A New Place On Fire!

HEY EVERYONE!!!

 well i cant even begin to tell you how much greater it is to be her in trondheim! i loved fredrikstad but sometimes we just need a change of senery! i am loving it here already! i feel the love and fire of missionary work coming back into my life as amissionary! on the day i got here we had MMC and the new mission leader is a fireball! he was so ready to throw everyone in the water! he is so straight up and i love it! my last mission leader was less active so it made it a little hard! he even said he would go contacting with us! a norwegian out on the streets with you!? that is something i have never had! they were never interested! i would say the way its set up her in trondheim there is no better place to be! we just got a new bishop who is young and a new missionleader who is young and a new relief society pres who is 23!! its filled with young members in the leader positions who are ready to rock the world! since its a student city here there are a lot of 20-30 years olds in the ward and even though they go to school its easy to get teaches with them!:) I am ready to tear it up and we are already seeing little miracles day by day! My comp is a new missionary and his last comp who he had for the past 4 months didnt teach him to much and we all know me that i am willing to help everyone! he told me he has learned more about being a missionary than he had thusfar.....i was way proud to hear that! its great because i can teach him the ways that i have always wanted to share with new companions but this is my first one and he has been her for 4 months in trondheim so he is fresh! he takes advice and listens and wants help! so its a change up from the past 4 months! he is way cool! he is a southern boy from virginia and loves flying and was in ROTC at byu! we get along super well and he loves the way i work and he is just trying to keep up! i feel like a ball of fire just ready to burst being in a new area! although trondheim is the most atheiest city in norway there are so many people that have been found lately and are getting baptized soon! not by us but we have already found some pretty good potentials! i came here with no investigators so its a work in progress!! i dont know what else to say other than i am so happy right now! I hope you all have a great week! i love you guys!

eldste farnsworth

Transfers to Trondheim

 TIMES ARE A CHANGING!!!

 

  well i will say sorry for no letter last week it was just such a hard week and i didnt want to give the details to everyone haha! but i dont have to much time today either so i will be short and hopefully enlighten someones day!:) well the rumors tell to be true that i am moving to trondheim! i have been there many times and i am so happy to be there! i have had that feeling for so long and that is where i have felt that i needed to go since i left Mo i Rana! there is some people that i know i need to retake contact with and some that i have been really close to have now moved there! i hope it will all fall in to place! i got put in to leadership.....haha i was hoping to slip leadership for the rest of the mission but looks like the lord has other plans now! i am ready to face trondheim. to be honest i feel like i have written this letter before or i have dreamed it! its crazy to think about how the lord can show us these things before! i also wanted to thank everyone in the 37th ward for the awesome christmas letter i got or the little binder! it was awesome and to my suprise so many girls are going on missions! i got one to day of another girl i know who is waiting for their papers to come! its incredible! i thank the lord for new opportunities and i am so happy to start again in another place! it is never easy leaving an area! When i told everyone yestereday it was like they never thought i would leave and they all said.....Wait you cant leave....we havent had such a great missionary in so long and now your leaving? the most felt like i had been there for almost a year with all the progress we had made in the ward! sometimes i myself look past the stuff i have done and look at the stuff i havent done! remember dont look past the mark! one of my favorite scriptures is in jacob4.14...read it! it can be devistating or change yourself for the wrong reasons because we havent done everything! well i am not perfect and i know that for a fact but i know that i have put some serious effort into the ward here in Fredrikstad and i will miss them SOOO much! its always hard when they sing God Be With You Til We Meet Again..... I love you all so much and thanks for the encouragement! love you!!

 

eldste Farnsworth

Not a Good Week Transfers are coming! YAY

HEY MOM!!

 

well i dont think ill write a weekly email because ther is just not that much to write! we have been working with less aktives and we had one come to church! it was so great! it was almost unexpected! he came and i was so happy! i gave him a hug and didnt leave his side until i got asked to translate during sacrement! wow that was tireing! especially when they speak fast! well it was good in the end and then i found out afterwards that its hard for her to understand if i speak fast! i spoke fast the whole time! and we have been working on the member book a lot so i can finish it will all the stuff i know about fredrikstad which is a lot! so much crazy stuff here! that way other missionaries can know what this ward has been through! and all the info on the members is always nice to have! well this week has been rough and to be honest i blew up at my comp on friday and told him i am done working with him! i just cant do it any more mom! he wont listen he wont take advice! when ever i state my opinions he has to say something else to disprove what i said! i give him advice in norwegian and he wont listen! that is the top of the line when people dont listen to norwegian advice! i dont brag about my language skills but i have fooled many norwegians! i do not speak perfectly but when it comes to pronounciation i know that i say it right! so yea.... i am doing member work still but i cant do anything else or else ill just end up blowing up again! i have tried for 4 months and its been more of just going around the problem and when he wont listen it just hasnt made so much progress! i know i am moving this next wednesday or thursday but i am not sure where! i am pretty sure i am going to trondheim and i will be district leader. and thats the most likely place and i am super excited about that! he said i am going to a big city and that is something i have never had! i have been in farming places my whole mission so this will be a great experiance for me! its what i need to get pumped up again! i hope i get a comp that i can just hit it off right from the get go and we can wreck house! i want it to be like elder johson where we never stopped working! i was happy and loved it! i still love the work but i am ready to leave this place! i loved the quotes you put up and they were such a comfort! thanks mom!! i love you!!

Hey Guys

HEYA ALLE SAMMEN!!

 

 well i will say i have had a good week! it hasnt been anything extra ordinary but it has been a good week and i will tell you why....because i wanted to have a good week! i set goals for my self for this new year that we are in now and how i wanted to acheive myself this year of 2013! i set some simple goals that i will have fun with! 1 goal is not easy and doesnt really have to much to do with alot and that is starting p90x which i have done for almost a week now and my thighs are BURNING! but thats not so important and another is to become a Preach my gosple missionary in all ways! i struggle in many ways but i am trying to be better! we all tend to have our ups and downs but would it not be better if we were always increasing? i think so but that is never easy! as i have stated before and just looking back on my mission so far i have had SO MANY awesome experiances that are either funny, spiritual and or unforgetable! i have realized many weaknesses and am really trying to put into effect to of my favorite scriptures....dc 82:10 and ether 12:27:) there are other goals but those are the ones worth telling:)

 

  well for some reason after christmas people are still really busy with things but they are slowly coming back in to the everday schedule whi9ch is good because they spend to much time do nothing sometimes hhahaha:) patience is key right? well im working on it! but of course less aktives are always willing to have missionaries over and to talk! we visited one guy yesterday and he hadnt thought much of his goals other than trying to be happier. we shared the christmas message of the Spirit of Chirstmas by the profet and also adding in new years goals and helping him realized what being happy meant! he decided he was going to start living in the now and not tomorrow and trying to REALLY come back to church! it was so spiritual and he was so happy afterwards! just seeing people eyes light up with wanting to change is enough to say i have accomplished my purpose but yet we want to be EVEN happier right? well as we have been trying to push member work its the same way! if you want to be happier....share the gosple.....do your home teaching....show other people your love for them and want for them to come back! I have learned so much and i see now how little i knew in the mtc and how little i still do not understand or know! but i know the lord his her to help uss day by day! HE LOVES US not matter what we have done! we as people change everyday and i have seen it! cleanse the inner vessel and follow the counsel in mosiah 3:17! which has so much meaning in every way of life! i love you all and have a SUPER FANTASTIC WEEK!

 

ELDSTE FARNSWORTH