well its been a week!! its been super hard this week when it comes to finding and just trying to figure out what we are suppose to be doing here! we have done a lot of brainstorming this week to try to figure out what it is that the lord wants us to do here! the days are good but the work is going slow but we are still having lots of fun!:) We saw the northern lights last night and that was elder lillywhites first time seeing them even though from a city view they were not that strong! its still always cool to see them!!:) we helped move an older lady this week and found out that her husband is not a member! never would have guessed! we moved them for what we though was only going to take about 2 hours! well turned out to be old people that hadnt done ANY PACKING!! it took 9 hours! ahh we were just exhausted afterwards and since we didnt have appointments we stayed while everyone else left and we had to do all the hard lifting and after not lifting for almost two years wow it was so hard!! it was way good though and we are going to start teaching the husband who by the way loves to speak english and for a 85 year old man he speaks almost perfect english! no joke! norwegains are way to good at english! well nothing to crazy to report this week except that things get better everyday!:) thanks for all the support! i love you guys so much!! have super week!!
Monday, March 18, 2013
Monday, March 11, 2013
It's Good To Be Busy!
HEY GUYS!!
Wow this week has been super AWESOME!! totally have just had a good week have have sound almost 20 potentials this week! It was weird not having a comp for almost 2 days....i was on splits alot and sitting at the church and then did some home teaching with a member! i love the feeling of recieving revelation and then being able to follow through on it and see that it was comfirmed! its such a cool thing! like for example i was with a member and we had called alot of people and no one answered so we prayed and i picked a random name when i went through it and called him with no answer so we decided to just go there and he wasnt home but we ended up visiting another lady who was less active that LITERALLY smokes like a chimney! she packed up 5 sigs in a row and smoked them in the 25 minutes we were there! on the way to the bus we found the guy we were trying to get a hold of! he missed us! it was super cool! Now that elder lillywhite and i are back together its just like old times except the fact that we are now experianced and can speak fluently and there is no problem there! so we are just starting our attack on norway! i am way stoked! we have had a great couple of day! met some people and have done some really smart work! we are still working on gettting investigators but we have a lot to work with now and so i think we could turn some really quick! this week has been extravegent! i needed a sweet comp like lillywhite again to just share ideas and get everyting going again! i love him!! well thanks for all the encouragement everyone! thanks for everyting! i hope you all have a great week!
LOVE ELDSTE FARNSWORTH
Monday, March 4, 2013
My Mother's Coming Back!??
HEY GUYS!!
well you all are probably wondering why in the world its tittled what it is? yes? well i am getting there! in mission language you have your father right? he trains you and then you got a mother who is like a second trainer? well lets just say elder lillywhite is still a missionary since he is only one transfer ahead and he is coming back to serve with me!! I am super excited but i also get to kill my mother....i get to watch him go home...! so i get to kill off my own mother...im such a great daughter right? well thats really the biggest news! it will be great since we didnt really know how to work when we were together after all we were basically greenies together so now we can wreck house and tear it up all over this place! we are both super excited to work with each other again and share our ideas and do our very best here in TRONDHEIM!! we need some new ideas up in here since nothing we have been trying is working and it has been pretty hard latley! we havent had to much success when it comes to making people investigators although we have met tons of people we are just struggling getting return appointments! Another piece of awesome news is my companion is going to my home grounds in MO I RANA! so i have been giving him the low downs on the whole area! im super excited for him and i bet he will just do gret there! it helps alot to be in such a small place sometimes! Well i will say i am looking so much forward to this new transfer with elder lillywhite and its going to be lots of fun!:) i dont really know what else to say anymore haha! The mission is just flying by faster and faster and its hard to keep up sometimes! you have to make sure you are enjoying the moments as they fly past haha! ITS BEEN A GREAT MISSION SO FAR!! and many things are still in store!:) i love you guys and enjoy your week until next week!
well you all are probably wondering why in the world its tittled what it is? yes? well i am getting there! in mission language you have your father right? he trains you and then you got a mother who is like a second trainer? well lets just say elder lillywhite is still a missionary since he is only one transfer ahead and he is coming back to serve with me!! I am super excited but i also get to kill my mother....i get to watch him go home...! so i get to kill off my own mother...im such a great daughter right? well thats really the biggest news! it will be great since we didnt really know how to work when we were together after all we were basically greenies together so now we can wreck house and tear it up all over this place! we are both super excited to work with each other again and share our ideas and do our very best here in TRONDHEIM!! we need some new ideas up in here since nothing we have been trying is working and it has been pretty hard latley! we havent had to much success when it comes to making people investigators although we have met tons of people we are just struggling getting return appointments! Another piece of awesome news is my companion is going to my home grounds in MO I RANA! so i have been giving him the low downs on the whole area! im super excited for him and i bet he will just do gret there! it helps alot to be in such a small place sometimes! Well i will say i am looking so much forward to this new transfer with elder lillywhite and its going to be lots of fun!:) i dont really know what else to say anymore haha! The mission is just flying by faster and faster and its hard to keep up sometimes! you have to make sure you are enjoying the moments as they fly past haha! ITS BEEN A GREAT MISSION SO FAR!! and many things are still in store!:) i love you guys and enjoy your week until next week!
Monday, February 25, 2013
A Good Week!
HEY GUYS!!
i have really lost words to put on the subject part! i think i have put almost everything haha! well this week has been super good and we have seen a lot of success and have met some awesome people this week! it has helped alot to plan splitts and being able to do it more often wit the sisters and with the elders in trondheim since i can schedule them when ever! we even had the APs here and we went out withthem for a while! found a lot of potentials that told us to call this week and a bunch of referrals from members! we have some incredible people here in Trondheim! it hasnt been super cold! it was even 5c the other day and the ice is melting slowly but its still everywhere and have to walk slowly or else you will fall while talking to people! well i dont have a lot of time because we went to ikea for pday and did customer reviews and got free food and gift cards which was totally worth it!:) my companion and i got to have the great priviledge of holding church in a small area in a place called Kristiansund! we called up the members that live there which is about 3 1/2 to 4 hours away depending if you leave and catch the ferry at the right time! it was super awesome to see the crowd of non norwegian members ahaha! but there was one norwegian member! we even got to drive the atlantic highway which you will all see the pictures of! it was so beautiful! it was like being in Mo I Rana agian and teaching all 5 of them!;) it was a rehumbling experiance! so we spent almost 8 hours on sunday traveling but it was worth it! we might be driving out again to help a member that lives in a place called Molde! we will find out though! well this week has gone by so fast and i am loving it! we talk with so many awesome people and you just love them right away even when they say no at the end! well sorry its so short i just dont know what to write anymore haha! i love you all so much!! have a great week!
Monday, February 18, 2013
From the Land Up North
WHATS UP EVERYONE!!??
well yet again another week gone by! its to crazy to understand how time flies! this week has been a good week and we have taught some super elect people....even though they still said no! We have had some great experiances and my companion is becoming a better teacher by each and everyday! Even though our mission has a new standard of getting 3-2-1 which is 3 new investigators a week, 2 in church and 1 with a baptismal date and we havent been making it i know know personaly that the lord is preparing us to find awesome norwegians! we dropped the people we were working with and decided to rely on the lord and give up our little proggression to find the elect! We are on our way to more success i can just feel that there is something here waiting! Trondheim is such a great place....horrible dialect but its ok! The mission is getting more intense as the days grow fewer and i see the end coming i start freaking out and i start saying.....Ok its time to dig or its time to get dirty! there is no time to play around when it comes to finding WE NEED PEOPLE!! of course we still need to enjoy and have fun but keep our focus is what im meaning! those that have been on a mission most likely know the feeling! the end kinda creeps up on you! i love being here and i know the lord is giving me strength day by day and following his own promise....line upon line and precept upon precept here alittle and there a little! i love knowing that someone is watching out for me and that i have people praying for me! I have fallen in love with norway and this culture even though i feel that i know so little about it! i love the people even when they reject us! i could never ask for a better place to serve a mission! thanks for everything you all do for me! i hope you all have an incedible week!
ELDSTE FARNSWORTH!!
well yet again another week gone by! its to crazy to understand how time flies! this week has been a good week and we have taught some super elect people....even though they still said no! We have had some great experiances and my companion is becoming a better teacher by each and everyday! Even though our mission has a new standard of getting 3-2-1 which is 3 new investigators a week, 2 in church and 1 with a baptismal date and we havent been making it i know know personaly that the lord is preparing us to find awesome norwegians! we dropped the people we were working with and decided to rely on the lord and give up our little proggression to find the elect! We are on our way to more success i can just feel that there is something here waiting! Trondheim is such a great place....horrible dialect but its ok! The mission is getting more intense as the days grow fewer and i see the end coming i start freaking out and i start saying.....Ok its time to dig or its time to get dirty! there is no time to play around when it comes to finding WE NEED PEOPLE!! of course we still need to enjoy and have fun but keep our focus is what im meaning! those that have been on a mission most likely know the feeling! the end kinda creeps up on you! i love being here and i know the lord is giving me strength day by day and following his own promise....line upon line and precept upon precept here alittle and there a little! i love knowing that someone is watching out for me and that i have people praying for me! I have fallen in love with norway and this culture even though i feel that i know so little about it! i love the people even when they reject us! i could never ask for a better place to serve a mission! thanks for everything you all do for me! i hope you all have an incedible week!
ELDSTE FARNSWORTH!!
Monday, February 11, 2013
It Has Been Cold in Trondheim -12c
HEY!!!!
Well what more to say than we need to enjoy the time we live in! Trondheim is a great place! i am loving it here even though we have seen little success! the fact that its so big just makes me love it more everyday! the other fact that there is so many people to talk to makes me happy! after serving in small almost some of the smallest cities in norway its just a change to "city life" and taking busses and walking everywhere which i really do enjoy! this week has been a constant -12c and it has had this killer breeze all week which doesnt make working any easier but we have talked to some awesome people in the past couple of days...not meaing they are interested but i just love talking to people! i could probably do a better job with talking to more but i am trying my best!:) after a hard week we finaly got a couple potentials after being fed up we seriously challenged the lord yesterday in our last 30 minutes out on the street and talked to some really awesome people! we have had investigators that we have found from the area book and some that have never been contacted after the first meeting on the street so it was kinda akward calling 2 years later and asking if they remember but most people were very respectfull and we actually got some appointments from people from 2 years ago!! so that was a testimony builder of not leaving anyone behind! I will say that the baptizm went super well for the guy i interveiwed and he is going to be a solid member for the rest of his life! and so saturday and sunday were some of the strongest days of the spirit i have had in awhile! its was such a great experiance! i thank the lord for the blessings i have received! now looking back at being here for over 18 months i just smile and say "WOW i have had an incredible time" and not to much else to say.....:):) i love you guys so much and i want you to know that i am so happy right now because i am on a mission! I LOVE YOU GUYS!!
Eldste Farnsworth
Well what more to say than we need to enjoy the time we live in! Trondheim is a great place! i am loving it here even though we have seen little success! the fact that its so big just makes me love it more everyday! the other fact that there is so many people to talk to makes me happy! after serving in small almost some of the smallest cities in norway its just a change to "city life" and taking busses and walking everywhere which i really do enjoy! this week has been a constant -12c and it has had this killer breeze all week which doesnt make working any easier but we have talked to some awesome people in the past couple of days...not meaing they are interested but i just love talking to people! i could probably do a better job with talking to more but i am trying my best!:) after a hard week we finaly got a couple potentials after being fed up we seriously challenged the lord yesterday in our last 30 minutes out on the street and talked to some really awesome people! we have had investigators that we have found from the area book and some that have never been contacted after the first meeting on the street so it was kinda akward calling 2 years later and asking if they remember but most people were very respectfull and we actually got some appointments from people from 2 years ago!! so that was a testimony builder of not leaving anyone behind! I will say that the baptizm went super well for the guy i interveiwed and he is going to be a solid member for the rest of his life! and so saturday and sunday were some of the strongest days of the spirit i have had in awhile! its was such a great experiance! i thank the lord for the blessings i have received! now looking back at being here for over 18 months i just smile and say "WOW i have had an incredible time" and not to much else to say.....:):) i love you guys so much and i want you to know that i am so happy right now because i am on a mission! I LOVE YOU GUYS!!
Eldste Farnsworth
Monday, February 4, 2013
My First Week in Trondheim
HEY GUYS!!
this week has been epic! we have met alot of cool people yet havent got so many new investigators! we had a great expirence with having our ward mission leader out with us and he just wrecked house! he is like i said before a fireball! we have weekly appointments for him to go out with us! he is such a help and has great love for missionary work! Trondheim is an incredible area and i have loved every second of it! i love having elder gilreath and teaching him and guiding him! trying to be an example and showing how to approuch people and start talking and helping him just makes me happy! I still cant believe how fast everyday goes by! its like no time at all and my comp is seeing how fast it goes by already! he still has a year and a half! we had a great meeting yesterday in church and had one of our new converts stand up and bear his testimony and it was so powerful! i got to give my first interview this week to a guy getting baptized on saturday who is a serious stud! we talked for 30 minutes and just had a great time! he told me how he loved learning all these things and how right it felt when learning and i love asking whats the difference after being in the normal state church in norway and hearing his testimony of the restored gospel! he even loved the part of paying tithing! he said he has wanted to pay to a more organized system and he is super excited to start paying tithing! it is just a small testimony of what i have expirenced on my mission so far which is that people are being prepared! i am a personal witness to that! well all i can really say is that i am loving it here in norway and it has been so fun! i hope you all have a great week! love you!!
this week has been epic! we have met alot of cool people yet havent got so many new investigators! we had a great expirence with having our ward mission leader out with us and he just wrecked house! he is like i said before a fireball! we have weekly appointments for him to go out with us! he is such a help and has great love for missionary work! Trondheim is an incredible area and i have loved every second of it! i love having elder gilreath and teaching him and guiding him! trying to be an example and showing how to approuch people and start talking and helping him just makes me happy! I still cant believe how fast everyday goes by! its like no time at all and my comp is seeing how fast it goes by already! he still has a year and a half! we had a great meeting yesterday in church and had one of our new converts stand up and bear his testimony and it was so powerful! i got to give my first interview this week to a guy getting baptized on saturday who is a serious stud! we talked for 30 minutes and just had a great time! he told me how he loved learning all these things and how right it felt when learning and i love asking whats the difference after being in the normal state church in norway and hearing his testimony of the restored gospel! he even loved the part of paying tithing! he said he has wanted to pay to a more organized system and he is super excited to start paying tithing! it is just a small testimony of what i have expirenced on my mission so far which is that people are being prepared! i am a personal witness to that! well all i can really say is that i am loving it here in norway and it has been so fun! i hope you all have a great week! love you!!
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