Eldste McSpadden has been doing good. This week was full of awesome teaches! We have a pretty good teaching pool here in Ålesund and it's so cool to be apart of those miracles! We had interviews with President this week and he kinda told me more of the background on my area and how they shut it down and were almost going to cut off the branch and close it down because nothing was happening. But then President Tew had the prompting to send me and Eldste Lindberg here! He was totally guided by the spirit because there are people here who have definitely been prepared by God to hear the message of His gospel. We have this awesome couple that we started teaching and they are just fantastic. They talk about how they have faith and know that God has helped them in their lives so much and they want to learn more. They had some really good questions and we answered them by the spirit and through the scriptures! My love for the scriptures has really deepened out here being a missionary because I am confident you can think of a question you have and open up to any page in the scriptures and find some sort of answer to your question. The wife then asked a question about how she can help her brother out with some things he is going through. And I just testified of God's love for all of his children and how he knows we all have our struggles in life but that He is the way we can get through them! And she started to cry a little bit and you could tell the spirit had answered her question right then and there. I couldn't stop smiling the rest of the day cuz the spirit was so strong! We had another cool experience with another family we are teaching. They are from the Congo and some of the most humble people I've ever met! They are so cool too and there kids are so funny! They have two albino sons and one daughter and they all speak like 6 different languages it's crazy! I always ask them how to say words and they just laugh at me and say " that one is soooooo easy!" But I think they're hard hahah. But kind of a back story on them. The mother of the family had a really cool experience on meeting the missionaries. So this lady had a lot of questions on how to have a better life for her and her family and what she needs to do for a long time. Then one night she had a dream that two men in white shirts and ties handed her a blue spiritual book that would help her in her life. That next day my comp and his old comp were just visiting the area before I came to check out the area! They just started to talk with people and they stopped this lady and started talking with her and offered to give her a Book of Mormon. She just started crying and saying thank you so much and they were really confused on what was happening because they just thought it was another person to contact! But it was an answer to her questions that she had and God sent those two to answer it. So they're cool people and their family is amazing but the father is still skeptical of the BOM because he was a preacher back in the Congo but he's warming up to it. Then we had a cool lesson yesterday with this girl who is about our age and she is so cool! She tells us her family is like why do you meet with missionaries that's weird and she's like because I want a better life! And we said that's awesome because this gospel can do that. P Day was good this week as well we went on two hikes one called Sukkertoppen that means The Sugar Top in English and Akslafjellen is this other cool look out place over Ålesund which is dope. We got some fresh hair cuts from our Turkish barber and had a good day! We have some trainings this week and we were asked to read some talks and I read one that was so sick! It was a fireside given in the MTC by my boy Jeffery R. Holland the great. That man speaks with such power, I get so hyped every time I read one of his talks. This talk was specifically on missions and how they change your life forever! He started off by saying yeh I bet you are all scared right now but don't be! This is going to be an amazing experience that will change who you are as a person for the rest of time and eternity! He then goes on and tells the missionaries of the story of President Hinkley on his mission writing to his dad. He also said some things that I loved, he said two years is not a long time so don't you DARE waste it! Ha, I can imagine he slammed on the podium when he said that. But I was like your right man let's goooo and we went out and we started going to work!! We also had Zone Conference this last week and that was fire President Tew is such a legend and I love that man! Hope y'all had a good week full of the spirit love you all!
The sun is out!
President Tew sent me this pic of him and Brother Hirst this week! He said Brother Hirst served in the England London South mission with my dad and my dad's mission companion Jorn, that lives here in Norway, was his trainer. He remembers my dad as being a legend in the mission field! So glad my dad has set such a good example for me to follow, love that he served a mission worked hard and didn't waste his time while he was there!
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