Oi hva skjer kompiser! Hey what's up everyone!
It's going good here in Ålesund. It was so stinking cold this week it's suppose to be -10 C this next week. Which means winter is coming! Agh yesss, I'm so hyped for it to start snowing more! That also means it's snowmobiling season, so shout out to my brother and dad back home. Go tear it up, I know it won't be the same without me digging along side you guys to get unstuck ;)
Anyways this week flew by, its weird how you just get lost in the work and the next thing you know it's another week! It was busy for sure with lots of lessons! We met with the part member family and we set a baptismal date for him and his son on December 14th, which was dope! We need to find a great spot with a sandy beach or fjord that we can cut out a square of ice in the water so we can baptize him and his son. So that will be such a sweet day but a tad bit chilly. The closest font is 9 hours away. We had a funny lesson with one of our friends that made me laugh so hard! He is an African preacher but loves meeting with us and loves talking about the Bible and Book of Mormon, he's figuring out the connection a little more every time we meet with him. We met up in the library to have a lesson and about half way through this angry Norwegian lady comes up and starts yelling at us and telling us we shouldn't be in here and to go somewhere else to talk about our loud Bible crap. We politely apologized and then our friend looked so scared and said, "I don't think she likes to talk about the Bible very much" and I laughed so hard he is so funny. We had another good lesson with our British bloke and he is going to pray about the Book of Mormon this week and we will meet this weekend to see how it went!
Another person that we are teaching is from Lithuania and he is hilarious. He swears so much and he doesn't speak Norwegian and his English is limited but he makes me laugh. He invited us to go on a hike and talk about God so we said sweet man, we'll be there. I thought it was going to be some light stroll up to another amazing view overlooking the city. But nope we drove out to this tiny island with this massive cliff and it looked straight up! I had a water bottle and a granola bar with my rain coat and a sweater. I was not prepared for this hike but it was amazing as always. We climbed almost straight up and when we got to the top of this cliff there was a beautiful lake that was full of fresh water you could go and just drink out of. You can't swim or do anything there except fish from the banks, I thought that was so cool! There was this big rock that hung out over the cliff and it was like 500 meters down and we climbed out on it and then sat on the edge it was so sketchy but fun! We then hiked all the way to the top and right as we were about to summit we heard a helicopter coming towards us. It hovered over us for a minute and at first we thought maybe someone was hurt and they had mistaken us for another group. Then all of the sudden this dude hops out and a rope drops down, he starts running towards us and we were so confused. He then turned off and we looked over and there was this massive bag of supplies just laying there on the ground with wood and stuff. The helicopter was still hovering right over us and we watched him hook up the bag to the rope and then the helicopter took off. We started talking with the guy and he said he was from Sweden and a bag of supplies fell out of the helicopter so they had to come back and pick it up. Then the helicopter came back outta nowhere and picked him up the same way it picked up the bag of supplies, it was so cool ha! The view was so amazing but it was freezing cold so we took some pics then headed home. We got to the apartment and made some good food to warm us back up.
Then a cool miracle that happened to us! We joined this service club and we just randomly go do service in the community! One of the things we were able to do this week was to attend a knitting group! In Norway everyone knows how to knit! So we got together with these cute old Norwegian ladies who all just sit around drink coffee and knit together! As part of the service club we joined we decided this would be perfect, so now I can say I learned how to knit on my mission. It was so funny they were all so happy we came and were overly happy to teach me how to knit! My comp is from Denmark and he tells me if your Scandinavian you know how to knit! He's amazing at knitting and was already cruising along while they all would randomly say to me, "your doing it wrong let me show you." It was so fun, we're going back next week to show them how to do family search and explain how to look up their family history so it should be good! My goal is to knit myself a scarf with Norwegian wool!! Ha! Ha! So on Monday, we get a call from our knitting ladies asking us if we can come help someone move and we of course agreed to come help! When we got there two other people were there to help, a lady from Australia and a young Norwegian guy. We started talking and all the sudden the dude said" oh your mormon missionaries, my favorite quote is 'A saint is just a sinner who keeps on trying'." My comp and I look at each other and we're like wait that's from Uchtdorf. Then he goes on to say he's a baptized member of the church and holds the priesthood but has been going to a different church because when the missionaries left this area he wasn't sure what to do. Elder Lindberg and I have been searching for this guy ever since we arrived in Alesund, we've read his name on our sheet with the names of the members in the area multiple times but have not been able to find him. As soon as he told us his name we knew exactly who he was! Miracles... All in all it was a good week! Hope you all are doing good!
Another person that we are teaching is from Lithuania and he is hilarious. He swears so much and he doesn't speak Norwegian and his English is limited but he makes me laugh. He invited us to go on a hike and talk about God so we said sweet man, we'll be there. I thought it was going to be some light stroll up to another amazing view overlooking the city. But nope we drove out to this tiny island with this massive cliff and it looked straight up! I had a water bottle and a granola bar with my rain coat and a sweater. I was not prepared for this hike but it was amazing as always. We climbed almost straight up and when we got to the top of this cliff there was a beautiful lake that was full of fresh water you could go and just drink out of. You can't swim or do anything there except fish from the banks, I thought that was so cool! There was this big rock that hung out over the cliff and it was like 500 meters down and we climbed out on it and then sat on the edge it was so sketchy but fun! We then hiked all the way to the top and right as we were about to summit we heard a helicopter coming towards us. It hovered over us for a minute and at first we thought maybe someone was hurt and they had mistaken us for another group. Then all of the sudden this dude hops out and a rope drops down, he starts running towards us and we were so confused. He then turned off and we looked over and there was this massive bag of supplies just laying there on the ground with wood and stuff. The helicopter was still hovering right over us and we watched him hook up the bag to the rope and then the helicopter took off. We started talking with the guy and he said he was from Sweden and a bag of supplies fell out of the helicopter so they had to come back and pick it up. Then the helicopter came back outta nowhere and picked him up the same way it picked up the bag of supplies, it was so cool ha! The view was so amazing but it was freezing cold so we took some pics then headed home. We got to the apartment and made some good food to warm us back up.
Then a cool miracle that happened to us! We joined this service club and we just randomly go do service in the community! One of the things we were able to do this week was to attend a knitting group! In Norway everyone knows how to knit! So we got together with these cute old Norwegian ladies who all just sit around drink coffee and knit together! As part of the service club we joined we decided this would be perfect, so now I can say I learned how to knit on my mission. It was so funny they were all so happy we came and were overly happy to teach me how to knit! My comp is from Denmark and he tells me if your Scandinavian you know how to knit! He's amazing at knitting and was already cruising along while they all would randomly say to me, "your doing it wrong let me show you." It was so fun, we're going back next week to show them how to do family search and explain how to look up their family history so it should be good! My goal is to knit myself a scarf with Norwegian wool!! Ha! Ha! So on Monday, we get a call from our knitting ladies asking us if we can come help someone move and we of course agreed to come help! When we got there two other people were there to help, a lady from Australia and a young Norwegian guy. We started talking and all the sudden the dude said" oh your mormon missionaries, my favorite quote is 'A saint is just a sinner who keeps on trying'." My comp and I look at each other and we're like wait that's from Uchtdorf. Then he goes on to say he's a baptized member of the church and holds the priesthood but has been going to a different church because when the missionaries left this area he wasn't sure what to do. Elder Lindberg and I have been searching for this guy ever since we arrived in Alesund, we've read his name on our sheet with the names of the members in the area multiple times but have not been able to find him. As soon as he told us his name we knew exactly who he was! Miracles... All in all it was a good week! Hope you all are doing good!
Eldste McSpadden
Fresh water lake at the top of this crazy steep hike!
Our knitting group, they loved us!
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