Friday 28 November 2008

Missionary work and scenery

Our oldest grandson, Jory entered the MTC in October and has now arrived in the El Salvador/Belize Mission. We are so proud of him that we had to include a picture of him and his mother, our daughter Heidi, here in our blog. He will be there for two years and we have seen a growth in him just during the time he has been a missionary.
This is Trym. He is eight years old. His mother, Anette is a member of our church but his father is not. He has told us he wants to be baptized and so has his brother. We are teaching them and hope that they can be baptized before we return home. He is demonstrating his skill playing the violin. He has been taking lessons for three months and he played Silent Night for us. An exceptional boy.
This is Ellen Elisa, who comes to our apartment every Wednesday for two to three hours for seminary. Sister Humphrey is her teacher. Elder Olsson is one of our Zone Leaders and Elder Dillion Jensen is an Assistant to the President. Elder Jensen served the first six months of his mission in Haugesund and was in our zone and wanted to visit us (really he wanted to visit Haugesund and the people he knew here).
About a mile from our home is a walk way that goes around a very beautiful lake. At the end of the walkway is this view of Haugesund and the North Sea. We try to walk on this walk way two or three times a week. But since the weather has turned a little colder and rainy we have slowed down on our excercise program.
This is also a view of Skudeneshavn seen from a bridge that goes from the main land of the city to a small island just south of the downtown area.





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