This...is Norway: "Gliiiide and pivot! Gliiiide and pivot!" ⛄️⛸️

Heia alle sammen!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Hope y'all had a great Thanksgiving this week! We got to have a little Thanksgiving dinner with our district and it was so fun! I am just so grateful for Norway, amazing companions, incredible members, the opportunity I have to be a missionary and help others learn more about Christ:).

- ICE! Lots of it! Walking is honestly not the most safe mode of transportation and I'm about ready to get a sled or ice skates. My comps and I had a lot of close calls and unfortunately Søster Nartker took one for the team as we try to "walk" down a steep icy driveway...yep she slid down instead haha:).

- NAMSOS! Another road trip up to Namsos where we visited one of our new members and her daughter. It was so fun and definitely just so nice to spend time with them:). Was definitely a highlight when we were saying goodbye and her eleven year old daughter gave me a hug by body slamming me down to the ground . Love that girl:)

- At språkkafé this guy who Søster Nartker and I had talked to on the street came. When we first met him he said that he was athiest and did not believe in God. Well, that was about a week and a half ago... Then he showed up to språkkafé and informed us that he is now Christian! The Lord works in mysterious ways

Speaking of the Lord's works, I was reading again in Ether this week and chapter 12 is just amazing! I knew that it was good, but I don't think I realized how good. But one of my favorite things was all the examples of faith that are given: Moses, Alma and Almulek, Lehi and Nephi, Ammon, the brother of Jared, etc.

In verse 19 it says"And there were many whose faith was so exceedingly strong, even before Christ came, who could not be kept from within the veil, but truly saw with their eyes the things which they had beheld with an eye of faith, and they were glad."

I sometimes don't think we realize how powerful God's power is. All you need is a tiny seed of faith to allow it to work in your life. In the Santa Claus movies with Tim Allen one of the lines is "Seeing isn't believing but believing is seeing." Faith is what allows us to see God's power already working miracles in our lives. The "eye of faith" is what opens the heavens and allows us to experience the joy of Jesus Christ in our lives.

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

Kia Kaha and just keep swimming:)

- Søster Twede