Church and Community

 We flew to Trondheim for Zone conference with the North Zone. Some of the far northern cities - above the Arctic Circle are open again so all of the Elders and Sisters from as far North as Alta and as far south as Ålesund were there. The Springers on the left and The Steeds on the right are the YSA center directors. Our mission President Armand Johansen and his wife Julie are in the middle.

 Back in Bergen.

This is our church building. It was opened in 1966 when I was a greenie. It is in great shape. The one room addition was just a little over a year ago...

The Center for Young Adults was added on along with a small family history center and a district presidents office.

 

 Inside the center at Family Home Evening last Monday

Last week we also were guests at Tricia's home in Laksevåg. The apartments are small but each one is stacked up on a steep hillside and has a little deck with a fantastic view of the old town and harbor.

This is Tricia's view just out the back door.

We don't have that kind of view but we love our our leilighet. It is the one with the yellow table cloth in the window. We are located next to a great walking path, which was just extended to make the walk to Lagunen shopping center very conveinient plus we are now also connected to another major bike and walking path.

We can see "our" little waterfall from the dining area. Tuesday we rushed home from district meeting and dinner for the event of the week, which took place just beyond the creek. Our neighbor, Freddy, invited us to the grand opening. A few brave souls gathered in what turned out to be scattered hail and rain at about 45 degrees to officially open the path.

The guy with the brown bag is from Rana Avis the local paper.

We all huddled in our raingear to watch and listen.

Kids from the Barna Hage (daycare) sang to us about the animals in the woods.

They each had their animal face paint on.

This lady was the driving force behind the trail. She raised 350,000 kroner in grants and donations plus donated labor to fix what had been a scar on the hillside leftover from development in the area. She told us the whole story back to the late '90's.

The French Horn trio came from the Grieg Institute in Bergen and was remarkable as they played in the wind and hail. Their lips had to be near freezing!

Finally the moment we had all been waiting for. The fifth and final speaker had one of the kids cut the ribbon and we all hot footed it back to our apartments to warm up.

We have a new trail and we got to know some of our neighbors a little better.