This...is Norway: "The drop off!!" 🐠

Hei alle sammen!

Another day another dollar, another week another win:). I don't know, that was the best I could think of haha, but greetings from this absolutely amazing land of Norway! This week we had a lot happen and these are some of the highlights:

- Contacts! Oh my goodness, before the mission I did not think of myself of a very good texter but let's just say, the Lord is giving me lots of practice now:).

- We had a couple meals with members this week which was so fun! I just love the members! We were with a member named Bjørn who is just awesome. His mom, Randi, lives with him and she is so funny because she just gets talking and the goal is to just follow the conversation (well story because you don't say a whole lot, you just listen haha:). She's just so cute, however we do tend to get home late when we visit them because we never know how to end the conversation but det går bra! :) It's always a great time visiting them :).

- We got to meet up with a couple friends, one of them we had visited a restaurant in which we miraculously had enough money for because we are only running on one card right now (Søster Gundersen lost hers in Bodø so pray that we can find it soon!). But we were able to share a lot more about the gospel with both friends and are now hoping that we can start teaching them soon :).

- Søster Gundersen's grandpa and aunt were in town on Sunday so we got to have them in church which was super fun because they had both served there and still knew some of the people in the ward :). We then got to get lunch with them and they were just super fun to meet and spend some time with :).

This transfer our focus is Embracing the Doctrine of Christ and so this week I've been trying to study on faith. The work here isn't ever really easy because people just aren't super interested in being part of a religion. Not saying that it's impossible, because it definitely is and we have had a couple baptisms in the last couple weeks in Norway which is awesome! However, there have been times where my comp and I experience a miracle with one of our friends and gain more momentum with them but then sometimes it's like we go of the drop off ("the drop off?!" -finding nemo :). Which is not always the most fun but I read the talk, "To be Healed", by Elder Richard G Scott this week and one of the things that stuck out to me was that faith includes having patience and trust in the Lord during the hard times. That means by always continuing to do the small and simple things and doing them with patience. There's this song, "While I'm waiting", from a movie called Fireproof (great movie!) and it talks about this and is so good! I know that things don't always work out how we think or want but they do work out how they need to. He knows where we all are, what's happening, and what we're trying to do and as long as we continue to just trust Him we will see and experience those miracles, whether that's now or later, they will come. And it's through Christ that they are. Hope you all have a great week! Glad i dere!

Kia Kaha and just keep swimming:)

- Søster Twede