Uke 39: Praying for David!

We got a baptismal date with David! If everything goes well in the next few weeks, he will be getting baptized in the lake on 28 July! David is a studly young man and he has been so good at studying the book of Mormon! We knew he believed it was true so we invited him to be baptized at the end of the month. He said "yeah but so soon?" We told him we could push it back if needed and we asked if that was too early for him. Then he just got a big smile on his face and said "no not really"  That was definitely the highlight of our week but the rest was good too. 

On Wednesday we went to Zone conference in Oslo and that was awesome! We got to meet our temporary mission president and his wife (The Tews had visa problems so they got a little delayed). President Karlsson is Swedish and his wife is Norwegian. They have been living in Norway for a long time and they were mission president in Sweden about 10 years ago. President Karlsson was super nice and hyggelig and he talked for a long time about his life and his family and things like that. Then his wife came up and roasted all the missionaries for half an hour for having bad Norwegian. (My companion got wrecked) She probably knew she wouldn't get this chance ever again to talk to all the missionaries at once and she did a great job taking advantage of that opportunity. The Tews arrived in Norway on Saturday I think but I haven't met them yet.

Speaking of getting roasted, we were out talking to people on the gågate one morning and a short British guy came up to us and told us to meet him in the park at 3 o'clock when he got off work. We walked to the park at 3 and he had 3 camping chairs set up so we could have a nice pleasant chat in the park. He gave us some cool aid to drink and then told us to bear our testimonies... I've never had anyone tell me to bear my testimony before so that was a little weird but we did it. He then proceeded to tell us why we were wrong and why he was right. That happens every day, that's nothing special. But this guy knew more about the bible and ancient history than anyone I have ever met! He could speak Aramaic and Hebrew and Greek and knew literally everything about the history of Christianity. Also he has read the entire Book of Mormon and he made it very clear that he did not believe it was true. I have to admit, we were not properly prepared for that discussion.

So we had some ups and downs this week, but overall I would definitely say it was a success.  Ha det bra!

Bilder

32: A family of ducks we found while scoping out good baptism spots around the lake

24: View from the Oslo Operahus (We missed our train home after conference so we had some time to explore the city while we waited for the next one the come)

26: same ^