Well, it has been quite a week. I don't even have words to describe it... Ha ha! I will just tell you what happened....
It
started with the migraine. I have not been sick so far on my mission,
but the other day, we were starting our language study with a prayer and
when I stood up, I had this crazy dizzy feeling come over me and then
there were spots in my vision. I told Sister Pace that I thought I was
getting a migraine and she told me to go sleep for and hour, but I
wanted to be tough. So I continued with my studies... It didn't go very
far. I couldn't see anything! So I decided to take her advice and sleep
for an hour. Well, while I was napping, I felt the headache hit. Oh man!
It was the worst migraine I have ever had! We had the elders bring some
migraine medicine and then I slept for 3 hours. It took up our whole
day, sadly. However, I was better in time for us to teach this really
cool new investigator later in the evening. I'll tell you more about him
later. :) But don't worry, I am healed now. Ha ha! :)
Anyways... So we are living in Sister Pace's great
aunt's house who is not a member. She found out that Sister Pace was
here and invited us to dinner. She told us that she was making us
shrimp... Great... Ha ha! So we went to visit her. Let me just
tell you, we walked into her house and she had a HUGE platter of raw
shrimp complete with heads and tentacle/feeler things and eggs. She
taught how to behead, de-tentacle, de-egg, and then eat these nasty
creatures. Yes, I ate shrimp that I had to disembody. It was torture.
But I did it with a smile and no one knew how bad I was dying inside. Ha
ha! These nasties are caller rekker in Norwegian. It was fun and all
worth it because she gave us delicious chocolate afterwards! :)
The other night, we were just getting done with a
very awkward contacting session where we met a lot of random people when
we saw 3 or 4 people huddled over a man who was laying on the ground.
As we got closer, we saw that they were trying to wake him up... and
find a pulse. and they couldn't. As we got even closer we saw that the
man's eyes were OPEN! Then an ambulance pulled up and the emt's walked
out, tried to find a pulse, couldn't find one, and slowly walked back to
the car, got out the gurney and then they heaved that man onto it. Big
problem- the man was not limp like he should have been... His body was
stiff! There was the weirdest feeling around- as if he was there
watching his body. It was so crazy! Sister Pace and I may have freaked
out a little bit!
Well, even though it probably sounds like we had a
rough week, it actually was quite an amazing one! Last Saturday, we
found this guy named Bob. He is basically Norwegian. He was born in
Denmark, but moved to Norway when he was 6. He came with us to FHE with
the YSA's and we have taught him 3 or 4 times. He is progressing so
fast! He is about 21 years old and just gets along so well with the
people in the ward. He came to church with us and stayed for 3 hours
after church, talking to members, eating waffles with us, and watching a
video about the restoration. It was so cool! He is definitely on the
baptism radar! He hasn't been willing to set a date for baptism, but he
knows that is the goal and he is working towards finding an answer if
the Book of Mormon is true. We love BOB! :)
We had a miracle 45 minutes yesterday where we got 6
teaches, 1 new investigator and 2 phone numbers to people who would
like to meet. It was incredible! :) We are just tearing up Bergen and
loving every minute of it! We are getting along so well. We laugh all of
the time... even when times are a little off... Ha ha! She is a great
missionary! There are 5 new missionaries in Bergen and only 1 who has
been here. So all of the new missionaries got to speak in Sacrament
Meeting yesterday. It was really cool and the Spirit was really strong.
The members are really nice here. :) I am excited to grow to love them
as much as the ones in Trondheim! :)
Well, I hope all is well with everyone at home. I love you all very much! Have a fantastic week! Vi snakkes!
♥- Søster Jessica Taylor
Sister Taylor!
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you won't see this for awhile, but thanks for the blog shout out and thanks for taking such good care of my sister. I know she is so happy to be in Bergen and serving with you! And don't worry about the shrimp - my first (and only) time de-heading and de-veining shrimp was in that very city. And I'm pretty sure I hate shrimp as much as you do. It was painful. :)
You two are in my prayers,
Michelle