We've already heard tons of examples of youth who are talking to their bishop about turning in their mission paperwork. Not even just those who fit into the new age requirements for missionaries, but apparently others who took the change as a wake up call. They're talking about doubling the number of missionaries out in the world within the next five years. That means over 100,000 missionaries! I don't think I'll see too much change before I leave here, simply cause most people's mission calls here take a while because of visas. But, one change that might affect me is that they are also reducing the amount of time that missionaries spend in the MTC. We're not sure if the Norwegian missionaries' time will be changed, but if it is, it will change the length of our transfers here in Norway. Currently, they are 9 weeks long, but if the MTC changes their transfer lengths, then we'll have to do so as well. It might affect my departure date. So we'll see, we're really not sure of much of anything right now haha.
So that was exciting. General Conference was great. I had planned to throw in a couple of my notes that I took while watching, but I forgot my notes at home. So, that's not gonna happen this week. Maybe I'll share them next week. President Uchtdorf's talk in the Saturday morning session was great, as well as Elder Cook's, Elder Holland's (of course), Elder Oak's, Elder Scott's, Sister Dibb's...I liked a lot of them haha. Conference weekend always goes by super fast. Next one, I'll get to watch with the family. So that's cool.
Still don't have any investigators right now. We got some good less active work done this week though. We visited a family last Monday and one of the sons named Jakob, who has been less active for about 4 years since he was 15, was there. We had a good time at dinner and got his number so that we could invite him to come on teaching visits with us. We then got an appointment with another less active youth named Sina who recently moved back to Norway after being in South Africa for about 2 years. Jakob and Sina remembered each other from Young Men's and Jakob was a huge help when we visited him. Sina's had a tough time of things so it was really good to have Jakob there who could get on his level better than we could, simply cause he wasn't wearing a tie and a tag. Sina didn't want to take the missionary lessons from us, as we had offered, but he did show up to Institute the next day. So that was a good sign, we'll see what happens from here. We might go back and visit him and his dad again this week.
I really wish I would have remembered my notes! Haha that was my entire plan for this email. Oh well, I'll save it until next week.
Ha det bra!
Eldste Session
Still don't have any investigators right now. We got some good less active work done this week though. We visited a family last Monday and one of the sons named Jakob, who has been less active for about 4 years since he was 15, was there. We had a good time at dinner and got his number so that we could invite him to come on teaching visits with us. We then got an appointment with another less active youth named Sina who recently moved back to Norway after being in South Africa for about 2 years. Jakob and Sina remembered each other from Young Men's and Jakob was a huge help when we visited him. Sina's had a tough time of things so it was really good to have Jakob there who could get on his level better than we could, simply cause he wasn't wearing a tie and a tag. Sina didn't want to take the missionary lessons from us, as we had offered, but he did show up to Institute the next day. So that was a good sign, we'll see what happens from here. We might go back and visit him and his dad again this week.
I really wish I would have remembered my notes! Haha that was my entire plan for this email. Oh well, I'll save it until next week.
Ha det bra!
Eldste Session
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