We had a pretty solid week this week for sure!
With the corona rules we can't proselyte so we've been finding other ways to reach out to people which has been great! For the most part we do tons of service, social media contacting and my favorite is sport contacting. The service opportunities have been so much fun as we just help random people, they eventually ask what we're doing in Norway and we let them know we're missionaries and love to help people for free! They don't really believe the free part and always ask if they can pay us just a little. We nicely tell them no but then let them know we'd love to sit down and have dinner with them and their families sometime! They usually love the idea because they're curious about why were there but not sure what questions to ask and then we teach them at dinner. This worked well with one of the families but when we went over to their house they had a massive dog that they own to scare away the bears. (I think I've told you guys before that the dogs here are so big and I've never seen so many massive sized breeds in all my life!) Well this monstrous dog comes running up to me so of course I try to be nice and pet it. Big mistake, it starts barking like crazy, turns and bites me right on the butt. My first thought was to kick it but then I realized the whole family was there and it literally weighed more than me. I think it would've killed me if I would of responded aggressively so I just played it off like no big deal. Then when we got home, I checked and found teeth marks all over my bum. Haha, good stuff, I was blessed it didn't break through the skin but there's a pretty good bruise.
The social media contacting involves ads we create talking about what we believe, what makes us happy and how our lives are enriched with the knowledge of the gospel. People can then message us and ask as many questions as they want. That's how we found Luke, we've been teaching him for sometime and he loves to read the Book of Mormon. His testimony is growing and he's decided to be baptized on the 25th of July! So that's exciting news! He's such a great guy and really loves everything he's learning. Social media contacting is going really well here in Norway and we love the people contacting us who are really interested in learning.
Then with sport contacting, we just pull up to a court or soccer field and find some people who'll play. (My companion played soccer at Lone Peak HS so he loves the footy over here) We always ask for their numbers and talk to them about our church while we play, it's dope! But I've learned that people don't like getting schooled by dudes in white shirts and ties! But it's been good, we had tons of lessons and service opportunities this week and we also finally had church IN PERSON!! That was a blessing! We had a girl that we played sport with, earlier in the week, come to church and our friend who's getting baptized. Also one of the members we've been reactivating showed up with his friend, we we're super excited for such a good turnout for our first Sunday back! My 19th birthday was this week and our landlords invited us over for some yummy food which was nice. They're an older couple and different missionaries have been living in their basement for years, they love their missionaries but have never joined the church. So we'll have to work on that... Thanks for all the birthday wishes, I appreciated it! We found so many new people to teach this week, which was good and the members here are dope as well. On Sunday, we had a couple from America smoke us up some ribs on his Traeger for Father's Day, it was heavenly and such a blessing. I found out that's what my family had back home too, kind of funny. Life's good and I'm just chillin living life here, I absolutely love my mission and love living in Norway! I hope everyone Is doing well.
Something I liked from my personal study this week is in Revelations! When John the Beloved has a vision and he sees Christ in the midst of 7 candle sticks and 7 stars. Those candle sticks represented the 7 churches of Asia minor (modern day Turkey) but can also represent the church as a whole. Christ is the light and life of the world we need to let His light shine within us and not hide it from others. We need to be the ones sharing his love throughout the world in these crazy times! I love reading the scriptures and coming closer to my Savior, my perspective on life has changed so much by being a full time servant of the Lord and I'm so grateful I get to share this wonderful message with others. Have a good week! 🤠
Eldste Spaddy 🤙🏽
Had some tasty ribs at his house this week and met so many new people through sport contacting that were interested in learning more about why we're here in Norway.
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