10/8/14

Hey Guys! SOrry its a few days late this week!!! We got permission to switch our pday to wednesday and we went up to oslo to see a viking ship museum and stuff. It was pretty  cool.  THings are going good here.  Conference was amazing!!! I loved it.  ITs so good to here from the leaders of the church. There were so many talks that i loved.  I loved elder ballards about staying in the boat.  Its so true! WHy would you jumkp out! Is sad when people do.  I loved what elder Eyring talked about by being an example by showing trust and care from priesthood session. HE talked about the times he went home after being out with friends and would go and talk with his mom. It was the most choked up I've seen him and i was a little too.... It was a way good talk.  I loved President uchtdorfs first one. I got a lot out of that one that I need to be going to strengthen the light in others.  Everybodies light is at different levels. And It can be strengthened! SO thats what I want to do.  It was really good I loved elder hollands.  WE are all blessed with things that we can use to bless others! And we have to give our very best!!!! The sunday afternoon session was probably my favorite.  Elder Scotts was so good. It felt like just a very simple, this is what you must do to be happy and successful! I really liked that one.  The gospel should be prioritized over everything else!!! Then elder Godoys was maybe my favorite. Mostly because I've been trying to decide what to do about school... I realized that i have to decide soon because i heard deadline for applying to schools is in december and i have to reapply to utah state if i do that.  I'm still trying to figure out what is best... But his talk just felt like it was made for me at the time! It was kind of a decision making process. Study the things you have been given like my patriarchal blessing and scriptures and of course prayer to decide what would really be the best thing to do.  ITs definitely not an easy decision.  SO im trying to broaden my vision and to figure out what would really be the best thing for me to be doing.  .. BUt Its hard to think about that! haha but I'm trying to figure it  out. Elder Bednars was awesome. There were just so many good talks.. I loved conference.  

Im glad things are going good and fast! Everythings flying here too. Moves is next week.  im moving.... Im going to alta. as dl. Ill be in the northern most mission area in the world... in winter. Which means i really won't see the sun!! Im kinda really excited. Northern lights!!!!! I have to start taking vitamin d though... thats important. 

ANyway i hope you guys are doing great!!! I love you all! Thanks for the prayers.  I hope that i can keep the things i learned in conference in my head.  There was a lot i learned and want to start applying!!! Im so excited to see how i change!! IT's really what I've thought about a lot in conference. I just felt like God was trying to show me how i am going to be changed in the near future and what i needed to do to get there. I've been really happy lately. I love the mission. BEst thing i ever could have done. Take care of justin when you see him. HE says you guys are awesome.  :) 

Love Elder NEwey :)

9/29/14

 Hey guys! Thanks for the happy birthdays! haha Thats awesome.  Its so weird! Im 20! I'm not a teenager anymore.... weird.... Its so weird to think as well that its my last birthday as a missionary. Next time I will be home! Weird!!!!! I remember last years... So weird to think that was a year ago. It blows my mind. It was fast sunday in the mtc and we were packing to go to norway! And Wednesday I'll have been in norway for a year... Crazy! Time goes by way fast.  Today we are just in fredrikstad as a District to watch the lego Movie. thats about as crazy as I'll get today.  No real big plans. My comp gave me a recorder. as in the instrument for my birthday haha. I thought that was funny.  I got dads card today. So i was worried it was just him that loved me haha just kidding.  Thanks so much though!

Unfortunately we didn't get Our spring rolls last week... THey cancelled and then they were in belgium.. SO hopefully we'll get them tomorrow. haha Spring rolls are good.  Zone leader training is just a meeting for the zone to come together and be taught by the zone leaders... so no im not a zone leader. ha We are sure trying to get the work going here. We are having lots of little miracles happen.  I had been looking way too hard for the big miracles to happen but those are not so common. WE have to focus on all the little miracles.  when you start noticing all the little miracles, you start to see how much the Lord really is working in Your life.  Like Christ Works "one by one" He also helps us With one little thing at a time.  He is watching over us and he does care! We just have to look.   JUST LOOK! haha thats been something I've thought about a lot lately. you have to see the Things that are actually going on and see how they are working towards Your ultimate goal in the end.  Small steps. Big ones dont usually happen so often.  They happen Just not very often.  But its always good to know that the small miracles are there.  :) 

I'm impressed that Jacob did brovita! Are you kids dressing up more like Girls each one? :P better watch out for reid when hes a senior...   I like Jacobs cardigan. I think I've seen that one before. Where'd he get that? Im glad dads so famous With all the senior boys.  Drop by drop is a good point. tHAt is how it Works.  We change slowly.  SOunds like the Meeting was really good. I CANNOT wait till Conference. Its going to be way good.  I hope you guys have a great week!! I love you all!!!!!! THanks so much for Your thoughts and prayers!!!!!!

Love Elder NEwey

9/22/14

Hey Folkens!!! How are you guys? 

Thats awesome you guys got to see the ogden temple dedication.  Thats way cool. Elder Bednar is awesome right? haha That is cool to know he was there right after being here.  They travel a lot.  one of the missionaries asked him how he copes with such a busy schedule.  He just said. ITs fun.  then he said he loved being out and visiting other places. HE said it was way better than being in meetings in salt lake.  I thought that was cool.   Prayer is amazing.  HE really does just want to hear us. HE wants to to know what is on our mind. HE already knows but he still wants to hear us say it. He loves us a lot!!!! I've been developing my prayers a lot.  They are so personal now! At least in my personal prayers. Their really is a difference between personal and public prayers.  Both just as important and just as real, but they are just a little different.  

I'm sorry you discovered you have to start eating meat mom... Thats sad.  But happy birthday on wednesday!!!!!! I have a card... I just haven't sent it yet... haha 

The manti temple is awesome. I love it.  I only got to go through once there. It was way cool though.  I cant wait to go through a temple again! Bednar didnt promise a temple in norway but he did promise a hastening in the work and a third stake and more branches and wards. Pretty cool! SO the work is picking up!

 

Things are starting to pick up here. Which is lame cuz ill probably leave in like three weeks... ha just kidding. But it is possible.  This last week was awesome.  Monday we taught an american named *   It was really good. He's way cool. He brought us maple syrup. tomorrow he's bringing us spring rolls that his girlfriend is making and then we are going to teach them both about the churhch!!! Im Super excited. They're super cool. I guess he's actually kind of canadian. HE lived in canada for a long time but was born in michigan. Then tuesday we ate dinner at a members house. THey're way cool. The 12 year old kept telling us we had to come to his house for dinner on a tuesday so he could make us dinner.  FInally we got one scheduled and he had a friend over so he didn't make the dinner. It was super good though. Super cool family.  They just live far away.  haha but wednesday we had zone leader training in oslo.  My companion asked the president if we could go to the amusment park for my birthday next week but he said no haha.  I didnt think it would happen. WE also had waffle night on wednesday with some inactive youths. It was really good.  They like to speak english. 2 of them are pretty good but the youngest one just direct translates things and it just ends up funny. Plus the norwegian v w flop.  so we had quotes from him like the white wan.  and thy are welcome.  every children.  haha its always funny. Thursday we did weekly planning. That night a less active we've been trying to get an appointment with forever contacted us and asked to have us over. sO we went and visited him. HE was way cool. Hasn't been in church in a while. But he was nice and we at least got to know him abit. HE still has his book of mormon and was telling stories about finding scriptures that mean a lot to him. SO that was really cool.  Friday was awesome. WE had lunch with a couple  that just moved here a few months ago from byu. Hes mexican and shes norwegian. So we spoke english. We talked about he bednar conference and about missionary work. THey were so cool and just couldn't wait to get started. WE committed them to get preach my gospels and they already have started sharing the gospel with other people.  He is going to give a book of mormon to his dentist soon. So thats way cool.  After that we had a first teach with a lady named *. WE showed up and it was her and her atheist friend *.  HE was drinking wine and they were smoking the whole time. But it was awesome. She was super positive and we are meeting with her again. I hope that * isn't there though because he didnt help much in the discussion... haha drunk high atheists are hard to deal with sometimes.  But * really wanted to hear more. And she promised to read. sO that was way good.  We were supposed to teach * that night but he sent us a text saying he was busy so we cancelled but we went out to bank and we found him out painting his house. SO we talked to him and his girlfriend for a while and thats where we got them to commit to learning about the gospel.  Im super excited about that.  THeyre just so cool.  So friday was a good day.  Saturday was good.  We helped a former member who's the mom to the sunday school president move. SO that was really good. There were quite a few members there so it went by pretty fast. I am really starting to love the members here. *** is one of my favorites ha.HEs the sunday school president. Just a super nice guy.  After moving we got pizza though. I miss american pizza.... It's just not the same!!!! but after moving we went finding and had a few good conversations with people. REally finding has started to come out of the members.  its awesome. Been waitin on this for a while now... but then sunday was awesome.  priesthood was good but then in sunday school we went in with the youths who *** was teaching. WE talked to him a while ago about breaking mormon norms like when people pray for the people to magically come next week. sO at the beginning of the class one of the young women prayed for that.  ANd after the prayer he asked her what she said. She said that part and he asked what does that mean then for us. One kid said well we have to send the priesthood out to give them blessings or something. But then *** was like "yeah thats good but you all said amen. That means you all agreed to go out and try to get these people to come next week. Who's not here?"  then they made a list and committed specific ones to go out and contact these people to come next week. THe youths just volunteered to do it. AH its hard to explain but it was soo cool. me and elder g decided it was basically a mormon messages moment. Especially if they come next week.** committed them to pray with faith before they tried to contact them.  IT was one of the coolest things I've witnessed on my mission i was so happy.  Its going to be awesome to see how it worked.  I don't know if that all made sense.  ha its a long story.  But then after church we went and visited a member family. It was awesome.  tHey gave us my first like real referral. WE had a good time getting to know each other and then we shared our thought. They have five kids under the age of 6 so at one point they were all running around screaming and dinner was just finished so there was a bit of a mess. The dad just stood up and said behold my kingdom. haha it was really funny.  But after the thought, they called one of their neighbors and invited him to meet with us and then to general conference. He accepted both. So we are meeting with him tomorrow or wednesday at the families house and then they are coming to conference.  ITs so cool! Moss is taking off! I am loving it. I wish i could realize what I'm doing when you can't see the results. IT takes  a lot to see that. I read a scripture the other day that said " the way is prepared, and if we will look, we can live forever." I underlined the part, if we will look.  That really what we have to do. Just look. and see the way thats prepared. see what you have done. See what you have been blessed with. lots of good stuff.  Thats in alma 37:46.  I dont know if i quoted it right i translated from my norwegian scripts.  but anyway. Thats a long email about my week. It was awesome. :) Im really happy out here.  I hope you guys have a great week! I love you all thanks for your prayers i feel them! It would be so much more difficult with out them so thank you!!!

Love Elder Newey