You see Wuthmer,
It is
actually quite a
specific art that of the norwegian language :) Because thou canst speak
jo the normal Norwegian but the googler doesn't quite have its puny
brain wrapped around the awesomeness of DIALECT!!!! JK. I'll try not to
type in dialect if I do end up saying anything in norwegian. The
problem is that I often just throw in one word that's norwegian and
there is so many meanings for the word noe, that any translator who
wasn't a real person who could speak norwegian and english would get
completely owned. Like for example ødelagt. Dos that even come up as
anything normal? Its the past tense of destroy. Æ ska' ødelegge Dæ!!!
jk. that was dialect :) sorry :) Anyways. that's one challenge with
norwegian is that you have tons of different dialects that all have
different ways of saying really basic words. It takes a long time to
learn and get used to :) BAsically I have to be your translator... :) so
just ask me! I apologize however for my
unintentional norwegain words that have become common to my språk.
I'm glad you liked his email. :) Its honestly pretty
hard to email every single week. Especially here. There is so many
crazy things that happen if I went into all the details that I would If I
were just talking... I would be writing all day. I don't have the
patience or the time for that. :) But I'll try to be better. Sorry for
crappy emails! Not neccessarily a strong point of mine, however I have
seen/read much worse :) And you are right mom :) And Fred is wrong! He's
still awesome though... :)
This week was actually a really fun week. It started
out pretty crazy on monday where we taught some phillipino's norwegian,
and then about the gospel, and then showed them how to get around
stavanger :) They are all super new so we were just kinda helping them
around :) it was super fun. Then they all came to FHE on monday night,
where Elder Burt and I took the lesson :) IT was actually super cool. We
sat down to plan the lesson like 15 minutes before it started because
we had been running around like crazy people all day and found out that
planning a 20 minute lesson when you are used to doing 3-4 meetings
takes about 30 seconds :) So that was fun. After our missionary oriented
lesson to all the YSA we played skit in a bag and I have some funny
videos of that. :) One of the investigators that came is a profesional
actor and it was super funny. I just hit Holden with noodles :) That was
my job! I don't know if any of you are familiar
with Philippinos and kareoke but they love it. We had a little kareoke
party afterwords and that was super funny. You just had to be there
though. There were a few people that were A: amazing at singing, and B:
Were getting really into it. I think I almost died laughing :)
Middle of the week we had a bunch of time with no
appointments, so we hit the streets hard this week. It was pretty fun
too actually. We ended up setting up 3 appointments right in a row for
wednesday but when we went not a single person showed up... bummer. Sånn
er livet. (such is life)... sort of :) Wednesday was also the start of
the Glad Mat Festival, which translated directly and indeirectly means
the Happy Food Festival :) Basically there were thousands of people
going and the streets were either empty or had just streams of people
going to that.... We walked through it once and had a drunk guy go crazy
on us :) It was a funny experience. He ended up hitting his glasses off
his face and straight yelling at us in the middle of thousands of
people. Burt gave him a little pat on the arm and we walked off, him
screaming the whole way... Good one dude. I officially knocked on a door
in a hotel, and had crazy birdfeeding man come up
and talk to us. :) ACtually we've been having run ins with drunk dudes a
lot this week... walking home there were like 4 in a row that one after
the other kept yelling after us... :) yeah well.
What am I even talking about? The best part of the
week was the end where we taught this American lady named sarah. She's
probably the nicest person I've ever taught on my whole mission. Ok,
well one of the coolest anyways :) America is awesome. ANd for your
information I don't deny the fact that i'm ever coming home. I'm just
not allowed to think about that very much. We talked with her for like 2
hours and it was super cool. Yay for people that actually believe in
God!!!! Really. You have no idea how nice it is to talk to someone who
doesn't question that God answers prayers. We taught the coolest muslim
I've ever met too. Most of them just tell you to DU Må lese kuranen
Forstår du?!?!? and its irritating :) On that day we had 0 time to
contact but I stopped one dude and we ended up getting an appt with him
for the next day. HE was Super cool! He's from cuba but I feel like he's
from jamacia. :) Super chill kid.
We also got stopped by some Christian Youth
Missionaries this week. We were just chilling waiting for our jamacian
dude to show up and these two girls and a dude came over and talked to
us. We actually noticed them a long time before that becasue they were
dressed modestly and here that stuck out a ton.... LIke you have no
idea. It caught our attention... med en gang?... uh sorry :) But they
just came over and asked if they could pray for us. It was interesting
becasue they were just dresssed in normal clothes but it was still
pretty cool. I actually felt like they were on our team :) For funsies I
opened up a personal dialog at the same time as they were praying, and
was able to see the situatioin the way God saw it. I think I have become
much more at peace with how much God really does love all of us,
despite the clear infuence of Satan.
ANyways. We did some more stuff. but i'm kinda out
of time. to answer your questions really quick I use a plane like every
week and half to two weeks... depends on whats' going on :) I like it
though. That is one dream that will never die. I wish I could fly sooo
badly :) i love it :) Especially when its just a one day I don't have to
pack all my greier sort of thing :) but it is tiring. I'm sure you know
:P I'll probably let you know more about what's happening at transfers
next week.. the end of this 12 week one is in 3 weeks. WE just had a
mini transfer where they took one of our sisters away which was super
sad. We actually have gotten pretty close. Much crying happened when she
left. I'm so sick of goodbye's. :) oh well. I honestly have no idea
what is going to happen to me, but we'll see :) Itll be fun :) To answer
your question, I love life. And I'm super happy despite how hard it is
:) ANd I love you all to pieces. :D Sorry I
can't join you all this year but I'll be back before you know it :)
Thank you so much Funmommie!!!! :) I really like that :)
love,
Christopher
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