Elder Spencer's Mission to Norway: Uke 41: Berry Bonanza

Last p-day my companion and I went on an adventure in the lowlands to find the legendary multer! It's something called a cloud-berry in English but I had never heard of them before like 10 days ago. We drove out to a nature reserve place called Lavsjømyrene which literally means the low-sea-swamps. It actually wasn't very swampy because Norway is having a drought and the hottest summer ever recorded so it was actually totally dry but it was still cool. We decided to come here because Elder Steele heard that cloudberries were very rare and impossible to cultivate but we found out they grew here. There were some pretty cool trails and we ended up finding a lot of cloudberries! We then found out that we didn't really like them very much. They're aight, but not what I was expecting from one of the world's most sought after berries. We picked a ton anyway because it was chill and we didn't have much else to do. Also we picked a ton of wlid blueberries that were everywhere. We took them home and froze them, and they are still sitting in the freezer, and they will continue doing that until we find out what to do with them since neither of us like just eating them very much. It was worth it for the hike though, and I got some pics down under

On Tuesday we had a combined district meeting (aka council) with Oslo district because our new mission president wanted to meet us because the transfer ends next week. It was a little weird being in a district meeting with 17 people instead of the normal 4 up in my brostrict. It was great to meet President Tew though! He's a stud and a funny guy.

On wednesday, we wanted to play soccer with our investigator and a few inactive young guys in the branch. So we started playing on the field at a school. There were a bunch of foreign exchange students there so we ended up playing with kids from 10-15 countries and all speaking english together. It was super fun even though my companion and I are bad at soccer! Apparently we are also a little out of shape because it wrecked our legs and we're still sore from it.

The rest of the week was pretty chill but not a lot happened. Then on Saturday there was a baptism for an 8 year old girl in the branch. One of our really positive investigators came and loved it!

The next day, in church, we had about 20 German tourists there so that was fun, aber Ich kann nicht Deutsch sprechen.