What a week!
Man conference was legendary holy cow! We didn't get to watch the last session live because of the time change but when I woke up the next morning and my phone had blown up with so many messages, I really thought people were messing with me so we pulled up the talk and we LOST it! Agh this is literally going to change the game for missionary work and members here. We can just imagine the missionaries in like 3 years taking all the investigators through the temple open house and so many Norwegians are going to love a big beautiful building like that so they will all wonder what it is. And then getting all the members here going through the temple as well! It's a big problem here that people have not received their endowments and you can just tell they are missing something. So it will be a big turn around for this beautiful country! Elder Bednar came to Norway awhile back and gave the saints a promise that if they start helping with missionary work and following the commandments that there WOULD be a temple built here and that they will have to stop holding talks in sacrament because they will be confirming so many people and giving them the gift of the holy ghost. And its amazing to be a part of that prophecy as it's being fulfilled! Definitely a conference to remember for me. The talks were amazing as well! I loved so many of them I don't even know where to start. But one of them was by sister Jones when she talked about the importance of helping kids gain their testimony! Conversion is not a coincidence, it is nurtured and cared for in the home! I wish more people would get that here because they let their kids decide what they do with there lives at 11 years old. Then another one was by Renlund about how things are not fair and we can't get offended. Being offended is a choice and not something that other people can force upon us. And then President Nelson's talk on faith! That man is such a stud he is definitely a man of God.
We had a solid week teaching wise as well! We had been in the office for hours doing some office work and then we just pulled out the old paper area book and started calling people. We found 2 people to teach that had previously met with missionaries because of it and then we got my first SOLID referral on my mission! It was a self referral who requested a Book of Mormon. His name was Alex Locke and I told my companion "I bet he's a British bloke that was raised here!" Low and behold we show up and the dude tells us his parents are from the UK but he was raised here. Then we started asking about how he knew about the church and why he wanted a Book of Mormon? And he proceeds to tell us that he was playing Star Wars Galaxy on the X Box with some returned missionaries from Utah and he asked them about what they believe and they told him to go to cometochrist.org and request a Book of Mormon and the missionaries will be on your doorstep within 24 hours. So after he got done playing at like 2 am he got online and ordered one. Then when we woke up we got ahold of him and had a solid lesson at 11 that morning! Super solid guy was stoked to read the book and watched all the general conference sessions.... Live! So it'll be exciting to see where this bloke goes. We planned our zone conferences and bought our flight tickets to Northern Norway and Bergen for zone conferences this transfer! So that will be good. Crazy to think this is my 2nd to last set of zone conferences which is weird to think about. But I'm excited to grind and keep the ball rolling as summer comes and the weather is getting better and the days are getting longer! Being a missionary is awesome and I'm excited to finish strong!
Eldste McSpadden
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