well Five weeks have passed by and like usual the time is flying by and times are becoming better and better and i have quite abit of great news to tell you about for this week! this week has been quite the happening week that is for sure! well i told you about how i was gettting ready to teach the plan of salvation...... and well lets just say that it went absolutly horrible and my comp totally forgot that we were teaching it so i was prepared to teach my part and he was not prepared to teach his part because he thought we were teaching it the next day and then that put us in a tight squeeze and i honestly thought we were going to get dropped!! he wouldnt even let us set up another apointment so we though it was all done and over but i will finish that story in a little while:)
So on thurday we recieved some crazy awesome news..... so i guess we are having a mission conference in norway on the 30th or i that time frame and we were told that we get to leave a week early so we can be trained and be to the meeting so we can be there for that certain event! oh how our faces were filled with so much joy...and fright at the same time it was so intense!! i am so excited and i get so overwhelmed sometimes i dont even know what to think! but i pray everyday to help me prepare and to be ready to teach the people of norway! i know we are suppose to be there early because we have become the fastest district to understand and to speak and also to teach lesson faster and to get the language down much faster than ever before thanks to this new pilot plan that we are on! it is so crazy to look back and see how fast we have learned we have been out here for five weeks and it hardly even seems like it! the days are meshed together and i feel that the weeks are days and i dont even know what day it is any more?! well now for the other exciting news.... so we have been teaching two investigators and the one that was not the one i was talking about has been keeping committments and doing the stuff but we found out his problem was repentance and how we addressed to his needs so well! it was our first time going through lesson three and we nailed it with the guidance of the spirit! it couldnt have been stronger we asked him tobe baptized and he said he wasnt ready.... so we planned our next lesson out on addressing repentance more and finding out what we could with out getting into detail which by the way is not easy at all! so we thought we would watch a movie... The Mediator... our investigator by the end was enthrawled with happyness and he knew what it was all about and he knew that he could be forgivin of passed sins and i got to extend the invitation and he said absolutly i feel so great when you are here and i know its what i need to be doing and i gave him a date to prepare for and he is now working with us and corresponding so well i can hardly even believe the progress coming from an athiest person!! the experiances are so reall i have a love for my investigators even though they are fake it feels so real! our teacher after the teach came out and told us ( which they never do because they make it as real as possible) that the scriptures we used were the same scriptures that the real investigator was taught with and used one of them that we stressed on as his scripture for baptism! it was so so so so spiritual!
Next exciting news......well dad you said i was a leader and you were so right!! so this week was the week we got new callings and i was made the DISTRICT LEADER! oh how my face was lit up with pure excitement and my mind totally thought of you in the talk that we had before i left on my mission in the basement and that stuck out to me the most because i dont always believe that and it really made me think and now here i am with that calling! i am trying really hard to start well and to begin on the right foot and do everything that my district needs! i am so ready for more responsiblilities and i am ready for all the things that are about to come my way!
back to the story of the first investigator.... so he asked us the question of how does jesus who is dead attone for our sins now? how is that possible? now its not that hard of a question but at the same time it is with out going in to depth and having them get even more confuesed. so through the week since one of our teachers went on vacation (the one who we were teaching) we had alot of time to think of what we could do to help him understand what we could do to help him. we found that the mediator was the same case and in our lesson he as well loved it and we taught him how we could return to christ and covered the atonement more in depth and he understood it so well! we were not planning on the next step but i felt promted to ask..... my comp was talking about how the only way we could come back to him is through repentance and baptism and he was like wow i understand now and i threw from left feild to home and asked if he would be baptised and he agian was open to that! oh how we have humbled ourselfs this past week in all the success we have had in the mtc! also me and my comp are the first to get actual dates:) others have asked and said k....when im ....ready maybe i will be! but with time it takes some to come to the knowledge and how my life has been blessed here at the mtc!
i hope all is well with you mom and i hope the surgery is all well and you feel great and that you are walking around and i cant wait to here from you on what is going on:) keep up the reading and the lord will bless you ten fold if you as him for blessings and follow the word! if you are searching for an answer he will give openly to those who seek for greater knowledge! i hope all is well at home i miss everyone and love you!
PS mom i love you so much and get on my facebook and tell people to write me and also post the blog( if you have finished the blog i know not) on my facebook so people know whats up:)
i love mission work with all my heart and i know i will do all that i can and become the best missionary the lord has in store for me if i am obediant and dilegent in all that i do! i love you so much!
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Eldste Farnsworth
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