I have a few things I need to say. 1) I miss chicken nuggets and hamburgers and spam musubis. I would do anything for a burger right now. 2) I miss american peanut butter. The peanut butter in Norway is suuuper healthy and tastes like it, too. 3) I miss Chick-fil-A. Okay but then Norwegian food is like seriously the best food on the planet so I have no room to complain. Also I love goat cheese and wow I just love Norway. But I think in 16 more months, I'll be ready for some Cafe Rio and Chick-fil-A. I <3 'Murica
Rain, rain, rain. Holy rain. There is so much of it. But it is so wonderful at the same time. There is nothing like walking down the street in the pouring rain with a Book of Mormon in hand and thinking "I'M DOIN THE LORD'S WORK" and yeah it's just great.
Yesterday I played violin in a concert at church. My companion plays violin and I play viola. We couldn't find a viola, so I got to practice my violin skills last week!! So that was a good time.
OH, cool tender mercy/borderline miracle this week. So one of our investigators is from Tanzania (cool, right??) and this Saturday was our first time meeting with him. We planned on teaching the restoration and just giving him an English Book of Mormon (because we speak English together). Well, during the lesson, he told us his native language was Swahili. I was thinking "Oh, we'll probably have to order that" but I had a feeling to get up and check the shelf. They have this shelf in the church with the BOM in a couple different languages. They had Russian, French, Norwegian, English, Polish, Hungarian... No swahili. Well, I had another feeling to just pull out some books and check behind. Sure enough, there was one single Book of Mormon in the back. I though, "no way" and pulled it out, opened the cover.... Swahili. How cool is that?? The Lord is SO aware of us!! It was awesome!!
Also, Søster Leland and I placed 4 BOMs in an hour this week which was super unreal for Norway. We gained 3 investigators from that. :) The work is moving forward!!
One thing I love about Trondheim is that it's a college town, so it's SUPER crazy diverse. We meet/teach people from all over the world!! For example: we have investigators from Eritrea, Congo, Iran, Iraq, Poland, Nepal, Tanzania, south america, and a ton of random countries I totally can't huske. But it's rad. Of course, most of our investigators are Norsk. But it's still super cool to see :)
Also this week a guy on the bus asked us to go to the movies with him. When we explained why we couldn't, he asked us if we'd prefer to go bowling. HAHAHA so yeah
My little missionary rant won't be very long today, but I just wanted to let you all know how much I love you and how aware the Lord is of ALL of us!! He knows us all and everything we are going through! One thing I have learned over and over again these past few months is that we shouldn't pray for our trails to be taken from us, but we should pray for the strength and patience to get through them. Check out Alma 14:26, 31:31, and Mosiah 24:14-15. My goal is to be like the people of Alma and "submit cheerfully and with patience to all the will of the Lord." I know that He is always right beside us, anxious to help us "bear up [our] burdens with ease"! He can help you if you let Him -- sometimes it's just a manner of setting aside our pride and turning to Him. I love you all!!
Norway is amazing and I am so happy!! This gospel is true, I have seen it change lives in just three weeks!! I am so happy for the knowledge I have of this gospel and my Savior!
Love!! Have an awesome week!
<3 Søster Sims
Trondheim at 10:30 at night
A town called Hell
(I'm assuming Kensie thought this guys was adorable...and asked to take his pic. That's my girl! -Mel)
Mine! Mine! Mine, mine! :)
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