Waddup everybody another week has flown by, it's crazy Christmas is coming so soon!
I love it though because everyone is in a better mood around Christmas which makes it nice. But I'm so confused with the weather here, we got snow in like October and haven't gotten ANY since then. It always just stays like right above freezing so the rain doesn't freeze and it's just wet windy and cold. I'm literally in the arctic circle but yet there's no snow? Man I hope we get a toooon before Christmas.
Anyways this week was solid! We have had some good appointments with people we meet off Facebook, I messaged this hiking group here in Oslo and then a person responded and said, "It's good to see that there are other LDS people here in Oslo" and I was like what the, so I looked up her name on the member list and it wasn't there. Turns out she moved from Peru about 2-3 years ago and couldn't speak Norwegian and didn't have many friends so she went inactive. She is engaged to a Norwegian now and they are super cool people! We introduced them to another couple in the ward and the wife is from South America and the dude is from Norway and they got along so well which was great! Kinda frustrating that we don't have church meetings because it would be perfect to invite them but it is what it is. Miracles do happen! Like what are the odds!? Then another guy who actually just sent me a message and asked if I wanted to meet up at a cafe with him was cool as well. After we met up he asked me how old I was and I was like "uh 19 man what about you" and he was like, "ohhh I thought you were like 35, I would've never thought I'd be getting a cup of coffee with two 19 year old Mormons". Then he was like, "hey you guys are super cool" and just started asking so many questions about what we believe and we basically taught him the Restoration and some of the plan of Salvation. He's pretty religious himself but was super cool and genuinely interested in what we believe in so that was good. And to think he messaged me and I didn't have to do a thing. Our landlord has been reading the book of Mormon a little as well and likes it. We had a lesson with him about 2 weeks ago and he was just like " How do you guys have all these good looking young studs who teach people about Jesus? Like that is so crazy to me, you guys could be doing so many other things in your life but your paying to be here??" We just said because we know that book right there is true that's why. Then he goes alright then I'm going to read it! He's such a cool guy, he's Italian and he said he would make us some pasta or pizza sometime so I'm stoked for that as well.
We had a missionary conference over technology this week and it turned out better then I thought it would, I wanted it to be in person so bad because we just got out of quarantine but we just wanted to be safe I guess. But the spirit was so strong and I've come to crave after that feeling while being on my mission and I love it. We talked about Christ's life and his birth and the meaning of Christmas and it got me hyped. Sunday was awesome, we had sacrament with other people for the first time in 3 weeks, which was so nice. We have 8 missionaries, a senior couple, and President and Sister Tew here in Oslo so that's a blessing. With these technology meetings we usually YouTube musical numbers so we've been getting some fire stuff recently and they just bring the spirit into the meeting so strong I love it.
Hope you have a great week!
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