3 Nephi 8:18

Good morning!

We got our transfer information! I'm going to Akureyri with elder Wittle! It's gonna be super awesome. Elder Wittle and I are the newest missionaries on Iceland, and Akureyri is 5.5 hours from any other missionaries, so it's gonna be such an amazing opportunity for us to grow. Akureyri's area is huge, It's a 10 hour drive to get from one end to the other, but it doesn't have a car, so most of it will just be inaccesible but it should be so amazing! I fly there tuesday.

3 nephi 8:18 - There's been several hundred earthquakes within the past 72 hours! They're coming off the coast of Keflavík where the volcano is. It likely means that it's about to erupt! Mom, no need to be worried, it's not in a dangerous location ;). Worst case scenario they close the airports for a little bit.

This week was pretty awesome! We spent most of saturday filming for that dance video, but all the filming should be done now.

When we got back to the church (around 7) we cleaned the church for sunday, then we had like 20 minutes before we had to be home. We decided to drive to the bus station (we had borrowed one of the senior couple's car) and we went, knowing we'd have only time to talk to one pearson. When we get there we say a prayer to start, then we start walking around. There's 3 people standing by one of the bus stops! We walk over, and start talking to them. They're from Venezuela, and they've been going to Church at the salvation army. Apparently they didn't have church yesterday because of an Icelandic holiday though. AND church was at the same time as ours! Additionally, we had an 8 year old baptism for a hispanic girl, so the entire service was in Spanish, these people's first language! Unfortunately they didn't show up, but we know we were following the spirit, and that interaction we had was super positive.

Anyways, bless!

Öldungur Rasmussen

Volcano update: there's been 3000 (mild) earthquakes in the last 24 hours

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