Once a month we are invited to a zone conference for all of the missionaries in the South Zone, comprising the cities of Arendal, Kristiansand, Stavanger, Haugesund and Bergen. The mission president, his wife and sixteen missionaries come together and have an all day meeting. It is great to feel the spirit of the young missionaries, the other senior couple, the Robards serving in Bergen, and President and Sister Poulsen. Here one of the young elders, Elder Holst from Danmark, who served with us in Tromsø and helped us set up this blog, is helping myself and Elder Robards with our computer problems during the lunch break. It is great to have some one with a little know how about computers.
From left to right: Elder Jonathan Lange and Elder Tyler Alexander, both serving in Kristiansand, and Elder Jacob Reese, serving in Arendal.
After the zone conference was over Sister Humphrey and I stayed in Stavanger for a meeting for all Seminary teachers that was held in the church building. It lasted until 9 pm and we did not want to drive the two hour drive back home so we stayed overnight in Stavanger. The next morning, before driving home we went downtown to see what Stavanger looked like. This is the downtown harbor area with an old church in the backgroud.
A section of Stavanger has been preserved just as it was two or three hundred years ago, with very narrow cobblestone streets and houses built right up to the edge of the street and very close together. This is a picture of "Gammel Stavanger" (old Stavanger).
In most of the cities that have hills in them and on most roadways going from city to city there are tunnels. We recently read that there are close to one thousand tunnels in Norway. The longest is 24 kilometers (15 miles) long. Many go under fjords. To drive from Haugesund to Bergen one must drive through a tunnel that goes 264 meters (about 2500 feet) under sea level. Notice that there is a house built right on top of this tunnel which is almost in the downtown area of Stavanger.
Once a month we are invited to a zone conference for all of the missionaries in the South Zone, comprising the cities of Arendal, Kristiansand, Stavanger, Haugesund and Bergen. The mission president, his wife and sixteen missionaries come together and have an all day meeting. It is great to feel the spirit of the young missionaries, the other senior couple, the Robards serving in Bergen, and President and Sister Poulsen. Here one of the young elders, Elder Holst from Danmark, who served with us in Tromsø and helped us set up this blog, is helping myself and Elder Robards with our computer problems during the lunch break. It is great to have some one with a little know how about computers.
From left to right: Elder Jonathan Lange and Elder Tyler Alexander, both serving in Kristiansand, and Elder Jacob Reese, serving in Arendal.
After the zone conference was over Sister Humphrey and I stayed in Stavanger for a meeting for all Seminary teachers that was held in the church building. It lasted until 9 pm and we did not want to drive the two hour drive back home so we stayed overnight in Stavanger. The next morning, before driving home we went downtown to see what Stavanger looked like. This is the downtown harbor area with an old church in the backgroud.
A section of Stavanger has been preserved just as it was two or three hundred years ago, with very narrow cobblestone streets and houses built right up to the edge of the street and very close together. This is a picture of "Gammel Stavanger" (old Stavanger).
In most of the cities that have hills in them and on most roadways going from city to city there are tunnels. We recently read that there are close to one thousand tunnels in Norway. The longest is 24 kilometers (15 miles) long. Many go under fjords. To drive from Haugesund to Bergen one must drive through a tunnel that goes 264 meters (about 2500 feet) under sea level. Notice that there is a house built right on top of this tunnel which is almost in the downtown area of Stavanger.
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