HI! So I have a question. Do
these emails that I send you keep
getting sent to everyone else as well? I don't really know anymore :)
It's much more natural just to write directly to you. :) When was
it..... It was a day earlier this week where I had just had a super up
and down sort of day. You know, the one where you have about 70000
emotions all at once and you A: can't write them down, and B: You don't
really have anyone right there that you can talk about them with. Don't
get me wrong, Elder Anderson is probably one of the coolest people I
will ever get the chance to know in my entire life, and he's a great
listener, I just... can't speak like I could with you :
So. This week was probably one of my favorite ever.
I'll start with the biggest news... I'M MOVING TO: oslo. GUESS WHO MY
COMPANION IS!!!!!???????????? Anderson :) Again. I think he's going to
kill me after 4 1\2 months. Me and him are probably equally surprised
about this. Probably because, he is a very not normal missionary who
will ingrain inside of me many of the things that he does, that are
never going to come out again. I only remember 2 compliments I've ever
gotten from him. The biggest is that he said I don't have anything else
to learn from him, and that he said I'm completely prepared to take on
pretty much anything or anyone at this point. You will enjoy especially
mom, some of the biggest things I've learned from him are to not stress
about time or numbers or anything. He does missionary work by being a
non-missionary sort of person. Missionary work that involves really
strengthening the area, people, missionaries and
others around you, rather than worrying about how many teaches or
investigators you have. (which btw we do pretty well at regardless)
My point is: I'm excited. A lot. He will be with me
longer than anyone else on his mission before, and I'm going to be with
him within a couple months of his going home. In missions you have a
Father who is your first comp. and then a Mother who is you second
companion. (who finishes the little training book we have) I am going to
be a single parent child so to speak, which will affect a lot what
happens to me throughout my mission. The good news is, we have been
entirely on the same page about everything for the last little while,
with companionship unity being one of the best things we do, far beyond
to actually being really good friends. Anyways. We'll see how that goes
:)
Also you mentioned a change in transfer lengths.
Right now they are 9 week transfers :P Which actaully is perfect I
think. President wants to change it to 12 weeks because that's how often
we'll be getting new missionaries now. Bleh. 12 weeks is too long. That
means I'll have 6 transfers after this one. Oh well. I'm not in
charge!
In other news of what happened this week: Guess
What!?!? Our primary program was yesterday too! Guess what else?
Norwegian kids are way cuter than american kids :) Every missionary's
dream is to have a little norwegian kid one day. Cause really. It's soo
fantastic. Also norwegian pancakes are super good. You take bacon bits,
slather it with jam and roll it up like a soft taco. :) mmmm. Jeg
gleder meg til at jeg kan dele norske mat med dere :D We also had a
baptism this week for this really cool dude named Hakim. The dude's a
stud. THe sisters have been teaching him since I got here and it was way
cool to see him get døpt!
We also had an investigator there with us for the baptism. Did you
know that 85% of investagtors who see dåps get døpt!?! thats awesome!
Dåp= batism btw. å døpe = to baptize :D I'm tired of typing the word
baptism :) Lets Dåp som people! Anyways. We have several progressing
investigators now, and I guess we'll just have to see how that goes with
them. All I can say is like... ah! All you want is for them to find out
that it's true. Anyways.
We met this way cool girl from trondheim on the
street this week, who we ended up teaching the next day. I remember the
first day,I couldn't really undrstand that much of what she said because
Her dialect was waaay weird. Seriously though they use tons of
different words like what would be pronounced Va, to me the prounounce
Kæ. It's weird. like for realzies. But. The second day without even
realizing it, I could understand her completely and participate in the
conversation. I didn't even notice it until later, when Anderson looked
over at me when we going back to help the Ap's and said: You understood
her today didn't you? I said yes, and he just shrugged and smiled a
little. It's always a good reminder to know where my language skills
really come from :)
OOOh!!! I played the piano at the dåps meeting on
saturday. by the time I practiced enough to play the songs I had them
memorized :) It was pretty comical though. Elder Godfrey who we have now
named elder Goob ( litterally you know exactly who is now :) was trying
to learn how to conduct from me which was really funny :) I guess all
that practicing paid off after all! I also taught an intermediate
norwegian class all by myself this week which was only slightly awesome
:) Oooh also guess What!? Since i'm not moving I'm actually having
thanksgiving with all of the other young single adults here! (with food
made by the ekte par... i mean senior couple here! ) they also moved
moves day up one day so that the people going home could be there for
thanksgiving.
I was thinking I would send my christmas list in the
handwritten letter today but you probably need it before the letter
will get there.... 5 weeks!?!?!? boo. Kristy usually gets them the same
week if I send them on monday... ;D so. I actually have a few things
suprisingly...
-A scarf. I'm not sure if you can hand do one in
time but really. In terms of things I'll A: use B: love, this probably
tops the list.
-I need a couple more ties :) Get creative!
Also. I cracked :) I'm not sure if I told you but the skinny tie look
has grown on me a ton. Not super skinny. But like medium ish I loooove!
And I don't have any yet. P.s. if there more than about 25 bucks I can
get some cool norwegain ones instead. (don't know how exspensive they
are) mostly I hate picking ties. :) Go team!
-I still need journals. Like... soon! (i'm on the last limbs of the one i'm using :)
-Music!!!
HOly smokes! I need like.... a lot more. :) Mostly I'm thinking of
things like laurnes flute music would be perfect, and enya and stuff
like that. Anything that is just nice and quiet and awesome is what I
need :) I want Sissel!!!! (norwegian person! it's sooo awesome!) maybe
i'll get some here and send it home... :)
-Socks. :) I need some more gym type socks (no show is the only
thing I will wear... just sayin) I've worn holes the two pair I
brought.
-I want everyone to do something creative and send me it. :) You all can decide what that is.
-Maybe some sort of easily transportable picture. like, that I can hang up on my wall or something. Nothing fancy though!
In
terms of sending stuff home... that's kinda up to you guys. :) The way
that all the other missionaries send stuff home is by spending 550 kr.
for a box that has a 20 ish pound limit. THats 100$ appx. THen there's
the matter of I don't really have anything right now I could send home
:S And it's going to be pretty expensive to send anything. So that's up
to you guys. I'm definately doing things but in terms of a full blown
package i'm not sure if you guys want that or not. Guaranteed I'll send
at least one, But it's up to you guys really.
K well. Dude. I wish I could see that video now.
Apparantly pogosticking has gone crazy in our family and Matthew keeps
claiming he'll send me stuff but he never has :) I guess it's prolly too
big. Also... Dude! I'm prolly going to get to go to a Norwegain
Christmas Concert! The lady singing is the rival to Sissel from Bergen (
member of the church btw) it'll be awesome :)
Same as you, it's fun to get handwritten letters.
But, it's so much easier to figure what's actually going on through
emails. :) Just keep in mind I'll send handwritten letters to those who
send them :)
K. Well I love you all so much!!! I think i've said
everything I need in this letter sooo. yeah! Tons of loves! I'm going to
go relax and destressify.
Love the little dude running around in Norge,
Christopher
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