February 15, 2019

Hi Mom and Dad,

This week was great. It started out with flying to Trondheim and wow was it cold. It was a really cool city and fun experience. We had another amazing zone conference there. President Tew does an amazing job! It has been fun to travel and to be apart of all of the zone conferences.

Thursday was a day of fun and work. I honestly can't remember much from this day besides the fact that we had to go and pick up some bibles for the missionaries because the MTC wont provide anymore Norwegian bibles to the missionaries. And every day for the past week and a half, it has just constantly snowed. I also had a blender crack and explode all over me in the apartment.

Friday, we drove many missionaries from the south zone to conference. We had a fun conference again and I got the chance to meet about 6 missionaries that I have never had the chance to meet before. Again another day of constant snow. On the way home from conference, it started to rain, and knowing that there is about 3 feet of snow here and then add rain made for a lot of ice. Lets just say I got the van stuck on a hill of ice and barely made it home. Nothing like a little luck.

Saturday we had a meeting with our ward mission leader and also a district council. We also had the musical and it was an eventful one. Started out with prostitutes that came to us and asked us some questions right before the musical got out. This then led to an eventful time of passing out books again. This led to trying to pass out books to the taxi drivers. Sometimes I feel like this it what it would be like to serve your mission in Las Vegas.

Sunday we had church and our new Bishop who is from Scotland who served his mission here about 8 years ago gave an amazing talk about doing the Lords will. He is an amazing example of fulfilling your calling.

Monday we had lots to do in the office because we have all of the new missionaries who came in this transfer come back to Oslo and go through a 2 day training sort of thing. It will be a ton of fun. And the SUN CAME OUT FOR MORE THAN 5 MINUTES TODAY. Wow, I forgot how it feels and that there is joy when you see the sun. I was totally fine with the dark until I saw the sun again and realized how nice it is. It felt like a completely different world.

I again will fly to Trondheim this week on Friday. It is possible but extremely rare to see the Northern lights there but it will probably be my only shot so I sure hope it happens on Friday night.

Everything is going great. Time is flying and luckily i can keep myself busy. I haven't taught a lesson in over a month but that will come. I am grateful to be serving here in Norway.

Thanks for all that you do.

Hello everyone.

Another great week in Oslo. The sun came out this week and it was amazing. I didn't realize how much I missed it until it was back.

This week has been full of zone conferences and other things but the Book of Mormon musical is still going on and has been a big success. We as a mission have given out a rough estimate of 65,000 copies of the Book of Mormon since the musical started at the beginning of my mission.

I was able to travel to the beautiful city of Trondheim this past week and it was an amazing place with the most famous old church building in Norway. It was super cold but we had a great zone conference there.

The work is fun and going well. I love serving here in Norway. Time seems to fly by and I can't believe it is already the middle of February.

Elder Egan

Fun Pictures from Elder and Sister Naylor who serve in Trondheim. They took Elder Egan and Elder Garlick to the town of Hell.