#11 Savior's love

Hei Hei Alle Sammen!

I feel like all my blog posts start out the same saying that it's been another wonderful week in the mission field:) but what do you do when it's been another WONDERFUL week in the mission field!:)  

Monday

Last P-day after e-mailing we went home and started knitting..and singing Sound of Music.  You would think that we're 50 instead of 19 because we're all just sitting there in our apartment knitting ties:)  We were laughing at ourselves, but it was actually a lot of fun!  We have a less active that is always asking about our knitting so we have to knit something to show her our progress!  We had a dinner appointment and we decided to share the Mormon Message "Dare to Stand Alone" and then share Joshua 1:9. They shared lots of experiences that fit right in with the thought.  Then we got up to leave and everyone is completely silent and in case you didn't know every single doorway in Norway basically has a curb at the bottom of the doorway so you always have to step up...well America doesn't have that, so still not used to it, so of course I jammed my foot into that curb when everyone was completely silent!!:) Literally can't go anywhere without an embarrassing moment! So that one should keep you laughing for the next week! 

Tuesday

We had an appointment but it got cancelled...hopefully we will have an appointment with her this coming week. She was one of our new investigators.  Then we went to District Meeting and talked about the Plan of Salvation and how to help our investigators get to their baptismal date! We had another appointment with another new investigator, but that one got cancelled as well. We had to drop one of my companions off at the train station because she had splits in Drammen the next day, so we got another companion for the day!  We had a great time getting to know her! 

Wednesday

We had another appointment cancelled on us and he said that he should just stick with the Norwegian church…so we lost that investigator, but we had never met with him before, he was just a former.  We went to go and drop off a chocolate bar and a note to another investigator who just recently had surgery, and on the the way home, we decided to go to Asker Sentrum and try and hand out at least 1 Book of Mormon. My companion started talking to someone and asked questions about life after death… so we taught this girl while on the street!  My companion asked the perfect questions!  The girl agreed to meet with us, so we have an appointment with her this Wednesday!  We offered her a Book of Mormon but she says she wants to stick to the Bible, so we're going to have to work with that a little bit, but it was awesome!  Then we got a new mission car!  Which I haven't taken  pictures of yet, but I will this coming week!  It's super nice and has a backup camera and heated seats and steering wheel, and the only downside is that the color looks like a blue raspberry:)) but, it's easy to spot so it's great!  Then we met with another new investigator at the church and so it was me and my companions that taught him.  We gave him a church tour and then gave a little bit of a run down of the Book of Mormon/Restoration because we had an appointment that we had to get to. He's very open and wants to learn more so we're super excited to teach him!  He said he has lots of questions so we explained that was normal and that we would go more in depth next time when we are actually teaching the Restoration and we get to teach him in English which is exciting!  We went to a less active and watched the Testaments and that is the greatest movie!  If you haven't seen it then go watch it!  I couldn't help but think how happy my life is and how much joy I can find in life, simply because I believe in Christ!  There are thousands that go throughout life without that knowledge and I am so incredibly blessed that I got to go my whole life knowing that Christ lives!  AMAZING!  And of course I was crying at the end of the movie!  SO GOOD!  

Thursday

We went to go visit a member that just recently got her wisdom teeth out…we brought a popsicles and just sat outside!  We shared Joshua 1:9 with her and it's always fun to go and visit her!  After that we had weekly planning and guess what!?!  We had 4 new investigators this week and 14 people in our investigator pool!  THAT'S CRAZY!  We also have had 2 baptisms in the past couple of weeks in the mission..one was in Oslo and the other in Stavanger.  

Friday

Our Zone has decided that each Friday everyone in our zone is to go out with their District and just contact for an hour!  So the Elders went one way and we went the other and talked to anyone and everyone we could!  We had multiple conversations and handed out one Book of Mormon!  Many people expressed that they didn't believe in anything so we would ask them why they believed that way and tried to find anything and everything that we could grasp onto and connect to the gospel and bare testimony of.  We had long conversations where we thought it would be going somewhere and then they would say "nei takk" and then move on. There was even a guy who turned into McDonalds when we were walking and he probably didn't even hear us but we all laughed because we were joking that he had just picked McDonalds over salvation. 

Saturday

We played soccer again like we do every Saturday and it just gets more and more stressful every week because more and more people who actually know how to play soccer keep showing up!:))  I had my little moments where I kicked the ball maybe once...well actually there was once where I almost scored so that was fun!  But one of my companions and I kept saying that we were just obstacles in the field!  Then we drove to Drammen!!!  We had an appointment with  Mommo and Besse (her grand-parents. She got permission from the President since her grand-parents live so close) We had a dinner appointment with them…and I got my favorite food…fiskeboller!!! We had so much yummy food!...we have never walked out of a dinner appointment more stuffed in our lives!  Mommo even gave us candy and Dr. Pepper (My companion loves Dr. Pepper just as much as I do so we were happy campers!!!) We shared the Mormon Message “Because of Him” and then read 2 Nephi 25:26. It was awesome to be able to sit and talk about our message with them! It was so much fun being back in Drammen!  Literally love that town and probably one of my favorite places on earth! 

Sunday

Today was phenomenal!  It was Fast Sunday and one of our investigators  got up and BORE HER TESTIMONY! She doesn't even have a baptismal date yet but she went up there!.. so you can bet that that got all of us crying!  It was absolutely amazing!  The gospel changes lives and I'm so incredibly blessed that I get to have a front seat to see how it's changing the lives of those I'm teaching.  My heart just bursts with joy!  Then we had to teach the lesson in Sunday School about baptism, so we decided to do a role play where the class had to teach us and we were the investigators. Our investigator was in there and HE was teaching US about baptism and we're thinking something finally might've clicked so we're super excited!  I'll keep you updated!  Then we went and had dinner and had some delicious lava cake that COMES OUT OF A BOX!  I was blown away!   Later we went to go and visit another person who is struggling a little bit. We read the most recent general conference talk from President Uchtdorf and talked about how the Savior carries us.  She was expressing how much she just wanted to see President Uchtdorf and is praying that there is enough room in the church so she can just see him! (He will be in Oslo on Saturday) It made me think that how I always take it for granted that I have lived so close to the conference center and have seen them so many times...she simply just wants to see him!  She has been through so much and I literally want nothing more than for her to be able to sit in the church building with him!   As she was talking I could literally feel the burden that was on her, and my heart ached.  We asked what we could do for her at the end of the lesson and she simply said, "Just pray for me" We went out to the car and I just broke into tears!  All I wanted was to fix it all and have everything be okay and that was only a little piece of what our Heavenly Father and Savior feel.  Every time they see us sad or going through a hard time, they want to come right in and fix it,  but they know it is for our good so they just help us endure and carry on.  They love us SO much and I only felt a little bit of that yesterday, but that means that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ love us so much that it is literally unfathomable!  They LOVE us and I KNOW that.  They truly do cry every time we cry and are happy every time we have joy.  That is TRUE.

Today

Today we have gone grocery shopping and  now we're e-mailing!  We are going to play volleyball later today and then we have an appointment with another investigator (new one) tonight!  

I love you all so much and miss you tons!  But I'm happy happy happy!  Hope you guys have a fun Labor Day! Thank you for all your e-mails and letters! I appreciate all your love and support!!

1. Kylee with her grand-parents in Drammen
2. Kylee at her old elementary school
3. Kylee with two of her favorite things