HELLO FRIENDS AND FAMILY:)

 

  What a great and very intense week it has been! there is so much to talk about and i really dont even know where to start! So even though the weather here has just been way cold as the sea breeze comes in and just having wind with water freeze your face we push forward anyway with the long days of contacting!:) Mo I Rana is a small city and even smaller than my last area! its more of a industri place but yet only a couple industries are even here! We contact the same people everyday hoping they will eventually start to come the their senses one of these days haha!:) Or the best is when the old ladies grab your arm and tell you to go back to home to mommy which is always funny and actually keeps your sense of humor high or sometimes they will go for the cheek pinch which i Do not like!:)

 

 As far as this week goes we MOVED IN TO OUR NYDELIG APPARTMENT!! Not that its crazy big but its very nice and it has been modernized with nice lights and a modern kitchen thats quite big actually so we have been making a lot of very delicious food lately with our investigators( waffles, pizza, soups)! its also very warm and i am so greatful for a warm place to study and not peeing in a bottle to later empty it out downstairs since the bathroom upstairs didnt work in our last appartment haha! now we have a great bathroom with a real shower!! well we managed to but together our bunkbed with no tools...dont ask how...haha and it works just fine...until the night came and the planks that support the bed on the top and elder johnson just about killed me and good thing i was already up and i rolled out of bed real fast and he came down to the bottom bunk! so we called our neighbor in the morning and borrowed a drill to tighten down the bed planks for the mattresses!:) its been fine eversince!:)

 

  Thursday i took my first train to a place called Mosjøen well actually two busses to there and then we road a train back! we had an investigator call last week and tell us that he moved out from his girl friends and was quiting snus and told us he is ready to be baptized! so we said SAWEET and we got there as fast as possible! he has already read mormons bok, D&C(multiple times) and pearl of great price! we went through the questions for baptism and he passed all of them and now just finding a date when he will be intown! the ways the lord blesses us as we do our best to do everything we can to be obedient! it is truly incredible and mysterious how the lord works sometimes! So as for another investigator who we have been working with, decided that he wanted to get baptized on sunday the 5th so yesterday and decided that on monday! We were very shocked at this response but we did everything to make it work and i sometimes just wasnt sure with how everything was going and oh boy how the lord blessed us as we fasted and prayed and this past sunday (yesterday) it all worked out! ill attatch some pictures so you can see where he was  baptized....lets just say it was -15 out yesterday and he knew of a spot where he wanted it so we drove there and jumped into a FREEZING COLD FJORD! Not me anyway but my comp and it was hilarious watching them! its was incredibly spiritual even though it was the fastest baptism i have ever seen in my life haha! wonder why right?:) but the most amazing part was when we conferred the HOLY GHOST and it was like i could feel the spirit through my hands on his head just enter into his body! i have never felt anything like it! it was truly spiritual! we spent all the rest of the day with him and made great food and watched some videos with him! When we gave him his brand new mormons bok he freaked out and was jumping with joy and told us how much he had been wanting one! he is such a great kid! Our next baptism is for the 14th and he is so excited for it and after he watched the baptizm it only made him have a stronger desire! His testimony is getting stronger and stronger everyday!!well looks like i will be freezing next week in the Fjord! not to mention we just got a foot of snow today! I LOVE THE SNOW IN NORWAY its just like utah! i have heard some say utah is still better for skiing, maybe one day i will find out:)

 

 well to tell you an incredibly awkward moment...try district meeting over webcam in a library with lots of people and then doing a practical....yea it was quite the experiance and the looks we got was quite funny! good thing everyone here knows us right?:)

 

 so i also got to see very good northern lights this week which are always beautiful and everynight as we are out we probably look like retards as we are looking straight up in the sky spinning in circles and asking where the lights are!:) when ever you see them its just one of those reminders to me that god truly does miracles and they are one of them! So also one Incredible thing this week is we had a full house in church today almost all the 15 seats in the church were taken up! we had 10 ppl in church and my companion and I! 12 thats a new record! plus to investigators! so it was a great turn out and actually the mission president was there since we havent really had a branch president so he came down to decide on one:) it made the lesson go alot smoother i just say that:)

 

   Wow its really been a week that as i look back i really see how blessed we have been! after the long hours we put in contacting and knocking with out a single teach does pay off trust me it really does! even though you just want to throw down the book of mormon and go home its at the time that the lord will test your patience most! trust me i see it everyday but when you have a good attitude about being out it makes a world of difference! i can see the lords hand in our work as we push on with faith that he will bless us but first we have to test our faith as in ether and in alma! excersize the faith! let the seed grow and if it grows you know its a good seed! i love being a missionary and it truly is one of the most blessed times of my life i am sure of that! i know this church is true and that we have the whole true church which christ restored to the earth and know that we have restored again to the earth! i love the book of mormon and it truly can give you answers when you really try to find an answer! put all your heart into finding out what is the next step in your life and the lord will give you the answer when you truly look for it! remember it takes a trial of your faith before the lord will do his part! we have to meet him 1/2 way before he will take the other 1/2! i love this church and i love and miss you all! hope all goes well with you all!!!:)

 

 eldste Farnsworth