November Is Ending

Well heisann familie FRA NORGE:)

 

  What more can i say other than i love NORWAY and the peole in Norway! lately i have realised that people are way nicer than i think sometimes! although many people we talk to say they don't have time or i have to catch a bus... even when they are headed the wrong direction... which always makes me laugh and sometimes i will call them out and they will start walking the other way...one time experience it was way funny! People in Norway are very set back but many people say that there is a Norwegian wall... no there is no wall that is just the people they are a little stubborn but who isn't and don't forget a little pride full but as well we all get that way;)! this week as i have realized has been a great week and we are well on our way to coming close to our goals for what the mission president has set! November will be coming out with17 baptisms this month which is the highest in Norway all year and probably for a long while! as our goals are to have 20 baptisms for December and will be our goal every month from now on! This is what is required from us missionaries and members if we want the second stake and to be able to apply for a temple! we need to show the traveling 70 and of course the prophet that we are in need of these things and the lord will then grant it unto us! we are well over our goal for this years baptisms already! we still have a month left and i think MOSS is really going to pull through this next month! we have 5 dates scheduled! 3 of which are triplets! as we have prepared ourselves daily in doing everything that we can and using our time in the most effective ways as possible! the lords spirit is really over Norway and is softening the hearts on people all over this land! i absolutely love this work and it gets better everyday with me and my companion elder lillywhite:) the lord is watching over us!!

 

  Norway is an amazing place i would just like to say! as me and Lilly work our hardest we are blessed and are really starting to recognize the lords hand in our daily work! weather we talk to one person a day or weather all our appointments fall through it doesn't really matter because its not up to us, but is taken care of by the lord and his loving ways! we have been finding more and more people to add to the teaching pool and its surprising even as young as me and my companion are and as much as i worry sometimes we have been blessed with the spirit as we teach and testify to the people we find and we are becoming in the hearts of the people! we do a lot of finding lately and as we look we find! and when we find we teach and teach with the spirit! i know my language is not amazing by any means but its grows more everyday with the help of the lord! still hard to understand everything but getting the gist or most of what said is help full but always asking if you heard them right is a great way to learn!

 

  Well our teaching is getting better as a companionship and we are adjusting to each others teaching styles and its starting to take off for the both of us! we are getting almost 20 teaches a week on anything to random lessons to full first and second teaches! people are preparing themselves more and more for baptism but its just the last step of faith that many people struggle with! if they could only see the end result sometimes that knowing will come with time and that even our knowledge is not perfect by any means! i learn everyday new and interesting things from the gospel and i am so blessed and we only want the same for them! that first step of baptism by no means is the end but the beginning of all things! learning that Joesph smith was a prophet that Jesus Christ was the son of God and that god lives along with Jesus Christ! baptism is only the beginning to a happy life and will only increase your faith everyday afterwards!

  

 We teach a man who is this same way and is just struggling taking that last step to the new beginning! he is so close and i know he will get baptised so soon but its just he wants that almost perfect knowledge no matter what. As much as we talk to him it comes back to that same thing but he is someone that actually reads and prays and comes to church everyweek! he is a REAL stud! it is incredible to see him grow and to watch him go from no church every in his life to knowing as much as i do for the most part! he has the best questions that really make myself think and i have to go study them and get back to him sometimes! he really wants the fullness of the gospel! He is super smart and bright and he is well on his way to making that first step to the new beginning! i cant wait for that day when i get to see him in the water! before my mission one thing i never realized is how close you become to your investigators and begin to love them like you brother and only want the best for them! you watch them grow and you desire their salvation! i truly have love for my investigators and they make me grow stronger everyday that i meet with them! its hard to explain in words but you truly care for everyone that you meet! that is something that i have realized and is something i will always look forward to in my mission and through out my life!

 

  i know the lord blesses us and along with the world! as a missionary just think how many people pray for missionaries? well probably about at least 5 million people wouldnt you think? when at any other time in life will you be blessed more? i really dont know! it really makes you think of why you are blessed on a mission! we have almost all LDS people in the world praying for us and even the prophet prays for us! now thats intense! even as missionaries we pray for other missionaries through out the world and especially in our own mission area! well i just want all of you to know that i have a strong desire to serve the lord and its not always easy some days you break down and cry and wonder why its so hard! well we go on missions to build ourselvs and to grow and to have trials thats one reason we are on the earth is to face trials but to stick with it through thick and thin and in the end we will inherrit eternal life! its promised to us in the scriptures many times if we 1. have faith 2. repent ourselves 3. become baptized by the proper authority 4. receive the holy ghost 5. endure to the end! thorugh these simple steps we can inherit eternal life! who wouldnt want that? i know that i do and as i serve a mission you realized more and more how much you want it!i know my savior lives and that he atoned for my sins so that i one day can aspire to live with him again! i know joeseph smith was a prophet and restored the church so we can have the fullness of the everlasting gospel here on the earth today! therefore we have a living prophet today who leads and guides us(Thomas S. Monson) through all our hard times! i love being a missionary in norway and i am so blessed to have a family that everyone have been through the temple and are worthy! i love this gospel with all my heart might mind and strength! i hope you all have a great week and strive to have the spirit with you!

ELDSTE FARNSWORTH

 

ps for those that were wondering i had thankgiving dinner on saturday with a random non member family and it went great and they were very nice the man was from america and they served us a wonderfull thankgiving! they want us to come over for more dinners but are not interested but they are a super awesome family:)