Another week down, we're just working and grinding with the work here in Norway.
We had another great lesson with Bjørn and I feel like we helped answer some of his questions, which was good. It's so interesting to me to observe people when they're just focusing on the Bible and see how confused they get but when we read from the Book of Mormon it clarifies and answers all of their questions. The spirit is reassuring and constantly testifying to me of the truth of the Book of Mormon each time I teach others about it. I love this gospel and I know it's true!!
We had a BBQ with the ward on Saturday it was so fun. We invited 8 non members and some less actives and they pulled up, which was dope! All of our ward members were talking to them it was great! We cooked up some burgers and we're supposed to have a wing making competition but when they found out the American missionaries were competing they bailed, haha! I guess they knew they couldn't compete against the honey bbq wings 🙌🏽 we used to make back home, shoutout to the boys for wing night Thursdays. Oh I forgot, before our BBQ we were invited to a 7th day Adventist church and oh man that was quite an experience. I've been to a couple different churches while being here and it was by far the weirdest one. Jehovah's Witnesses are just really boring and can't stop talking about how brother Russell found out that Gods name is Jehovah. The Pinsy Church is just a Christian dance party while they read random bible verses then have cake and coffee afterwards. But this one was different, we showed up to the bible study before and listened to what they had to say and it was so funny what they discussed. Then the service began and we walked in and their was a big back drop with like animated pictures of statues, lions, bears, dragons breathing fire and a bunch of other weird things. The "come follow me" for their church that week was the book of Daniel. This old rich preacher dude just stood up and would read off different prophecies from the book of Daniel and then try to tell us what it meant and I couldn't help but laugh. I was really respectful but then he said, "if any of you don't believe this you will be cast into the fiery furnace!" Then he slowly backed up while the lights dimmed and the choir popped up and started singing about the Fiery Furnace. Big testimony building experience for me to know without a doubt that I'm teaching, as a missionary, others about the true church and I know that it was restored through prophets with the priesthood.
We lifted a lot with Bjørn this week and he's been working with us to improve our form because he's a powerlifting judge as well. We've been helping him spiritually and he's been working with us physically, it's a lot of fun. We balled up some kids again this week and some random guy from Poland, who was like 45, pulled up and started BALLING. Dude couldn't miss but he was reaching left and right so I crossed him up with some dirty handles. BUT then the drive right after that I came down the middle of the key and this dude FLEW outta nowhere and swatted the crap out of me it was so funny he was hyped. Then today for p day we woke up and rearranged our apartment and made a homemade gym in the living room. We borrowed a few weights from Bjørn and set up a bench and some dumb bells then a pull up area outside. We've also been practicing throwing darts on our dart board to try and beat Bjørn because he's so good. Then we played paint ball with a bunch of YSA and non members It was sick. Most of the Norwegians didn't know how to shoot a gun so we lit them up, it was so funny. We have Zone conference this week so that'll be cool!
On a more spiritual note, I loved a personal study I had this week. I'm reading in The Book of Mormon at the end of 3 Nephi when Christ had just visited the Americas and gathered his disciples and then the prophets started preaching repentance to all the people. In chapter 32 it's 2 verses that tell them to repent of all there sins, murders, plunderings, whoredoms and all kinds of iniquity. Then in 4 Nephi it says that the people listened to them and began to repent. They stopped having division among them and the names, " Nephites and Lamanites" were done away with and the people were unified and they were all one. Then in the next verse it says that there was never a more happier group of people in the history of the creations of God than that group of people at that time because they showed love towards each other and were one in Christ. I wish I could have Trump read those two chapters to the world so everyone could just chill out. It's so sad to see people so divided and cause so much hate amongst each other. The only solution to this problem is Christ, if we all show Christlike love to each other and follow Gods commandments we can be the happiest people ever! I know that's true because I have experienced it in my life. Hope you all have a good week and try to be Christ like to those around you!
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