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Does anyone have good cooking instructions for risgrot. All I remember is slow cooking rice in whole milk for a long, long, long time. But I don't remember the proportions of rice to milk and butter, etc. I do know that when you do it right, it is really good.
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Hey, I'm looking to find a missionary called Elder Erik Pond. He Served in Oslo 2 for a long time when I was younger. (we're looking at between 92 and 96 really.) If anyone remembers him or knows him please contact me!
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Hi friends, I just got called to Norway and I was wondering if you Alumnists could give me some help. What's one thing you wish you would have brought that you didn't? My cousin went to Italy and said no one told him to bring sheets, and he really wished he'd brought some sheets. Anything else out of the ordinary? Maybe a coat that you liked, or a coat you didn't like? Socks you liked, perhaps a clothes combo that kept you warmest? Anything to that effect would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much.
Soon to be Elder Wightman
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ooooooh, that's a good one. Actually most of the city's I was in burned to the ground at some point. I'm not saying it had anything to do with the missionaries but there is the typical link of some fiction based in fact usually found in an urban legend.
Skien has a big sign on the gå gata with details about it being burned. And I seem to remember Stavanger also, but you (anna marie) would know more about that than I would.
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While I had heard about the Alesund myth, I heard another interesting story from my father.
While I had the pleasure of serving in Norway as a missionary in 1990 to 1992, my father is a convert to the church who joined in 1963 after coming to Utah for school a couple years earlier. He was born in Norway and lived there until the age of 22. He has distinct memories of sending the missionaries away from his door in 1958 because he was not interested.
Over the years he told me of a supposed incident that happened in his home town of Moss where the missionaries felt there was no reason to continue working there. They dusted off their feet as they left town. Supposedly Moss was then closed to missionary work for several years. I do not know of a time frame for this, but I heard nothing about it from the members while serving in Moss in 1991-92.
I know missionaries who served there in 1968, and met missionaries there in 1983,and watched the church being built in 1986. I am assuming that the time period for the alleged incident must be long before this. Perhaps associated with World War II. Does anyone know any more about this? Perhaps Ole Podhorny can add information on this topic?
(And just for the record, you do get used to the smell in Moss.)
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I remember my dad telling me that back in the day when ålesun city burned all over, it was a result of missionaries trackting forever and not having nay luck what so ever. They called the mission president and he came up and the walked all over the city and then washed the dust of their feet in the river or lake. They dusted their feet and ålesun burned down because off wickedness.
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My brother had a couple of the same sister missionaries that wanted to turn water into gas. And this isn't my brother who served in Norway it was the one who served in New Jersey ;)
Also the missionary who could watch any movie he wanted, that guy was on my mission. Not lying when I say he got up in Zone Conference and made reference to movies he had recently seen, in his testimony!! The reason I know they were movie references, he gave us the name of the movie; brilliant!
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There's also the what I believe to be a fictional story that I heard about a couple of Sister missionaries that ran out of gasoline on Sunday and decided to fill up thier tank with water and pray & have faith. Well, needless to say, they broke the car. My trainer said that it was about 5 years back, my follow-up trainer gave actual names of sisters that had recently left the mission.
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Remember the one about the missionary who could see any movie he wanted to?
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I also heard the story about the Finnish missionary whose brain froze...
and now that Jeremy mentions Pres. Halvorsen being connected to the other story, I remembered that the way I heard the story, it was still an arm that had been damaged, but according to the account I heard, it all happened back when Pres. Halvorsen himself had been a missionary in Norway and it happened to his companion or something like that...not Halvorsen himself...and not while Halvorsen was mission president.
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I heard the broken leg story in 1991 and I heard that it was our currently-serving mission president President Halvorsen who had done the casting out--making the story particularly relevant and believeable.
I also remember hearing the story of the Finnish missionary who had forgotten his stocking cap and was riding his bike in some cold weather and after going down a hill, developed a terrible headache. His comp took him to the doctor and the doctor told him that his BRAIN HAD FROZEN and that he would be dead within the next half hour! After returning home, I found out that the Swedish missionaries heard that story, only it was a Norwegian missionary and the Finns heard that it was a Swedish missionary.
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This August it will be 25 years since I joined the church, and with the missionary who baptized me, Elder Tom Moore, I still have contact. But I need some help, I would like to get in touch with the elder who first street-contacted me in May 1981, Elder Darrington, and the sister who finally got triggered my decision to get baptized in August 1981, Sister Dolinsky. Does anyone on the list have any contact with either Elder Darrington or Sister Dolinsky (probably married now) I would love to hear from you.
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As usual, these stories circulate missions and have no factual base. What about the missionaries in a car crash and no vital organs were injured due to their garements. I am pretty convinced that none of these things happened but I guess it fill in time on p days!
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I heard this same story in 1989 about an elder in Norway being healed by some pentacostal and then the mission president casting out the evil spirit. When I heard the story, though, it was the elder's arm, not his leg that was affected.
I'm sure there is little, if any, truth to the story.
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These are similar to "urban legends". While on my mission from 1995 to 1997 I heard one of these mission myths. What I heard may or may not be true but I thought I would post it to see if there was any validity to it.
I had just gone to a pentacostal meeting in town and sat in the back trying not to distract from their meeting. All around us there were people "speaking in tongues" and shaking. A few days later we ( I believe my companion was elder Shupe at the time since the experience was in Oslo) were talking to another elder about our experience and asked him if the spirit could and would take part in such a meeting.
Instead of giving a direct answer he told us a story to answer our question. He told us of an elder who an earlier companion had known who had the misfortune of breaking his leg. Well while laid up this elder thought that he would go to one of these pentacostal meetings and be "healed". This way when he wasn't healed he could show them that their church didn't have the priesthood. While at the meeting he didn't wear his badge or let the "healer" know he was an LDS elder. He went up the preacher put his hand on him and pronounced him "healed". The elder walked away without any effects of a broken leg. The elder became confused and shaken in his testimony so he went to see the mission president to see how this could have happened. After listening to the story the mission president stood up put his hands on the elder's head and cast out the "evil spirit". At that very moment his leg became broken again.
I was amazed at the story and thought, that since this happened to a missionary that this elder's companion had worked with it could certainly be true.
A year later I was home and this topic came up and I told the story to my mother. Her response astonished me. She said that she had heard that story and that it had happened to an elder's companion whom she had know while she was on her mission in Norway. My mother served as a missionary in Norway in the Early 70's.
This has all the makings of an urban legend (mission myth). It happens to a friend of a friend and there are enough details to make it believable but too ambiguous for it to be verifiable.
So I have a couple of things, first has anyone else heard this and can it be verified with names, dates and whitnesses? And second are there any other mission myths that exist?
Have a great day and kirken er sann!!
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I received 28 responses to my message posted last week. It was great fun and very helpful.
Passing on this info to anybody who might be wondering, there are two good options.
International calling cards can be purchased on line at masterbell.com. One card was 4.9 cents a minute. It is instantanious and inexpensive. I also learned that calling from Norway is inexpensive as well. A missionary calling home from their apartment paid about $3.50 an hour (5.8 per minute).
Thanks to all who responded, Teresa Wood
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The following link is courtesy of Alumni Michael Bennion (73-75):
http://www.webcamsinnorway.com/webcams.php
So, if you are homesick for Norway, planning a visit soon, or just want to "look" at what's going on Webcams in Norway is a good site to visit.
-- Jim Jezek
-- DNM Webmaster
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My daughter leaves the MTC for Norway on the 1st of May. With Mother's Day coming up, (am I correct in thinking that missionaries can still call home on Mother's Day?) I'm wondering about sending her an AT&T calling card before she leaves. Would that be against Mission rules and could she make an international call from there to here using a calling card? I know they work from here to there. if anybody knows please E-mail me at pumpkin@burgoyne.com thanks
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I report March 1 to the MTC where i will prepare to serve in Norway! i couldn't be more excited. if anyone has any recommendations or is willing to answer some questions that would be awesome! my email is elderalec "at" gmail "dot" com. thank you!
Alec Nethercott
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It is 1:00 am in the morning and I have been pondering the promptings of the spirit and the trials of life, and how they relate to each other. I feel that as missionaries we learned to listen to the promptings and worked very hard to get to the point that we heard and would respond to those promptings.
Since my mission I have lost a lot of that discernment myself. There are people that care for us on this side of the veil and on the other side. These trials are coming from a frustration with us. The proverbial use a big stick to get our attention so that we will listen to the real messages.
I am writing this in response to those promptings. I don’t like the chastisements that come when I don’t listen. A bit down in the mouth, to term a phrase (See Jonah).
Messengers are trying to contact us and we are not listening. Some are being actively contacted. You need to be listening.
Now I can sleep.
Elder Berry
Eldste Bær
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I want to get in touch with a couple people. If you know of a way to reach Carina Tonneson or Carla De Sosa please email me. I would like to know how they are doing.
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I am called to serve in Oslo beginning March 1. It would really be helpful if a returned missionary could give me advice on what I need, what to expect or if there is anything I should wait to buy there. Thanks! dewood83 "at" yahoo "dot" com
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I'm looking for elders that served in Stavanger/Sandnes from 1987 to 1995 who knew my dad Knut Fanakrå. I want to learn mor of how he came into the church and how active he was. He was always close to the elders and always talked about them. Please let me know.
amfgodfrey "at" hotmail "dot" com
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I am interested to know if any of the more recent return missionaries have any info. on Rene Licop. He was baptized in Feb. of 2002, and went on vacation shortly thereafter. I havent heard much since then, but would appreciate any contact info. or anything else. Thanks
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