Kópavogur aftur?? Kominn heim

Hello hello hello!

How is everyone doing? This week was really good! We taught a dude named Wael, I can't remember if I mentioned him last week, but he's super elect. He loves Christ and loves meeting with us! On Wednesday we met him, but the member that was gonna go with us slept in and didn't show up, so we taught him the whole restoration in Spanish. The gift of tongues was there, and Elder Whittle's also really gotten Spanish down! We also said goodbye to the Sisters that day! There won't be Sisters in Iceland for a period of time, which is gonna be awesome because then we can do all of our meetings in Icelandic. It will be a little sad though, they were good at keeping energy levels high.

We had a Karaoke party with our english class because they all graduated! It was really fun, they're super awesome. On friday we moved into Kópavogur because we're now in a trio with Elder Carr. He came that friday as well. It's weird to be back here, this is where I was born. It's kind of epic though. There's a sort of energy here that I really like. It reminds me of when I first got to Iceland and was super excited for everything. I've been reading the beginning of Alma and I must say there's a bunch of super awesome stuff that I forgot was in there.

I also want to share my witness that God answers prayers. When we pray with sincerity, and truly desire to act, He provides the way for us to accomplish what we've prayed for. We also need to be willing to accept answers we didn't expect or didn't think about.

All the sisters I was in the MTC with are going home now, which is really weird! It makes me feel old.

Love,

Öldungur Rasmussen

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