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Góðan daginn! Hopefully this email works. I can't seem to get my email list to work. I've been using google contacts to send everyone the emails and it's been working really well, but now I don't have access to it very often. My first two weeks in Iceland have been pretty insane! The weather is abnormally good, which is awesome. (except for that it's probably from climate change) I've eaten horse a few times, it's pretty good. We've made it into tacos. Honestly I probably couldn't tell it apart from ground beef. I haven't seen the sun go down. It only goes down in the middle of our sleep schedule, so we've precariously stacked pillows around the window because the curtain doesn't quite do the job XD. I got here right in time for a Baptism! A sister got baptized my first saturday here. She's so sweet, and I could just see how much happiness her baptism has given her. I'm serving in the Kópavogur area. It includes part of Reykjavik and goes south a long ways. (several hours drive) It's really cool! The Reykjavik branch is pretty awesome! We have church translated into 2 additional languages. Icelandic, English, and Spanish. There's a few hispanic families here that are about 1/3 of the branch! One of the families moved apartments, and we went to help them. Then they had a little house warming party and all the other hispanic families came. That combined with the weather and the food made it feel like a crisp fall day in Texas. Even in Iceland, hispanic food is top tier. I've also attempted to dust off the very small remains of my spanish classes I took six years ago... I'm going to say I've been super duper successful, and you guys are going to know that I'm being sarcastic so that I'm being honest in all my dealings without saying I'm not good at spanish. I've not been doing horrible at the language! In fact I've been doing better than I've expected. I wish I was fluent, but I know that as long as I'm putting forth the effort, talking with faith and doing my studies, the Lord will use me to say what He needs me to say. Yesterday we walked to church because the Bus schedule is different on sundays and we had to be early to clean and set up the chairs, so we walked like 45 minutes there. It was an awesome way to see a bunch of pretty scenery and enjoy the beautiful weather, but I must confess. I was dripping with sweat by the time we got to the church. Hopefully I didn't have BO with anyone haha. I'm the 9th and final Elder in Iceland until around October when we get a few more, but some of the Elders here will go home by then so I'm not sure what the numbers will be. I'm in a trio again! Elder Christensen's my trainer, and Elder Brown's with us too. They're pretty awesome! The first few days in Iceland I had jet lag so bad. I fell asleep during person study once and my comps took a photo of me which is pretty funny. I've been able to talk to several people in Icelandic! It's not all totally flying over my head, but my vocabulary is so small. I do good at understanding untill there's 2-3 words in a row that I don't know. Which happens fairly often... I've met a whole bunch of super awesome people! I must say, the Icelanders I've driven with a very polite and safe drivers relative to the States. I've had Brazilian, Phillipino, and I believe it was Venezuelan food, but I haven't gotten to enjoy the fermented fish, or sheep head yet. Also, the missionaries and members of Iceland are working on this project were we dance to a song and we're planning on posting it online to get a whole bunch of reach with its message. I've been in Iceland for 12 days, but it doesn't feel like I'm new here. All the other missionaries I've met are super nice and everyone's really polite. Even the impolite people are relatively polite when we're finding. I met president Mattsson (my mission president) He's so amazing! I look forward to working with him over these coming years. Anyways, Iceland's great! Being a missionary is greater! I love that I get to share this gospel. There's not a temple in Iceland, so the members are taking a trip to Denmark, which is our designated temple. A family is getting sealed there. The Husband/Father taught elder's Quorum yesterday and he was so happy. He and his family are from Ghana! Reykjavik is so diverse, it's awesome. Helaman 10:7 says: "Behold, I give unto you power, that whatsoever ye shall seal on earth shall be sealed in heaven; and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven; and thus shall ye have power among this people." This is when Nephi, son of Helaman gets the authority to perform sealings. This is one of the most amazing blessings of the restored gospel. Christ taught that the two great commandments were to Love the lord thy God, and to live thy neighbor. Both of these commandments, that the Savior himself taught, are centered on love. And because of the restoration of the sealing powers on earth, we can be with and love the people we hold closest in our hearts for all eternity. What sweet joy this sentence gives me. Not only will I be able to spend forever someday with my future wife and kids, but for two years I get to share that message with the people of Iceland. Nothing brings me more peace, than knowing that through Christ, despite all my weaknesses, I can be made strong enough to be with my family forever. I'm so privelaged and blessed by the opportunity I have to share that peace as a representative of Christ and his Church to the world. There's nothing that brings me true joy that's not connected to this gospel and to Christ. I don't know who all is reading this, but I want to bear my witness to you that I know this gospel and doctrine is true. I know that Christ suffered and died, then was resurected for each and every one of us. He lives to quiet all our fears. The joy I've felt from him is too pure, too powerful to be fake, or to be some scheme of the prophet Joseph Smith. God loves you. He knows each of us individually, and he's put forth a plan that will bring us more happiness than our mortal brains can comprehend. Come, thou Fount of Every Blessing - The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square I love you guys! Öldungur Rasmussen