Senior Couples Conference

The week following the Mission Conference for members we had a Senior Couples Mission Conference. In the Norway Oslo Mission we have six senior couples serving missions plus the mission president and his wife. We met in Bergen, Norway on Thursday and had meetings and went to dinner. We also took a funicular train to the top of one of the seven mountain peaks surounding Bergen. It was extremely beautiful. Then on Friday we all boarded a train that took us to a town named Voss. We exchanged to a bus (a very nice one) that went down a two way road that was just wide enough for the bus and had switch backs with an 18% grade. This water fall was one of the more spectacular ones we saw while on the bus ride. With so many rivers and water falls there is an abundance of hydro electric power in Norway. Most of the trains are electric powered.
At the end of the bus ride we came to a small town named Gudvangen where we boarded a boat, seen here, which took us down one arm of the longest fjord in Norway, Sognefjord, then up another arm to the town of Flåm. Here we boarded a regular gauge railroad which goes from 3 meters above sea level to 850 meters above sea level in a very short distance. It is the steepest regular gauge railway in the Europe. Some of the most beautiful scenery we have ever seen was on this trip.
Here are all of the Senior Couple sisters on the boat portion of our trip. From l to r: Linda Roberds (from Salt Lake City), Dian Merrell (from Vernal, UT), Maxine Humphrey, Bente Andersen (from Denmark), Ardith Poulsen (mission president's wife, from Logan, UT), Liv Schow (from Salt Lake City, but born in Norway), and Bjørg Sims (from Loveland, Colorado but also born in Norway).
And here are the senior men and one young woman who kept asking us questions. She is a student at University of Tennessee in Knoxville who is studying for one semester in Stockholm and took a week vacation to Norway. You will have to match the husband up with their wife from the above picture to find out where they are from. From l to r:
David Sims, Byron Merrell, Alan Roberds, David Humphrey, young lady, Duane Schow, President Lynn Poulsen, and Niels Andersen.
Sister Humphrey was able to make contact with two street trolls while we were in Flåm. She talked to them about our church but they were very quiet about receiving what she had to say.