A Great Week!!

hello everyone!!

  well its pday again and its been a great and fantastic week! we have seen some great miracles as we have been in trondheim and even though we lost two days in our area we still managed to get more teaches this week than we have in the past month! i have never seen so many miracles after miracles as i have seen this week! i had to start writting them down because it was just one after another! so we have been truly blessed this week!! 

 well on monday at six we had to catch our flight to trondheim and we spent the night in trondheim and we had a specialized training on inviting to the main three things! read praying and church! it was one of the most meaningful advices i have received in the past couple weeks even though it was so simple it was so incredible! we had two days with no teaches since we were gone and then we came home and got right to work and just got 5 or 6 teaches everyday after that! we got a new invetigator and we just had some great contacts and inviting people was so great and they were accepting and ii think we gave out 10 books which is a lot for here in MO I RANA! actually we ran out of books and since its been a celebrating time we have not had any norwegain books so we have gone out with english or arabic as a joke one time:)

 so we had a great time with our new member this week but i will tell you what happened to lead up to us meeting with her was that i had had a feeling since we had gotten home from trondheim that  we needed to hold the activitty and i invited her on friday and sure enough she said she could come and as she came we played games and i just came out and asked if her son would be baptized this weekend....which didnt happen but have a date for him on the 10th along with a suprrise follow up baptism with our branch presidents son who is 91/2! as we have followed the spirit this week it really has payed off as it always does:) so we had splits on friday for the zone leader to interview another lady for baptism who passed with flying colors and she was able to meet the other brazilian lady who was there and theyy became instant friends (since both are brazilian!) it was so great! that was another miracle and it was so incredible! 

 a little info on the lady who passed her interview is that she used to be a serious invetigator when she was in brazil but was way to busy to always meet with the missionaries and now she has a whole plan for her family to get baptized so we are going to do all we can to help her family:) they are so awesome!!

 well this week has been incredible and has been filled with tons of finding oppurtunities and i thank the lord for this!! how is everyones book of mormon reading going? my challenge to everyone this week is to keep up on their reading and to deepen your reading and to really search the scriptures!! i love you all and thanks for the emails!! have a great week!!!

A Packed Week

Hallo family friends and everyone!!

 well i dont know if you remembered or not but if you didnt you are NOT FORGIVEN....but it was my birthday so i am expecting alot of mail in the next couple weeks...:) its has been a crazy week and a half with seeing everyone before elder johnson left and also going to oslo and having meetings its been very crazy! so we able to meet with alot of people this past week as we found out he was leaving this past tuesday and so we had to pack and clean and see everyone possible! i also found out that i will continue here in Mo I Rana with my new companion elder Davidson who is from Oregon! This week has been a great week to finish off our last transfer though!:)

  we were able to meet with a the lady from Iran and ate with her at here house til we almost exploded! she made us some delicous food from Iran and then some normal noodle food! well the funniest thing about that is that i had eaten a LOT OF FOOD and elder johnson was taking his time so i loaded him up with some more food....HE WAS SO MAD! then she took more food and put it on his plate! i was dying of laughter until she put more on my plate as well and i flat out said ^this is impossible i can not eat this and she just laughed so i did the last thing anyone would have expected and i grabbed the fork and LOADED her plate as well:) well i got to talk to mom and dad and that was such a great add to my week and a boost like never before even though when its durinng mothers day we only have 40 minutes but it was a great boost to my week! all my neices are getting so big!

 we met withthe brazilian family and they even made us tons of food and gave johnson a going away present! they always give us some sweet and useful items since her husband is a vendor for the stores around so like shampoo and deoderant so we told them we would use it more since we might stink a little bit haha:) they are so nice and they even made me a cake for my birthday and even gave me some Useful items as well:) i am so grateful for that family and their generocity:) we love meeting with them:) they said they would be baptized in june to so we are working with them towards this goal!:)

 well we had 15 people in church this past week including two investigators:) its was so great to see every seat filled in the church:) so incredible and i was so happy and we had a great lesson prepared as well:)

 well our trip to oslo was long..but before we left we had dinner with rannveig our angel member and with her friend! we had a little lesson with her and she made us some delicious homemade pizza:) we ate til our bellies were completely filled and then she drove us to the air port! we got in to oslo at 1100 and then took the train and had all of johnsons stuff which was SO HEAVY! plus had to walk to the Zone Leaders apartment on the otherside of town! got there around 1130 and stayed up til 130 getting the updates and what not for what we were doing tomorrow and johnson was filled in on his new call as Zone Leader! we had our meeting the next day or the same day and then i left to trondheim later that day and overnighted in trondheim with my new companion and then woke up the next morning early after staying up late as well that night and had to reach our flight and it left at 900 am! we celebrated and planned for our week and ate birthday cake with the brazilian family:) its been a great week!:)

 well i know the lord has been blessing us here and i know he will only continue to help us here! i hope you all know how the lord has blessed you in your life andi am only continueing to see everyday how the lord has blessed me:) i love you all and i hope i hear from you all soon!:)

Snow in May?

Hallo family and friends!

 its always good to have be able to update everyone on how everything is going! The past two weeks have been very hard and i want to apoligize for not being so uplifting! this past week has been a great week and its not even that that many things have happened but enough happened to just make us want to work even harder every day in the cold depts of Mo I Rana! we have had some interesting experiances and some just weird things happen this week!

  well i just would like to state that May 1st in norway is their labor day and no one is home....so that was quite a rough day for finding but we managed to make it through it plus everyting was closed...? Russ which is a huge celebration here is only getting crazier everyday(celebration for graduating teens) which include drinking and smoking and having sex for three weeks straight and also pulling pranks and what ever else there is todo! i can only imagine being in a big city for this event! we have had rain and snow this week but nothing that has actually stuck to the ground so its just been cold! the wind lately has been coming from every direction and its been at times hard to even move its blowing so hard!

 one thing that i really wanted to mention is when we were out contacting this week we met a lady and talked with her and she invited us to a wednesday activity and she told us where it was. well a little back round first is last week we walked out of our church and the door next to ours has a sign that says MOR MÅNE which sounds just like MOR MON and come to find out its her church.... and they believe is some weird things like we all need a different belief and what not but it was hilarious after we read the sign and two days later met her on the street so now we have MORMONS and the MOR MÅNES:)

  the highlight of this week is that we had an investigator come to church!! she participated in the lesson and when sacrement rolled around she even bore he testimony! its was so great! we spent dinner time and the rest of the night teahing them and eating dinner and we are working getting her a date and along with her family but they are in and out of the house all the time so its hard to meet with them and hard to meet with the mother because of her work schedule! to have people in church is so great and i dont know if i told you but last week we had 12 people in church so i finally beat my goal of people so we had 14 altogether! its was so great! This week i have really focused my studies on faith as times of struggle only increase and i have learned so much! i love the bible dictionary and if you every want a great definition just go there it will usually have it! i have found many scriptures that i had never really looked at the same since but i cant quite remember them now....? i do want to say to everyone that i know that chirst true church has been restored to the earth again and that he truly guides this church through a prophet today! i love this church and it has helped me so much! i am so thankful for the scriptures especially the book of mormon! READ IT! FIND YOUR TESTIMONY! it is absolutly incredible what the gospel can do for people today in a world of messed up activity! for a little challenge this week i want you to at the end of everyday see what the lord has done for you that day and then right it down! find the miracles and expect them as well!!:)