10 September

Kjære familie og venner 

Our last P-day was pretty fun. We went out to an island in the middle of the fjord and had a little bbq. There were these cool ruins on the island which we got to go climbing through...it was an old 12th century monastery. As we were eating our lunch, a fox decided to come join us. It literally came to within 5 feet of our little eating circle. I took some pretty cool pictures of the island, the ruins, and the fox so I'll send those on. There's also a picture of me in a skate shop by the name of Session. I thought it was cool that the store was obviously named after me, so I took a picture with a couple of the hoodies bearing my name which they sell there. Birthday present, parents? =)

Well, Renaldo moved to Tromsø this week. Things were going all up and down this week with him haha. First he lost his job, which really was a good thing cause it meant he could come to church...and he recognized that as well. So we were pretty stoked about that. A couple of days later though, he comes to meet us at the institute center with a train ticket up to Northern Norway. He said he wanted to move up there to find a job. Luckily, we have missionaries in that city so we gave him the number for those missionaries and he was able to get in contact with them before he left Oslo. He was up on our mission website with a baptismal date for a couple of weeks in Tromsø already. So that was a little bittersweet.

Other than that, we did get to visit a less active guy named Jonathan on Saturday. He is from Mexico and he was baptized here in Oslo last year. He hasn't been able to come to church only because of his 3 year old son who has leukemia. It's kind of a tough situation. But he's an awesome guy and the best part is that he has a 9 year old daughter and a girlfriend, both of which are not baptized. We talked with them a bit when we visited and we're going to go back sometime this week to see if we can teach at least the daughter. It'd be fantastic if the girlfriend was interested as well...especially since she is a Norwegian and we always love teaching those =P

This is the last full week of the transfer. We'll have our transfers call next Monday morning. Don't have a clue what is gonna happen there...I'm pretty sure I'm going to stay here in Oslo. But we'll see =)

Good luck with school everyone...I'll be back in two semesters!

Elder Sessions