So we gave them a book and they asked when we could come back. We said they would have to ask their parents first haha. They agreed and one said "Jeg synes egentlig det er... super bra!" (I actually think that is... super good!) so that was the quote of the week!
Another funny story: We wanted to give a general conference talk to an investigator about recognizing answers to prayers by Richard G. Scott. Unfortunately, we couldn't find it in Norwegian because it was a pretty old talk. So we decided to translate it ourselves. We thought it would be quickest to plug it all into google translate and then read through and fix any errors. I'm glad we revised it and didn't just give her the google translate version, because google made some pretty funny translation mistakes. Here are a few of them:
1. Whirpool of emotions > bubblebath of feelings
2. Unrepented sin > untouched pity
3. She poured out her heart to god > she coughed up her heart to God
4. She sobbed for 20 minutes > She sucked for 20 minutes
5. She raised her head > Her head traveled
5. We all have agency > We all have official departments
Hope yall have an awesome week! I took too many pictures this week to share them the normal way so I'm gonna try to share a folder with yall. Hope it works.
Ha det super bra!
