I just read my last email. This week wasn't nearly as epic as last week. My motivation to write an email just died - haha!
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| Tree of Life depiction |
Some
members asked us to hold a family home evening at their home. We opened
up the children's picture Book of Mormon and read the story of the Tree
of Life and drew it on our own pieces of paper. It was awesome! After
which we looked up all of the symbols and applied it to our own lives.
If you can't see it on the picture, I have a missionary in a boat on top
of the river of filthiness saving souls :P. We are here to save lives -
especially those of future generations through their present-day
families! There is no greater work in the world.
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| Elder Levine's fabulous artwork ;) |
One morning we took some time to observe the Christ
statue here in the St. Petri Church. I know you've all seen it before -
but it's still inspiring. I can't wait to visit the Rome, Italy temple's
visitor's center with statues of all of the 12 apostles (which marble
will be take from the Carrera quarry!).
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| Christ Statue in the St. Petri Church |
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| Coconut gelatin eyeballs! |
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| Linus from Peanuts |
On Wednesday it was Halloween! Happy Halloween! I
saw one kid with face paint the whole entire night - and no candy.
People outside of America don't take Halloween seriously, I guess. Some
members
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| Pumpkin fettucinne ravioli - MMM. |
invited us over for a "Halloween-themed" dinner. Pumpkin
fettucinne ravioli? Amazing! Then a coconut gelatin dessert that looked
like an eyeball. MMM. It was a blast besides the fact that nobody
dressed up except for me. I was Linus from the Peanuts :)
Another member family here in Stavanger has a son
out on a mission currently serving in Bergen. I went on splits with him
this week! Rushes of flash backs came and went as we took the Bybane
(city tram) and contacted out on those gorgeous streets. I forgot how
pretty it was in Bergen! Also very common in Bergen were the old folks
who didn't like us very much at all. Ahh yes I fortunately forgot about
them. However, we enjoyed ourselves very much, and much learning was
done! G. found some time to meet with us too!! He was baptized on
the 29th of October last year.
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| The good man George and me :D. |
What a crazy coincidence I was able to
see him again after an entire year since his baptism :). And I promise
he smiles a lot more than it looks like. Hehe.
Last night there was a concert going on right where
we were going to contact people. Darn, that's just too bad. I love
festivities.
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| Concert by Breiavatnet |
Today we hiked Preikestolen -
AGAIN. And we loved it! Elder Weaver and Sister Bingham had never been -
so it was a pleasure. Thank you thank you to Isabel who let us all
drive with her all the way up! It was an absolute blast.
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| Preikestolen round 3 :) |
From mission conference and a mission-wide survey we
recently took, our whole entire mission expressed that we want to
become more Christ-centered. Out of all the chapters in Preach My
Gospel, the mission voted that they wanted to learn (in descending
frequency of votes) 1) The Gospel of Jesus Christ 2) Christlike
Attributes 3) How Can I Recognize and Understand the Spirit?. It was a
very clear indication that we all wanted to become more Christ-centered.
Due to that, we have been challenged by President Evans to read all of
the 4 Gospels and all of 3 Nephi before the end of the year. I am so
excited to begin this study. It's going to be very productive and very
inspiring to read quickly through the life of Christ, and His work after
His death and resurrection. For anyone who feels so inclined (or
inspired) to join me - please do so :D
"I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." - Philippians 4:13
-Eldste Bryce Thomas Johnson
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| Reindeer meat - I ate Blitzen! |
