Hey guys!
This week flew by it's so weird I feel like I write these emails every other day! This week went really well, we found some new people to teach which is always good! One of them is just a kid I talked to on the bus, I told him the Book of Mormon is an amazing book and that it has helped me in my life so much! So he took it and said I'll read it man! I got his Facebook and then he left... Later that week I sent him a message saying, "hey, it's the guy who gave you that book on the bus we should meet up and talk about it this week?" He was like, "Ya, I'd like to do that! This book is really good and it has some good answers in it about life!" So we met up with him and started talking about the BOM that I gave him. I made sure the one I handed him had this pass along card in it with life questions and then certain verses to read from the Book of Mormon that have answers to those questions! He actually read a lot of the questions with the verses! So when we met up with him we were able to teach him the first lesson and he was really liking it which was awesome! Then the other person we started teaching was our boy who works at the local 7/11. We always stop in and say wassup to him and he is super cool! Then one day we were going through the area book and found this one name and decided to call the number, the dude answered and it sounded just like our boy at the 7/11. The guy on the other end said he would love to meet up with us again and talk. I guess the sister missionaries had met with this guy and he came to church at one time back in the day. It turns out it is the same guy, our boy from 7/11! Ha, it was so funny we talked with him again in the store and he was like yeh man that's me! We just have a nickname for him so we didn't know it was the same person at first. But it turns out he likes to cut hair as well and haircuts are so expensive here so I asked him to cut my hair and he said he would so we met up and he gave me a fresh fade while we taught him the first lesson! Super cool guy but while he's cutting my hair he said he'd never cut a white boys hair before and it's super hard. Let's just say the opportunity to teach him the first lesson and bond with him was way worth the week of wearing my beanie hat every day! Refer to pics!!! HA!! HA!! We fly to Stavanger tomorrow for splits/Zone Conference and I'm not sure I have time for a new cut! The other missionaries will love it! He seems really interested in learning more so that's always exciting and well worth the inexpensive cut!
Then on Sunday, we got a random text from a number we didn't have saying " Hey guys it's so and so, it has been a while since you two have been over here! Would you want to have dinner with us tonight? And we just responded and said " We are new missionaries in the area and we don't think we've met before but we would love to come!" So we were hyped because we usually only have 1 dinner a week with our family we teach so it not only was a miracle that they texted us to come teach them but we also got a dinner! We showed up on time and when they opened the door we were so happy to be greeted by the nicest family ever. They let us in took our coats and hung them up then invited us to sit down at the dinner table. It was all set up for us with soooooo much food and the funny thing was I didn't recognize any of it. They are from Kurdistan and it was a traditional Kurdish meal! It was so delicious, even though I still have no idea what we ate!! (Don't worry Mom, Eldste Lindberg immediately asked them if anything in the meal had tree nuts in it and let them know I was deathly allergic before I could even say anything, I think my last reaction scared him!!) They just started talking to us and getting to know us better and were just the kindest people ever. Their son spoke English as well and they thought it was so cool that I was from America. They said that's their son's biggest dream is to go to college in the U.S. It just made me realize how blessed I am to have been born into an amazing family in a place of great opportunity and into the gospel of Jesus Christ! They're Muslim but they like the BOM and love learning about our religion so we are going to keep teaching them which will be super cool :)) All in all another good week!
It's been pretty sunny here which has been nice even though the sun comes up at like 9:30-10 and sets at like 3:30-4 and we have to take vitamin D pills and use our blue lights a lot! It's so weird the sun just comes up right over the mountains and just kinda chills there for a couple hours and then goes back down so it feels like morning time all day because the sun never moves all the way up into the sky. Then it just sets again! It's so beautiful so I don't mind and it's different from home which makes my mission unique! The knitting club is going well too, next time we're bringing the laptop so we can teach our new friends how to do family history and I think they will love it! I've been working on my navy blue and white stripped tie and it's coming along real well. I'm making sure it's real tight, like they taught me, and it's even better because I bought my own knitting tools. I actually really enjoy knitting, it's super relaxing especially when normally I can't sit still for very long. Once I'm done, a hat and scarf are next!! I also caught like 20 fish today but they were all to small to keep! I'll find the big ones, I'm not giving up!
This next week were flying down to Stavanger for zone conference which is going to be so fun! It gets a little lonely sometimes up here in little Ålesund because the closest missionaries are like 8 hours away from us so zone conference is always fun to see all the boys! We're all so tight here in Norway because there's only like 50 of us so we all know each other and we're all tight which is so sick. Anyways, hope y'all have a good week, send me pictures it's the best and when I get emails they make my day!!
Eldste McSpadden
Note from Heather:
President and Sister Tew messaged me this week after spending last weekend with Truxton:
"Your son is an amazing missionary! He's fearless, happy, full of love, determined, and bold in sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ as one of his disciples ….he is a great teacher with amazing fluency in the Norwegian language after only 2 months in the land! Life is good!
Kurdish dinner! So good, we were so grateful!!
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