Wassup everyone!
We had a solid week here in Norway for sure.
Corona canceled a lot of stuff but we were determined to have a successful week so we grinded. We had tons of lessons which was good. Bjørn is doing great, we showed him around the baptismal font and we came to the conclusion that we will probably have to have 2 people in the font to get him up out of the water. I kid you not, we're going to have to have a splash zone around the font because he's a big dude and the font is not big enough. It will be a cool experience and I can't wait, I'm so excited for him! Transfers are this week and I got the news I'll be leaving Drammen to train again down in Oslo. It should be really fun and I'm excited but the 10 day isolation is going to be really boring. After that it'll be good, my new companion's been waiting to get to Norway for some time and I'm sure he's excited to finally get here. Elder Bevan from Moscow, Idaho and a bunch more missionaries are arriving so a lot of us are training to get the mission back up to where we need to be. We're going to be living right in the middle of Sentrum, which is a pretty big city with a university and lots of people. The area hasn't had missionaries in awhile so we'll be opening it back up and getting to work. The Nike store is a 30 second walk from my apartment so I'm chillin! HaHa It's kind of sad that I'll be in isolation for Thanksgiving but I'm just going to make some good food for us and we'll be alright. Eldste and Sister Jackson, my favorite senior couple, are moving to Oslo too!
Funny story that happened, we asked the sisters if we could borrow they're bus card so we could catch an appointment with a family one night. They said yes and then the next day they called us to see if we could meet and bring the cards to the station at 2? We were like ya ya of course! At 1:59 we get a message from the sisters saying we're here... well if you know me, I had already forgotten about it. I felt so bad, so we zoomed down to the bus station and I took off in a full sprint to find them and give them their cards before their train left in 2 minutes. As I came around the corner, sprinting into town square, I slipped on one of those metal sewage lids. I ATE it so hard, landing on the ground in a massive puddle in front of like 20 people. The sisters just died laughing as they watched the whole thing go down. I walked away with soaking wet clothes and some broken pride but they made their train so it's all good.
On Friday it was my old companion Elder Meldrum's birthday and a girl we teach so we decided to celebrate together and go to dinner at this place called "Texas BBQ" and ohhhh man was that a blessing from heaven. We had baby back ribs, brisket, mac n cheese, peach cobbler and a cold glass of root beer for the boys. It has been SOOOO long since I've had any of that kind of food and it was so good. But that was the first and last time I'll be paying 6 bucks for a cold root beer but man it was good. Anyways, we've been making some videos as well which has been cool! I never thought I'd be taking pictures, filming and editing videos on my mission but that's what we have to do now. Vilde is super nice and lets us use her fancy camera so we just take it with us everywhere we go and get footy of different things we do and then tie a gospel principle to it and post it. We have a page for our mission and they post it and then we respond to all the comments and likes of those who aren't members then meet up with them later. It's pretty weird but it works so well and I don't really care how we do it as long as we're finding people to teach! We invited our recent convert and another friend we're teaching to a family home evening with the Stake President and his fam and they KILLED it! We discussed Come Follow Me and in Ether when they built the barges. He compared it to how we need to make that decision to "get in the boat" everyday and trust in God. It was awesome for both of them to here and I learned a ton as well.
To close, I want to share an awesome experience we had with Bjørn this past week as well. He'd been doing so well with his plan and he slipped up and smoked again. It was super tough on him because he thought he could just quit and he was super down about it and then the next couple of days he seemed to loose motivation. But last week I called my brother Dillon and he was telling me about his mission and that he was in the same situation I'm in right now with Bjorn. He and his companion decided to stop by for a little bit at least once a day to check in and it worked. So we started doing it with Bjorn and it helped him so much. We would read and pray with him or just have a good talk and then leave. We made a plan to begin again this week and keep it up until his baptism, he was a little uncertain if he could do it and was kind of stubborn on just throwing away all his tobacco right then and there. But then we showed up yesterday and he was so hyped! We got in a good lift with him and then he tells us, "boys guess what? I threw all my tobacco in the fire this morning, I'm going to do it!!" It was so dope, Bjørn is such a stud. We printed off some great quotes for him that he loves from President Nelson and then set up a calendar for him to mark off the days until his baptism and he was stoked again so that was amazing! Shout out to "D" for the inspiration 🙌🏽 Hope you all have a good week!
Eldste McSpadden
Eldste Affleck, Eirin and Eldste McSpadden
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