Fasting works!! and trials really do bring about great things!
Glad to hear you're all doing good. Sounds like a good week. Our week started out pretty stressful. Our golden investigator, his name is *, but his family sent him some letters that were pretty negative. They were telling him they didn't think it was a good idea. He is so cool though. He said that he started having doubts after that so he read the book of mormon, and he felt better. so we were like awesome, but that night he came back again and didnt look as good. He asked to push his date back to the 9th. His dad sent another email that discouraged him a lot more. He said he had the temptation to go drink a beer, cuz he felt like that's what people do when they feel that down, but he felt like he should come talk to us instead. Basically, satan was throwing everything at him. He knows how to follow the promptings of the spirit! he is so cool. But he was really discouraged. We talked to him for a while and I gave him a blessing. Which was my first one. So that was really cool. The next day we met with him again, he said he felt a little better, but asked to drop his date completely. We were really bummed. He said he just wanted to be sure that it was right. He said he might want to wait til he was back in the states. So that was just hard. We made another appointment and left. We had been doing a fast for him as a district, cuz we knew that it would be really hard for him. We weren't sure what else we could do at this point but keep praying and hope for miracles. That was a really hard time. Then the Lord blessed us. That night at another appointment, we gained a few new investigators. THe next day we got a text from max, saying he felt like nov 9th was right,. So he was still going to be baptized! There were just so many little miracles we saw in those couple days after we fasted. Then on saturday, he had his baptismal interview and passed with flying colors. Yesterday he came to church and a fireside.. so 5 hours of church. Talked with tons of the members and was just loving it. He talked with the bishop and bishop came up to us after and said that he was completely ready to be baptized. That was so cool. To see how excited he was and how into the gospel he still is after some hard times. It sounds like his parents just kind of freaked a little but they are more understanding now. I think he will be baptized for sure. He asked elder * to do the baptism and me to do the confirmation. I am way excited to do that. All around that was just the coolest story of the week, maybe my mission so far ha all 4 weeks of it... Other than that, I went on splits to stavanger again this week so I flew down on friday morning and came back saturday afternoon. So fly count is up to 8 ha. Its a lot faster to fly us here. It is a 20 minute flight but like 4 hours to drive because you have to take ferries and stuff. But down there, we had several little miracles. They're all over the place. It has been an awesome week. Stressful but awesome. Thanks for the pictures. I honestly think pictures are some of the coolest things I can get. Hope this was a good letter. I know that fasting works! miracles happen! this is the true church! Love you guys!
ELdste Newey
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