Another Awesome Week!!

 Hello everyone and Familie!!:)

 

  How is everyone there in utah? heard that it has been pretty warm and of and on weather snowing raining and what ever else it will! i will only add the same witness but yet in Norway! it was 8c outside the otherday and it felt great! the next day it was cold and we got 2inches of snow and the next day was rainy and crazy ice rink slippery! fell multiple times and sometimes right when i got back up again! bruised elbows and tailbone anyone!!?:) as far as weather goes here its crazy! its 0 right now and sunny! the sun has come up a lot in the last couple of day! it was light outside a little when we woke up this morning and we could see the sun on the mountains at 9! its only getting lighter and lighter everyday! good thing i will be in Mo I Rana for a while! found out last week on monday that elder johnson and i will be staying together another transfer and we will be making havoc here for another 9 weeks:) so i still have another good 41/2 months here! i will get to see the midnight sun here in the north! ill get to keep strengthening the branch here! it only gets better the longer missionaries are here! havent topped more than 12 in church but its been consistent with about 2-8? big range i know but its getting better:)

 

  we have had some Very interesting experiance in this past week! not that we had alot but we did have a lot of fun! well we have gone to selfors which is about a 40 minute walk 1-2 times a day so we have got our walking in this week thats forsure! on solid ice or with 3 inches of rain coming down the street! days where its been sunny and days where its blowing us off the bridge and days where we are soaked going into investigators homes!:) good ting they are always so nice....the ones that let us in that is haha!:) so we have been working on knocking this area for the past 8 week! we finally finished the whole left side and are working on the right side! we found 3 investigators out of the hundreds of doors we have knocked on!:) you can see the numbers are about 80 to 1 usually...haha so it takes awhile but we were never told that everyone will be willing to listen at all! it takes effort to find and hours of searching in norway that is to find people! its a very different mission than in america or even other europian countries! so the crazy experiance that we had was with the absolute last door on the left side! a kid answers the door and we ask if we can talk to the owner of the house....a kid with his shirt off comes to the door and we tell him why we were there and he invited us in! 4 boys come out of random places in the house and come down and listen...some with just boxers and some with out shirts and it was quite funny i thought it was a joke! little did i know that they all wanted to listen and sat down and listen and participated the whole lesson! we ended up coming the next two days as well and teaching them! out of all of them which we taught which was (7) all together through the teaching sessions we ended up getting 3 numbers to come back!! how the lord blesses us! we have seen blessings this week with them and teaching them the restored gospel! we have been strickly obediant and you can always get more and more obedient and we made an effort to be out right when pday finished at six so out the door a 1 before and being like the ride of the valkyries! so watch out Norway!;)

 

  well we have basically been finding all week and going through the hard times just makes you be humble on your mission! its not easy at all when you feel like nothing is happening but the lord is testing us and seeing if we will keep turning back to him to lead us! He is preparing people but we have to go through the process to find them! everyday we are out walking the baron streets of Mo talking to the same people everyday. sometimes enduring is what we need the most! i have seen that and i have gone through it and will continue to go through it! its part of a mission haha:) since we finished our area book and have kept trying the people who didnt answer or told us they were busy we ended up knocking in to one of them yesterday! a Very nice penticostal lady! she has been busy but has wanted us to come over and actually offered us a ride to come meet with her when she had time! she has had some amazing experianced with angles and other very cool experiances! she took mormons book and was very greatful for that! she will be interesting to teach! for any of you that are familiar with pinsy people here is a very common statement..... ARE YOU SAVED? HAVE YOU FOUND JESUS YET(just like in forest gump?) IS YOUR FAMILY SAVED? HALELUYA CAN I GET AN AMEN!! praying with her was a great experiance and we ALL had to offer a prayer! it was very funny! it was a great experiance and she was actually quite open so we will be going back this week and see if she read what we gave her:)

 

 The lord is preparing people in Norway and in all parts of the world! its not easy all the time but thats a mission its not suppose to be simple or easy! or it wouldnt be called a "MISSION!" same as it would be if you were in the army a mission is something you endeavor to overcome or to finish a task! i am so greatful for the tasks i have been given and how humlbling they have been and continue to only be more humbling everytime! i would not be out here if i didnt know that this is Gods true church or else i could be doing other things to use my time, but since i know its true i devote myself in learning and envelope myself with the gospel to be a better teacher and missionary everyday! the lord has big things instore for all of us but its upp to uss to increace our knowledge! he wont force it upon us! we have our free agency! i read a great talk this past week acouple of times in fact Waiting upon the Lord: Thy Will Be Done by Robert D. Hales! another about waiting upon the lord is by Quinten L. Cook which is marvelous The Songs They Could Not Sing! and he is a quote from that talk --3. See Boyd K. Packer, “The Play and the Plan” (Church Educational System fireside for young adults, May 7, 1995), 3: “In mortality, we are like one who enters a theater just as the curtain goes up on the second act. We have missed Act 1. … ‘And they all lived happily ever after’ is never written into the second act. That line belongs in the third act when the mysteries are solved and everything is put right.” See also Neal A. Maxwell, All These Things Shall Give Thee Experience (1979), 37: “God … sees the beginning from the end. … The arithmetic … is something we mortals cannot comprehend. We cannot do the sums because we do not have all the numbers. We are locked in the dimension of time and are contained within the tight perspectives of this second estate.” this second estate is not ment to be a perfect life but we need to go through it and test us! my challenge for you all is to read these two talks and answer the questions...how am i dealing with my waiting in hard times? also why do bad things happen to good people?

 

  well ihope you all have a great week and strive to wait upon the lord and do all that is necessary to go forward! i love you all and i hope you all have a great week!!