It was so good to hear from you. So, not a whole lot new to report. We ended up having to push our baptism back a few weeks because the guy hasn't come to church. He went out to his Hita with his family for the holidays so wasn't around to attend. We met with him this week and hes had all the lessons. Theres no problems, just gotta get him to church two more times and get him in the water. He's a good guy though, really positive. Just needs to up his attendance. We have another guy who wants to be baptized, but has to quit smoking first. Get this, he was contacted right before I got here. At the time he smoked (but only like 4 ciggs a day) and drank a liter of coffee every morning. Hes sense stopped the coffee, and read the book of mormon twice, and is on his third time through. Pretty impressive right? But heres the miricle, he has a reading disorder. He has to read things like 4 or 5 times before it registers what it is hes reading, but he understands the book of mormon with no problem. Its a complex book for a normal person to read, and hes flown through it twice already. I have read the book of mormon once sense I got here. I finished it in 6 weeks. i thought that was good, but sheesh. So he really wants to be baptised, just needs to drop the ciggs. Hes solid though, its just a matter of time.
So transfers are this week, and Im the only one staying in bergen. Im happy with that though. We have a few baptisms in feb that I did NOT want to miss. We had one this last week too, a guy named alexander. He told us that he only agreed to read from the book of mormon and come to church just so he could find a flaw and prove us all wrong. But he said that backfired and hes found something that he cant deny. So he was confirmed yesterday. We have 2 solid baptism dates for bergen branch, and 2 more soft commitments, but things are taking off here. We set a goal to have 100 baptisms in Norway by June 30th. So far we have 30 scheduled for Jan alone. If we can keep that up we can meet our goal. We invited all the wards and branches to have a fast for mission work, and all of us have stepped it up with studies and obedience. Ive got some heavy goals for my next transfer so hopefully my new companion is a hard worker.
Dont have much else to report other than that. Have a bit of a dry throat today, but its not too bad. Tell jace happy bday for me, and that ill be looking forward to tearing up some final fantasy and zelda when I get back. Love you dad
-Elder Rasmussen-
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