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