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Hei familie!
So this week was just full of miracles! This week could potentially be my last week in Stavanger, but we will see :) transfers are next monday!!! Super crazy!


But lets see what I want to start with. So last monday, once pday was over, we decided to go contacting instead of to FHE with the YSA. I told mom the first story, but i'll shorten it for you all, so that i have time to send pictures, etc. But we were talking to a man, who wasnt that intersted, and a little african walked up to us and asked if we were mormon, and then flat out said, "can i have your book?" Were going to hopefully meet with him this week! haha! He had talked to missionaries in trondheim, so thats cool! So that is what started our miracles! We wanted 2 appointments, and that is exactly what SIster mourik and i got, before even walking around the pond once! hmm...either two apps or 2 numbers...i dont remember exactly what the goal was, but we got it! :) (didnt get all of the apps to really happen, because they didnt all show up, but we still made the appointments with them) but Then Sister Clark and I talked to two 25ish year old men, and they ended up meeting with us this week! Holy cow it was crazy! :)


So then the next day sister mourik, sister clark and I were wating for a bus. We didnt know this at the time, but we were actually waiting for the wrong bus. But that makes this story that much more cool! We were waiting and all of a sudden this man walks up to us and asks if we remember him, we said yes (i didnt really...kinda recognized...but i thought he was actually someone else kanskje haha) But he started talking about how he showed up to the appointment and no one was there, becuase he had the wrong time and day! But something happened with his phone so we couldnt get in contact. So we rescheduled and ended up meetin with him on saturday! He is man from kazachstan who speaks english and russian. He decided that it was time for him to figure out if God is real, etc. So were meeting with him again this coming saturday! :) WAY cool! So, we also took some girls in the ward out contacting, one of them is 22 and LOVED it! Funny story. We started talking to a man on the bench and he was just in love with Mina. He was saying in broken norwegian, "So..if I liked you (poingin to mina)........or you. (pointing to me...tyring to not make it obvious that he liked mina) could we get married, since you are mormon and i am islam?" HAHA! It was so funny. I tried calling him on saturday to remind him to come to church annnndddd he hung up on me. Haha, oh well :\ Hes just not completely prepared!


So also this week, we got kebabed (what they call it if someone doesnt show up, because missionaries would go get a kebab when it happened haha) by someone. We were on our way home and i saw a man sitting somewhat close to our house. So i contacted him, and he said we could jsut teach him right then! We taught him the first lesson right there, sitting on the ground\grass and got an annen appointment with him! We met with him again, saturday morning at his house. It was all smoky in there, but what a sweet guy. Hes probably in his 60s, lives alone, and is from Iran or something like that. He has lived in norway since the 70s? But he told us he doesnt want to join any religion. Were still going to work with him though :) I guess lots of people say they just want to learn and then end up getting baptized, so well see how it goes! He was going through cigarette withdrawals or something during our lesson though, cuz he was chewing on his finger. Poor guy.
But that was a miracle, because our goal was to get one teach that day, and that person kebabed us, but we still got a teach!!!!!!!!! :) The Lord is so aware of us!


Sister Mourika nd I also talked to some people...super awkward about the Law of Chastity, but we were supposed to meet with them and they didnt come, and then we called again and they are having problems (bf and gf) so were still gonna try to meet with the guy, Magne this week. Also, a man that kebabed us a few weeks ago, called us and told us the reason he didnt come was because he didnt have minutes on his phone to cancel. but still wanted to meet! So we met like....40 minutes later at the libraray! and we got a soft baptismal commitment out of him! (if he knows its true he will be baptized) SO COOL! He said, Nei Takk to get baptized at a specific date at this point, but ill let you know what happens with him :)
So then I got to go to a party! haha
well, a member, who hasnt been coming to church often invited us to her bday party, and then kinda made us feel bad if we didnt come, so i went with the senior couple (splits with sister haugen) and the two other sisters went an app we had, that didnt end up working out. But guess what?? it was a PHILIPPINO PARTY! SO I had delicious philippino food! haha! :) I could not be sent to the phillipines, i would get so fat!!!!!!! But it was cool!


My langauge is coming along, i just LOVE norwegian and Norway is my favorite place!
Anyways, like...no one was at church on sunday because it was a stake temple trip (ward maybe?) in sweden. So it was pretty small :) Anyways, I should go so that I can send pics and stuff. But I love you all so much!!!!!!!!
Have a gerat week! I pray for you all all the time :)
Love, Søster Chapman :)






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