HELLO FAMILIE AND FRIENDS:)
its a truly interesting experiance to say that there is no snow anywere to be found on the ground right now....its colder than utah from what i have heard and Christmas is this coming saturday and sunday! saturday if your a norwegian:) its going to be a completely new experiance being with someone i hardly know on Christmas and not being with my family but these people have deffinitely become my own family! even on JULAFTEN which is the 24th we have to split between 3 families and its going to be so hard! 3 dinners....but whats new with that thats basically everyday;) but all the members want us to be with them and they are all asking for the missionaries to come and see them and eat and sometimes you just cant fit everyone! you have to pick and choose especially in a ward thats no different than living in utah for the most part! so we have a christmas tree at the church and they are putting a bunch of gifts under it for us!!! how cool is that! i am way excited for that! its going to be way cool!
well this is not going to be the longest letter since i dont really have pday this week and next week because of the mission conference we have on the 22 23 and then we have 24 25 and we need to keep filling the pool for the new year with more and more investigators! we are so excited to work towards our new goals which are set very high especially for norway but we are working hard and we are starting to get more investigators! as we go out and contact people we are finding more everyday even if we are only out for maybe 2 hours we have been finding usually about three people that set up a another time to meet! weather that falls through is another story;)
well this week has been maily finding and teaching our 3 main investigators and doing service! we have been working on painting this ladies house and its not the cleanest house.....hadnt been cleaned in about 13 years.... atleast more than picking up and doing dishes and some vaccuming but other than that there was like a 1/4 inch of grease in the kitchen and it was nasty had to take that off before we started painting! i have figured out that i love painting and its way relaxing and finding out that i can understand most of what she was saying to me helped me feel way good:) but here kitchen is down painting it took awhile but its done and we start after Christmas on painting the rest of the downstairs:) i have had a lot of good experiances with just being happy lately! when you are wanting to go out and talk to people and just have a good attitude about things it makes a huge difference!! cant say i am amazing at the language or that i understand everything but when you go out and show the lord with a smile that you want to work he will open up the heavens and pour you out a blessing just like he says he will in mal.! the lord watches over us all and wants to help us but like i have said before you have to show him the sincerity of what you want to do! we have been finding people and its so great! we went from having 26 people investigating to 3.... so its a little drop and finding is what we have todo to help get our hopes up to make our goals as a mission:) i love this work and i am learning more and more everyday! i love reading mormons book and the inspiration it gives to me as i read it and i study! i know how true this gospel is and it makes complete sense! i love being a missionary! i love norway and its people! i am so thankful for the atonement i have a chance to use everyday in my life and its only through our lord and savior jesus christ that we have this amazing oppurtunity to live with our father in heaven again someday! i cant wait to talk you all well if your family members....sorry everyone else! but my love and regards go out to everyone during this special Christmas season! remember Jesus Christ and his Atonement and how we can use it everyday:) i miss you all and have a great week! keep up the work at home and i hope the light of chirst can infuence your Chirstmas:) LOVE YOU!!!
Eldste Farnsworth:):)
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