This...is Norway: Ja vi elsker dette landet!

Heia alle sammen!

- Gratulerer med dagen Norge!! We had Norway's Independence Day this week, 17. mai!! Crazy that it's been a year since last 17 mai! This year I got to spend it again in Oslo and it was so fun:). We got to watch the parade, take pictures, eat ice cream (required on 17 mai), have dinner at the mission home, and play lots of ultimate frisbee. Basically it's just one of the best days of the year:).

- Søster Whitehead is in Moss! I've now got my new companion and she is so fun! She is from England! She definitely has been helping me with my British accent which has been kind of funny because now when I do the accent I have the biggest tendency to speak Norwegian haha:). So my brain is going crazy, but we are already having a great time and working hard:).

- We moved! Finally got an apartment in Moss and don't have to drive 40 min there and back from Ski anymore, woot woot!

This week before Søster Pedersen left we had a lesson with one of our friends. Due to some special circumstances with our friend we had to have a very hard conversation with her. Thinking I knew the God's Plan of Happiness, after this lesson I definitely gained a whole other perspective and learned so much more about His plan and His love and mercy. I don't know if I can fully explain what I learned in a small space but I will say that the whole point of the plan is that all can be happy after this life. It does not matter how complicated, hard, frustrating, or hopeless life can get, there is ALWAYS a way to happiness in the next life.

2 Nephi 2:25 says, "Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy."

And that is all made possible because of one who, because of His pure love and mercy, willingly suffered all possible pains, unfairnesses, sins, and afflictions in this life so that whatever the difference there is between us and happiness, He is there. Christ our loving Savior makes up all the difference so that one day we can find eternal joy in our Heavenly Father's great plan of happiness.

Glad i dere! Have an amazing week!

Kia Kaha and just keep swimming:)

- Søster Twede