Cooks In Norway

Most people don't decorate their homes like in America - maybe a candle or star in the windows.  The city of Kristiansand supplies the decorations for 4 homes in the area and they light them up like Christmas vacation. Markens Gate (Gå Gate - Walking Street in downtown Kristiansand tree on the main torv vendor selling candied almonds Nativity in shop window Kristiansand has a light show every  night on the side of the buildings just down from the Domkirke and Torv by the corner of Markens Gate - It is about a 5 minute 3D light show and fun to watch.  (We have a video but it is too big to post sorry) . We have 2 different light shows that we saw. local shop selling bunads and sweaters ice skating rink on the main torv Gå gate part of the 3D light show The marzipan pig is a big part of Norwegian christmas dinner.  Fix riscrem with one almond in the middle of the porridge and who ev...

Thanksgiving meal - We celebrated on Saturday since Norwegians don't celebrate it and we had missionaries transferring that week, by waiting we could include them all. - Seif, Elders Arnesen, Spencer, Martineau, Brooks, Sisters Stocks, Peterson, Cook FHE night watching YSA Face2Face with Elders Oaks & Ballard decorating the YSA center Service project, making and decorating holiday cookies for inactive members in Kristiansand a few forgot to dilute the food color paste before decorating the cookie, and then had to try eating them.  (Even & Elder Martineau Almost ready to deliver helping Seif move from his apartment into student housing by the University - narrow stairs and a long sofa don't mix well but these Sisters figured it out nativity at the YSA center Christmas Tree at the YSA center

  After a day in Røros we hopped the train again to visit the city of Trondheim  Trondheim  ( Norwegian pronunciation:  [tronhæim] ), historically also known through the years as   Kaupangen ,  Nidaros  and  Trondhjem , is a city and  municipality  in  Sør-Trøndelag  county,  Norway . It has a population of about 190,000 and is the third most populous municipality in Norway, although the  fourth largest   urban area .  The settlement was founded in 997 as a trading post, and it served as the capital of Norway during the  Viking Age  until 1217. From 1152 to 1537, the city was the seat of the Catholic  Archdiocese of Nidaros ; since then, it has remained the seat of the Lutheran  Diocese of Nidaros  and the  Nidaros Cathedral .  Nidaros Domkirke  located in the city of  Trondheim  was  built over the burial site of  Saint Olav , the kin...