A week of helping the in activies

HEY!!:)

 Well there is not much to say this week! we have been helping the
moss elders alot finding there way around and helping them meet
members since i remember where most of the live:) we have been getting
a lot of appointments with less actives and they are doing super
well!!:) i dont have a lot of time today but i want everyone to know
how happy a mission makes you! the lord loves us so much and truly
wants to bless us! as we search him he is there to comfort us through
any trial that comes our way! he is wanting to perform miracles if we
are willing to do the work! there is a great quote in preach my gospel
that goes like this:


的 have often said one of the greatest
secrets of missionary work is work!
If a missionary works, he will get the
Spirit; if he gets the Spirit, he will
teach by the Spirit; and if he teaches
by the Spirit, he will touch the hearts
of the people and he will be happy.

i know that this principle is true because i have studied and pondered
and thought this out! i know if we work we WILL BE HAPPY:) thanks for
everything you guys do and for the letters i receive! they are such a
help in hard times! i hope you all have a super week!

love eldste farnsworth!:)

SURPRISE!

HEY EVERYONE!!:)

  This week has been quite the week...and thats really all i can say! as usual we have been so busy! we have really been focusing in on our member teaches and also our less actives. like i have said before...less aktives just put a smile on my face:) especially when you can just connect with them and help them in their dailly lifes! well i really only have one big story which was the MIRACLE of this transfer! if people ever say that suprises dont happen in Norway...well they have got it so so so wrong!

  Well this story begins on thursday since we had our district trainning meeting in Oslo. Well our parking was running out so we went out to go pay for it and as i was putting my shoes on i turned around and there is our investigator studying in the center in Oslo! i was so suprized and i talked to her real quick and said i would talk to her afterwards. well we started talking and she was like guess what?? I quit drinking tea and i would like my interview please:) I was completly shocked out of my mind! it was like she had a complete change over a couple of days! we arranged everything and she got the okay! we then spent that night and friday planning for the baptism! it was so hard to plan because so many people had left to go to the ward temple week so that made it really hard to find people to talk and what not! well after callling a million people we just said ok we are just putting this into the lords hands and wrote the people down on the baptismal program and surely enough those people called us back the day of and said they would LOVE to talk! I had the great oppurtunity of baptizing Roya!  The ward helped us so much and made this spectacular event happen! well a little joke for everyone is that people say that it was a splashing experiance!..... lets just say that i was not going to have to baptize her twice....so i threw her under the water with AUTHORITY!! hahaha the two witnesses got splashed so it was funny!:) She had such a great time and even my convert from moss came along and was with for the baptizm and it was just another great witness to her of how strong the spirit can infuence her in her life! Sunday was great and was confirmed by a member who she really likes. we all ate dinner afterwards and had an incredible time! all i can say is that baptisms are so stressful but they are SO WORTH IT!! we go out and try to find people! but it is best through members! her and her mom are in it together now and its so great to have them in Fredrikstad:) i know that this church is true and that god continues to work among men today and continues in miraculous ways everyday and that is my own witness and i have been out for over a year know! i love being here and it has been great!

  well the last bit of news is that i will be staying in F-Stad for another 2 months with Eldste Morris! i think we will do good! i have really enjoyed F-Stad and i am excited to see what is ahead here. i wasnt done with my own plans here so i am glad i can continue working on the things i want to accomplish here:) i hope you all have a super fantastic week!

 LOVE eldste Farnsworth

Wow It Has Been a Week!

HEY YOU GUYS!!

 

 well what more can i say that it has been another very busy week in norway! there has  been a lot of things happen and its been super stressful! i mission is not just fun and games...especially when you have people to be baptized! baptisms are so rewarding but you truly have to work for them and there is so much to do! no matter how prepared you think you are we always have to expect that there is one thing missing...haha:) well this week has been full of rewarding and frustrating experiances but its been A Great Experiance:) i will also say some awesome news for any one that would in the future like to visit norway! i dont know if you have heard but Norwegian Air has got a hold of the newest aeroplane! you can get from new york to norway and back for under 500usd! so i think it will be important for me as well in the future making it so much easier to get to norway:) well aside from the side note here is the goods:)\\\

 

  well i will have to start out with the best news! we as a mission set a goal to get 100 new investigators! we almost made our goal or i say that we did! we got 98 new investigators in a week thanks to our mission fast which included all the wards in norway! we have a new goal of having 100 new progressing investigators by the 25! so lots to think about plus getting 80 new investigators a week:) what great news to see how norway is growing! as for us we got a couple of those new investigators one of which is a man we got as a referral from a member in moss! he is super positive and he is an honest truth seeker! we had a great first lesson and he was so thankful for us to take the time to drive there and to have a meeting with him! He will be a member! its so incredible to see how the lord is starting to fullfill his promises to the people in europe! we have one of the smallest places of missionaries in europe with a total of 54 missionaries covering only the coasts of norway and not really the inland! we have got 23 people coming in the next 4 months! so we are so excited as a mission! i love being here for one of the most increasing times in norway!

 

  as far as our baptism....its ended up not going through!:( it was a huge heart breaker! she was told that she should wait a week before she got baptized and that was hard for her to take:( as well as us missionaries. sometimes we just have to trust the lord even when we dont understand why she didnt pass completly. the lord puts challenges in our way and will test us to see how we go over these problems! we have had a lot of long teaches these past couple of days to try to help her understand so its been the stressfull part of the week! i think it helped her alot but we dont have another date set just yet!

 

 i would like to tell all of you how awesome you are! how much i love you all! tthanks for all the support you have given me through these past 1y and 4 month or so and i am so grateful for all of you! i know this is the lords church and that he loves us so much! i know prayer works! i love the book of mormon and i love tearing it apart everytime i study it!:) i hope you all have a GREAT WEEK!

 

Eldste Farnsworth!

It's Getting Dark!

HÆLLÆ!!!

  What a great week it has been and how fast they go by! i never feel that i have enough time to get everything done in time before the day is over! we have had a lot of meetings with people this week and have finally got to perform service for people! i loved that! for some reason its so hard to perform service in norway....! well anyway its been a joy filled week and i am pleased to to everyone about it!

 well it starts off with us broke with no money haha since we had driven to oslo atleast 11 times this past month and and covering such a massive area its hard to not use alot of gas ha! we are given 2000km to drive each month and we drive about.....5000 or more...so i will admit its great that we have people feeding us:) so we had to skip out on district meeting but instead of going there we planned a teach with the mother to the iranian family! it went so good and we learned so much about her! she doesnt quite have the belief in christ....or mohammed for that matter either. she said that she has a strong belief in god and that what ever way he tells her to go she will go that way and she took a baptismal commitment! she has already read over 40pgs in the book of mormon and reads more and more from it everyday! she is a star! she couldnt make it to church but she was super sad that she couldnt come!

 I will tell you one things which is that i love visiting less active members! they bring a joy into my life! i really love working with them and especially when they have a love for the church and for random reasons are inactive! i had the great oppurtunity or have been having a great oppurtunity to teach a less active and her daughter who is not a member since i moved her and have established weekly contact and lessons with them! i got to give her daughter a blessing and afterwards she felt incredible and new that the blessing was from god even though i didnt say that much at all! we talked about it and i got the chance to bare my testimony about the priesthood and how powerful it is! she loved it!

 well we are working with quite a few people and its been so great! we had three investigators in church and two of the were just people that we had called and they said they would and we got them rides and turned out they knew the people who picked them up! we had a great lesson withthem in church since some how we are the "new sunday school teachers"? but i have been doing it almost every week and i did it for 6 months in Mo I Rana so its no deal:) its getting darker everyday! it was pitch black before 5 oclock the other day and winter is her or i should say its been here all year but just in a lighter way. its been so great to be here and i love being out here to teach the gosple to the people in norway! i love being a missionary. it goes by way to fast but that why we take advantage of this time:) i hope you all have a FANTASTIC WEEK! love you all!

 eldste farnsworth