Gifts from Norway

Alison told me that a package we sent to her and Steven arrived yesterday. That means the rest of you should be receiving packages soon too.  I think the Richland package went to Kristin, so make sure she shares.  There are just some things we thought were "cute"--some rubber ice cube trays, with interesting designs.  I included a norsk ice scraper for car windows for each family. These came from my favorite tire store (Dekk1) a dekk is a tire.  I find these ice scrapers to be much more effective than the ones we normally use in the US, (I have had plenty of opportunity to use them) hope you will enjoy them. For those of you who don't have to worry about scraping ice in the mornings, use them as a small cutting board or to place a flower pot on, or whatever--put them on your desk at work and let people ask "what in the world is that?".

We just finished a conference call with the mission pres and all the missionaries where they announced the missionary moves that will take place next week. We will be losing Elder Richardson, but Elder Henshaw and the sisters remain here. Elder Henshaw will get a new companion, Elder Bartholomew who came to Norway the same time we did. We will also be getting 2 new elders (we have been apt hunting for the past 2 weeks and have found a nice apt for them).  Stephanie--Elder Tedrow will be working in Stavanger for his first area. This was my first area as a missionary and the place where I spent 18 months of my mission. It is quite mild there and there are lots of Americans today because Stavanger is the city where most of the oil companies have their main offices in Norway. They have a good branch of the church in Stavanger so he will be getting a good start.

Love,

Dad