Thursday, June 29 2017

hallo familie og venner!
RIP this week was such a fun one for the most part. Degs, I will give you the run down so you can be up to date.
1-I was doing pull-ups in the res and i got in trouble because i guess girls are not allowed to do pull-ups even though boys can lol so all these girls got super butt-hurt that i got in trouble so we talked to the branch pres and he told me to do them and then have the workers call him if there is a problem. I am pretty much known as a hero and everyone does pull-ups now hahaha.
2-on the same note, word got out that i was fast and now people are trying to race me. Do not worry, i am not doing that because it is against mission rules. #page33
3-volleyball is still the highlight of my life. but i started being really bad all of a sudden idk why. but yanno god is good and a bad thing turned good bc now people love watching me play bc i guess my reaction to my suckiness is good. the worker at the gym told SIster Wheeler that "he likes to watch the girl in the USU shirt play because she is so funny when she messes up." WOOHOO i am a loser.
4-God is good and has blessed me major. I got 3 stains on all 3 of the white shirts i brought lol. (one of them was a whole bottle of orange juice that my companion had open and eldste Mccort accidentally dumped out of her hand and onto me. I was mad and had to go to class with OJ hair and an orange shirt.) but I told god that i was serving a mission for him so he could get my stains out...AND THEY CAME OUT EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE REALLY BAD STAINS.
5-I have a joke for you in norwegian. What is another word for drowning someone? Kjempe Dapt.
6-There is a mission duel between the Netherlands and Norway. They think that they are cooler but we know we are cooler. But it is pretty funny. Anyways I told Elder Dyle (whos brother is serving in Norway rn) to shut up and I ran into a pole way hard literally as I finished saying it. #Karma
7-TRCs are cool. We taught a girl named nicole about joseph smith and his prayer-since his martyrdom was on tuesday-and she could not express to us enough how much it helped her. Which was cool because we were speaking in norwegian and just doing our best. It made me excited for norway.
8-Because it was Joseph Smith's martyrdom, we got to have a Devo. I sang in the chior and we sang Praise to the Man. It was so cool, i never really thought that i was serving a mission to "wake up the world for the conflict of justice." Pretty cool that my mission is a revenge mission for chirst and joseph. But even cooler, Elder Bednar spoke to us and accompanying him was Holland, Ballard, Cook, Christofferson, Rasband, Renlund, Stevenson, Oaks, and Anderson. So I was only a few rows back and I smiled so big the whole time so they would notice me. Idk if they did haha.
9-More serious, the language is good for me. I have been blessed to be able to understand almost everything people say to me. However, it has been weird because I thought that the language would be the hardest part for me but the spiritual part has taxed me the most. I have kind of found out in the past few weeks that my testimony was kind of more a why-not-believe-its-true testimony than a i-have-received-confirmation-that-its-true testimony. It has been super discouraging and I have talked to a lot of my leaders. It is frustrating because they all say that they can see my testimony bright as day, but I just do not know how to see it for myself. So i have been praying and working really hard but i just not am getting any confirmations and it is kind of sad haha. But In relief society I had a cool experience. The Zusters were teaching the restoration and sister packer asked everyone to share their testimonies and how it impacted them. When it got to me i kind of cried and said how i was still working on mine and that i want to know it is true instead of just accept it as true - which is cool because one of our investigators is having the same problem - but the encouragement and words of wisdom i received were incredible and for the first time i understood the real reason for wards. Also, I decided to re-read the book of mormon with a Mormons Bok right along side. SO i read a verse in english then in norsk then in english then in norsk etc. It has been incredible. I am growing a ton It just has been kind of hard. Prayers would be cool. ALSO, i just went to lunch and the 1st counselor of the mtc walked past and i told him how i was feeling and he and his wife totally took me under their wing and invited me to come to their office every day until i feel better. I am stoked about that. I think i will learn a ton more and i cannot even contain my excitement to do so. He said that I probably just am not recognizing the promptings. Like if i was in a desert and felt a single raindrop, i would know the instant it fell upon my skin. But if I was swimming in a pool in houston, texas and it rained, it would take a thunderstorm for me to even realize it is raining. He said that since i had been brought up in such a good family that I probably just am swimming in a pool and don't realize it. Pretty cool. Idk i am excited to meet with him again.
10-I AM HALF WAY DONE W THE MTC. IN 2 WEEKS AND 4 DAYS I WILL BE IN NORWAY. WOOHOO. I AM EXCITED TO EAT REINDEER HOTDOGS AND WEAR BABY SEAL BOOTS AND SEE THE NORTHERN LIGHTS AND BUY SWEATERS AND HIKE THE HIKES. I cannot even express my excitement. The mtc has been so fun and amazing, but norway is calling and i must go.
ily all <3 Abbey​​​

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