TRANSFERRED TO NARVIK

Heia!!!! 

So I have just found out that I am going to Narvik!  Unfortunately that means that I will be leaving Bergen.  It is really hard to face but I knew that would happen someday...  I will be opening Narvik with a new companion..  He just finished getting trained so I will be his second companion or mothering him.  That also means that I will be senior, which is major intimidating.  But I am very excited for the new challenge and the new expirences!

Other than that things have been pretty stressful in the last week.  We only got to meet with D and Y once, but Y is kind of being evasive... so I feel like I might be leaving Bergen on Bad terms with them, so that is really scary. We have a meeting with them tomorrow, so hopefully everything goes well.  

I have to pack and stuff today for Narvik so everything is busy today.  I don't really have time for more.  I will have send the address for the new house next week.  I leave for Narvik Wednesday.

Sounds like things are going alright at home just keep going forward!

jeg elsker deg min mor!

Din sønn,

Eldste Jones

WE ARE FINDING A LOT OF NEW INVESTIGATORS, BUT FOR SOME REASON OR ANOTHER THEY NEVER SEEM TO TURN INTO PROGRESSORS.

Heia!  

Short letter is okay, I don't have a lot of time today. So my letter might be a little short as well.

In the past week we have had a lot of different things going on. Elder L had to go to Oslo for a day for a meeting so it was just me and Elder C here in Bergen.  So that was a way cool experience learning to be a senior comp. for a day.  I had a blast, not to mention we had a pretty good day out on the streets getting new investigators and what not.  So that was a blast. Elder L has to go back to Oslo this week for some more leadership training so it will be just us again.  Looking forward to that.  

The work is progressing here, we are finding a lot of new investigators, but for some reason or another they never seen to turn into progressors. D and Y are still doing well and still are working for the baptismal date.  Unfortunately Y hasn't been to church for several weeks, because of work and other reasons... so we are really working to get her there.  D comes everyweek though and is almost done with the Book of Mormon!  So that is way exciting.

Other than that not much is going on.  We are on the streets a lot trying to find new people.  

That is way cool to hear about that elder, super wierd too, he really does sound a lot like me!

Anyways that is all I have time for today.  Moves call is this sunday, so I will know next monday.  

Jeg elsker deg!

Eldste Jones  

NATIONAL DAY N NORWAY

Hey Mom, it is good to hear from you again.  I have been enjoying the festivities of the 17th of May today! It is the national day here in Norway. Pictures are on the way!  It was probably my best day here in Norway, I love this place so much!  

I got my temporary permit.  So I have to take two practice tests and then the real one.  So that will be really fun!

Anyways nothing has really changed in the last 5 days.  So I am just going to send the pictures home from today and let you see the culture a little bit!  

Some things that might be cool to know, it is now light here till about 11 at night and gets light at 4:30.  So that is pretty cool.  Complete change from when I got here.  The pictures shall have

people wearing the traditional dress here which is called a bonad.

I hit my 6 month mark this week... that was the worst day of my life.  I can't believe that my mission is passing by me!  I just want it to last forever!

Jeg elsker deg!

Eldste Jones

TIME IS FLYING HERE!

Heia!  

Det er godt å høre at du forstår meg!  Haha I am glad to hear that things are going well at home too!

The new apartment is okay.  It is definitely bigger than the last one and has a lot more space and room but it is just not the same without the family.  I am so sad that I had to leave that family, they truely were awesome.  The trio is going well.  We are staying super busy and have a lot going on.  We had our baptism on Saturday so that was awesome.  I was super jealous that I didn't get the chance to teach the man that got baptized.  He was super prepared and just had a super strong testimony.  But it was a great way to start our transfer as a threesome!

D and Y are both doing great.  Yelitza is back from spain now and has begun work.  So things are starting to be a little busy for them.  But as far as their teaching goes they are still making progress, so it is awesome being a part of it.  My comps' other investigators aren't really progressing.  But we are hoping to work with the family of the man that just got baptized on Saturday.

It has been raining a ton in the last week, I was soaked head to to the other day as we came inside from contacting.  It was pretty great!  We have a presentation that we are doing for a school class on Wednesday that I am really excited for!  

As far as Mother day goes I am probably going to skype we will be skyping from the family's home, so that should be pretty fun. 

Other than that things are going well here.  We are going to have a busy couple weeks going on til transfers in 3 weeks. Time is really flying here, it feels so wierd!

Anyways I have some pictures for you so I will send those after this!

Jeg elsker deg så mye, jeg håper dere ha det bra og vi snakkes på Søndag!

Din sønn

Eldste Jones

STAYING IN BERGEN

Hei hei!

Well that takes the fun out of my email... yes I am in a threesome. The other two Elders here in Bergen right now, will be my new companions.  So we will combine our two areas and the three of us will be the bergen elders. I will be leaving the family's home and moving in with the new elders on thursday.  they live in an apartment near to the church as well.  So it should be an interesting month with the three of us in that apartment.  I am definitely excited for it.  The other Elders have a baptism this week so techinically I will have a baptism this week as well!  That is pretty cool!

But I was glad to hear that all is well at home.  It is cool to hear that Darcie is home, that is so wierd but it felt like that whole generation was already of their missions.  I guess we did overlap for a bit though haha.

I haven't taken any pictures since last week so I don't really have a lot to give to you... but I will see if I can get some soon and get them to you.  You asked if my clothes fit... yes for the most part.  My pants are all pretty big but I just tighten down my belt and it works.  

The weather here has been like you have seen; rain, rain and more rain.  It was sunny for the baptism Saturday though, so we had refreshments outside. I am super happy with this rain jacket that I bought here.  It keeps me totally dry.  The shoes have been holding up really well too, so no problems there.

Other than that, things have been going good. Y finally came home.  Although we haven't seen her yet.  She got back Saturday night, super late.  So we get to teach them both before my comp leaves. We have been teaching D the gospel of Jesus Christ through the Book of Mormon.  We have shared the stories of Enos, Brother of Jared, the Stripling warriors and a couple others.  We focus on a different portion of the Gospel of Jesus Christ each time.  So I am way pumped for that.  We had a lot of time on the street last week, so there really isn't much to report other than what I have said.  

Anyways we are making Taco Pizza's for P-day today. So I have to run.

Jeg elsker deg så mye! Jeg kan ikke vente til snakke med dere på Mors dag!

Din sønn,

Eldste Jones

Hei hei!

Well not much to report from the last week I guess.  Not a lot on the new investigator front. We have been struggling to find new investigators in the past week or two.  We Have been trying to do a lot of contacting and what not.  Other than that there really not a lot going.  The weather here is getting a lot more Bergensk.  We have seen a lot of rain in the recent past.  It is definitely warmer though!  

A typical day here without being in training, well it is a lot like the other days.  We wake up and I do jump rope, write in my journal for the day before, shower and then eat breakfast. We start with studies at 8; personal, companionship, and language.  At 11 we eat lunch.  Then we usually have appointments or contacting for the rest of the day.  With dinner in there somewhere.  If we go into the city we try and stay in the city for the rest of the day.  But ya, thats about it.  

The ward is about 500 members.  Only about 100 of them are active.  We just got the second stake last year.  So I am part of the Drammen stake. 

That is cool to get to hear that things are all going well at home.  Things are good when we are busy.  Also could you find out where B comes from?  Tell the team hi for me!  I was trying to remember the other day and I couldn't.  

I am not totally sure if I have any pictures for you but i will see if I can dig some up haha.  

Now for the events of the week.  We have a baptism this Saturday in the District!  The sisters here have one of their investigators getting baptized!  So that is exciting.  We have continued meeting with D, Y is still out of the country.  we met with T again, he is still not progressing though. We are thinking about giving him to the end of the transfer and if he is not progressing we are probably going to drop him.  We did a lot of contacting in the past week as well.

I almost forgot, we had a really fun ward activity here!  The YSA here put it on, basically we had different activities going on throughout the church.  Elder Davidson and I both taught the ward how to contact on the streets for our little portion.  it was super fun and we had a blast.  I will see if I can get those pictures to you.  They are hilarious.  We had people dress up like missionaries in our clothes and then we brought wigs for the pretend investigators.  People were looking so ridiculous!  Way to much fun.  I could not stop from laughing and smiling the whole time.

Today president is coming into Bergen.  He is visiting our district for our district meeting tomorrow.  We hope to find out stuff about the transfer calls and what not.  Not sure if he will give any information though.  Won't stop me from trying!

I am so nervous about transfers, I cannot think about leaving Bergen.  This place is perfect.  The members here are awesome, I learn so much everyday, i really cannot describe how amazing this place is.  It scares me to think that I could leave to go to an area with on 4 members... but I guess I go where the Lord sends me!

Anyways thats about it.

Jeg elsker deg så mye!

Din sønn

Eldste Jones

WE FINALLY GOT A BAPTISMAL DATE!

Heisann!

The week here has been way good.  We finally got a baptismal date with D and Y!  But I will talk more about that later. Questions first.  Transfers basically happen when we have Elders or Sisters coming or leaving.  So we have elders leaving on may 2nd and then we have a big group coming from the MTC on May 27th.  So we basically have 2 big moves next month.  It looks like we will lose a lot of leadership and what not so I think I will probably lose Elder D soon.  But ya, there is no set schedule for transfers now, just when we have some leave or come.  As far as pictures, I have bought a Flash drive here that I backup all of my pictures on.  So I have my SD card and a flash drive that has my pictures.  It is actually pretty common for elders here to have full on portable harddrives that they store a bunch of stuff on, but I just got a 16gb flashdrive.  I will see if I can find some to send to you from the recent past.

This week though.  It was awesome.  I went to Stavanger on splits for Thursday and Friday with our Zone leader.  While I was there we got the opportunity of picking up one of the new missionaries from the Airport.   She looked like she was doing well, and she definitely has an awesome trainer.  Other than that though Stavanger was awesome.  I was with Elder A.  The other zone leader, Elder C was here with Elder D.  It was really cool to see another part of Norway.  It was wierd though being by myself in the airport travelling and what not on the way back.  All good though!  Elder A was way cool to get to work with, he has this really cool dialect that he picked up in Bodø, so he sounds really cool when he speaks norwegian.  He was way good to get to learn from to, its amazing how many people there are around you that can teach you so much!

Anyways, while I was in Stavanger Elder D and Elder C. taught D and Y.  So I wasn't there for the baptismal date, but it sounded like a really good teach.  Other than that not a whole lot went on.  We were hitting the streets a lot.  It has finally started to rain here.  So that is a little interesting.  I went out and bought a waterproof windbreaker that has a hood.  I realized that was something that I was lacking.  It was a little expensive but I think it will be really good to have here.  

Anyways,  thats about it.

Jeg elsker deg så mye!

Din sønn

Eldste Jones