HELLO EVERYONE!!:)
What a great week it has been in Norway! This week has been quite an off and on busy week! from having a full day of contacting and knocking doors all night, to having full days of no time to breath and hardly time to even eat and not even taking a full hour to eat since its just been busy! To a degree there is alot to tell and at the same time not to much to tell haha! Everyday is a new day in missionary work! its weird to look at the time through out the day and wonder where the time really has gone! you look at the clock at lunch then at dinner and then realize that its already time to go to bed and then by the time you know it, its time to wake up already! for those of you that served missions did you ever feel like you fall asleep, have no dreams, and then wake up and yet you feel like you just barely closed your eyes? Of course you have its life as a missionary:) but yet you are usually for the most part well rested! its incredible how that works!
So this week has not been that cold and actually has been about -5 to 3C so its been snowing alot off and on and then when it gets above 0 just starts pooring rain and then freezes so just lots of ice everywhere! i cant even tell you how man times i fell this week walking on ice and as much as it hurts to have bruises all over your arms you tend to get up and just bust up laughing....since your companion just told you to be carfull an then He just slipped too:) Weather is so interesting! so i ended my no sun at 35 days! my Companion ended at 95! sunday was a day of triumph as we looked out the church building which faces west so we saw the shadows of buildings and we ran outside and just started giving thanks for the warm sun on our faces!:) its hard to appreciate the sun when you always have it! when you dont have it you really start to miss it and just the meer sight of seeing it makes you shout for joy! Especially Elder Johnson! Well it wasnt a big deal to run out of the church at that time, i mean we only spent an hour preparing a lesson for ourselfs anyway! no i have the experiance of not having anyone in church! it was quite interesting! Elder Johnson and i got BIG peices of bread;)...and ate til we were full....no im kidding....partially:)
So Great news for everyone! since being in a place that missionaries usually go to end there mission and not having much success or not much to do here, we as obediant missionaries went through the area book and we have now gone through all our formers all 85 of them since 2005! we had no success at all after going through 78 and then the last 7 of them we got return appointments!!! so it takes patience:) so it pays off going through the area book:)
I am so happy to tell you that our investigator who was baptized last week is getting the priesthood today and is going to be a witness at the baptism tomorrow since he couldnt make it to church yesterday:) he is was excited! he gets to witness his best friends baptizm! he wont go in the water or else he would baptize him haha:) so i get the great honor in going to a very beautiful place called Aldersund, Norway! i encourage you to look it up! its gorgeous! they both are so excited and it fills my companion and I with joy to see how much happier people become after their own baptism! feb 14th a valentines day actually worth remembering:)
We have done lots of contacting in the past week and lots of knocking on doors with little to no success, but thats ok:) we are so blessed anyway! to get as random as it gets our investigator who wants to be baptized called us this past week and we made a baptismal interview super fast so we had to have the elders in Bodø come down on a second notice take a three hour train ride and come down for a partial day sleep over and go to his house in the day time which almost got canceled but we ended up scheduling it earlier in the day so that we could make it down to his house in Mosjøen which is another hour south and you take a train which we were lucky to make!! then after interviewing him he said he wanted to wait until next wednesday! so thursdays are planning but we were busy all day so we had to do planning after we interviewed him since there are only 3 trains that go through there all day! 1030 330 920! so we sat in the train station from 630-920 planning and trying to get things planned for this week which is super busy with zone konferance and also 2 baptizms! its going to be a crazy week but i know the lord will be with us to help us get to all our appointments!!:)
I love you all so much and thanks for all our support! i love being out here in Norway and not just because its an incredible place but its where i am suppose to be and i love serving here! norway is full of people waiting to here the gospel! in a conference not to long ago with all the europian missions our mission president was told that the lords light is over Norway and that there is going to be alot of amazing things that are going to start happening!!:) I can promise you that that promise is true and its only becoming more true as the days pass on! i love missionary work and i love serving the lord! i am so thankfull for everyday i have to be on a mission and it truly does go by so fast i can hardly even believe it sometimes! the lord blesses us in mysterious ways that is just to hard to comprehend sometimes! i know this is Christ`s Restored Church! i know that we have a living prophet today which is so incredible with all his apostels and his other workers! i know the Atonement is the bridging gap for us here in earth and has made it possible for us to come back to live with our heavenly father! i love this gospel with all my hearte and thats why i am here! To serve our lord and savior and show him my own willingness to serve! i hope you all have a great week and cant wait to here from you all!!:):)
-ELDSTE FARNSWORTH
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