This last week was way good. MOstly because of bednar. IT was awesome. Ill talk about that later though. But this week was good otherwise. We had quite a bit of good stuff going. WE got
one of the young men to drive us around on thursday and try people back. It went really well... We had one lady who we've knoked into a few times but she was always busy and she said she would come to church next week. That was good. Plus her boyfriend gave the youth a playstation that he didn't think worked. E tried it and it worked. HA he was happy. Hes claiming blessings for going out with the missionaries. None of the other people really wanted to talk then.. But it was good anyway. Then on friday E came with us to teach A. WE finally got in to teah her! IT was awesome to. When she was at church she got an invitation to the wards temple trip in oktober. She was telling us she really wanted to go. We had to explain that she couldnt go inside unless she was baptized. SHe was like oh ok. What does one have to do to be baptized? We told her she has to believe and take all the lessons. SHe was interested. BUt she just said oh i need to finish the book before i make a choice. But that was huge for us! Then we invited her to the bednar conference and she decided to come. J wasnt able to make it. but A went. also on saturday we decided to show the joseph smith video at the church and we invited tons of people. A came and B and K. B's american and he is dating K who is norwegian and we are teaching him norwegian. We got them to the movie night and they all loved it. IT was awesome. They sent a text the next day saying how cool it was. . But then sunday came and it was awesome. We traveled up to the senter where they had the conference and waited for a while. Then bednar came in. IT was awesome. Right when he walked in everyone stood up really fast and it just went silent. It was amazing. I wish J could have been there . He talked directly to all the non members at the beginning. He basically did a restoration lesson and almost basically said you have to be stupid not to believe in this church. (He did use stupid a few times) hes awesome. He then talked about how easy it is to do missionary work. His quote. " just live the gospel and be weird." He talked about how it is different to be a member of this church and that when people see how different we are they will ask questions because we are weird. compared to the world. It was really cool. The spirit was super strong. I like the slogan for missionary wok to be as bednar said it " just live it" Just live it and people will ask questions and all you have to do is answer them. And he promised that people would ask questions. We just have to answer them right. THen he told them to learn from africa... to humble themselves. It was cool. Then we had to run out of the conference senter and grab a sandwich at the door and then get out to the church building for the missionary meeting. I was kinda bummed. I didnt get to say hi to a lot of the members from bergen or porsgrunn. I saw a couple of them but not too many. But then the missionary meeting was epic. When he came into the chapel it was even more powerful and quiet when we all stood up. It was really cool because he just acted like a real person. Of course he is one but it was just cool to see. He held a discussion with us. He didnt want to just talk to us but he kept telling us to stop being nervous at the beginning. He introduced himself as brother ballard too. It was funny. But he asked a few questoins and let us ask him questions. A lot of what i got out of it was that we need to be agents and not objects. We need to stop praying for things to happen to other people and to start praying to be the one to help people. Instead of saying in your prayer " please bless those that weren't here to be here next week" say please bless us now to go out and find those that werent here and to bring them next week. Thats the secret. We cant expect God to just do things we cant just ask for things to happen. We have to actually ask for help so that we can make these things happen. Im struggling a little to explain my thinking haha. But basically we just need to take more responsibility and to actually be willing to do stuff. To be ready to actully act. To ask for things to do instead of for him to do things for us. It was a really powerfull meeting. So be an agent that acts not an object that is acted upon! Oh and he talked about christs love. How really, God loves us so much, he will make things happen in a way just ot help one person. Elder Bednar said hes been sent to areas to bless just one persons life. He called it the one by one principle. That God really loves every single person individualy and that he helps people individually. ITs really amazing. But yeah. It was a pretty good weekend. I loved it. Thanks for you guys prayers and support. Tell rylee to stop poking me every night. and i love you guys!
Love elder NEwey
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