It has been an Incredible Week!

HEIA FAMILY AND FRIENDS!!!

 

 weeks go by and months pass by as missionary work flies by! another week dead and gone but the memories are in store and written down in the handbook of life:) This week we had the great privilege to fly to Trondheim and to have our last interviews by president johansen and the last zone conference which was absolutely incredible and he gave some advice for the record books! i have it recorded and i am going to try to send it so i guess we will find out! president johansen also told us great news that when we get home "we need to not be in groups and get down to business and make out" hahaha everyone died when he said that and then he said on the second or third date haha:) he is such a funny man and an inspired man at that! it will be sad that he is leaving and leaves exactly at my one year mark...almost! our new mission president comes in on the 29th and his name is don evens! he actually was president johansens teacher at the LTM! it will be great to get new ideas for the mission and see what he has in mind for the Norway Oslo mission! well this week has been great and i have felt the spirit guide my companion and i in our work here!!

 

 well i thought i could share acouple fun experiances about this week and the first is that the lord knows our goals and as we set them he will help us with them! since we have pdays on mondays and then we went to Trondheim and came back late on tuesday we started of the week with no teaches! we got to work with fire in our eyes and ripped every person we saw and talked to everyone possible! we had two days where we got 9 teaches each and now if i didnt know any better that is a record in MO I RANA atleast for me!!

 

 well going along with these teaches yesterday was probably the best day and people seemed to be alot nicer than usual! we started banking in a new area and its going well there! we has prayed over two areas and as we got there we came to a cross road and prayed and i immediatly said ok we are going to øvergata! we approached a house and the datter said they are on the porch out back....haha i was like oh great another super awkward contact but lets do it and elder davidson was like are we really going back? absolutely i have gotten over my fear of awkwardness and marched back and started talking with them! turns out they had just talked about baptisms of small children! i started laughing and she ask us our oppion and i told her and she was in full agreeance even though she didnt believe in god but hoped that something else was there! we told them the restoration and gave the 3 women books! they didnt give us numbers but said they were super interested in hearing about the plan of salvation! so other missionaries its time to be awkward and have a good time:) besides i dont think it gets more awkward then the famous window contact that is very normal in norway! and since their front door is in the back of the house and they already have seen you walk by and then they do the window contact and tell you to dissapear!:) haha well that same day we were in båsmoen there are no buses that go there on sunday so we walked about 9k to get there! we didnt have water bottles and after talking to some people we were getting thirsty so we prayed that someone would give us some water! well lets just say i found a way to talk about the gospel! after you ask them and they reject you just ask them for some water and they will sit and talk with you and sometimes even for 40 minutes and ask for you home adress to send you christmas cards! so i got an adress to send christmas cards to when i get home:) i have met some absolutly incredible people on my mission and i can not forget about there hospitality and generosity they have shown me! i have seen the lords hand in my everyday work here in norway and i know he is blessing all missionaries and families as they remember why we are here and remember what we need to do:) i am falling in love with the norwegian people more and more as i get rejected everyday:) i thank the lord for this oppurtunity!

 

 i thought of a little challenge for everyone this week of going through the christlike attributes and working on one for a week!! faith,knowledge, charity/love, virtue, patience, humility, dilligence just incase you forgot what they were! pick one and study it and do something everyday to help you aquire these! they are life long to accomplish but trying to become like christ is the best thing we can do right? good luck to you all and i love you all:)