Hællæ!! hey family and good friends!:)
the first week in fredrikstad has already gone by pretty quick! I will not lie leaving my grounds in Mo I Rana was almost like leaving home! all the people that i knew and contacted multiple times aday and even had little jokes with them and especially the members who i have become closely associated with! i will truly miss all people there and all the good times that i have had there but i didnt know what else todo for that area and its good to come back to civilazation i can say that much! being the only two missionaries and the closest people were over 3 hours away and never saw to many missionaries and i realized as i got to the oslo center how much i had been deprived of missionaries,but that was a good thing as well i learned alot of lessons on doing what ever i could especially under loose watch and trust to do what we are suppose todo! i was truly blessed to have served there and now i am blessed to serve in one of the first places to ever have missionaries! some of the first pioneers came out from fredrikstad in the 1850s and the missionaries who converted them were throwen in jail with many others as well!
Thiss week we started off with our first appointment by meeting with the bishop and talking about what this ward needs most! ge gave us some good tips and we started a good relationship!:) i was able to meet acouple other people and had to set some new expectations with the investigators as well! its so interesting to be back in my area and to be honest at first i didnt know if i could handle it.....but i know this is where the lord needs me and we have already seen miracles with receiving referrals (which doesnt happen to much in norway) that are super positive! Roseanne(the lady that moved from MO) invited us over the other day and had a girl for us to teach and it went super well! plus her children as well are ready to be baptized just waiting for them to come back from vacation!! my companion and i have alot to do here so our work is set up and our obediance is locked on so we can get our people to progress:)
well i will tell you how amazing it was to be in church and to listen to someone else give a lesson for once!:) to listen and to ponder and to UNDERSTAND! it has been so great but i will say that people do not understand the dialect i was picking up so i have had to drop that completly and go back to something boring! haha i have continued my streak of talks though since the bishop asked us to give a talk so that makes it 29 straight weeks of giving a talk!:) hopefully that will end here soon hhaha:) well the ward is great and i am getting along thanks to my humor i have picked up and my easy going personality makes it super easy to talk to everyone:) well thats the week! i hope everyone is doing so great! it was good to get letters and emails from you this week:) i miss you all and have a great week:)
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