Another Fantastic Week

  This week has been great and as usual doesnt seem like i have done so much until i look back on everthing that i really have done!! well this week has been packed with so much stuff and yet we are not the busiest missionaries meaning we are not having appointment after appointment its just not how it works here in norway and i dont know what we would do if we had that! like i said in my last letter the lords time will allow you to talk with everyone who neeeds to be talked to on that day and if some appointments dont fall through its because someone else is out there to listen to us that needs it more! i still cant get over how fast a mission goes by already! well just a little insight for atleast my parents who wonder norway changes companions every 9 weeks because its so expensive to do all the travel well atleast thats what i have heard? but anyway so november 9th is the next scheduled event of changes! but to put everyting on track and not have elders that come out during december they are doing a 6 week transfer so elders wont have to stay for 3 christmases! so my next transfer will only be six week and for the most part i will probably be in MOSS for a while! Well, me and my comp are doing great here and we are starting to get more investigators that are reallly interested and we have four investigators almost six with baptismal dates and ipray so hard that they will fall through and that we can have the utter most success with all of them! being out here you can really see the lords hand in all that you do and being blessed with the gift of interpretations of tongues is one of those! this week i feel like my understanding has deffinatly gone up but speaking has stayed pretty level! which is fine:) and it will come as i keep trying to talk as much as i can in norwegian as possible but dont get me wrong its a frustrating thing at all times when you cant say what you want! well here is a break down of the week

   So this past pday we went fishing with the elders from Drammen and cooked some hotdogs by the dock and caught nothing....ok we caught things but they were not fish!! some how we manages to first catch a star fish? second we caught a hermit crab? and we tried to catch a jellyfish? but that didnt go so well! but let me tell you that hotdogs here are not the same as america! they are just better here and taste different! because in american i hate hotdogs!

  well on wednesday we had been planning me and my companion for the big missionary zone conference in moss! so from 9-5 we sat in the chapel and had wonderful insights from our mission president and they were so great everything that he said just could stick out to everyone and he truely is an inspired man and knows what neeeds to be done in the mission to increase our wants and also what is best for the mission! He speaks and we listen and our hands write as much as we can remember because everything he says has so much meaning! i hope you all get a chance to meet this man and i hope at one time he gets to be in the 70 or something he just needs to be there! truely an amazing man! well we had a lady make food for all the missionaries there and she is the nicest lady! she makes food for us every saturday in moss and wants to go on a mission and she will be a great missionary when every she does go! well we had members come so we could do practicals and practice on them and for the final task we had member splitts with all the missionaries so 1 elder to a member so we had almost 50 people go out knocking in moss and areas around moss and we got like five potential investigators which is pretty big!! so it turned out to be quite the success after all!!

   So after this great event we had planned splitts with fredricksted! so i spent the night for two days in fredriksted this week and had a great time there! we found some very interesting people through out the day and even talked with a muslim guy who tried to teach us on the street! but we turned that around pretty quick! he actually also sang us to prayers in some islamic language i have no idea but i could understand some? and he asked me if i know what he said and i explained to him what he said it was crazy!! but we got his number and kept going! all in one day i have never met so many crazy people and drunk or on some kind of drug i have no idea what they were on but we met some crazy narco`s! so me and elder burr actuall got some good teaches and some potential investigators!

  well this week we had a lot of people out of town so we did a lot of knocking and trying to find other ways to get peoples attention! one thing i did forget to mention is that we were in the newspaper last weeek!! i forgot to tell you we were interviewed and were followed around for like 5 hours and were interviewed and he went on a teach with us and he ended up writting a great article on us and i wll send it home after i copy it and what not or maybe ill will give you a link to it if i can find it!! but he got all his info right besides that he said we had a temple in moss but other than that he was dead on about everyting!!

   well so yesterday we had a great sunday and we found a guy on friday out knocking and he ended up coming to church and is trying to stop smoking and do everyting he can and wants to do better in life and clean up! answer to our prays right? yes! and yesterday also we had a guy in the ward want to to take something to his friends (a hammer he had borrowed) and we took it too him and he said the he had been waiting for us and now has a baptismal date for the 5.nov so its crazy to see the lord working his ways when we work hard to do all we can!! he truely does watch out for us and truelly is on ourside! so elder ballard in his email quoted DC 100:5-8 which is perfect in this example which says: lift up your voices unto this people speak the thoughts that i shall put into your hearts, and you shall not be confounded vbefore men for it shall be given you in the very hour yea in the very moment what ye shall say but a commandment i give unto you that ye shall declare whatsover thing ye declare in my name in solemnity of heart in the spirit of meekness in all things and i give unto you this promis that inasmuch as ye do this the holy ghost shall be shed forth in bearing record unto all things what soever ye shall say! love this scripture so like we try as missionaries to lift our our voices and they will be heard! i know thats true i have put it to the challenge and it works!! i love being out here and i cant wait for every new day i have that oppertunity to share it to new people! i love you all and i hope this messege brings you up to help you!

eldste Farnsworth