Well, I've moved again. Haha it seems like every time I get settled into a new apartment, I end up moving. This time it was closer into the city. The apartment we were in was moldy and run down. It was also a little far outside of the city without a car. So now we live in a pretty nice place right in sentrum. It sounds like our new apartment with probably go to the sisters once there are sisters in Kristiansand, but that will be after I leave anyways, so it's all good =)
We had two investigators in church yesterday so that was pretty cool. One was Nancy, and the other is a lady named Nicole. Nicole is engaged and lives with a less active member here in Kristiansand. We went to go visit them this past week and invited them both to church. Nicole has been taught many times before by the missionaries, but she's had a tough time understanding a couple different things and it seems as though missionaries have just been beating a dead horse with her. So we're going to take a different approach haha. We decided actually to focus on her fiance. Get him active and coming to church and then we hope to work with Nicole a little bit down the road. She can't get baptized until after they are married since they live together anyways. Nicole is way supportive though, in helping John George (her fiance). She basically told him that he was going to be active in the Church, and I don't think he had a choice in the matter haha.
We met with Nancy this week and she came to church so that was good. The biggest problem with her is she is so dang shy. It's really hard to teach her and know what she is understanding and where she is at because she won't ask questions. She says she understands it and that she doesn't have any questions, but we know she does haha. I had a conversation with her this morning about a bunch of different things. Mainly, she doesn't understand why we say it is so important that Christ has a church on the earth. She is just as fine with the Norwegian state church as she is with ours. It all really goes back to the first missionary lesson, which is on the Restoration. If investigators don't understand that Christ had a church with a specific organization and a specific doctrine and a specific authority that was lost after the death of the Apostles, then they won't understand the need to a Restoration of those very things. 99% of investigators' concerns go back to the first lesson. I would say all of them, but I'll say 99% just in case someone ever thinks of an exception. But I can't think of any.
So we're going to have to rehash the first lesson again with her. I wasn't there when it was taught the first time so I don't know exactly how that went. It probably went about how our lesson with her went this week. It seemed to go well, but she just has questions and thoughts that don't get expressed. We'll see how that goes =)
Other than that, we've been busy this weekend getting packed up and cleaning out the old apartment, moving stuff to the new apartment, etc. Luckily, the new apartment came furnished so that makes things a bit easier.
Til next week!
Elder Sessions
PS, there's also pictures of our district ping pong tournament on new years eve. i came 3rd....out of 4 people haha.
New Address:
PS, there's also pictures of our district ping pong tournament on new years eve. i came 3rd....out of 4 people haha.
New Address:
Festningsgate 47, #210
4612 Kristiansand
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