This week was another amazing week as usual..I mean what do you get when you're in the greatest mission in the world...amazing week after week! So I'm just going to jump right in!
Monday
So last Monday we had actually planned to drive up to Spiralen with my grandparents and walk around the outdoor museum.. but we got up there and it was freezing cold so we went and got hot chocolate at Gulskogen instead and then walked around the stores... and we got a few things from them so that was fun! We then went to dinner and Sister Cook said goodbye to a few people.
Tuesday
Today I had a WebEx meeting for all the new trainers in the mission...which was me and two elders haha! But we talked about what we needed to do as trainers in the mission and I learned a lot and it got me really excited! Then we did our studies and went out and said goodbye to a few families in the ward! So that traveling time took up the majority of our day too haha! Then Sister Cook packed and I got stuff ready for my new missionary!!
Wednesday
We dropped Sister Cook off today:((( We have become the best of friends....and it's always sad to say good-bye...but I know this one is not a good-bye but see you later!! We dropper her off at the train station around 10 along with Elder Johnson and then the rest of the elders and I went to the church to do our studies and had lunch while waiting for my new missionary and Elder Mitchell's new companion. President Hill called and said that they would just drive her down instead of having her take the train, so Sis. Hill and Sis. Dransfield drove her down here and then I met my "daughter" in mission terminology! She's the sweetest and just so nice! We get along super well which makes training even more fun! We went and dropped off her stuff at the apartment and then we had a dinner appointment that takes an hour to travel too... so we took the bus down to the city and then we had extra time before the train came... so we went out contacting! She handled it like a champ though! I talked and then I would explain what they had said and she was already asking what specific words meant and she is just ready to learn and really jumping in with both feet! We got on the train and talked to a lady from Mo I Rana all the way to our destination and then tried contacting in the city while waiting for the bus... but there was no one out. So we went to our dinner appointment with the elders and had a fun visit with them.... and we gave the spiritual thought. My new companion, Sister Sorensen bore her testimony at the end in Norwegian already!! She is the greatest! Then the elders drove us back and funny story...so Elder Mitchell was driving but Sister Sorensen thought I was driving so she sat in the front seat and Elder Mitchell sat in the driver's seat and he just freaked out..it was hilarious!:)) Anyway, moving on! Then we went to Young Women's and helped them set up for a dance on Saturday!
Thursday
Today we had District Meeting with our new District! Elder Mitchell's new companion is Elder Decker. He is from Salem, Oregon and does fencing..that's about all I know..he just served in Stavanger. We talked about using the members to help us do missionary work and what it means to establish the church ....and then had District lunch! We had our studies and then met with a lady who actually just kept drilling me with questions about women and the priesthood...she told us she is anti-mormon.... so she is no longer an investigator....there's no need to sit and argue with her. After that we went and tried to visit our investigator and invite her to the Relief Soceity activity..she couldn't come but we did get a way to contact her through email so that was great!! Then a lady in the ward came and picked us up and drove us to the Relief Soceity activity and that was a lot of fun! Poor Sister Sorensen got hit hard with jet lag today plus all the Norwegian... but she did a great job!
Friday
Today we did weekly planning and then we went and visited a family in the ward.... and it was quite the adventure getting up there:)) There were different buses and all sorts of things but there wasn't a bus going to the place we needed... so we literally booked it up the mountian in 7 minutes!! We had mentioned that Sister Sorensen could sing and that I played the piano and the member lady immediately took us to the piano and we had a little mini concert:)) She explained how she had used music on her mission so she is letting us borrow her Children's Songbook and her hymn book so that we could play and sing at members houses.... so we have a goal to use that during every spiritual thought and lesson this week! So that will be super fun! We printed out some music that we can use for spiritual thoughts and then traveled home. Our bus to our house just never showed up so the elders had to come pick us up and take us home!
Saturday
Today we had a street stand trying to invite people to an open house that we had on Sunday talking about the Plan of Salvation. We were at the stand for 6 hours and handed out 500 cards...Sister Sorensen had stuck with me for the beginning of the day and stopped people and asked them the first question and then I would jump in after wards.... but then by the end we were both contacting by ourselves inviting people to this open house!! It was awesome to see! The Elders were all in awe that we managed to give out our cards so fast... so to say that we were exhausted by the end of the day is an understatement! Then we went and visited Mommo and Besse and we played the piano on Mommo's keyboard... we sang and then shared a spiritual thought about scripture study. It was a great visit! Then when we went home we did 12 week which was a lot of fun...twelve week (new missionary training) is a lot more fun the second time around haha!
Sunday
Today we had MMK and church and it was all fantastic! We had a really good Relief Society lesson about the power of prayer. Then a family in the ward invited us and the elders over for dinner last minute because we had no dinner appointment. So nice of them and we had a lot of fun with their family ...their little boys are hilarious! Elder Decker had invited the boys to honor their parents and one of the boys said, "Just this week?" and we were all cracking up! After that we prepared things for the open house so I played the piano while Sister Sorensen sang I am a Child of God.... and that's the first time I've ever played the piano in front of people for a musical number so that was fun! We were waiting to welcome the nonmembers to our event because we had handed out 500 cards and there was literally no one that came..just members. So that was a little disappointing:((...you think about stuff like that and we had all worked so hard..... and we thought that at least 1 out of 500 would show up...but all I know is that God loves His children even if I don't understand all of the plan sometimes. 1 Nephi 11:17. Then we finished up studies that night!
Today
Today we are emailing and then Sister Sorensen has to get a few things and then we are going to try and think of something fun! Who knows what we will do!
Love you all lots and miss you all tons!
Sis. Hill took some amazing pictures of Kylee and her new companion! And this is what she wrote: "Wednesday I was lucky enough to be the driver delivering Sister Sorensen to her waiting companion Sister Love in Drammen. Sister Love is living up to her name:))!
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