Hey everyone another great week has gone by, we've been pretty busy!
Shout out to my parents who both had birthdays this past week they're the best!! We had Zone conference and splits this week with the Elders who live up north in Tromsø so that was fun. We picked them up from the airport and they stayed with us for Zone Conference then we took them on splits the day after. Zone conference was really good and we had the meetings in our church building in Drammen this time. I had such a strong feeling to invite 2 of our more recent converts to come with us and to invite our friend Bjørn! They were so excited for the invite and all said they loved it. I'm so glad they were all able to attend the meeting with us, it was very uplifting and spiritual as always. We talked a lot about the importance of using members and how it helps the missionaries so much when members are involved. I asked Vilde, the girl who we just baptized, to tell her conversion story and give a presentation on how finding her in a more normal natural way was a lot better than if we would of knocked on her door. She said she would of never let us in so getting to know her through softball, while playing on a team with other members, built trust. She talked about how we need to be friends with people and the gospel will come up because of who we are and who we represent. She did such a great job, it was awesome and motivating to all the missionaries to go out and find more people to teach! She's a great member missionary, so on fire with learning more about the gospel and sharing it with others. Bjørn loved it as well and was eating up every word. Before Zone Conference, I had the feeling to ask President Tew if he had a copy of the book "A marvelous Work and a Wonder" in Norwegian for Bjorn to borrow. He told me he had one sitting on his bookshelf and he'd grab it before he came to Drammen for our meetings. After our meetings he gave it to Bjørn to read and the man was so happy. He said he went home and read all through the night and that it helped answer so many more of his questions, it was so cool! He has PTSD from stuff that happened when he was younger so its actually really hard for him to read but he says when he reads the Book of Mormon and the other books we give him it's like he can't stop. He read the entire book in one night and said, "alright boys I need to buy this book go find it for me and it doesn't matter the price!" He's just eating up the gospel and definitely "feasting on the words" love this man, it's so cool to see him grow spiritually. We had 2 lessons with him this week and we invited 2 different members to join us because they both have cool conversion stories and strong testimonies so it was awesome for him to hear.
We were invited to a little bonfire up in mountains with this other girl we're teaching and she invited some of her friends. We brought Vilde with us and it was such a great experience to be outside talking with this group of friends about our beliefs. One of her guy friends mom just recently passed away and was asking us tons of questions and is open to religion! So that was sweet! They said they wanted to come to church this Sunday, which'll be good.
I was reading in Mormon this week when it talks about all the wicked people that were around him and he's just being faithful and leading the armies even though they are all unrighteous. It's a great example to all of us to stay strong even when we feel like everything and everyone around us is going crazy. I love the principles that are taught in the Book of Mormon and I know when we read it every day we receive protection, guidance and revelation in our lives. Have a good week!
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