So this week I got my new companion Søster Heywood!!!! We were in the MTC
together so we already knew each other! She is so great and such a
wonderful missionary!! She is a very hard worker and super flink in Norsk!! (Really
good at Norwegian) I am very excited to learn and serve with her!!! We get
along really well! I was very nervous considering we have both had the same
amount of experience so that can make it kinda difficult with speaking and
communicating with people, but we are doing pretty great!!!
Now that Gunther and Frampton are gone it is up to me and Elder Duncan
and Nilsson to translate for Casper!! I translated Sacrament Meeting for him on Sunday!
I was so scared and nervous!! I was praying so hard for help and for me to be
able to help Casper get what he needed from the speakers. Sometimes I still have a hard time understanding
what is being said since it is in Norsk. Miracle happened!!! During the meeting
Casper totally started to cry!! And I cried as well!! The Spirit was so strong
and it was such an amazing thing to experience!!
The talks were about families and the importance that they are and that
we need to make them a priority. I also
signed the hymn, I Am a Child of God to him!
AWESOME!!
Casper is the best person ever!! He is already such a great missionary!!
We skype in with the Elders in Bergen because they are teaching a deaf guy, but
don't know sign, so we skype with Casper and Casper basically teaches him!! It
is the coolest thing ever!! Casper is amazing!! He has such a strong
testimony!! He is the best!!!! Such a great example to me!!
The members in the ward are amazing!! The dinner calendar this month is
the fullest I have ever seen it!! The members are being more active and
involved with us and helping us, it is great!!
OH MY GOODNESS!!! On Saturday the wind/weather was the worst it had been
for years in Norwegian history!! It literally was like a hurricane outside!!
Trees were falling down, it was insane!! The wind was crazy!!! I couldn't walk
and Søster Heywood and I had to wait outside for a bus for an hour and it was
scary!! I literally thought the bus stop that we were standing under was going
to collapse on us!! That night it started hailing as well while we were
sleeping and I thought it was going to break the window!!!
Something special this week was that I got to translate a blessing in
sign from English to Norwegian twice!! It was crazy!!! The saying “With God all
things are possible” is real!! I could not be able to do any of this without
the Lord's help!!
Casper wants Søster Heywood and I to start teaching him American Sign
Language and English! Funny thing... Søster Heywood knows some American sign
language as well!! So crazy!!
Casper has a deaf friend who he brought to us and the elders because he
wants us to teach and help him!!! We have met with him once! His name is Ronny!
I will for sure keep ya'll updated on his situation! Exciting!
**Sorry my email this week is so unorganized!!!
Jordan's Tidbits:
- Missionaries are set apart to be weird and awkward!!! So be nice to us!
I have to tell myself that every once in a while. I say this because, let’s face it – sometimes
we are awkward and we need to embrace it!! For example when you get on the bus
and sit down – you might see someone on the bus that you feel like you should
sit by, so you obviously get up and go sit by them... very pinlig!
- If you see missionaries outside say hi!! It will make their day!!!
- This picture reminded me of the “feed the birds” lady from Mary Poppins! The is in Sentrum in Stavanger
- Met a guy on the street who *collects Mormons* he goes around and when
he sees missionaries gets their pictures and posts it on facebook!! hahaha so
funny!!
- It really frustrates me when people are: close minded, stubborn, read
anti-Mormon things, and believe everything they read on the internet is
true!
- Preach My Gospel is not just for missionaries!! It is for everyone!! I
encourage families to start to read it all together!! It is so awesome!!!
- Here at church they don't say *Brother Peterson or Sister Glenn* like
they do in America, they just go by their first name. Kinda weird!
- I almost yelled in Norwegian at these people who were outside our
window from 2- 4 in the morning yelling and screaming!! I mean come on people!!
Some of us actually have to wake up early!!
- While contacting on the street the other day Søster Heywood and I
stopped an old man and he grabbed me by the shoulders said some things than as
he walked away he grabbed and held my hand!!! If only you could have seen
Søster Heywood's and my face!! Priceless I'm sure!!
***We are doing another English Fast this week as a mission!!! Wish me
luck!!! Our mission is very young so President wants us to become stronger in
the language so we will be having an “English fast week” once every transfer
which is 6 weeks!
Have a great week dere!!!
xoxo
Søster Peterson
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