Back in Stavanger

After a wonderful month in Oslo, Carrie has now returned to Stavanger with a new companion to resume the work there. Here is a part of her letter this week talking about Thanksgiving with the American members in Stavanger and her new companion, Soster Miles:

Well, it has been a crazy week for me. First of all, I am back in Stavanger, but you already knew that. It is so good to be back. All the members freaked out when I walked into the Lodge in the mountains for Thanksgiving Dinner. Seriously, I got like 40 hugs from both guys and girls. It was hilarious. And the youth were excited too. Our Branch President's son, Andreas, was like I DONT EVEN CARE I'M GIVING YOU A HUG!!! It was so funny.... Thanksgiving was really fun, although it made me miss you guys. As long as I kept myself busy, I was OK. But whoever made the pumpkin pie forgot the sugar, which was a bummer! But it was really fun, we just hung out, played the guitar, sang, ate, had a huge snowball fight, that kind of stuff. Didn't get much sleep though.... I stayed up talking to some of the youth trying to help and support them. My new companion is Soster Miles, she is really nice. We get along really well. She is a little quiet, and didn't really like Thanksgiving all that much, but I am bringing her out of her shell. I think that we are going to be good together. She is from Vancouver, WA, and she goes home in 2 months. So this is her last transfer. She will only speak to me in Norwegian. Its pretty funny.... hard though because I can't always communicate the best in Norwegian, but it is helping my language skills. So yeah, its funny because we have a dinner appointment almost every night this week. They were very excited to get the Sosters back. Our new apartment is absolutely gorgeous! It is seriously the nicest apartment in all of Norway.... brand new everything, including furniture! Its awesome! We don't have any investigators, so we are out knocking doors a ton, but its all good. So things are going really good here......I love the work here and the members are amazing. I feel very blessed to be back in Stavanger!
Send my love to everyone!!
Soster Kitty!!

More Pictures!!

This is a picture of Soster Fox and her district waiting for the train in Oslo. She was only in Oslo a few more days after this picture and then returned to Stavanger. Carrie loved this group of missionaries! They had lots of fun together and supported each other in doing the work. The weather is getting very cold, so you can see they are starting to dress warmly....the worst of the cold is yet to come!!
I am really not sure where this Christmas tree is at, but I am thinking it is at the Outreach Center in Oslo where the sister missionaries spent alot of time.

Carrie and her two companions in Oslo...Sosters Adams and Goodsell. These girls spent a wonderful month together supporting each other while they waited for the new soster to arrive from the MTC. Fun memories and many sweet experiences with these sosters!

The eldstes and sosters dressed up and had a small Halloween party! Carrie is dress up as a Norwegian!! Pretty funny!! Anyway, she loves this picture because the Doritos are 'Cool American' not Cooler Ranch like we have in the US. She said that of course Americans are cool!!