We found out on Saturday I'll be staying here in Ålesund which is going to be sick! Love this place and the people in it! That also means I'll be spending Christmas here which is going to be fun! Christmas time is my favorite time of the year by far and I'm glad I get to be out here doing the Lords work during such a fun time! This week was another good week we had lots of teachings and finding! A lot of our investigators are younger people who are in college here in Ålesund so they're all travelling back with family for Christmas so we packed a lot of lessons in this week trying to meet with all of them before they all dip. So we had some good experiences with them but they were all kind of short follow ups with reading the Book of Mormon and commandment stuff but I always love hearing when someone had a cool experience reading in the book of Mormon. One of our friends were teaching was living the Word of Wisdom this week and she said that it went pretty well but she had 1 cup of coffee because she had two shifts at work and school and needed to wake up. We were so stoked to hear that and she said whenever she needed a boost she would read a couple verses from the BOM and it would always gives her a little boost which was so cool!
We did a lot of knocking doors this week because we found the jackpot! Ålesund is a very small beautiful city but it's a vacation spot for a lot of people. Almost every weekend there are cruise ships pulling up in the harbor and every one we talk to is a tourist, so it kinda gets annoying. And if people actually live here they're over 65 and trying to talk to a 65 year old Norwegian about religion is impossible so its pointless to knock doors because you can't even say hello before they shut the door! hahah! We knock a lot of doors but this week we were driving back from an appointment and there were like 60 college aged kids just chilling at this bus stop and I was like we need to find out where those guys live so we can talk with them! So the next day we went looking and up behind one of the classroom buildings we found student housing! Ha it was the jackpot we knocked the crap outta those doors and gave out so many copies of the Book of Mormon and set up return appointments for next week it was great. There was one that was super cool though! We had just finished a lesson with a member who was baptized like a couple years ago and she is the coolest person. She went to Thailand and brought us home little Christmas gifts she's just dope. But we were heading back on the bus to go knock some more student housing apartments and we step off the bus and it was just pouring rain. I didn't have my rain coat with me or my water proof shoes or my umbrella so I knew it was going to be a cold hour an a half of knocking! We started knocking and the 4th guy we talked to stepped out and started talking with us and said he had talked with missionaries before! And he was like alright let's hear it I remember the other guys talked a little about some plan and it seemed cool. So we taught him the Plan of Salvation right on his doorstep in the pouring rain and he just kept asking questions it was awesome. All in all we taught him the Plan of Salvation the Restoration the Word of Wisdom and the Law of Chastity. Usually that would be so much information for someone they wouldn't really remember it all but this guy was smart after we were done he went through and did a summary of it all and he nailed it! It was so funny we were just soaking wet and I couldn't feel my feet but the spirit was pretty strong and we were just pumped someone had so many questions we didn't even care. He said he's traveling home for Christmas but will be back in January so we'll meet up with him again which will be cool. Then we went home and tried to warm up made some fish and chips which was so good!
One thing I've come to realize this week is that there are people every where ready to hear the message of the restored gospel, you just have to go out and find them! My area was shut down because no one was holding church and no one was getting taught just a couple months ago. Then we came in and were determined to find people who are ready to here it! And this past Sunday we had 12 people at church 5 of them being people we are teaching and 5 members. It's so dope to see a branch who wasn't even holding sacrament every week because no one came to having 12 people it was so dope! And not everyone who usually comes was there so there really has been good progress here because we've tried to focus on letting the Lord guide us to those elect people.
Anyways hope you guys have a good week and Merry Christmas!!!
Love ya boy,
Eldste Spaddy! ❄🎁🤘
This is what it looks like all day now! The sun never even makes it up over the mountains! Beautiful sunset or sunrise for a couple hours then pitch dark. I love Norway!!
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