Norway? No Way!: July 28

Had such an awesome week this week! For several different reasons.

The first being we got to go to Ålesund,
which is just downright sick. I loved it!

I was able to perform the baptism for Øystein in the ocean (fjord, sound, water, whatever you want to call it) and it was a very humbling experience.

He was just so happy and you could really see the light shining from him all day long. I love baptisms:)

The next day was transfers! I dropped Elder Skøien off at the airport at around two, and then had about 5 hours. Alone. By myself. To do. Whatever I wanted. Before Elder Vause arrived later that night.. SCARY! haha Robert is in Germany so I had nobody to stay with. So I read some scriptures, listened to some talks, and bought some food. Wasn't that bad, just felt a little weird:)

My new companion is awesome! Elder Vause is from Farr West, Utah and is just a great guy! He came out six weeks after me so we are at about the same stage, which is fun. He has a ton of energy and we get along great! It's going to be a sweet transfer. I'm pumped! We went way hard these last couple of days, and really have been focusing on finding people who are prepared and will be able to help us build up a branch here. I know they are out there! We were able to find a couple of potentials, but we are praying and expecting some awesome miracles to come.

To answer some of your questions mom!

That burger king hat (from the last post) was just something I got at burger king when we ate there right before we went fishing:) Burger King is the only fast food resteraunt in Kristiansund! I swear it's the hang out spot for all of the teenagers..

None of the flights we take are too long:) It's only about 30-40 minutes to Trondheim, and about 50 minutes to Bergen, so it goes really quick.

One of my favorite things ever is flying over Norway! It is unbelievably breathtaking! Unfortunately it has been cloudy the last few times, but especially when I was in Tromsø and would fly, it was unreal. I'll get some good pics in the future! It's just a bunch of fjords and mountains with random tiny little villages and cities on the edge of the water. Crazy awesome!

It will be a little weird going back to three hour church, but I'm looking forward to it! It will be nice to been in a ward again, but I have felt the spirit just the same. I think we are going to start having sunday school here too! So I'll ease my way back into the three hours by having some two hour church:)

We play hymns from a laptop with some nice speakers. The first couple of weeks and and Elder Skoien would play the 4 hymns we knew how and have to just sing them every week, but we did sing acapella a couple of times. But now we have a laptop and have downloaded all of the hymns. Church was just us and Wencke this week! Oh, and Elder Russel M. Nelson, who was our guest speaker haha. It went well and Wencke is going to talk to the Bishop in Trondheim this week so we can find out what we need to do to get her back and active!

Thanks again for all of the videos of my cute little nieces and my beautiful sister mom! I was just smiling the whole time! Millie is the cutest thing to walk the face of the earth and so is Layla! And Aub's wedding video was incredible! Everyone looked so good! I loved it so thank you so much! I love you guys!

Elder Nilsson

Cool house!