Well this has been quite the crazy packed week! On Monday after emailing we headed over to a YSA's house and had some dinner before everyone else started to show up. After everyone had gathered at the house we walked over to a nearby campsite and had a campfire and roasted marshmallows and hot dogs and played guitar and sang songs. It was a really Køstleg experience and reminded me of all the many bonfires I had with me and my friends in high school. There's something about being out in nature gathered around a warm fire that just brings people together and make some of the strongest bonds. Literally love it and it's totally worth the fact that everything in our apartment smells like campfire. We were then given a really cool spiritual thought about angels being all around us and how everyone at the bonfire was an angel too. It was way rad.
Tuesday was Eldste Carver and Søster Hutchins birthdays. We had a birthday lunch of Caesar salad and cinnamon rolls and then had an awesome district meeting afterwards. Then later we went over to a members house for hamburgers, cookies and ice cream. We also had a way cool spiritual thought at the end of that meal where we went around and kind of bore testimony on different aspects of the gospel or on life or just shared something positive. It was really cool to hear about the good in everyone's lives. It was really inspiring and uplifting.
Wednesday we had our first missionary meeting with our new ward mission leader. It was a really cool meeting and he even took the time to give us a quick rundown on Norway's history which was different but way cool. We were able to come up with some new ideas on what to do better as missionaries to help out the investigators, less active, and members here in the Stavanger area. It was way good, then it was time for another split. This time we were to have the Nordstrand Søsters (Petersen my old companion and Søster Eart) come here to Stavanger. They flew in Thursday night and left Saturday morning. It was another great splits. I was able to spend a lot of time with Søster Peterson as we taught a Jehovah's Witness and then met back up with the other sisters and one of the young women who had served a mini mission with søster Petersen as well. Søster Petersen and this young woman were then able to teach Sister Hutchings and I a very powerful lesson on the gospel of Jesus Christ. It was really cool to act as an investigator during that teach and to see those two girls really listen to the spirit and give such a powerful lesson. I can only say how touched we all were from that lesson of course as quickly as the party started with the Nordstrand sisters it was suddenly over and they were headed back to the Oslo area to keep killing the missionary game over there.
Saturday as we were out contacting we ran into a cool free little art museum and decided to take a break real quick and check it out. We got some great pictures from that experience as well. We ended the week off with a wonderful Sunday meeting where we had the privilege of participating in primary and hanging out with all the cute little kids there, one of which will be getting baptized this upcoming Saturday. Then we had the grand finale at dinner at a members house where we had wonderful food a good spiritual thought and discussion and a great bonding time. All in all it was a crazy packed week but a great one as well!
Klem
Søster Blankmeyer
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