Pops

well pops i am glad to here all is well with you and that everything at home is going so well! i know how you feel teaching lessons! so this last week i forgot to put in my letter i wrote today but i had to give a talk yesterday in a language i dontknow! i mean it only had to be five minutes and i didnt really stress about it but i mean giving a talk in english is nothing for me and i love to talk in front of people but its hard when you dont know all the words you want to say! well i have a story for mom so you will have to read her email ahaha its pretty funny! and sad at the same time but, i cant believe the weather is so nice still! i wish it was like that here its getting cold already its been about 50 degrees or colder so i have gotten good use out of my sweaters which are amazing by the way! today we are going to look for coats probably on our way up to oslo since we are having like a stake volleyball tournement but i think i might not happen its starting to rain maybe we will play fotball instead:) i am really starting to like fotball and wish i would have played it! its super fun! but i bet its weird to have the bishop in the works know and i still think its crazy that doug is in i mean its so perfect but its hard to get used tothat! but the bishop is where he needs to be the deacon stage is a very critical time for younger kids and the bishop is very wise in helping and knows whats best!

   sounds like mom is liking her new job and i hope all is going well with her job and looks like they gave her time for her surgery or does she not really have to recover? well i pray for the both of you to find jobs and moms got hers so know we need to get you one! wanna go on a fast together? how about on tuesday? well i will for you pops!

   you got a call from y.s.a? thats hilarious i will laugh if you get put in there! but it would be a sweet calling for you and i hope all goes well with what every happens! bishop? haha i guess we will see! i hope moms surgery goes well!

  stepheno is your new comp? thats awesome tell him hi and i hope that he does go on a mission its an amazing experiance and he would never regret it! he just needs to remember those feelings he felt in brazil and how he wanted to serve a mission when he was there! writting the feelings down will help a ton! i hope you can have that influence on him and i will try to write a letter to elijsha soon tell him i will write him some time this week so he will get it this next week or so! did you get my letter home? with the pictures yet? i sent it on... monday or tuesday so it should be comming soon! but i love you dad and i hope work is well and watch out for mom and keep her safe! i love you both so much and always look forward to getting emails from you both! i love you!!

eldste farnsworth

I had to Talk in Church, with a funny hair cut

Well hello mother! its so great to hear that your job is doing well and that you like it and that they are the same age! i hope you get along with them well! did you tell them that you son is in the best mission in the world led alone the most beatiful one as well? haha well i see you work quite a bit and if you are ever feeling low remember your father in heaven loves you and wants to hear from you! its when we are down that we need him the most remember that mom! well i gave a talk in church yesterday and that was pretty crazy! its hard when you cant explain yourself especially when the story is funny! so i wanted to tell you a story and you might not think its funny but it was funny at the time! so i decided to cut my hair on saturday night since i had some time! so i got out the clippers you got me and i turned it on and its the loudest pair of clippers i had ever heard in my life! well little did i know that its because it was getting way to much power that it would in america and so it was a little terrifying to use them but i went away at it and next thing i new it was smoking in my hand and basically blew up in my hand... so i now dont have clippers... and my hair wasnt done so my hair on the top looks fine i finished that but my sides on the other hand are about half way done and i have almost like a little mullet on one side of my head so its pretty funny! but not my fault! and fredriksted came down last night and they were suppose to bring their clippers and forgot and we have some at the house but they dont work basically at all so now i get to deal with my hair for awhile and i now see the greatness of having a mom cut my hair for all those years!!  and that was the story i was trying to tell in my talk and they got the gist and laughed so it was good:) good thing i am a goofball:) well i love you and miss you a ton! love you mom:)

Weeks just fly by

Well this week has been a pretty hard week but it has been a very strengthening week that is for sure! well this week has been full of many different experiances with teaches and what not like normal! we have done a lot of finding this week and trying as hard as we can to be able to more people! we have done a lot of contacting and knocking this week from appoinments that ended up not falling though which is always a little disappointment! but that is the reason we have back up plans so we know what we can do to impove our time that was already planned!

   well we talk with A LOT OF PEOPLE of course thats what we as missionaries do and its our job to do the best we can to talk with everyone! one way we try to do that is going on splitts to help us try other ways of finding! i got to go on splitts with elder Burr this week on tuesday and he is from delta and is very funny and knows the gospel well! we had many things planned and not one of our appointments fell through! ok one did but that only took an hour of our time and still had to keep going! we did alot of contacting that day and ran into some members as well but for the main part we did a lot of knocking as well and it was just one of those days that is hard to understand when not a single person will listen to you and will just ignore you even in their presense! but the lord tests you to the max til you fell like you could just fall down and cry but its when you get to that point wheather it takes a few days he will see your dillegence and your humility and give you that blessing you have been asking and praying for for about the past couple days! i wont lie i have seen this happen and its not easy to go through! i want to just sit down and cry sometimes from a day filled with rejection but as i have seen the lord will bless you for your efforts and i had to go through a day of hardship to find it out and here is a couple stories:)

   well the first story i have is simple! after a hard day and much pray to find people the next day started off a lot better! we got three door teaches and two of them said that we could come back and wanted a book of mormon!

   the next day... well we have been working with a guy from iraq who was raised muslim but never practiced and had no belief in it at all! it wasnt til he traveled outside of iraq to find out other beliefs. he was baptized into a christian church about a year ago in denmark. he moved to norway for some reason and has been trying to find work and basically living at friends houses for the past six months trying to get by on what ever he can make! he doesnt speak english and doesnt speak to much norwegian but can understand enough usually to get out what he needs tosay! well he has been taught by a lady that speaks his language and understands the gospel and wants to be baptized! the only problem is he doesnt have like a statemenship is the closest i could put it in english that i can think of but anyway he is not registered to live in norway and he could get deported back to iraq and being christian in iraq is not good news and is penalty and either 3 years in prizon or alot of the time death! so we have been waiting for him to get that oppeltilatelse in norwegain haha! so he can be baptized! but we contacted president and he gave us the clear since he is already christain he said it doesnt matter what time so we have a baptismal date for the 8th of october:)! i hope it all works out but you can see how the lord blesses us!

   the last story was very random but another way! so here in norway we play alot of fotball!(soccor) and we borrowed a ball from a lady since a nice soccer ball her is about 1000kr why i have no idea! thats like 210 u.s. dollars! anyway we took the ball back to the ladies house and we had just eaten dinner but invited us in for dinner and there was a lady there and she is from chili and she was very open to our messege and wants a book of mormon so its crazy to see the little ways the lord blesses us! no matter the trials he sends ourway he will send us greater blessings if we are open to his trials!

   i hope everyone is following up on the challenge i gave last week!? well anyway mission work is never an easy thing but it sure can be fun if you make it! its amazing here and so many challenges and trials await me but i have the lord on our side! remember we must walk by faith rather than by sight! he is the one that knows the greater picture and willl guide us daily if we apply for the help! i love being on a mission and letting god sculpt me in what ever way he has planned for me! i know our savior lives and is here to answer our every prayer he is bound when we do what he says! seek with faith! i love and miss everyone and i cant wait to here back from all! 

  love eldste farnsworth

Some Pictures thus Far of My Mission