Hey guys!!
I am wearing a green tie today so i'm safe, i punched my companion this morning cuz he wasn't.. HEs bigger than me.. and hit back haha. I don't think the norwegians really celebrate it too much. I haven't heard anything about it. THe weather here has been alright. It is sunny off and on, but its been super windy. it hasn't rained in a while so there is lots of dust being blown all over the place. I hope jacobs talent show goes good and that tanner gets the job at zions. I bet reids bracket will do pretty good in the march madness. My comp is sad he'll miss march madness by a month and a half. HE just started his last transfer. We had moves call yesterday. I am staying, which basically means i will probably be here until june. I think. SO i have a lot more time to get to know members and get this area going. THe area is struggling... We are trying to get going pretty hard. WE decided we really can't get people to teach without the members help. SO we have started working really hard on getting short visits with members to help them to spread the gospel to their friends. MEmber work is super important!! We found a talk by elder ballard this week from 2000 called now is the time. We thought it was very appropriate for the ward here and shared that with menighets råd. We really want to get the members all on board with their goals. There are a couple members who don't quite have their minds set on that. I hope we can help them to develop the faith for that. Elder B gave a talk yesterday in church and he talked a lot about how we need to serve others, and that includes spiritually. THe gospel is so important!!! A lot of people don't realize all that they have to do to live with god again. We actually have to do something about it.
THats cool you guys had the sisters over. ITs true though that we need to talk about our families sometime. I carry a picture around and show it to people when they ask. Its always nice to talk about you guys :) THank you for your prayers. Prayers really do help a lot. All we have to do is go forward in faith and really do all that we can to be our best and to do our best to help others to come to know what the gospel of jesus christ is and why they need it. THat is what we are here to do. IT would be extremely hard to leave something that has given you peace your whole life to have nothing. YOu wouldn't be able to believe in much after, because it wouldn't make sense. I feel like it would be extremely hard to leave the gospel especially as a whole family. I've heard a talk that said people who leave the gospel will be lost. ITs like peter said, if we were to leave thee where would i go? THere is no other place that could bring so much peace and comfort. Prayers and faith bring about miracles in the lords own time. I've been trying a lot to figure out how to make better goals, so that helps a lot. THanks, it made sense. IT's hard to reach goals when you have done all that you can, but people use their agency. Its so true!!
I got your package the other day! THanks so much! THat is awesome. JAcob picked well. haha i like how it flashes different colors. Elder b laughed but i think he's just jealous. Heres a link to that talk by elder ballard i was talking about: now is the time-elder ballard ITs really good. IT's crazy what parts of the world you meet people from out here. Eritrea is in africa. Sounds like there is a lot of problems coming from there, so that's why *** came to norway. HE has a pretty cool story. ANyway real quick something i thought about a lot in studies this week was how can we build our strength. IT seems to me that a lot of what it comes down to is that we have faith and are humble. All of us have weaknesses. All of us can overcome these weaknesses. We can't do it alone though. IT requires faith and prayer and humility. Then The Lord will "take away our stumbling blocks" THat is such a cool promise. Our weaknesses can be taken away!!! THat is a promise i have seen fulfilled in several ways. I definitely have faith in that. The lord really is watching out for us and he wants us to change and grow. SO that is what we do! I love you guys!!! HAve a great week!!!!
Love Elder Newey
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