Norway is Beautiful! We are loving tour.

Dear Everyone at home,

So far we have been all over Denmark and across Norway. We love the people and cultures we are meeting and enjoy seeing all there is to see. Our shows have been successful as well as our firesides with many in attendance at each. We have all fallen in love with Norway and have decided to live here at some point in the future. These decisions have come because of the beauty that is all around us as we have driven over, under and around fjords, mountains, lakes and quaint little villages.

In Denmark we visited several sights including the Christus statue, the Copenhagen temple, The Little Mermaid statue, the Hans Christian Anderson home and the beach. We had visits to a hospital and with the Royal Danish Ballet. We did one fireside and five shows in five days in Denmark. The Spirit was strong at our firesides and we enjoyed our host family stays.

On May 3, we crossed the North Sea from Denmark to Norway on a ferry. We then drove three hours to our destination and immediately fell in love with Norway. So far we have had one show and three firesides in Norway with a lot left on our plate. We have visited the home of composer Edvard Grieg and other sites including an overlook of Bergen, a stave church from the 1200's and the historic waterfront district with its crooked buildings.

We have been on TV and the radio and met many dignitaries and will continue tomorrow in Skien with one of the busiest days Randy Boothe says he has ever seen on a Young Ambassador tour. There are three workshops, three lectures, one show TV and radio interviews all scheduled for tomorrow along with a stop at Henrik Ibsen's home and other sites. It will be very busy.

In all we love the tour and we love the people and places we are visiting. We are doing well in representing the school and ourselves and beliefs, and we have hopefully strengthened important connections and built new ones for the school and church.

I will post some pictures and videos of our time so far.

Sincerely,

Kevin Earl

Current Figures: 6 shows, 2 countries, 10 days, 4 firesides, nearly 100 tunnels, 4 ferries, 2 languages, almost 2,000 audience members, 2 trucks, 50+ cameras, thousands of pictures