We
had a fairly decent week this week.Some of our current investigators
made some good progress! Sounds like it's been a pretty mild winter back
in Utah, and it's not much different here. Although it sounds like it's
probably a lot warmer there.. But there has been absolutely no snow
here, and it's even been kind of sunny lately! Not gonna lie, it's makes
going outside of the apartment much more enticing, even though we go
either way:)
Our typical day includes waking
up, doing some extreme workouts to get ourselves ready for the peeps
back home (you probably won't recognize me), and then Personal,
Companionship, and Language study.
We'll usually have an hour or so to
go out street contacting, and then the rest of the day we'll usually
have 1 or 2 lessons to teach, or maybe an inactive or active member
visit. The thing is, is that we don't really have a lot of "typical
days" since we travel quite a bit or have other random things to do.
This last week we traveled to Bergen again to have a Zone Leader
Training meeting. We had the same meeting on Friday in Stavanger with half the zone, and then Elder Duncan and I flew to Bergen Saturday morning to have the meeting with the other half of the zone, and then flew back Saturday
evening. There's not a lot of missions where you get to do so much
contacting and proselyting on airplanes! It's pretty nice though cause
they can't go anywhere! haha I had a couple of pretty good conversations
on the airplane recently, but unfortunately nobody wanted to meet
again..
So since Transfers were this week,
there was a new missionary moving into our apartment, and it's Elder
Allen! If you don't remember Elder Allen, he is one of the 3
missionaries I lived with while I was in Tromsø a year ago. So now it's
me, Elder Duncan, Elder Gustafson, and Elder Allen all living together
in Stavanger, and it's legit!
It was a way awesome week in Stavanger.
Normally, there will be about 2-4 investigators in church, but this week
there were 10! And the ward did SO good fellowshipping everyone. We
even had a linger longer after sacrament meeting and it was so perfect!
Our investigators who came were Jan, Rune, Årstein, and a family from
the Congo. It was the African families first time in church, and I think
they really liked it. The mom doesn't really speak English or
Norwegian, so it was hard for her to understand anything, and her and
her daughter had to leave right before sacrament, but Francois, the 19
year son, Elombay, a family friend, and Apollo, the 12 year old boy all
speak Norwegian and all stayed for all of church! We haven't met with
them a bunch so we were able to get to know them a lot better at the
linger longer. Such a humble and awesome family.
Rune
is our investigator with a baptismal date. He is Norwegian and about 35
years old, but has some kind of speech impediment and learning
disability, so we are taking it at a slow pace and teaching very simply,
but he is totally hanging on to what we teach him! He's got such a good
heart. He's kind of a big guy, so he really is just like a giant teddy
bear haha. I love the guy.
Well we've been
talking a lot about the power of the scriptures a lot in our mission. If
you read the scriptures, you'll probably notice that so many of the
prophets and apostles, and even Jesus Christ himself would use the
scriptures, or refer to them in their teaching. In 2 Nephi 32:3 we learn
that the scriptures are the words of Christ. In John 10:27
we read "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me."
What better way to find the elect then to use the scriptures and let
them hear Christ's own words. The scriptures have made such an impact on
my own life. Reading them creates a desire in me to follow Christ. I
can't read the words of Christ and his Prophets in the scriptures
without wanting to become more like them. As WE read in the scriptures,
we will have more desire, strength, and motivation to follow the Savior
and live the Gospel. If you're not sure about that, then just experiment
upon the word, and watch the seed grow. I know the scriptures are true!
There is no better way in this life for any of us then following the
teachings and councils that we learn through the words of God.
Hope
everybody has a great day. I love you and appreciate all of your
support! The church is true. Don't forget to study the scriptures today!
:)
Elder Nilsson
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