To Hell & Back {Trondheim zone conf} - Goats - Reunions & Separations






Memories play many frivolous tricks
As the years quickly pass us by. 
Good fortunes surpass failures
Reunions with friends remind us why...parting was sweet sorrow
They have cleared the runway and we are off...

Views from our plane flight to Trondheim for Zone Conference

The bridge to Kvaløya.


A nice sunny day to enjoy the sights.




Now we are in HELL...


Bet you had no idea it was "Gods" expedition that could get you there.

HELL has frozen over.

Sister Stocks and Sister Morris.  (Best friends serving together.)

this outside the Dr. office in Trondheim.


We enjoyed walking around town and crossed the old city bridge.  It is now a walking bridge only.




Love these row houses.

Trondheim at night. 


Fun statues in town.



North zone conference.  



looking back to Nidros Cathedral



Trondheim harbor

Missionaries from the North zone

missionaries from combined North and South zones

Elder Hansen made a lifetime find with this reindeer 


typical beautiful countryside view on way from Trondheim to airport

Elder Holyoak 

Elders Gonzalez, Pepe, Hansen, Steele, Stephenson, Baughan, ...Snapp and Pres. Tew.




We saw these frozen waterfalls on the way to Bente's goat farm all winter.





Bente's farm


In the barn waiting to be fed.  The conveyor belt is finished.


The goats love Bente.  This is the largest one - Odin.  Larger and bigger than Bente

Dinner at the farm.  Sister Starkie, Keith, Elders Baughan and Holyoak, Sister Neal and the "Woofers" from France.

We had a delightful diner at Bodill's (Lill's Mother).  Keith, Elders Holyoak, Baughan. Lill, Bodill, Siter Starkie and Neal.


Dessert and visiting.

Both of our sisters are leaving Tromsø.


Look who we found at the airport-Lill


Elders Holyoak and Baughan

Elder Baughan is leaving for Oslo.

We got to see and visit with Ole Jorgen from Kristiansand here in Tromsø when he came to visit  
Inside the Hurtigruten



We were surprised to have a lunch and a visit from Anne and Vigo Svendsen from Kristiansand who stopped in Tromsø to visit us on their way to their daughter Liv's.

Nice dog sledding mural on the wall of the "Nordlys" Hir

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