Well the mission.... i couldnt love it more being out here and loving the people i talk to everyday! i love the people of norway! One thing i have noticed here is the more you love the people here the easier it is to talk to people! you start to gain peoples trust and they can see that you are doing everything you can to bring people to the knowledge of the restored church member or nonmember they see our efforts daily! for anyone that reads these that is not sure about a mission....just go! the lord has already prepared you and you are more ready than you think! we have all been called to this marvelous work and he needs us to bring people back to the fullness of the gospel! being on a mission will teach you many things and one thing i work on everyday is called HUMILITY.... not so great at it but i work my way towards improving my ownself! the mission really does relate to basically every thing that is ahead of us after the mission we can always use what we learned on our missions to apply it to our lives after the mission! A mission will bless you lives more than you know! just go!!:)
well as any other week we face challenges head on and have to use the lord to figure out what me must do! we had a zone conference this past week on wednesday and it was a great experiance for teaching for me and my new companion! as we still adjust our teaching skills to match eachothers teaching skills we can see how we both need to work better as a team and we got a lot of tips from the meeting! zone conference is always such a boost in confidence for everyone! we also learned (since president had a conflict) how to have comebacks to people that argue on all sorts of questions from god doesnt have a body to women priests to many other subjects so i guess we are prepared to help people understand that take stands against us? since he said "we are bullet proof" which is by all means true but we try not to take on the arguements but if they happen we can help people address their concerns:)
as far as everything goes with people being prepared for baptism....there of course are quite a few but its just getting the dates to stay! getting people to make that step of faith! its really getting hard to keep the dates that people make no matter how prepared they are they will just never do it! we found out that one of our investigators wont be baptized this week because he just hasnt had the confirmation on the full things yet but yet we thought he had by his experiances but i guess he doesnt feel it so we are working to see what else is going on because we know he believes its just getting over that stump what is in the way? he is super great though he is becoming a great friend and he will be baptized before i leave Moss! i know that for fact! he is there and ready just needs to take the step of faith! like i said before there are many people that are becoming more prepared and actually today i was invited to thanksgiving dinner over the phone from some random person i have never met? guess my last companion has met her once or so but really wants the missionaries over with them?! so i would not pass up that oppurtunity thats for sure! they are not members either so its a perfect oppertunity! other than that we have got some new investigators that really seem to be progressing well and i think there will be alot to come out of the new people we are teaching so just stay tuned:) the lords spirit is over norway and big things are going to start happening soon!!
This week has actually been a great week and a very tough week and its strengthened both me and my companion and we are moving forward well together! president johansen is expecting a lot out of Moss from the two young missionaries ( me and lillywhite)! i believe everything will turn out great and that we will have great success and more things will start to happen more and more!!
not much else to say but to give you a challenge! i have been studying the book of mormon of course but also preach my gospel! chapter four is all about how we can recognize the spirit and how we can come closer and feel in harmony with the spirit! so my challenge for you is....have you felt the spirit lately? if not or not so much? what can you do to feel that peace in your life? what can you do to bring that spirit and that bright light into your life? i know as i go through my own person struggles and trying to do everything i can as a missionary to be completly diligent that when you know that everything is working out the lord will bless you and things that we pray for will help us and provide us with strength! i know that prayer works but it does take time and effort on our part we can not just have faith because faith with out works is dead! i know that god will help us through our struggles and will provide us a way IF we are willing to put some work in on our own part! i love it here i know there is no better place for me than in norway! i love my savior Jesus Christ and he lives and loves me! Joeseph Smith restored the church through the very power of god! we have a prophet on the earth today who leads and guides us to live our lifes in harmony of the spirit! i hope all have a great week and i love you all cant wait to hear from you have a great week:):)
ELDSTE FARNSWORTH
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