Familie Hjemme Aften, Kristus Støtte, Halloween Fest, Bergen Splits, og Preikestolen (Family Home Evening, Christ Statue, Halloween Party, Bergen Splits and Preikestolen (again!))

Kjære dåkkar!

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!

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.

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!).

Christ Statue in the St. Petri Church

Coconut gelatin eyeballs!

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Reindeer meat - I ate Blitzen!