Oi wassup everyone!
Hope all you guys are doing good back home! I've had a good week here in Ålesund and the work is getting done. We have 5 new investigators this week which was so cool because they're all pretty solid and that's what this branch needs! We had 7 people here on Sunday which was great! Next week we should hit 15 which would be amazing! This week was full of good stuff. We were able to visit some people who live out in the boonies to invite them back to church!! They were like 2 hours away from us which was so crazy because back home I could pass by like 6 temples driving two hours away from home. But it was cool! The first lady we met up with was super nice and way cool! She is from this small little town on the side of this fjord and the view from her window is just stunning. But that meant she had a crazy dialect as well! I couldn't understand anything she was saying at first but then I got use to it and I could get some of it by the end of our visit. She LOVES hiking and so she asked if we could hike while we visited and had a lesson with her and we said for sure! So we got there and just started heading up the trail and it was probably the sickest thing I've ever seen in my!! It was insanely beautiful!! It was so fun there were blueberry bushes everywhere and we would stop and pick some to eat while we were walking and there is so many fresh water springs coming out of the sides of the mountains you can just walk right up and drink out of it and it's so good. Its straight up Voss water at its finest! Then we saw some deer and these massive poisonous red mushrooms that you see in the movies so that was cool. But then we came out of the trees and there was this cool farm with a big barn and I guess this old Norwegian guy just stays up here and farms all alone but his property was just the coolest thing! It was surrounded with trees then just this open electric green pasture with sheep running around and then a giant cliff that lead to this amazing fjord it was so beautiful that dude is living right! And in Norway there is no trespassing laws so we just walked through the sheep and saw all the cool things he had. Then we got to the top of this mountain and we talked about her baptism and what it meant to her and she wants to start coming back to church but its just so far and she works but we promised blessings that if she would come things would work out, so we hope she starts coming again! Then the next day we went and visited these other two households and they fed us which was good I was so happy when they said we were eating haha it made my day! (Groceries are so expensive here and we're always trying to stay on our budget that's why we need to catch some fish!) Their goal is to get temple recommends so they will start coming again. Then we visited this other guy who use to be the branch president and he was super cool and he said he wants to start coming back as well and he's American so he invited us to celebrate Thanksgiving with him so that will be fun because obviously Norwegians don't celebrate that! We had some cool lessons with some of the people we are teaching as well. The one guy that had the cool jordans on met up with us in the library! He came with a bunch of questions for us which was good but we soon realized it was a bunch of anti mormon questions that were not his own but we still answered them all and he was like ok cool I just don't know about your church so I'm trying to learn more! And we said ok cool go to comeuntochrist.org and write down questions you have from there. Then his last question, he was like ok don't make fun of me for asking but I've heard you can't have a beard in your church is that true? And I started laughing and I said NOPE you can have the biggest beard you want! And then I showed a picture of my Uncle Jace because he has a sweet beard right now so shout out to him keep it going! So he seems super interested and is wanting to learn more! He also said he likes how we don't smoke drink and do all that stuff because he doesn't do it either! Then we met this couple street contacting and they had us meet up in this cool coffee shop and they had tons of questions as well and the wife was very fascinated by our stance on the law of chastity and thought it was so important! So we're meeting with them again this week! That's about all for my week but these next couple will be busy! I'll be flying 6 times in the next three weeks for Zone Conference, Splits, Trainings and all that good stuff so it'll be a good! I fly to Oslo then on to Stavanger today and stay with Eldste Affleck (from my MTC group) and his companion then next week we fly to Oslo and the week after that we fly to Bergen and Jorn and Ves are already planning to have us over for dinner. I can't wait to see them! The closest area to us is like an 8 hour drive so we fly everywhere, we live in the middle of nowhere and I love it! Hope you all have a good week and keep inviting others to come and see how this gospel can bless there lives so much!
Eldste McSpadden
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