March 18, 2013

A frozen dock in the middle of a fjord

Hey y'all!

First and foremost, GRATULERE MED DAGEN MOREN MIN!!! (HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!) or should I say, Joyeux anniversaire maman in french!

I hope you had a great birthday watching Jakob open up his call to Paris France!  That will be way cool!  President Evans said his mission president is french and his wife doesn't speak English.  He will be very wise and will know how to touch the french people's hearts.  Jakob is about to embark on a great journey!  I'm excited for this next phase of his life and he is going to be a wonderful missionary! 

I was gone over the weekend in Stavanger for the west zone conference.  It went very well and everyone left uplifted and with the spirit.  We stayed Friday night at the Stavanger apartment along with 12 other missionaries. We had a great time together and what amazed me the most was their obedience.  Everyone was in bed by 10:30pm and everyone was up by 6:30am.  We have great missionaries serving in the west zone and they are great examples to me. 

This week we will have zone conference in Oslo and then we will be flying to Trondheim on Thursday for zone conference in the north.  It will be a really busy week because D will be getting baptized on Sunday too. She passed her interview and they announced it in church on Sunday.  I'm excited for her baptism and the decision that she has made to be baptized.  We have a lot of potentials in our area right now and our entire pool of investigators are referrals from the members.

It has taken me almost two years to figure out the best way to do missionary work is through the members ha ha.  They have been awesome and with our limited time to contact it has been a huge blessing.  We had an open house last night at the church about the plan of salvation.  We had three stations where members and non-members would discuss questions about where we came from, why we are here, and where are we going after this life.  It was a great set up and we had three members that brought a friend with them.

It was an absolute tender mercy of the Lord.  Two of them are very interested in meeting with us and learning more about the church.  One will be coming to church on Sunday and then we will meet with her afterwards.  It was a huge miracle and the Lord is blessing us so much.  Earlier in the week we got in with a part member family that the ward referred us to and the non-member has agreed to take all the missionary lessons.  It's an exciting time to be serving a mission right now not just in Norway but around the world. 

I know that the Lord works miracles according to our faith and our willingness to act!  We as members can call upon the powers of heaven for guidance and receive strength from on high.  What a wonderful blessing it us to be part of Christ's church on the Earth.  I love you all very much and I look forward to hearing from you all next week.


Eldste Godfrey