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Hello people!

Sorry that I didn't send an email last week! Wow, these past 14 days have felt like an eternity.

Elder Mattson got here from the MTC! He's awesome, and I'm really glad I get to train him. We've been working extra hard, and the lord's definitly blessing us. His Icelandic has improved so much in just the past 2 weeks. It's insane.

Also, last monday, Jónína decided to get bapitized! She's all set to be baptized on the 26th, and confirmed the next day. She's also asked me to baptize her! I'm super excited. It's gonna be an amazing experience for her!

This past week I've been thinking a lot about Joseph Smith's experience in liberty jail. I even got to give a talk about it yesterday, I might attach a link to it in this email, but I'll probably forget by the end of it...

But it's still insane just how much Elder Mattson's Icelandic has improved. He gave a 20ish minute talk yesterday all in Icelandic. Church was an interesting experience haha. Elder Mattson and I spoke, did the sacrament, were the pianists (I just hit the pre recorded hymn play button), and taught sunday school.

We've been working a lot on improving our facebook finding skills! Facebook is such a love hate relationship for me though haha. Sometimes it feels like all the people that will listen to us are on facebook, or like all of them are out on the streets where we can go contacting or knocking or something, but we've been working on getting more of a routine down, and it helps!

Elder mattson and I have been assigned to be the story post creators for the Iceland missionary facebook page. Pretty exciting! We've been using Canva a lot. (also, I totally saw another missionary group copy our story post. Same format, scripture and everything. Must mean we did a pretty good job ;)).

I've decided I'm definitly gonna link my talk, if you want to read it. It's probably gonna sound a little funky, idk why, but I feel like it is.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U1T0ps9xtvrJMLmwM-eIWfNA_ADmz6zAQwPCSk62nqs/edit?usp=drivesdk

Yuppp.

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