This past week has been another incredible week and also a very busy week! So the whole week is just a blur so that's that...talk to you guys next week! Kidding!:))
Monday
So last Monday we went on a hike with some YSA from our ward and we hiked up that big waterfall and I sent pictures of all of that last week! So that was that! Then we basically just collapsed in the church and sat there and sent pictures and then we met with our less active and talked about temple preparation and showed her the Mormon Messages about why we build temples, how the temple is a beacon, and what blessings the temple brings. She is awesome and we are so excited to see her progress!!!
Tuesday
Today we had a mission wide webex about doing the things that we can control every single day so that we can help the work progress here in Norway! Obedience brings blessings, but exact obedience brings miracles! Before the webex we had District brunch and that was a lot of fun! We did some of our studies and then went to dinner at an elderly woman's home in our ward. She is the sweetest old lady and has such a strong testimony of the gospel! She is the only member in her family but has such a strong faith! I love being able to learn from the people that I go and visit..I always feel like I'm the one being uplifted and taught! I guess that's why they say that when the Spirit is there, then the teacher and the learner are both edified! We also had the rest of our studies and 12 week!
Wednesday
Today we traveled to Oslo for interim training! Which is just first transfer training for the new missionaries! We were combined with the other new missionaries and their trainers as well, so we had a lot of fun all together! We did lots of practicals about public transportation, contacting on the street and banking! We also talked about adjusting to missionary life and how to come to love and learn the language! We then were able to watch The Best Two Years! Sister Sorensen had never seen it before but she had basically seen it by the time we watched it because Sister Reid and I can quote that thing from beginning to end... so Sister Sorensen knew all the lines already haha! And it's a movie that is quoted on a daily basis! So that was a lot of fun! Then the AP's drove us back from the mission home to Oslo to stay with the other sisters!
Thursday
Today was another day of Interim Training! We had more practicals about using the scriptures, how to begin teaching and asking questions in our lessons! Then we played a language game with everyone and that was super fun! It was like the heads up game where you have to explain the word without saying the word...it was hilarious to watch all the greenies get up and trying to figure out what we were even saying... and we're sitting there speaking slowly and trying to speak broken Norwegian so they can piece it together!!:)) Then we took the train home and we had an appointment with a lady in the church with a member present. We gave her a church tour and it was so cool because we were really able to testify about something in each room... if it was about the Young women program, or baptism, or the sacrament. Sister Sorensen sang "Families Can Be Together Forever" in the chapel and the Spirit was so strong! Then we taught the Restoration and watched the Restoration film and she said that she doesn't deny Joseph Smith and that you can't tell someone that they didn't see something. We committed her to pray about Joseph Smith and the First Vision and she said that she would and she even prayed out loud with us in the lesson!! I LOVE IT WHEN INVESTIGATORS PRAY WITH YOU FOR THE FIRST TIME!!!!!!!! It's the greatest feeling in the entire world! Wow! So it was an incredible lesson!
Friday
Today we had lunch at Mommo and Besse's and we talked about family history and how they need to write down their own stories and experiences so that the people that come after them will be able to know how they lived their lives and experiences that they had.... and my grandpa has been writing in a journal every single day for the past 50 years!!! He was even showing me his journals! That's incredible!!! He said that he would start recording his stories and then we can type it up later so that was awesome! They even told me about all these books they have of pictures and stories from my ancestors in Norway so I'm super excited to see that! Then we had weekly planning and then we went our dinner appointment with the elders! The food was delicious and we were laughing so hard our stomachs just hurt!!!! They are so funny and we had so much fun with all of us!!!:))
Saturday
Today was insane!!! We got to the city and while I was asking this lady for her number so we could give her a church tour later... we discovered that our phone had been left in the apartment...and we didn't have time to go all the way back and be back in time for our appointment.... so all three of us were praying that we would either see the elders or a member with a car so that they could drive us back. We walk down the street and then I hear mommo yelling at us from across the street!!!:)) Miracle!!! So we ran over there and they drove us back so we could get the phone....waited for us...and then drove us to our appointment!! Seriously..miracle!! We had språk with member in the ward which was really helpful and then we got on the bus to go to our dinner appointment. The dinner appointment was great! The elders then drove us out to Kongsberg for our lesson with our investgators, (the family) and we taught them about the Plan of Salvation! We had them reading their scriptures in Amharic so we knew that they fully understood...and we asked her to find Alma... and she knew where it was... and that it was in the middle which means she's been reading because we didn't tell her where it was!! Isn't that awesome!? They were asking great questions and the husband said, "We have no choice but to follow God...you don't even choose that, you just do it" and we were talking about baptism and they are going to pray about the baptismal date that we extended to them!!!!! It was a wonderful lesson! But we were cutting it close with the bus... and it was bus for train today... so there were no trains.... so we were booking it to the train station. We didn't know where we were going and Sister Reid said that she was "Led by the Spirit not knowing beforehand the things which she should do" haha! We found it... but there was no bus so... we thought we were going to have to wait an hou...r but this bus driver was driving to Oslo and we must've looked distraught because he said he could drop us off in Drammen... and so we were the only 3 people on this way nice bus with curtains and lights and then we dropped us off in a roundabout in Drammen! Talk about miracles! It was a hectic day and the whole day it seemed like something was going wrong, but the Lord sure blessed us with miracles that day. It is His work and He is not going to let us fail. It was definitely a testimony builder of the Lord truly does prepare a way!
Sunday
Today I gave a talk in church! The bishop told me that I was getting pretty familiar with the podium since I was up at stake conference and then last Sunday for fast and testimony meeting and this Sunday with a talk! And I am never nervous giving talks in sacrament on my mission! I am literally so calm it's almost weird haha! But I was giving a talk on John 11:25 and it went really well! Plus Sister Sorensen and Sister Reid did a musical number so it was just the sister missionaries as the center of sacrament meeting haha! Then we had a quick meeting about less actives and then drove to a family in the ward for dinner and to skype our families!!! It was so nice of this family to let us skype with our families!! So grateful for that! I loved talking to my family!! They are the greatest and the time went way too fast!! But it was definitely the highlight of my day! Then we took the bus home and did personal study!
Today
Today I don't actually know what we're doing! So I'll write about it next week! Love you lots and miss you tons!! Have a great week!
Since Kylee didn't send any pictures this week......I'll post some from their training in Oslo....taken by Sis. Hill
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