Hello Family and Friends!!

 

  What a great week it has been! its been a better week than last week and yet its not that we have had much success but a lot of good experiances! Many times on a mission you see how the lord blesses you and even though its such a simple thing it can raise your spirits to go through out the day! just like last weeks expirance with the old lady, its those types of things that help! same with the people that will actually talk with you at the door and complement you on your fast learning of a language with 100s of dialects! these simple things (even though they wont listen) will make any missionaries day to help you go forward with preching the gospel to everyone! They will all know some day and appoligize is what i say:) and then we laugh and keep going:) since all of our investigators have been baptized besides the two younger children (who live far away and the mother who is a member is so stressed and they are working on moving to oslo which will be better for them in the long run witha ward and friends of encouragement) we are in the process of "filling the funnels" which is the hardest part of missionary work, that being mission work in itself, but we have found people on the street this week but yet end up being potentials that dont go anywhere even though they are so positive and golden on the street it makes you think that they are getting baptized tomorrow and then call the next day and their husband said absolutly not in this house and she says sorry and hangs up...! but like i said before its those moments that count! I remeber after teaching that lady that elder johnson and i after we went around the corner started jumping and going nuts and felt so great about it! haha we all know how those feelings are of encouragement! its most important not to get down but to only keep you levels of spirit high! one way of doing this is listening to uplifting talks by John Bytheway! they will always give you a great laugh and the spirit you need to go back out! one other talk i found by a member giving it to us to listen to is called the converstion of a catholic priest! its an incredible story and i strongly suggest listening to it! its about 1.30 min but its so uplifting!

 

  One thing that did happen this week is we had a training meeting in oslo at least my comp did since he is District leader! i on the other hand got to go out for 6 hours in oslo! contacting in oslo is so awesome! for one its way warmer than Mo I Rana! Tonz of people on street! not to mention crazy people and nice and just a bunch of narko men on street as well! i got the privilige to take out two younger missionaries and show them how to contact? pssh i dont even know how to contact that well sincei have only been in small cities! Although it went so well! in the space of the day we had 4 teaches and two numbers with set appointments and were super interested in seeing us again! i gave out 3 mormons book in the street and had a great time but i have forgotten how fast people in the east of norway speak! it was quite hard for me since i have started picking up a dialect that people in oslo dont like... haha and people in north norway dont like east dialect! its quite funny but good thing its more of my tone and fall than actual words! being with a bunch of younger misionaries reminds me how hard it was for me to understand! i still have a hard time understanding but i get usually 90% on a good day! depending who i am talking with....old or young haha! offering simple words of encouragement and i could tell they were satisfied with what i said:) while in oslo we got there at 12am friday and i couldnt sleep very well and woke up early to get ready and that night got home to Mo at about 11.45 and then a taxi ride home! not alot of sleep this week haha!

 

  well i did have a quite interesting experiance with this week also since we went to sandnessjøen to go see a museum that we were told was great! after waking up early to go see it catch a bus at 7.10 and getting there at 11 and then the bus to the museum left in 2 hrs so we walked around and then got on the buss missed our stop had to go around again finally got to the museum and then it was 3. had 30minutes to look around before our bus back home left! got home at 7.10 that night! it was a very tiring day of bus after bus! rode 10 different busses with 2 ferries to cross to different islands!!

 

  well thinking of a challenge i have come up with this for you all! Read Moroni 10 mainly from verse8 til the end and find all the qualities we are able to achieve in this time of probation! list the ones that you want! list the ones that you have and see how you can abtain these gifts! i know these gifts on the spirit are real! i have experianced some of these!! i hope you all have agreat week and i miss and love you all!!!

 

elder farnsworth!