14 January 2013

Kjære familie og venner

The finding of our apartment was pretty easy. The mission office gave us a list of apartments to go check out and we settled on this one. The tough part is moving all the furniture. We're still in the process of that. The new apartment is pre-furnished, so we have the unique challenge of finding a place to store everything until it's needed again. 

There are no bike areas in Norway. We take busses everywhere and borrow the senior couple's car pretty much everyday. They only really use it to get to and from the city, so the car is really shared by the both of us. 

Well we had another tough week. Our teach with Nancy this past Friday didn't go very well, and there just wasn't much else happening for us. Nancy is just focusing on the wrong things...she can't get past the fact that the women wear skirts to church and that we have separate classes for Relief Society and Priesthood. No matter what we teach her, her concerns always come back to that. So we're going to take a break from teaching her for a little while and just get her to some activities and things in the church.

I went on splits to Arendal this week to do a baptismal interview. I interviewed a lady named Lene who got baptized on Saturday. She had been best friends with a member here in Kristiansand basically their whole lives, but the member had never really done much to share the Gospel with her other than living her live and sticking to her standards. That was enough for Lene to notice something about her and to grow up with that influence in her life. She even had missionaries around the house when she was younger, but was never taught. 5 weeks ago, she met the missionaries in Arendal and immediately knew the message was true. It was a pretty cool story, and her mother, who I met this past week as well, now wants to be taught as well. Her mom, Unni, has been along for the whole ride and she's a pretty fantastic lady. She invited me for dinner the next time I'm in Arendal haha.

This next week, I'll be going to Stavanger. I'm going on splits with one of the zone leaders. So that'll be good. Then, this Sunday, we're having our moves call. I'm pretty sure I'll be staying in Kristiansand next transfer, the question is just whether or not I'll be getting a new companion. So tune in next week =)