Hrekkjavaka

Happy halloween!

This week was so weird. Wednesday was the anniversary of my mission call! It feels so weird. Time is forever and in an instance at the same time haha.

Elder Mattson hasn't gotten to Iceland yet. They got a few vísa and travel delays but they'll be here on wednesday though! They kept pushing it back á day or two, so we weren't sure what we could plan. We did our best though! Our friends are the best.

Today Jónína took us to play á golf simulator. It was so cool! I've only played minni gólf and top gold though so it was really unfortunate to watch me. I ended up with the most points and therefore winning👑👑

I've fallen in love with Icelandic so much. It's so cool to figure out the complete puzzle of the grammar. I wanna learn so many languages haha. Especially Icelandic and Spanish. Apparently in early church history they made a unique Alphabet for English which is more phonetic, to help people learn English as a second language. That sounds so cool! It would also be really cool to learn danish. It shouldn't be too hard supposedly if I know icelandic already. All the food here has danish labels, and I'm able to read about 50% just because they have a similar root language. But it would be cool to find my ancestors who migrated to the States from Denmark!

Even though it's such a weird experience, I'm so glad that I get to be a missionary. It's so awesome to learn and meet people. It's cool to see people change, and just how much the gospel blesses others. I'm so grateful for it.

Elder Rasmussen

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