Great Week

HALLO Family and Friends!:)

 

  I cant even explain how much better this week has been compared to the past two very hard weeks for us up here in MO I Rana! Well about two weeks ago we got a challenge that we have tried to put in effect more than ever especially lately! the challenge was to get 20 teaches of anytype and your baptisms would double! im not saying that we have tons of baptismal dates since we dont! but what i am saying is that we reached 24 teaches this past week and 19 of them were other teaches! we gave out 10 mormons boks and we have given out others when we were on planes and in other places but those are all in Mo I Rana! we have been doing something we do which is called power finding! which is what everyone should do actually! using the lord more than ever! using nightly planning more effectivly and planning where we will be everyday and telling the lord where we WILL get our teaches! he is now bound and will have to give us our teaches and we do everything to get them! listening carefully to the spirit of the lord in where to turn and who to contact(which in Mo is everyone)! we have seen the lord bless us and with giving out all the books have we recieved many numbers and trying to meet with them again! it is so incredible how the lord can bless you when you pray even more than ever! the average missionary will pray about 20 times aloud with his companion...we have bumped ours up to about 35 and making specific goals for every hour! Binding the lord(dc82-10) and expecting miracles! in our first transfer i think we gave out a total of 4 books of mormon and this week alone we have given out about 10! POWERFINDING WORKS! Unless you are in south america...then you just Get the teaches....just kidding calm down!:)

 

  Well this week has been crazy awesome and filled with finding and doing a buch of other things! we finally had a decent turn out for our game night on wednesday and had 4 people come! and not a family four individuals! its was great and held a little lesson and then played uno and ate our fresh made Boller ( which is like a chocolate filled roll:)) so we laughed and had a great time and got to know the members better!

 

  We had a very long Friday this past week! woke up at 4A.M and got ready to catch our flight at 615 so we have to take a taxi there and be there a little early but not to early this air port is for only small planes! 32 passenger planes. we got to Trondheim at 8. and then take a flybuss to the church which is about 1hr! had zone konferanse which was Crazy filled with the spirit! had to leave and get on a flight at 7 so left at 515 and sat next to two people kissing the whole time so couldnt talk to them...haha! ended up waiting 2 hrs and by this time its already 1045 and we havent eaten since about 12 so we havent eaten forever! our flight is cancelled and they told us that they provided a buss to Mo which left at 1115! so we got on this Freazing COLD buss and tried to sleep well my comp did i couldnt! 15 minutes in we stopped at a pizza place and they bought everyone pizza and Johnson already asleep wakes up to my beaming face and a huge smile screaming FREE PIZZA you need to eat some! very funny! got home at 330am and just exhausted! so a mission is no place to sleep! haha whats new:) your blessed for the lack of sleep:)

 

  well in the act of power finding you have me and johnson wandering the streets of Mo and we see this man with a green umbrella and we walked past him and i looked back and then johnson looked back and i said to him....what are you thinking about....he says that guy....i say to him me too! we pray and a apologize and then run around the block to try to meet up with him again and he is no where in sight and we pray walk down the street and then i Shout...HES IN THE LIBRARY! we go in and there he is! we wait for a second and then johnson just goes up to him and says...WE need to give you this book! he was very gracious and took it but said he would read it and then if  he liked it we could teach him so...hopefully he will read it!:) the lord truly will lead the people to you that need some sort of guidaance in life! i know that is true!

 

 well church was great and for the first time someone else gave a talk besides me and Elder Johnson! it was so nice to just set back...oh wait i still gave a talk but still i got to listen to other people in church besides us! it was so great! we had 6 people in church so the attendance just right there has gone up by 3x! we are expecting to keep getting more:) well i know the lord is on our side and i have seen him work in so many mysterious ways! he loves us and expects us to apply him in our lifes! well i try to always have a challenge for everyone and this week since in preparation for The best news we will here for the next six months is to prepare yourselfs for this conferance! Come with questions what ever it may be! expect answers! remember that it takes part on your side too so you need to prepare and not be out all night on friday and saturday night but you need to be ready to have your writting stick of revelation out and write down what our living day profet and apostels have to say to us! a good way to prepare is to read the last conferance talks and compare with what you here this week! i love conference and i hope i get to watch it! we are still in search of a place to watch it! we will find a place! i know this church is true and i know we have a living profet today that has all the restored priesthood keys that were givin to joeseph smith! i love you all and i hope you all have a great week!!

 

 ELDSTE FARNSWORTH