Hey everyone hope your all doing great!
We had a pretty good week here in the beautiful city of Ålesund! To start off the week we were in Bergen! Bergen is another beautiful place on the west coast of Norway and its huge! So it's awesome to contact in because there's so many people to talk to, we were on splits and I learned a lot of good things. I was with my boy Eldste Tilby from Turlock California. We did a companionship study with one of the young adults in Bergen who's family is close to mine! It was cool to see there inputs and talk with Jørgen and see how prepared he is for a mission! When the splits were over we headed back to the airport to catch ANOTHER flight back to Ålesund. I've flown so much in the time I've been here I feel like I could do the introduction, safety demonstration and the emergency exit talk on the plane all in Norwegian with ease haha! Its alright tho I'm glad I don't have to drive 10 hours to go on splits. And I'll probably be a Gold member on Scandinavian Airlines by the time I finish here so that's a plus. But as we get there all the sudden they told us that our flight was now canceled. So we waited to see what was going to happen then they said another flight will come in a couple hours so their giving us a meal voucher. I've had like 35 bucks worth of meal vouchers from all the canceled flights and blown up engines it's hilarious. But then we went and got some food and I found blue Powerade in the little convenience store so you bet I snagged that. We waited there listening for when our flight was going to come and after 3 hours we finally were like ok its 10 o clock when is this thing coming. So we check on the departure screen and it says Ålesund Gate Closing. And my heart just sank and then I started sprinting as fast as I could to gate C 31, which of course was on the complete opposite side of the airport. So you can imagine two dudes in suits with duffel bags SPRINTING across the airport hopping down escalators juking people out in church shoes sliding all over the place it was so funny. But not in the moment, I was tripping because President Tew had just told the mission one thing that we Cannot do is miss flights. And we already had a mix up that wasn't our fault last week where we had to buy another flight so I was tripping. I finally come sliding into gate C 31 and the doors are closed. I started banging on the door and waving my arms at the pilot through the window and yelling to get there attention. The flight attendants in the gate refused to open the doors even though the plane hadn't left. Just then after I kinda yelled at one of the dudes to open the door I felt bad and said a little prayer in my head that he would open the door and then the people sitting in the gate next to us said " their coming!" And from my prayer and waving of arms the pilot saw us and the doors opened so we made the plane! I look back at it and I woulda payed money to get that on camera it was so funny, but definitely a miracle and tender mercy from the Lord!
Now for a more spiritual highlight we have an investigator who is really progressing and had some cool experiences with prayer and reading the BoM this week. We taught her the Word of Wisdom lesson and she said it was almost impossible for her to live that. But she knew that the Lord would help her try! So she's going to live the Word of Wisdom this week which is SO dope! Little back ground on Norway and Scandinavia in general, the general population LOVES every thing that goes against the Word of Wisdom and Law of Chastity. Which makes it really hard for people to overcome those things because it's a lifestyle they were born into. Just like the Vikings in the old days, eat drink and be merry! Nothing has changed! In fact when your done with Videregånde which is like high school, they do something called Rus, which is like a graduation party where they raise money to go buy and do all sorts of crazy things. So it was so cool to witness a person who humbled themselves before the Lord and is trusting him.
We also visited one of the members who is so cool and she was at one of her friends house for the week in this crazy nice modern home out by the ocean next to a light house. It was like movie, straight up one of the coolest houses I've seen here. And it was filled with animals that he has hunted, but sadly I didn't get to meet him. Another small but cool miracle that happened this week! We are in a service group where we go and help people move or clean their houses or apartments and on Wednesdays we knit with the elderly who don't have much family around to have company. But this week we helped this lady clean out her apartment / move. It was really sad to see because her life had been overcome by addictions and she was losing everything. But we helped the best we could by cleaning out all the junk in the place that had built up. Someone let her borrow a trailer to haul all the stuff out with. But there was a top to the trailer and it needed a key to unlock that she had no idea where it was. After 2 hours of hauling junk out of the apartment in the blizzarding snow and 30 minutes of looking for the key, me and Eldste Lindberg decided it was prayer time. So we asked one of the volunteers who was with us, who was the nicest guy ever, if we could say a quick prayer with him to ask God to help us find the key. He said yeh sure we can try! So we said a little prayer together in the hallway of this apartment complex and then we started looking again. Me and Lindberg were hauling out this wooden dresser closet thingy and then we see our boy come walking out of the house with the key in his hand, and he said I found it! And I asked him if he believed that God helped him and he said " Gud finnes" which means god lives! Ha its always a good story when ya have something that's lost and you say a little prayer and you find it, but it's even BETTER when a person who doesn't believe in god finds the key because then you get his number and then meet up another time and talk more about it ;) so that was awesome. So one thing that my testimony really grew on this week was the power of relying on our Lord and Savior! Which made me think of the scripture In Proverbs 3:5-6.
" 5 ¶ Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."
This is King Soloman writing about what we must do in order to get through hard times in life. I can truly testify that this IS true and that when hard times come our way, first think of things that you could be doing to bring yourself closer to the Lord, then ask him for help, and last thing is BELEIVE that he will help. The classic Polar Express says it best, " You need to believe in order to receive!" Since its Christmas time let's all take that advice and strengthen our faith that the Lord does and will help us. Christmas is the best time of the year by far! It's also the best time to be doing service and helping others. So continue to Light the World and be examples of Christ! I love you all and wish you all a Merry Christmas. Enjoy the snow and get the best out of it because you don't realize how much you miss it until all you can do with it is scrape it off your car every morning :)
Ya boi, Eldste Spaddy ❄
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