New Companion

Well this week would be the week to put the lord to the test in many different ways! the first one i would have to say is that as we go through companion exchanges i had to say good bye to my trainner and say hello to elder lillywhite who is only one transfer ahead of me! to start this letter off i want to tell you a little about the norway mission! well when i first got here we were at 62 missionaries inthe land of norway! from september to january we will have lost a total of 25 missoniaries making our mission soon to be a very very young mission! there will be a total of about 10 missionaries that will have been here for more that 6 months about! our mission is about to become very young! As we pray everyday for guidence we can see alread how the lord blesses us and wants to give us more blessings as we strive to be better missionaries and to live as best we can according to the mission rules! Me and my companion are now going to seriously stay to the rules for this new reason... so our goal this year before it ends that is....is 115 baptisms....we are very close! we had a mission call on saturday morning telling us that that number is not enough and that in the next three months our goal is 20 a month...we have some serious challenges coming our way and living exactly to these rules is how we are going to have to get all these 20 baptisms! the lord wants to bless us and i am striving to get those blessings!

   As this week being with my new companion we needed alot of help and still do! we have two missionaries assigned to be traveling AP`s to help new missionaries like us get everything on track! they were here for 3 days and helped us very much! we were able to get weekly planning done and to get things on track and to see how its done in a better stand point from experianced missionaries! we have alot of goals that are going to help us and we are going to accomplish these goals by doing our best as usual of course but with a higher expectancy than normal! the lord wants to bless us! we need to seek for his guidance more than ever! My companion and i are really getting into the work this week and he is great! pictures soon will be coming so youwill get to see him soon enough! he is from layton utah and is a very hard worker maybe a little to much to over the edge but it will be good for me!

   Well there isnt to much to share this week we did a lot of finding! since the AP`S were here we wanted to add to the teaching pool and try to get some more solid investigators and with having 4 missionaries in Moss its possible! we found 2 new investigators and we are starting to teach them and its going very well actually! we met with a girl today from germany actually just here to be a nanny and she is now a serious new investigator and she is really excited about everything so i am as well very excited!

   ok well i know everyone is wondering about a batismal date that was on friday right well as everyone has their freewill he thought it was a little to early so we held off on that and we set a date that is pretty concrete now for the 26 and 27 so we are really getting ready for it and he is getting super excited about everything and i think he is ready! we have not taught him everything so we are just keeping hiim reading and understanding and going back through the lessons:) This kid will be a kid i would always stay in touch with he is WAYYYY cool! very out going and is like a good friend that i cant communicate with very well....hate that but its getting better:)

   as far as the kid that walked into the church to find out what we believed....well its going.....well its interesting but we teach him lets just say its a story i will tell you eventually:)

   well this week i have been reading in ALMA! lots of good stuff in there and a lot to learn! have you ever read alma 5? well lets just say thats my challenge even if you have! its almost like a list that you can go through and see if you are ready to meet god? i deffinatly and not but maybe some are...;) so a little message to everyone is to take our weaknesses and make them into strengths! non of us are perfect and this scripture will hopefully show a lot of us how much more we can do in our life! i read it and even as a missionary i said WOW! there is a lot to take out of it!

   well i just want to share my own testimony that i love this chuch and as i have found out for myself that it is true through my own reading and praying that joeseph smith restored his church in these latter days and that it was by the power of god that this chuch is here on earth again that we do have a prophet that does lead and guide our church and that we have the priesthood keys to administer these sacred ordinaces to help us receive eternal life! i love being a missionary and its so fun! everone talks about there mission even after they are old and you wonder sometimes if they really did have all those experiances! or if they really could have done everyting! As i have come to find out the mission really does prepare you for life to come in the REAL world which is to shortly come to me! we are out teaching everyday and helping people with their problems and we can truly help people if they will take 15 minutes to listen to us! i am so thankful for my parents at home that support me and for my five sisters that are such a good examples to me and always have been! i pray for you all the time! thanks for all the letters you send and email and what not they really are inspiring and help me get through the rough times as a missionary! i love and miss all of you! have a great week:)