What's up everyone,
Corona kind of messed up our week but we ended up making the best out of it. For some stupid reason everyone and their dog decided to go get tested this week so lines for testing were insanely long and people who weren't even sick were testing positive. So the numbers have been getting "dangerously high" so they shut everything down and cancelled church and all out appointments were cancelled as well.
Sunday we just asked President if we could drive down to Tønsberg to go to church so he gave the green light so that was fire. But on the bright side Bjørn is doing good and has been 1 week without tobacco! He's so happy right now and just loving life so that's really motivating. His baptismal interview is scheduled for the 2nd of December which is exciting. Transfers is next week though so we will see how that goes! It would be cool to be here for his baptism but if I dip it's in the Lords hands! We found some new people to start meeting with which is cool, I got a message from some random girl asking about missionary work and stuff so we are going on a hike this week with her and giving her a book of Mormon which is dope. We've just been making friends in the community and then bringing up the gospel so that's been fun! We've met some interesting but cool people, my comp is super musically talented so he just joined a Facebook group and asked people if we could meet up and "jam" and we had this guy say, "yeh I'm in my studio every day from 9-1 just come over!" So we pulled up and it was in this sketchy cellar thing and I was like oh man this is gonna be so ghetto but we get down there and this dude had a legit full studio with probably over 200 guitars hanging on the wall and a full set of drums and ukuleles and violins it was so cool. He had all this sick recording gear and massive speakers with huge subs and stuff it was legit! So we started talking and then he just gives my comp a guitar and they just start going off it was dope. Then I looked over and I saw a guitar with Jesus on it and thought aye there's my opportunity! So I picked it up and said, "I think this one is my fav! Jesus is a good guy!" And then we started talking about religion and what he believes in and stuff. He was agnostic but we can change that ;) so we will meet up with him again sometime and we're gunna make a song or something so that'll be swaggy.
This week I've been reading in the Book of Mormon and the Old Testament and one thing I've realized is the amount of symbolism in the scriptures. I read along with the institute manuals and the gospel doctrine books and it has helped so much to learn more deeply about what the prophets really meant and man Isaiah is a stud. I use to read super quickly through the Isaiah chapters but now I'm eating it up. One thing I loved that Bruce R. McConkie said was that the Fall the Creation and the Atonement are all inseparable and are all necessary for each other. I liked that and think he's such a stud! My mission presidents wife is his niece so she hooks it up with talks and speeches that were never written down. Today on p day we went fishing but didn't catch much. We saw a swan and fed it tortilla chips and then I got the grand idea to feed it one from my mouth.... homeboy bit my nose and chin but I snagged a dope pic of it so that's all that counts! #fortheboys
Have a good week! 🙌🏽
Eldste McSpadden
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