This week has been absolutely crazy and filled with teaches! we have been VERY busy this week and we have really worked hard this week in finding and teaching as many people as we have! i believe in my last email that i told you how much potential is here in Moss that its ridiculous how many could be baptized and we are only getting more investigators it is crazy to think! we got five new investigators just this week and things are just exploding here and its hard to keep up most of the time! its a great thing i have a companion who is always on top of things and can always manage everything and even better can remember basically everything! he truly is a trainer and the best at that! thanks to elder Korey Sutton the work goes forward in moss and then i am at his side ha ha! he encourages me all the time and helps me strive to be the better missionary! so like a said last week we are using members more and more! this week we had 16 member teaches to investigators! only in moss! the members really try to help when they are able to and i have to thank them for that they are so great! we have been all over the place this week and i am so excited to tell you what has happened that has made this week a great week!
well there is a member who is from fredriksted who was baptized not to long ago in June! He is a true convert already and strives to go on a mission and shows that by coming with us for two whole days this week and saw what it was like to be a missionary and he surely loved it! he has already seen how missionary work goes forward and has gotten to see at first hand what we do everyday and how missionary work is hard but we still have tons of fun while out doing it! he always added great testimony being a brand new member they always have some crazy strong testimonies that really help our investigators! As we struggle with some more than others having that witness to say "hey its OK I'm still not perfect and still make mistakes but through the atonement of Christ can we be made free from all those sins" is just different than us saying it since they don't believe that we are not perfect which is completely false i still mess up everyday! that witness is so amazing though and i love hearing conversion stories it just adds to my own testimony that this is the true church on the earth! thank you to him one of our investigators is starting to get back into baptism and trying to find her answer again!
well we have been waiting for a member referral for while meaning my companion has been waiting for one for quite a while! there is a family in the ward and their daughter is dating a kid who is not a member but yet has been coming to church with out her even when she is not there for almost a year now! he is one bright kid and is very easy to talk to and just and all around chill type of kid! so we finally got the go ahead to teach and we met with him on Thursday and were able to commit him if he knew it was right to be baptized and he said yes! we met with him again yesterday and he had read and he said he felt great and really like ready Alma 32! we talked about it with him and we read a scripture with him and he told us that he really like that scripture when he had read it and said it was very interesting (21) that he didn't need a perfect knowledge of all things just a hope of things! the lesson went great and the spirit was strong and we had prayed about a date and also thought how cool it would be for him to be baptized on 11 11 11 so i hope that all works out its soon but with prayer and reading and with god on his side anything is the world is possible! i know form my own experience that the lord will always fulfill his part if we do his! the lord truly is on our side and is watching out for us everywhere! he is a merciful god if we humble our self before him!
well we had an opportunity to go to Oslo this week on Friday for an institute with some of our investigators and they really loved it! had a great time and were having fun and learned a lot of new things! they had dance class afterwards to learn a type of salsa dancing and i wish i could have joined it look so fun,but one of our investigators really liked that and said she wants to go back next week and we had a member say that she would take anyone that wanted to go so that helps a lot! since we had a crazy journey trying to get home last time and what not so that will help us on our part a ton since driving in Oslo is horrible and could compare it to driving in new york i think! GPS don't work in Oslo at all!
well we started teaching a family from Italy but originates from Nigeria and Liberia? something like that! she has lots of kids and we play football every Saturday and were able to take five of her kids and they are freaking good at football and they really enjoyed it and they all want to be baptized its so funny but its up to the mom in joining before they do since she is a... J.W.. so if anyone have good ideas in helping us with here please write and not in a bashing way we all know how to do that but just good ways in helping her understand that would be legit:)
i also got to see the first baptism this week just for a boy in the ward but man it reminded me of how strong the spirit is at baptisms! the spirit is there and there is no denying the power of that! i gave the talk for it and it was amazing the lord filled my mouth with Norwegian and it made sense! i felt so great and i felt like i got across exactly what i wanted to say! great example of the gift of tongues for you right there! when you need it most he will give it to you!!
well that's basically my week of course there is more but its not like i am going to say we contacted all day or drove around all day because we didn't but that's the goods:) so lately i am going through the book of Mormon with serious intent on learning and taking my time as a go through it and highlighting to the death of my book of Mormon! poor thing is starting to fall apart i guess in a way that's a good thing ( ill get new ones when i go home;)) second nephi is full of stuff that is just incredible even though i will admit there is some boring chapters but only because i just don't understand Isaiah all the time! but i have been reading chapter 26-27 today and they are full of incredible detail of the coming up of false churches and then 27 just has some incredible Revelation of the coming forth of the book of Mormon by a man who is unlearned and will be the one to bring forth the sealed book to people and then the testimony of the three witnesses and also of the other witnesses (8). As i have been reading the book of mormon is both languages even though it takes me alot longer to read it in Norsk since there are so many words i dont know and even if i know the general meaning of a word i will look it up so i know exactly what it means! i understand what i read and take my time in both to get a greater understanding everytime! the book of Mormon is truly gods words here on the earth today and i challenge you all to pick it up and read it and i promise you that you will always learn something new everytime you read it! its an incredible book and will and can help you with every problem that we have in life!! i hope everyone is well and its so great to hear from you that do write me! i love you and have a great week!!
ELDER FARNSWORTH
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