Mandag:
We delivered cookies we
frosted and decorated at FHE to people in the ward. Søster Allen and I teamed
up with Maria and I LOVE HER!! She is so fun and cute!!
Tirsdag:
So we went to visit
bestamor and bestafar and ended up only visiting bestafar which turned out to
be a blessing in disguise. So Sister Allen and I go to visit Magnus (bestafar)
and we walk in and can hear someone yelling and we soon realize that it is
Magnus yelling. We quickly go to his room and he is yelling and not really
making sense and there are no nurses anywhere!! He kept yelling and it was so
sad. So we went to find a nurse and literally there was none anywhere so we
rang Magnus's alarm thing and still no one came! So we finally went and found a
nurse and she helped him and the whole time he kept saying how he was going to
see his Heavenly Father and he needed dang water to drink before he went and
things like that. It was so sad!! Sister Allen and I were tearing up. We prayed
with him and he wanted us to sing like always. I honestly thought he was going
to die right there in front of us. I told him we would come back later that
week and he said hopefully he wasn't in the ground and I looked at him straight
in the eyes and told him that he wouldn't be. Elder Dalton jokes that I am what
is keeping him here still because I refuse to let him think he is dying. So
that experience definitely shook Sister Allen and I up.
Onsdag:
We had a Zone Christmas
conference!!! I got to see Søster Wadley and Bender!! That was way exciting!
The conference was awesome!! We had a talent show and Sister Allen and I sang
The First Noel and then our district sang “Let it Go” from Frozen in Norwegian
and it was a hit!! President and Sister Hill loved it and were dying in the
back!! Everyone else's talents were way awesome too! We also did a secret Santa
and mine gave me a Justin Bieber bed cover!!
Seriously I almost started to cry.... It was the best present ever! President
and Sister Hill did a way awesome fireside and the Zone Leaders did an awesome
spiritual part and showed the Mormon message Mountains to Climb. Everyone was
in tears!! If you haven't seen that, you need to see it!!
Majken and Aaron had all
the missionaries over for hot dogs so that was way nice and koselig.
Torsdag:
We visited Elin and
Kenneth. She made us these yummy fiskboller in white sauce! She is a way good
cook. They are leaving for Denmark for the holidays and gave us a present! I
told Sister Allen we had to wait til Christmas to open it haha. I LOVE THEM!!
They are so awesome!!! We have a small Christmas tree and we put our presents “under”
– next to it!
Sister Allen and I
thought it would be a good idea to have Magnus get a blessing, so we brought
Elder Dalton and Miller with us to give him a blessing. That was way awesome
and kind of nerve wracking because we aren't sure how much longer he is going
to live.....
Due to not being able to
visit bestamor when we came earlier in the week, Søster Allen and I went to
visit her after. It was a blessing in disguise that we came today and not
Tuesday. As soon as we walked in, she was bawling and we ran over to her and
were trying to figure out what was wrong. I was hugging her while she asked
Sister Allen to water her flowers. (She has flowers all over her apartment) So
after we got her to settle down and helped her, turns out she had fallen out of
her wheelchair earlier that day and it had scared her and she was alone so she
was still shaken up by it. She kept telling us how grateful she was that we came.
It made me tear up. She is the cutest lady and I love her. It was an awesome
experience on how God works through me to help other people
Visited Jecon and he made
us the best fried rice ever!!! We are trying to help him come to church again,
so hopefully after the holidays we can figure out why he doesn't come. We went
through the articles of faith with him and it was cool to hear him say *Yeah I
believe that! It makes sense that we still need a prophet today.* He knows
these things are true, he just has to act! People and their agency kills
me......
Fredag:
Majken took us to the
best hot chocolate place ever!! It tasted like they melted down a chocolate
bar. Of course I had to get a muffin to go along with it. Muffins are my
weakness haha. Majken is so awesome and has just the strongest testimony.
Sang at the nursing home
with the elders. They get so happy when they see us and it is just so awesome
to serve others and the feelings you get when you see others happy
Met with Mido. He is slowly,
but surely coming along. We talked about prophets and he likes the idea of a
prophet and wants to believe in one, so that is good!
Lørdag:
Played sport again!!! Man
have I missed volleyball!
We did the street stand
and although not many people talked to us, we passed out a lot of the Christmas
cards so that was good! Elin and Kenneth randomly stopped by, so that was a
nice surprise to see them! They invited us to get hot chocolate when we were
done. These people are just so nice!!
Målfird invited Sister
Allen and I to a Christmas dinner at the nursing home. Her husband is in
another nursing home for two weeks so she asked Sister Allen and I to go with
her. It was very cute, decorated very nicely, and we had the classic Norwegian
Christmas meal. Norwegians sure do love their meat! We had potatoes, lots and
lots of different meat, and some things I have no idea what they were and don't
want to know haha but it was good! They had a man playing a guitar and singing
and they did a raffle at the end. It was so nice that she invited us and I was
so happy to be able to be there with her. She is 91 years old, but she acts
like she is in her 70's.
(Elder Phipps and Carver
had a baptism; Sam)
Søndag:
I got asked to say the
closing prayer in church at the end of sacrament meeting. I don't mind doing
that because everyone has their eyes closed and I don't have to see them
staring at me haha
We went to try to visit a
less active with the elders; Charles, but he wasn't home....
Stian invited all the
missionaries over for a Norwegian Christmas meal as well!! It was way good and
so nice of him to do that! It was a way koselig time
A member in the ward; Hooshar
was in the newspaper. It was an awesome article about how he passed up a way
nice job, a lot of money, etc... in Iran to stay in Norway and continue to
practice his religion. He is so awesome!
Jordan's Tidbits:
- Sister Allen and I look
like drenched rats basically every day because it rains so much haha
-We got permission from
Sister Hill to paint my nails a maroon color!! Literally best day ever!!! I
have wanted to paint my nails a darker color for so long!!
-I got a missionary tag
from a friend of mine – so neat!
- We are not allowed to
do official proselyting this week from Des 23-26 and Des 31- Jan 1st. So that
will be way weird to not be able to do *real missionary work.* If we can
President wants us to be with members.... but like our whole ward is out of
town...... So we planned some fun missionary things to do with the other
missionaries and Sister Allen and I are probably going bake cookies and deliver
them, and for sure visit the nursing homes
- Norway has the cutest
little bakeries and cafes all over!! I just want to go inside all of them and
drink hot chocolate and watch the snow fall
- The snow is gone....
but Sister Allen and I are hopeful for a white Christmas!
-My teddy bear blankies
are currently having surgery… Thank goodness for Sister Rappleye!! She is
attempting to sew them for me!
Scripture of the week:
John 15:16
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye
should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that
whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
Åndelig Tanker:
This week is CHRISTmas!!!
I would like to invite all of you to remember the true meaning of Christmas and
to keep Christ in your hearts. Something that stood out to me this week is not
only should we remember Christ's birth at Christmas time, but also His
atonement for us! I am so grateful that I have the opportunity to be a
representative of Jesus Christ and share His gospel with the people of Norway.
It has forever changed my life and brought me so much happiness.
Alma 7:11-13 is one of my
favorite scriptures about Christ and His suffering for us.
***... our weaknesses can
help us to be humble and turn us to Christ, who will make weak things become
strong. Satan, on the other hand, uses our weaknesses to the point that we are
discouraged from even trying:*
***... we don't need to
be *more* of anything to start to become the person God intended us to become.
God will take you as you are at this very moment and begin to work with you.
All you need is a willing heart, a desire to believe, and trust in the Lord.*
*** You have the primary
responsibility for your OWN conversion. No one can be converted for you, and no
one can force you to be converted*
CHECK OUT THIS AWESOME
CHRISTMAS SHORT VIDEO!!!!!
GOD JUL FOLKENS!!!!! ha
en fantastisk uke!!!!! I GET TO SEE MY FAMILY THIS WEEK!!!!!!! I AM SO
EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!
xoxoxox
søster jordan peterson
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