Hey hey everyone!
Hope you all have had a good week. My week was full of some funny stories and sweet miracles! First off transfer ended and I'm staying in Ålesund so that's good. Lost our boy Elder Sobatka he's going down to Fredrikstad and is going to get treated like a king down there so that's good for him. Fredrikstad has tons of members who feed you every day and most missionaries gain some pounds when going there so good luck to him haha. Why I love being a missionary is because you get the weirdest experiences and the coolest experiences, sometimes all in one day! This week me and Elder Lindberg flew down to Bergen which was so fire. We had an in person District council for the first time and it was way good. Then the senior missionary couple were homies and they went and bought Dominos for us all, oh it was so good. Then we had some good contacting in the streets of Bergen it's a sick city. It's so European and everyone is wearing fresh turtlenecks and dope trench coats with loafers on. Then the best part was the dinner that night! My dad's favorite mission companion who he has stayed good friends with lives in Bergen and is the bishop there. So he had us over for dinner that night. We ate som Får I Kål. It's a proper Norwegian meal with lamb, potatoes and cabbage and it was amazing. Veslemøy ( Jørns wife) is an amazing cook holy cow. Then he pulled out an old picture book from his mission and showed me all the pictures of him and my dad back in the day when they served in London together. He was telling me so many funny stories and stuff they did and it made me appreciate the friendships made out on missions. The people I've met here in Norway will be my friends for life. Then we headed back to little Ålesund early the next morning!
One of the days we had just gotten off the bus to start street contacting and we see these three Arab dudes yelling at this African American guy in Arabic. We just kept walking didn't think much about it then they started shoving each other and then It went to a full out brawl. These 3 dudes were just wailing on this guy but as missionaries were not inclined to stop confrontations so we couldn't use the power of " Laying on of hands" to stop it but then outta nowhere the one dude gets up and just tosses the guys down these stairs and then they stopped and ran off but one of them dropped his sick Carhart hat so as they ran by us we handed it back to him as they ran by. It was so funny we were just laughing so hard because it was so random. But to some spiritual things that happened this week! We had an AMAZING sacrament meeting this week. In our little branch in Ålesund the only three people who talk every week is me, my companion and the branch president. So when fast Sunday rolls around for fast and testimony meeting it's usually the same 3 that talk then a little bit of awkward silence because sometimes there's only investigators in church with us haha. But this week we had our part member family we are teaching, then the stud father ( who is not a member.... yet) brought his inactive mother and brother in law. Then we had another investigator with us then our homie the branch president. So we had 10 people in sacrament meeting! And a couple other people who usually come were just out of town so the branch is growing pretty well! But after us three got done bearing our testimonies, I just said a little prayer to have someone just go up and say just a couple things. Right then the mother of the family stood up with tears in her eyes and I knew it was going to be amazing. She bore one of the strongest testimonies of prayer and how she has seen how prayer helped her back to the covenant path and how her life has done a 180 degree turn through sincere prayer. It was so good and then her mom who has had some real struggles lately stood up as well and bore a testimony on the blessings of family and how she has had some rough family problems but she's so grateful for the gospel and how it keeps families together and can heal any problems that life gives us. And it was so powerful! We then gave our Sunday school lesson and everyone was participating and answering questions it was sweet. Our meeting actually lasted the full 2 hours this week which was dope Haha it usually ends 30 minutes early because we can only say so much. But that is another thing I want to testify on! The power God can give us when we're doing his work. At first when I got up here I would write all my talks in English then translate them and it would take forever and as missionaries were packed from 6:30 to 9:30 everyday so I didn't have time to keep writing these talks every week so I just started trusting in the Lord to help me speak Norwegian and bear my testimony through it. And I've truly seen God just take the wheel and he blessed me in my mind with the words I need to testify of Him! It's so amazing!
On Monday, we had 3 sweet lessons with our boy from Nigeria, then one with the British bloke and then the YSA Norwegian girl. The one with the African family went so well we helped them finish moving in and put together three pieces of exercise equipment! Then he asked us how to get to our meeting house because he thinks what we do is an example of Christlike behavior and if two young boys who could be out partying drinking and being with girls would take 2 years to just teach and serve others then that shows him examples of Christ! Which was awesome and we just said it's because we've been blessed in our lives with amazing families and friends so we want that for others. And he goes, "ok bruddas I will come to your service. " haha so sick that'll be good. He loves to preach and showed us videos of him preaching in other churches so I can't wait for fast Sunday it should be entertaining. The British guy we taught is so dope and swaggy. He has had a rough life but is trying to find peace in his life. He started studying theology and religion so he is VERY knowledgeable in the Bible and its teachings so its awesome to show him through the Bible and the BOM that this is the same church that Christ had on the earth when he was alive. And he said he would pray about it so we will be meeting with him again! He also loves vinyl records and I talked to him about some of the ones I had and he thought that was sick. Then the Norwegian girl we taught is so dope! She read a lot from the BOM and is liking it so we just need her to pray so we asked her to do so and she said she would even though she thinks it's kind of awkward. Then P day! Wooooww I'm still shocked every time I go on a hike it's just INSANE. You could live in Ålesund and go on a different hike every day and it still would never get old. We went on this sick one called Hallvardfjellet it was stunning. We packed some good Sjokolade Kaker ( chocolate cake) that our branch president made us and went up! There were tons of frozen blueberries and ice cold spring water like everywhere so we ate some cake fresh blueberries and drank some fresh Voss water on top of this fjord it was so dope. Then on the way down I slipped and fell so hard on the ice it was hilarious but my elbow and butt are going to be bruised for a month. But anyways it was weird because they don't really celebrate Halloween or Thanksgiving here so that kinda stinks but Christmas is like a week so that'll be dope. But hope y'all have a great week!
Eldste McSpadden
Berg family with Elder Sobatka, Tilby, Lindberg and I.
A few pics of my dad on his mission!!
Elder Tilby, Sobatka, Jergen Berg, Lindberg, and I.
Elder Sobatka and I
Wild blueberries!!
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