Det går sjkempe bra med meg! You guys had a crazy week.. THats cool you got to see so much family though. That would be fun. Sounds like some exciting stuff with your babysitting... haha youre almost done right? Thats good You got your ice cream after the funeral :) I haven't had too much ice cream here... I had some store bought pistachio the other day.. And it just wasn't the same... haha That stinks you didn't get to talk to tanner much. I think its funny dad says he's been dating the same girl several times... That's weird to think about!!! Sounds like a good experience you had at the funeral. Its pretty cool. Thats something I studied this week. From mosiah 2. God has really given us everything. He wants us to succeed. King benjamin was such a humble man. I like how he says we are less than the dust. IT's true! THe dust obeys him! It obeys the laws that god has set for dust to do, And we as people don't. We rebel against what we know is right and we rebel against gods commandments. ANd yet, he still blesses us so much. HE gives us so much. Eternal life with our families is one of those. And that's amazing. I am so grateful for everything that he has given us!!! We are so blessed!!! This week was kind of interesting. It was kinda slow. We had around five teaches the whole week which is pretty rough, But they were all amazing teaches. We have 5 investigators that are progressing a ton and they're so cool. Two are atheist and have a ways, but the other three are so close!!! I love seeing their progress. We spent a lot of time contacting on the streets this week. Contacting is hard. We go out and talk to people, most of which do not believe in god at all. We get a ton of "nei Takk"'s or we are ignored, or we meet a hard core atheist who wants to argue everything with us and tell us how wrong we are. We had a polish guy tell us to have fun living in darkness after a few choice words. I laughed.... Not when he was around. But it's interesting! ITs so crazy! When people actually stop and talk to you its awesome. There are people who actually want to know more. They actually wonder who they are and who god is. Its just tricky to find those people. It is really important to stay positive through it all though. No matter how hard that is.. I had that thought a lot on saturday. It was pouring rain, we had been kebobed, and we were just out contacting, and nobody was stopping. It was rough. And then when we were talking to someone, a car drove by and splashed a ton of water on us. IT was cold. But I still felt happy. I don't know how I stayed so happy that night, But I felt like there was something out there for us. We didn't get any numbers that night. But we ran into one of our less progressive investigators that we had an appointment with later the next day. That was the beginning of several small miracles. It may not seem like much of a miracle, because he told us he couldn't actually meet with us that day. But we needed that time for another investigator. The next day was sunday. And it was going good at first. Church was awesome. Our mission president and the stake president was here from drammen, and they both talked about the importance of members in missionary work, which is awesome because the ward needs help with that. All three meetings were about missionary work. The members are starting to help a ton and its awesome. There are a lot of members that are starting to be really excited about helping us. But the problem with church, was that *** wasn't in church, and we didn't know why. He only responded with a few short texts that didn't help much. But that put is in kind of a bummer mood. It was kinda rough. We were pretty down. AFter that we helped the ysa with their ces devotional and then we started making cookies to take to an investigator that was sick. We tried visiting ** but he didn't answer his door. That was hard. We made the dough for the cookies and tried a test one cuz we thought it seemed a little runny. It was terrible. So we realized we had left out a cup of flour. So we fixed it and made the cookies and then took he train and bus out to our investigators. So we were way later than we had planned. On the way out, we were both still pretty bummed. But then I started thinking of a scripture I read earlier, from alma 56 that is helaman saying "what say ye my sons will ye go against them to battle?" And I thought about how this really is a battle between God and satan. When I accepted my call, I told Heavenly father yes I will go against them, meaning satan and his followers to battle. And that's what it is. Satan will make his moves and cause some hurt, but we literally have God on our side and we can deal back. I We are on the front lines of a war. We can't see the war, but it is there. We just have to realize that we have God. And he wants to help us. Prayer, faith hope love and the scriptures are our weapons along with the spirit. Without the spirit we couldn't use anything else. SO I decided we would deal back with the investigator we were visiting. So we went and talked with our investigator. What we had planned as a quick drop off of cookies turned into a 45 minute talk where she opened up to us, told us that she really wants to know, but her husband isn't supportive at all. We have been wanting to meet her husband for a while cuz He is holding her back a lot. But he is never home when we teach her. She said it's on purpose. But while we talked. We committed her to several things. She said she would come to church, She would read and pray and she was going to find out. So we were happy. Then when we started walking out. Right when I grabbed the doorknob, I felt someone grabbing the other side and turning it, I opened the door and it was her husband!! That was a miracle. If we hadn't messed up the cookies we would've missed him. If we had the appointment with the guy we ran into contacting we wouldn't have been able to go visit her. It was just perfect. There was so many little miracles and it was just awesome. A good experience. I just know we are on Gods side! I am so happy that I said yes! I will go against them to battle. One of the best decisions I have ever made. Its not easy, But it is amazing. It is so worth it. And it gives so much Joy!!! Sorry that was a really long story. But it was awesome. That stinks they didn't get their rings... There was two of em in there. Dang it. Ill have to figure something out. Congrats to ry for getting her braces off! Thats always a good time. Thank you so much for your love, letters and prayers, they really do work, and your support! I love you guys!
Love Eldste Newey
You can put whatever you want on the newsletter. I dont know what it's supposed to have. I've sent a couple cool experiences. Cant believe thanksgiving is almost a week away! I am excited for that! there are american families throwing a party for all the missionaries and some of the ward. That will be fun I am excited.
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