This week was awesome!
Things are getting better with the virus and we can do a lot more things which is nice. But this week we did a lot of service! We went to our bishops farm and helped plant potatoes and dig more planting beds for his garden so that was a good time and then they fed us hotdogs, and if you guys know me I HATE hotdogs. It's probably the only food that I would say I don't like and I use to always hear of people eating crazy food on their missions and how it was nasty. The hardest thing for me has been to eat is Hotdogs haha but I'm getting use to them they're not as bad as I remember. Just had a couple really bad ones that ruined it for me when I was younger and they've always made me puke. Another thing that was fun this week was cross some kids up in a couple basketball games! There's a court next to our house and we sometimes drop by and just ask these Norwegian guys to play and just school them. But this time it was a whole different story, we pulled up and you woulda thought we were in the west side of Compton. We live in the ghetto part of town (which isn't very ghetto because Norway is like the safest place on earth) but these dudes were all playing ball and we decided to take em on. We had just gotten done with a lesson and headed back to the flat so we had our white shirts and ties on but we didn't care. We set our stuff down and I went and asked these boys if we could join and he kinda laughed and said ok if you want! And me and Elder Templeton had no mercy on these boys it was awesome. My comp played ball for Brighton and is just money at shooting, I on the other hand haven't shot a ball since rec ball season back with the Shamrocks when we won the championship. So I was just driving to the hoop and euro stepping the crap outta these guys and my comp was just wet from the 3. He hit like 5 in a row and the dudes were like "Gaurd him dangit! The kids deadly bro!" And me and him were dying, they had some good players tho and one of them had hops and actually played for a team here and could throw it down. I locked him down most the game but then this dude who was playing with us switched and that drive the kid came down and just hammered it on this kid it was hilarious! But the cool part of the story is during the 2-3 games we played this one kid kept looking at our name tags so after we went and talked with him and he said he had met with missionaries before and had been to church! So we got his number and he said he wanted to meet with us. So that was a little miracle that happened and now we've got some swaggy friends who call up "the Americans" when someone good comes to play them on the court. We got a call from him like 3 days later and he said, "hey bro these guys are trying to play against us and they are good we need you boys" but we were about to have a teach so we had to decline but they call us up now for help which is so dope.
We did some more service on Monday and helped this older guy by moving a closet thing up to his 2nd floor and we helped him clean out this renovation house that he was flipping. I jumped out of the van we were in and didn't see a nail that was sticking out of a board and landed right on it. Thank goodness the nail wasn't to long but it went right through my shoe and sock and pricked me a bit but I was ight. I have a picture of the board stuck to my foot too so that was funny. Then we had a lesson with an inactive member who was a homie to us and started reading Come Follow Me and has been watching the online church meeting, it was great! We then helped him remove this massive tree trunk that has been stuck in his yard for 5 years. This thing was the biggest tree trunk I've ever seen, it was huge but we got it with some tow ropes and pushing. Then he invited us over for dinner to try Sri Lankan food because that's where he's from.
Another funny thing was we were filming this trick shot for my companions Facebook and this little 10 year old kid walked up and said "are you guys making a tic toc?" And I said, "what's that 😂" he then showed me some and I was like oh yeh my sisters do those all the time that's funny but no we aren't. Then he goes well can I make one with you guys? And we were like sure why not! So then we made a video of us doing an alleyoop train and he was so stoked about it then he said, "so do you guys teach people about Jesus?" And we were like yeh man we do are you Christian? And he said yes so we asked him if we could come share a message with him and his family and he said he'd ask his parents! Super cool kid and even cuter, so watch out for my tic toc I'mma be viral! Then the last cool miracle was a guy who saw my Facebook ad and messaged me to learn more about our church. We actually did a video chat and told him a little and then he invited us to come over to tell him more. So we did and it went super well! He had so many questions and we just pulled up answers from the Book of Mormon and we gave him one and he was like " this book has all the answers, I'm going to read this whole thing and take my family to your church!" Haha I felt like I was in a dream because that never happens. After everything we taught him from the restoration to baptism he believed it! It was super cool and he's got a wife with 5 ADORABLE little kids, they've come from the Congo so it was a blessing to have a solid family who wants to learn more because that's what Norway needs! So it was a great week for sure, and the weather is getting better and the sun comes up earlier and earlier every week and goes down later and later which is nice!
Have a good week every one and send me an email or message me on Facebook it makes my day!
Eldste Spaddy
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