All the MTC Norwegian-bound missionaries; an awesome group.



This is the place.  Every missionary has to point at this board; it's in the handbook, isn't it?



Our friends, the Thackers - headed to South Dakota as CES directors



Our patient, awesome MTC tutor, Michael Olsen



Yes, believe it or not, we did learn how to turn on the computer.







 





Our friends, the Gronnings, from West Jordan.  They will be office missionaries in Moscow.



Before going any further we need to acknowledge the help of our daughter-in-law, Daiana, in teaching us how to post entries on this blog.  She has willingly dropped what she was doing to patiently repeat what she'd already told us the week before.  Well her instruction is paying off, we are becoming addicts - we almost deserve the title of bloggers.  Thank you, Daiana.  We love you.

At this point we need to apologize for the lack of quality in this blog.  We're (actually, at this point, Norm) rookies, or I guess, greenies since we're missionaries.  Please be patient and don't laugh too loud at our mistakes.  Like all greenies, we will eventually learn what we're supposed to do.

The MTC was a wonderful experience for us.  We stayed ten days; the first week we learned Preach My Gospel and the last three we had office training.  Yes, the food was awesome and so were the teachers.  A couple months before entering the MTC we drove from West Jordan to Provo three times a week to be tutored in Norwegian.  Michael Olsen, a recently returned missionary from Norway, was so patient as he instructed us.  He did an excellent job and challenged us to improve the language once we arrived in Norway.

We gained some new friends in the MTC, mostly other couples, all of whom were an inspiration to us.  We'll never forget them.

We couldn't resist pointing. It's the thing to do.



With friends, the Thackers




Our awesome, PATIENT tutor in Norwegian, Michael Olsen




Hard to believe, but we actually know how to turn on a computer now.



MTC!

These were the other Norway-bound missionaries with us in the MTC.  An awesome group.

Our Our Way to Norway!

We got the call

We've been in Norway two months and haven't figured out or had time to do much with this blog until we called our daughter-in-law, Daiana last night.  She gave us the scoop.
We received our call on April 14th.  We opened it in front of family and were really surprised we were going to Norway, a place no one had guessed.  But we are excited to be in Norway.  We'll tell about what we're experiencing in a later entry.
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