This...is Norway: "Fishy! Fishy!" 🐠

Heia alle sammen!

Sooooo, I got quite the laugh when one of the elders this week said that I reminded him of the girl, Darla, on Finding Nemo 😅. With much respect he did say that I didn't necessarily look like her but the glasses apparently do help draw the parallel which I still don't understand because she doesn't have glasses haha. Anyways, Happy Halloween y'all! 🎃 Here's our adventure this week!

- Exchanges with Alta sisters! Sister Schneck and Sister Matthews got to come and visit us in Trondheim and it was so fun! I got to spend the day Sister Matthews and we had an interesting member visit (haha), help out with språkkafé, and have dinner out on the streets of Trondheim as we watched the huge ferris wheel in sentrum. I just love the Alta sisters and it was just so fun having them visit:).

- Don't procrastinate! I learned that lesson again this week (yes... again) as I finally, after lots of overthinking, talked to a lady sitting across from me on the bus. She was so cool! She is Christian and so I told her that I was a missionary and then she asked if I wanted her number! I think I almost about died haha:). Obviously, I didn't and we exchanged numbers and are going to try and plan on meeting her again sometime:).

- Got to do a scavenger hunt game with the youth around sentrum and then ward Halloween party where all of us missionaries were... missionaries!! 😅 (Yeaaaah not a whole lot we could do for costumes this year:)

- Sister Nartker and I went door knocking this week and in the meantime saw a full, bright rainbow! We couldn't help but just and stand there and stare at it for a couple minutes it was so cool! We then preceded to knock on a door of a guy who was a professor in biology. So, naturally he asked a lot of questions about evolution and where religion and God ties into everything. Let's just say we weren't exactly able to answer a lot of his questions (haha), but he was a nice guy:).

Speaking of rainbows and biology and just the way of life, it just reminded me a lot of one of my favorite verses in the Book of Mormon, Alma 30:44. It says, "all things denote there is a God; yea, even the earth, and all things that are upon the face of it, yea, and its motion, yea, and also all the planets which move in their regular form do witness that there is a Supreme Creator."

Now when we were talking with this guy and tried explaining a few principles of what we believe in he kept coming back to of how it doesn't make sense to believe in God when we just have science. For those of you who don't know, I love math and I love science:). I love learning how so many different factors can be puzzled together in order to make a solution. And as I've learned more and more about all these factors that make up the world, I have come to know my Heavenly Father and Savior better. I think it's interesting when people say it's either science or religion. For me and just like this verse says, everything there is, everything that has been created, plants, animals, planets, the universe, isn't contradictory to God, but is evidence that He lives. And when we look at all these amazing and incredible creations, the most amazing and incredible one that He made was you. He knows and loves you and that's why He sacrificed His son and that's why Christ sacrificed Himself so that we could be with them again.

Glad i dere! Hope y'all have a great week!

Kia Kaha and just keep swimming:)

- Søster Twede