November 6, 2017

Hello everyone!

Another great week here in Norway!

To be honest, I am having a very hard time remembering what happened this week but one thing that I can remember is enjoying institute with the 4 young single adults in the Skien Menighet. It is a great way for me to have to listen and speak Norwegian so I love going to that. Hopefully we will have time this week to do it again.

A member (Sister Årnses) helped us find time to go bank on this lady's door. She let us in and we knew she was from the Philippines so we in advance ordered a Book of Mormon in her language. We took a ferry from Brevik to Sandøya and saw a seal in the water. When we got to her house she let us in and she doesn't speak the best Norwegian so English is better for her so we taught her in English. I started the lesson off with a prayer in English and it was so difficult to do. I haven't prayed in English since I was home. The lesson went ok, the hard thing was her kids were banging pots and pans the whole time. It was a lot of fun. We didn't get a return appointment yet but we a working on it.

The rest of the week included lots of finding and banking on people’s homes and we had a young men’s service project this week. It's always a blast to be around the members!

My favorite part of this week was probably when we went out Saturday evening for a couple of hours and bonked out this big area of homes that we wanted to do. It was pouring rain and nobody was interested but it was just such a fun time being out there.

Yesterday we had a biskoper ungdomsråd (every fast Sunday we go to a members house with all of the youth and have a gospel discussion and the most amazing dessert) I am so grateful to be serving here in Porsgrunn/Skien.

Oh and Halloween is not big here at all if you were wondering. We still were asked not to bank on peoples homes but it really isn't celebrated much but it is growing.

Have a great week.

Eldste Egan