Its been a great week and as usual with unexpected events to happen as usual! well as i stated in my last letter that the Easter Holiday is a very time of year for norwegian people! with 10 days off of school and all buiseness closed from wednesday to monday! all shopping has to be done before then and then Norway just shuts down for a week! its incredible to see how barren the streets of Mo I Rana become in that short amount of time....but dont let that get you down...we have had some great miracles come in to place this week although it took all our efforts not to give up in a dead city! oh yea and by the way ill start off by telling you some of the best news says that my companion and i got to see almost all of conference during this week( one way we stayed busy..:) and i can only say wow...our apostles and our prophet are so inspired in the messeges they have shared! truly a great spiritual increase and puts us as missionaries in such a great mood to go out and take on the world!
well our fist awesome miracle begins actually acouple weeks ago when we met to kids around 17 and 21 and we got one of their numbers and the other was a little quiet but we told them that we had the book of mormon in both of their languages! the 21 year old didnt go anywhere and randomly we got a call last a week and a couple days ago from the other asking why we hadnt called him and being confused as seeing that we had no idea who it was whom we were speaking to and then realizing it was the 17yr old kid and so we gave him a book and said we could try something and we called him and no answer and then on wednesday we got call from him saying he had a ride for us to come to his house and teach him! we get there and he has his girl friend and his mom who were ready to listen! we taught them and the spirit was so strong and commited them to be baptized on the 12 of may and they all said yes! to let you know about the mom she has met with the missionaries in brazil before but the time wasnt right and she was to busy but we are pretty sure she has read the whole book! when we gave them 3rd nephi to read she actually started explaining it to her son....we asked her if she already knew if the book was true....she said i have it all marked up but i have need to do as you said and pray...i was blown away and said yes of course and she also has been standing up for the church since that time! how people are prepared!
we have been meeting with an iranian lady and she is such a golden lady and so willing to learn! she loves languages and can actually speak norwegain english and 3 forms of arabic! she became a christian 8 months ago and wants to know everything she can to be closer to god! when meeting with her on tuesday we asked if she had read much....she then replied "yea just a little of half of it not to much"....i almost fainted! when we asked if she thought it was true she said well its about god right? why wouldnt it be true! she accepted to be baptized as well for the 28th! the people that the lord prepares when we do everything we can! it is such a blessing to be obedient!
well i dont know if anyone else realized that conference has been based on priesthood and families but so far that what i have gotten our of it and i have had my own prayers answered with out even realizing that i had prayed for things weeks ago and stopped worrying about it! the message that comes from conference can be a strength to us if we want it to just as we can choose to have a good or bad day! if we Want to watch then we will get something out of it! when i finally got to watch it i almost couldnt breath! i had wanted to watch it all week and when i heard the motab choir i was like a dog waiting for food and eating everything as it came to me! so a little challenge for you this week is to watch one! dont just randomly pick one but pray over what you need and then choose one as the spirit guides! i love this work and we are seeing the smallest and biggest of miracles! This church during rain and snow is still true and the gospel still needs to be shared therefore we are still out in all weather! the lord is preparing people everywhere and that means for YOU that are not even on missions to share the gospel when you have that chance! i know this church is true and that our savior lives and that in his loving mercy he has reached out his hand again in love and called a new prophet so he can lead his church as he has always done is the past! i love you all and have a GGGREEEEAAAAT Week!!
eldste farnsworth
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