Ayyye wassup friends and fam!
Agh this week was really good we had some sweet teaches and some people who have started progressing, it was great! First off it was so cool because I got to meet up with my boy Wes's (High School buddy serving in Tonga) auntie and got to chat with her and her husband. Momma T sent me a message a while back saying she would love it if we could meet up with her in Bergen. So we flew in for splits and set up an appointment. They were some of the nicest people I've met here, they bought us pizza and we had a great chat. Norway could use a few more people from Tongan that's for sure! So shout out to my boy Wes and his fam for having family everywhere even in Norway! Luv you toko, Ofa Atu ❤ We finished up with splits and headed to the airport to fly home from Bergen and we usually get to the airport with plenty of time to spare because we get there an hour to an hour and a half early just in case something happens. Man it was lucky we did because it was so packed that day! It took forever getting through security and as soon as we got out we sprinted to our gate just as our boarding group came up it was a miracle! The amount of times I've had to full on sprint through the airport is ridiculous, my early morning runs are to keep me in shape so I don't miss my flights. I'm sure the airport staff are like, "here come the missionaries". Haha
Friday was such a good day and probably one of the best lesson days I've had here yet! We went over to the families house who was recently baptized and he invited his nephew over to eat with us. Kjell is such a stud doing missionary work himself, I know it's because he loves the gospel so much he just wants everyone around him to experience the joy as well! It's because he knows it's true and puts in the WORK. This man started believing in God about 6 months ago and already has finished the Old and New Testament, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price and is now following along with the Come Follow Me Program with the Book of Mormon again. He loves the gospel because he studies it and loves gaining knowledge. I read a talk this week by D. Todd Christofferson and he was talking about the powers of reading the Book of Mormon and he said the people who learn to love studying and who invest time are the ones who will truly love and know the gospel. I have a very strong testimony of that as I have become a big studier of the scriptures. I love it when I read and gain personal insights and things I need to know when we go out and teach. But anyways back to the dope lesson, after I had eaten about 4 or 5 massive calzones we decided to start filling our bodies spiritually haha. So with his nephew there we started going over the first lesson again because recent converts are suppose to be taught the lessons again but instead of him being taught it felt like a member on a teach with us! He was sharing scriptures and insights through the whole lesson. And right at the end when we read in Moroni 10:3-5 Kjell pounded his fist on the table and he said " That statement right there is true! I KNOW it with all my heart, God told me through the power of the Holy Ghost that this book and this gospel are his words and its changed my life!" Wooo it was so sick I felt like Jeffery R. Holland was in the room or something the spirit was just raging. So now his nephew is going to take the lessons and is reading from the Book of Mormon and Kjell took him to church it was so dope. Then the funny part begins, we had scheduled to meet with this super nice Kurdish family who just feeds us all the time. I had tried to get it on separate days because I knew they were going to make us food like every other. So on the way there we started doing the Samoan shuffle, my brother Dillon taught me to do so we could make some room in a stomach that didn't have any room left! We pulled up and said a good prayer before we went in to bless us to have the spirit in the lesson and that the spirit would touch their hearts, we walk up and start chatting with them and I didn't see any food on the table and I felt so relieved, right then she said "are you guys hungry I made some stuff for you!" So we gave the slight umm ya sure. She walks in with food that could have fed the 5000 jeez. I started tripping I didn't know how long I would last before throwing up. But we started and every time I cleared my plate and thought I was chillin she threw a heap of more stuff on my plate. The good thing was the food was amazing so It made it doable but I started sweating I couldn't eat another bite or I would have just exploded. So after 5 calzones, 2 peices of rich chocolate cake, 4 massive helpings of this Kurdish rice chicken stuff 3 helpings of salad and some fruit we decided to start a lesson! So I had coordinated with some of my boys I met in the MTC who were heading to California speaking Farsi a few weeks ago to see if they could skype in with a few of our lessons with this family. They speak mostly Farsi, Norwegian but struggle with religious words and not any English. So we called my buddies and they were pretty excited to help me out and we had a sick lesson with them! They had so many questions and the spirit was pretty strong even though I couldn't understand a thing it was a good night for sure.
Then we had a good turnout on Sunday as well and had 2 of our progressing friends there and some less active members so it was sweet! Now were headed to Zone Conference in Stavanger and we get P day with some other missionaries so that's always so fun. Going to go school some kids in volleyball,l shout out to my boy E dawg and I for playing on that club team in the winter, it came in handy! Always super excited for Zone Conference because not only do we get to see the homies and eat money food, we get to hear President Tew speak. And man let me tell you that guy is a STUD agh he's such a homie and so spiritual I love him and Sister Tew so much and am so lucky to have them leading this mission. Hope you all have a great week!
Eldste Spaddy!
Knitting Club!
Headed to Bergen
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