Hei Hei! Jeg håper at dere er klar for en fantastisk blogidag. Vi begynner med volleyball. Last P day we had a killer sand volleyball game as a district for Eldste Rial's last P day in Norway. It was such a blast and we worked hard and rewarded ourselves with slushes afterwards. Thank goodness for companions who aren't afraid of bees and will fill up your slushy for you when a million bees are swarming around the slushy machine. It was delicious! Tuesday we met up with a 92-year-old lady in the ward who's been the first to question us about our love lives and whether or not we have found ourselves Norwegian boys to marry of course after our missions. Pretty funny conversation to have, but no worries we left her with a spiritual thought and we were on our way. We had planned on hitting the streets for the rest of the day when we got a call from the mission office that they needed us to go and get our car washed and send the pictures so that they could start the process of selling it so that someday soon we can get our new car! What exciting news! We headed off to the nearest car wash, found ourselves some Dr Pepper in the gas station, and enjoyed the universal car wash experience.
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| it was consumed before i could get a picture |
We took some sick pictures of our blueberry of a car and got them sent off to the mission office. The next day was also quite the adventure as we met with one of our new investigators in the city center and continue to be interrupted by Norwegian wasps and bees. We moved all around the city center to avoid those bad boys but they just kept coming. Finally we found a spot and were able to tell this new investigator the story of Joseph Smith without distraction. We then had the chance to teach another one of our investigators with the elders, Elder Sanchez and his brand-new companion straight from America Elder Applegate. It was actually a super solid lesson and the spirit was there so strong as we talked about faith and works. We can't wait to meet with him again. Now comes the most hectic day of them all Thursday we had our district meeting in the morning and then had headed up to start some weekly planning before our dinner appointment late that night. We started calling our investigators and members and trying to set up appointments for the upcoming week when we called one of the ladies in the ward and she broke down to us and told us she had just received news that she had cancer. We dropped everything and told her we were on our way over we had some chocolate and a plethora of church movies and decided we would just try and help her get her mind off of things and just try to help in anyway that we could. We ended up getting stuck in traffic on the way to her house and we're frantically trying to call our dinner appointment since we knew we would be late after visiting this member. We were able to eat chocolate watch a movie and uplift this member as best we could. By the time we had finished all of that, we were already a half an hour late to our dinner appointment and what else we were stuck in traffic yet again. We continued to try and call our dinner appointment but we could not get a hold of her and things were just all sorts of hectic. Finally we arrive to our dinner appointment and hour late and we felt terrible, but all ended up working out. This member who fed us dinner is very awesome and so funny and agreed to feed us every Thursday. She had invited a nonmember friend who is actually very positive about the church and we were able to teach her the Joseph Smith story as well. We ended up having a blast and some how everyone started calling me sister Shakira and we just laughed and had a great time tonight. We were away pumped to go eat with them again this coming Thursday and can't wait for even more laughs and good times together. Friday was a day of service I even mowed my first lawn, fun! We spent the entire day serving and spreading the gospel as we go. It was awesome! I just love serving the people here in Asker and this opportunity that we have as missionaries to spread the gospel with those we serve I would encourage you all to share your testimony with those around you by doing an act of service. I know by doing so others will reward your kindness and feel Christ love for them through you and that is the best feeling in the world I love you all and hope you all have a fantastic weekend and I can't wait to talk to you all soon!
love,
Søster Blankmeyer
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| We made a delicious breakfast for dinner. |
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