We're going to go with no organization today ok!?! I'm bored
of orgainizing things... so i'm just going to go completely at random.
First
of all, Lykke til with the moth war. One day I will return with
reinforcements. I always did find a sort of pleasure out of destroying
all of them.
Second of all, this week was really. Hard. Monday
was fun though. I took my companion out knocking for the first time, and
it was way supppper cool. We decided on an area to go and you can get
there either by tram or by subway. Subway is faster but for some reason I
just randomly decided to take the tram. This was beyond what I just
chose because when I got on a couple stops later this 20 year old girl
got on and sat on the seats just across from where i was standing.
Immedieately she started staring at me, so embarrassed I looked away of
course. But she kept staring at me. So finally I just walked over to her
and started a conversation. For as weird as it was, it was actually way
smooth, and it ended with her giving me her number as she was running
off the tram. Soooo that was way cool. She is studying to be a priest
for the Norsk State Church. So that was fun. I also continue to be
fascinated with atheists. There was this man that
we stopped from England, and when we mentioned religion he told us we
should probably move on because he was militant atheist. Sadly I did.
But the whole night I was pretty fired up... I wish I had talked to that
man :) Anywasy. THen when we went knocking the first house that we
knocked on let us in. let us in. It was cool. Lucky bug gets in
on his first time :) There little boy Phillipå was hillarious. Also I
can't back this up by we may have seen a little bit of the northern
lights that night. Or we were just crazy. I'm almost blind now so I
can't trust my own eyes. (seriously , .... I'm almost blind. I can tell
I'm getting worse and worse.) Question: if you have bad eyesight and you
don't wear glasses do you eyes get worse faster because you are
straining them to see everything? I'm pretty sure you guys know that one
:)
Moving onward, the middle of my week was really
hard. Don't really have a good explanation for why, I would just wake up
and feel terrible. But we kept fighting. And even though more than half
of the things that we had planned this week cancelled on us, we still
met with a lot of people and had a lot of success :) And some funny
things happen. We taught this one guy named Paul, who is pretty much a
big cheeze in norway. He is a professor of philosopy, the producer at
the opera house, a strategic guy for Norway. Cool right? Well anywaze,
he basically started out by saying, I've read about 50 books about
atheism, so I won't just smash those all over your head, i'll jsut try
and listen. DId it go well... yeah :) But we were supposed to be getting
off to an open house that was about an hour south of Oslo, so we tried
to get out but my companion really had to use the bathroom. So finally
after I talked with this guy in the hall for like 10
minutes we booked it out as fast as we could. AFter running as fast as
we could and catching subway's ands stuffs, we finally learned that we
missed the bus. So with basically nothing else to do we just wandered
around the docks in Oslo trying to find someone. :) If only he hadn't
needed the bathroom... Maybe that was just funny to me. Then later when
we were walking around this one kid just stops us out of nowhere and
asks me if I can hold his antenna down for him. Sure why not? So he
leads us into this parking garage, and gets in the oldest dinkiest
little car i've ever seen in my life. And as he drives out i'm wakling
beside his car holding this ridiculously long antenna down. It was
pretty comical. :) And then a man asked my companion if he would marry
him to his boyfriend. Unfortunately he had no idea what this man had
said. Looking back though we've had some good laughs about it. :)
We had someone who tried to drop us this week as
well, who we went and convinced him not only to keep meeting with us but
to read out of the Book of Mormon 10 minutes every day. :) It was cool.
He is a way nice guy! We finally had people that said they were coming
to church, and we actually had this way cool guy named Ken come. So that
was really good, and I had an incredible experience with the sacrament.
Beyond helping Hakim the new member here to Bless the sacrament for the
first time, I am always amazed by how powerful the sacrament can be.
For just those few minutes, you don't need to worry about being a
missionary, or anything else, other than focusing on the savior and what
He has done for you. it was really cool. All of my studies this week
have been fantastic as well. As I continue to study the general
conference talks and the scriptures, I conttinue to be amazed by just
how personal my studies can be. If I am trying to learn
something, everything that I study will connect together, and teach me
something new, each and every day. That happened almost every day this
week where I would just get exactly what I needed. I particularly love
Elder Eyerings talk about The pavilions that cover us. When you are
willing to pray in humility, that is when you can align your will with
the Lord's. There is nothing left that hides you, if every day, you
kneel down and you pray with all the humility you can muster. The most
part of what I have learned on my mission and I continue to learn is
this: I can't do it alone. So stop trying man. Maybe one day I'll
actually be able to stop :)
Random thoughts: I'm glad you're making a list for
me mom. I'm going to need that :) Also, It's weird to think how things
are going at home. I'm glad Grandma is doing better! I read the package
that dad sent me :) We're going sledding today so I need to get off
soon, but i loved it dad! I'll prolly say more later! I don't really
have a whole lot of money for postage right now though... I'm kinda poor
:P Also, random thought of the day.... There are only 60 somethin'
links in that chain in the picture you guys sent me :) I love you all so
much! I hope you guys swell with joy and don't fry your brains on that
TV.
ALL THEEE loves!
Christopher
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