With Love, Sister Pyne: Put your tag on, love it, and remember what you're fighting for.

My favorite people!

I think about you guys all week and pray my heart out for you and I can't tell you how thankful I am for you. God loves me more than I can even understand because I have been blessed with such incredible people. I love you.

Hunt! Here you go!! I can't believe that this is actually happening. Come join me in the Mormon Mafia :) Put your tag on, love it, and remember what you're fighting for. You will be blessed for eternity for your service and I just cry when I think about you. I am so proud of you, Hunter. You are such an example to me and I look up to you so much. I love you and I will be praying with everything I have for you. You can do this!

I learned a good lesson this week. Well, I always learn lessons. But I want to tell you about this one. Being a missionary has felt like a mental marathon because it has required all of the mental endurance I have, and more, that comes from the Lord of course. I say so many prayers every day begging God to help my heart not hurt so much from missing my family, or to help me stay awake, or to not be terrified to not only stop people, but then try to speak Norwegian to them, or to help me accept that my hair is falling out and I just have to trust Him and not worry.

I read my patriarchal blessing this week and the word "faithful" is in it everywhere. I started to think about what "faithful" means and the difference between it and faith. Faithful means you are consistent. You don't run away, you try. I could run away from my mission. I could come home and not have any of these trials. And yes, I think about it often. But my patriarchal blessing seals the blessings stated in it according to my faithfulness. And when I read it, I think Heavenly Father simply wanted me to understand, "just keep trying." I fail to recognize that when I "just keep trying" I'm being faithful. And that means that I have faith, because I'm showing it through my actions. And I pray it won't always be this hard. And it won't because thankfully time keeps going. But just trying, especially when it's so difficult is all God requires. It's easy to not try. But then the blessings promised me aren't mine. And I love my Father in Heaven, so I can keep trying. And He loves me and each of you. Enjoy the easier times and then keep trying in all the others and it will all be okay.

Moroni 8 is an epistile to his son, Moroni. He says, "My beloved son, Moroni, I rejoice exceedingly that your Lord Jesus Christ hath been mindful of you, and hath called you to his ministry and his holy work. I am mindful of you always in my prayers, continually praying unto God the Father in the name of His Holy Child, Jesus, that he, through his infinite goodness and grace, will keep you through the enduracne of faith on his name to the end." I know that prayers are heard and they are answered in my behalf so that I can have "the endurance of faith on his name (faithfulness) to the end." I am so grateful for the sweet peace that this gospel brings and I know it is true. I know it!

Guys. We were knocking this week and this really old man was sweeping out his garage so we stopped and asked if we could help. And.... he asked if he had to pay us and I told him no we just want to help! He stopped sweeping, walked really close to my face, and stroked my cheek with his hand. I was so scared cause I had no idea what he was going to do! Hahah then he told us his son is a Jehovah's Witness and he didn't need our help. Oh. Okay. Have a nice day!

Also, this is awful, but me and Sister Morris laughed about it for like 20 minutes. How do you arrest a man with only one arm? You don't! Hahaha yes, we witnessed the police trying to arrest him. Mo i Rana is crazy.

I think that we might be the most north sister missionaries in the world. Alaska needs to be checked out. Will you do that for me, dad? Haha thanks.

We have seen absolute miracles, my friends. Hallgeir, our investigator, and I don't even think I've told you about him yet because he's too good to be true. But he will be baptized in 12 days!! And he is the coolest person in the world. We decided to call him just because we found his number in our phone. He agreed to meet with us, quit coffee and tea in one day, has been to church every Sunday, reads the Book of Mormon daily, prays, you know. He's an angel. We taught him law of chastity and went through the baptismal interview questions with him last night and he just grinned and told us he wants to be baptized! We will have to fly elders in to help us out with priesthood, but it makes my heart so happy because a baptism will bring some more fire that this area needs. And Hallgeir will be the most wonderful member in the world. I am so excited for him. He truly understands that Jesus Christ is His Savior and He has so much faith.

Yay! Sis Morris had good pictures for me!
That's Osimeire and her husband, Ole.
He's Norwegian and she's from Brazil.
They are the kindest, kindest people.

Oh my. Sorry this is so long. One more thing. Osimeire, the lady that we found out is actually a member, took us to Svartisen this week! It's 10,000 year old glacier and we got to hike to it and touch it! The hike was the most beautiful thing I've ever done in my life and I was in heaven to just be able to climb the mountain. There were HUGE waterfalls and fjords everywhere with fresh jumping fish and you just hike around them. How can people not believe in God when they have Norwegian mountains?? I certainly know that He lives! There are a billion pictures, but you just gotta see, my friends.