People

Sister Ingebjørg Warvik, Relief Society President, conducting an Enrichment Night activity on Food Storage in our chapel. This was the first for some years so the attendance was not high. But it was a beginning.
Some of the sisters at the Enrichment Night, dinner portion. L - R: sister to Reidun Solmunde, Sister Humphrey, Reidun Solmunde a member of our branch.
Elder Gutterrez, left, from Fort Worth, Texas and Elder Kerr, from Scotland. Both serve in the Stavanger area but came to Haugesund to go on a teach and help with a service project at a members home. The members, the Ismo and Marianne Hiltunen family, needed their basement cleaned out so they could have a concrete floor poured. The elders and us hauled everything out this day. The following day we helped brother Hiltunen take a lot of stuff to the dump. Brother Hiltunen is originally from Finland and sister Hiltunen is from Haugesund. They both served missions, he now serves as counselor in the branch presidency and she serves as gospel doctrine teacher and branch organist.
Brother Sigmund A. A. Breivik. He lives about 70 km. from Harmar, Norway, a city in the south eastern part of Norway where he serves as branch president. He previously served as a bishop in the Drammen ward. He works Monday thru Friday in Haugesund and commutes back and forth on weekends. We have been holding Home Evenings with him and single adults in our branch. He is a talented individual, enjoys playing the guitar and singing Norwegian folk songs. He has a strong testimony.
A wonderful family from USA who visited our branch. Jeanie Okland is from Salt Lake, and her granddaughter, sister Rose and her children, Zack, Nick and Eden live in the Phoenix area. Sister Okland has a home about an hour and a half north of Haugesund on the island of Stord. It overlooks the mouth of two fjords. The area is magnificent.
The first Sunday they visited our Sacrament meeting our attendance jumped from about 20 to 33. There were also several other visitors there that Sunday.