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
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