Steinninn Lausnarans

Góðan Daginn Allir! Þessi vika var góð! Ég er að læra meira Íslensku, og dvalarleyfið mitt kom! Ég er mjög hamingjusamur! This week was so long too! Congratulations to my Sister, Brother-in-law and his sister! (My sister in law? or would that be reserved for my brothers' wives?) They graduated from BYU and had their graduation ceremony last week! I'm still working on Icelandic! My teacher said that when I'm fluent enough to understand what I read, I'd be able to read Old Norse as well, which is insane! Elder Christiansen is awesome! And all the other Swedish/Norwegian sisters too! It's really nice to have other people learning similar languages and going to places closer to Iceland. It's also really weird though, because a whole bunch of my missionary friends are going to the field next week. It's gonna be weird not to see their faces and say hello to them in passing. Yesterday Elder and Sister Gonzalez of the Seventy came to give our devotional! It was really good, but I think choir was my favorite part. Brother Eggett is awesome! He fills the practices with stories about songs and missions and it's so fun. We sang "More Holiness Give Me", and he gave us a moment to look at the lyrics and choose which phrase we'd like to have applied to ourselves. It took a while, and had a lot of back and forths, but I decided on "More joy in His service". I'm so excited that I get to be a full time missionary and representative of the Lord and His church! It makes me so happy that I get to be here and to dedicate everything I have over the next two years to him! I'm so excited to get to the field and to serve others! Even if I have no clue what's being said. My teacher quoted "The Best Two Years" movie when it says "that isn't the language they taught me at the MTC" and she said that was about accurate. 😂 She also said that when I'm there I'll pick it up really fast because I'll be so exposed to it. My ankle's been healing very well! I'm super glad too. I was scared I wouldn't be able to play soccer, which is the main sport in Iceland (and pretty much all of Europe) except they call it by the name that makes more sense (fótbolta or football) because you actually use your feet for it a whole lot more than American Football. One of my Teachers is visiting Iceland right now so I don't have any more classes with him, which is kinda sad. I'm super excited to try all the food! Apparently fermented fish doesn't taste the best, but I'm not sure if I believe my teacher when he said he was dry heaving the entire time he tried to eat it. Sheep's head is also one I'm really looking forward too! My teacher described one of the areas in Iceland to me and told me where a super good restaurant is. He also told me there was this building called the Christmas house that was devoted purely to Christmas, year round. It sounds super awesome! Bless bless! Öldungur Rasmussen