Another Awesome Week

HEI HEI and hello to everyone!!:)

 

   Well i am proud to say that the lord is blessing us here in the small town of Mo I Rana! even though the people walk with their heads down usually and can ignore us better than any person i have ever met in my life the lord is puttin his spirit into the people here! since the sun i starting to stay in the sky way longer people are now starting to look up just a little bit and we are starting to see those faces:) so news on the sun is that its so bright it burns my eyes sometimes just seeing it hahah:) but its been super foggy this week and its getting cold again! when we do see the sun we are just so suprised at how high it is in the sky again! we will go a week with out seeing it and then we will again see the progression of the sun way above the mountains! well enough about the weather i have some crazy experiances which i hope will raise everyones spirits and will just give you that smile on your face!!

 

   Well let me give you the first thing first! so in the past week and a half my companion and i have started to pray to find a family since i have heard about people doing it and then WHABAM family out of no where! so we though HEY why not us!! so we started to pray for a family and after two weeks of knocking and with repeated doors slammed in our face and even getting a little discouraged at times but we always had to remember that as we pray with all our hearts sometimes we just have to do a little waiting sometimes! just for a little test!:) well on monday we went knocking and we knocked all night! we had a lady do the window contact which is quite normal in norway and you step away from the door and look up and usually people will yell and ask what you want and then you usually get a window slammed in your face! incredible i know! but this lady said i dont have time come back another time! so we were knocking on thursday and i knew that we were going knocking that night and i had been thinking about that lady all day sayilng we need to just go see if we can come back, while elder johnson on the other hand had no desire to go back! we prayed and he said ok its the door with out the door bell i remember! he then said pssh what ever you get to knock the house! i pleaded with my father in heaven and said please dont let this fail we walked all this way please let this work.....and in a split second the lady opened the door and said Yes please come in! i turned back with a huge smile on my face and almost with a pridefull look said haha TOLD YOU!!:) as well as my jaw was on the floor! we went in and taught her and we pointed out the pattern of apostacy and she said well it would make sense to have another one then right? well slow down lady were getting there but yes we have one! living? yes! a real man she said? yes!! haha we are meeting again next thursday and i cant wait to go back! we went off on prayer for her to find out if god was there and i cant wait to see how its going!

 

  well we had been preparing our baptism in Mosjøen all this week and keeping kontact with our guy and he said he is ready! well we were supposed to visit him friday night and make sure everything is good and friday was a crazy day! we had distrikt meeting but we have to walk 40 minutes to get a computer for meeting and skype! then  we have to walk back and go reserve the pool for sunday and then run to the bus stasjon to get to a members house who invited us to dinner! second one in MO!!! then be there for 35 minutes and then go catch our bus to the center and then catch our bus to mosjøen! well we finished eating and we go to the bus stop and no bus has come yet and we are getting nervous so we call a taxi! we have 2 minutes to get to sentrum before our bus leaves and end up chasing the bus in the taxi for like 10k and our taxi was so nice he called to find where the bus was and a arranged for us to be picked up and then we were on our way to mosjøen! we got there and our investigator was busy and there is nothing to do in mosjøen so we waited at the train stasjon and he finally came and we met and he said he didnt want to get baptized tomorrow but elder johnson hahah he said NO you are getting baptized tomorrow and i came right in and just promised blessings and he said .....ok thats better! so he leaves and we find out we have no money!! i dont know how we havent spent any money all week besides today and we cant get train tickets! johnson was able to buy his somehow and then i am just praying my guts ouut to some how get money since i know i have money in my account but my card isnt working! after an hour of going to atm after atm johnson tries his and was able to get a little money out and i had a little cash and we were able to get home!

   next morning we have to catch the train to mosjøen and we have no money! johnson remember he had extra cash and payed for the both of us to get there! all morning while we were getting ready we were way scared since the guy who is suppose to be the other witness has not answered his phone! we had prayed and felt comforted that all will be well and to go to mosjøen so we go and get there and still no answer and we are trying to find where he lives and he lives in the boonies far away! so no option of going there! we now have NO money! not even for the way back! we are calling people and we call our branch president and his wife said ill talk and see if he will come down but dont count on anything! we keep calling and then he calls us back and said he was coming! thats a 2 hour drive! he drove down and made everyting possible! we had to have a car afterwards since i was baptizing him in a river and had to run into a car that was warm afterwards! i will say that it wasnt nearly as cold! but the weather was way colder! -10 outside but it was such a great baptism! what a day and since he drove he gave us a ride back!! wow the lord was on our side i can bear solid testimony on the lord and his blessings for us!

  

  The lord is here! i want to ask all of you How are you using the lord? are you applying him to your life! Like i have said before Bind the lord! DC 82:10 is one of my favorite scriptures! if we bind him and plead with him will he show us how to achieve our goal and will make it possible! i know that is true and that is just what has happened here in the last week! prayer is one thing that i have a very strong testimony of! IT WORKS!! i have read alot out of the general conference edition lately and a simple phrase in Stand in holy places is a quote by P. Thomas S. Monson-Since that time of long ago, I have had countless prayers answered. Not a day has gone by that I have not communicated with my Father in Heaven through prayer. It is a relationship I cherish—one I would literally be lost without. If you do not now have such a relationship with your Father in Heaven, I urge you to work toward that goal. As you do so, you will be entitled to His inspiration and guidance in your life! find your relationship with god! i LOVE prayer! i hope you all can find your relationshiop with god and strengthen it! remeber, its always better to look up!- Elder Carl B. Cook oct 2011! have a great week everyone! look forward to all your emails next week!!:)