Good
morning my dears!
We got up this morning early and went hiking for our work out. I
could hike all day every day. I feel so blessed to be in Bergen in the summer
and for the weather we have had. It's so fun to be in these Norwegian
mountains. We hiked last week too so I just flooded your inboxes with six
million pictures... sorry. They're too big to send more than one at a
time.
Sister Robbins and I have been fasting and praying so much
lately to help our investigators because we feel like Satan is working really
hard to distract them. Most of them, in fact, have had crazy things happen the
last couple weeks. We have also been fasting for a baptism this transfer
because we have a couple people that are right on the edge and they just need
to get pushed over into that water! So we visited Anders this week and we had
planned to set another date with him. We decided to read from Mosiah 18 and let
the Book of Mormon do the talking. After we read though, the Spirit wasn't as
strong as I wished and I just felt like it wasn't right to try and set a date
with him. We were really frustrated. We sat there for a minute as I silently
prayed to know what to do. And then the words just came out of mouth and even
though I've asked him this question so many times, I said, "How are you
feeling about baptism?" And he said, "I thought about it today,
actually, and it needs to happen before you guys leave, so maybe next
weekend?" UM WHAT??? I probably looked so dumb because I just kept
grinning. He and his wife pulled out their phones and started looking at dates.
He ended up having to work this next weekend but we're going to see if we can
work around his schedule and if he doesn't get baptized on Saturday it will be July 12 when they get back from vacation. 
Then it got even better! His wife starting saying,"Well, we
need to plan well so that this time next year we have the ability to go to the temple and get sealed." Oh baby. She said it's her dream to get sealed in
the Salt Lake temple so mom and dad I told them they can stay in our basement.
:) Haha I am going to die if I can see that family sealed. I love them so much.
So there's our miracle!
We've been praying for Else Marie all week too and finally Saturday afternoon she called us back. I wanted to
yell,"Where have you been woman??" She's been sick. And going to
another church. Just what we like to hear. But she wanted to meet us in the
city so we sat on a bench with her and talked about her confusing feelings. She
said she isn't sure what God is trying to tell her to do. We reminded her of
the impressions she has received that the church is true and we committed her
to read a chapter in the Book of Mormon about recognizing what comes from God
and to pray again and ask Him what the truth is. Good heavens I'm so tired of
Satan. But, I'm so grateful our prayers were answered and we were able to get
in contact with her again.
Among other things, a bird pooped on my head while we were
talking to people in the city. We were having a good conversation with this
lady and all of the sudden I heard this plop really close to my ear. I tried
really hard to just concentrate on her face and what she was saying and then as
soon as we walked away I made Sister Robbins do an inspection. Poor girl had to
wash bird poop out of my hair. I was even wearing a shirt with birds on it.
Guess he liked it.
Our investigators from China and Thailand decided that they
didn't want to meet with us anymore. We were so heartbroken. One of them says
they need time and the other one says they don't agree with God's ideas. I
don't really know what you say to that except "I know God lives and He loves you. Call us when you're ready." I want these people to understand so badly. But I do know that God has a plan for them. And that truth is truth. You can't choose what is true, you can only choose to search for truth and find it. Pray for them. They'll get baptized someday.
I read President Packer's talk from conference yesterday.
There's something about they way he testifies about the Savior. He is a
powerful witness and I looked at down at my tag after I read the talk and
started crying. I don't know why I am so blessed to be able to wear the
Savior's name over my heart and bear testimony of Him and the healing power of
His Atonement. It's such a blessing to tell people, "You know what? It's
okay. It's all going to be a okay because you have a Savior." I know that
Jesus Christ lives and I love Him with my whole heart. I had also just finished
the Book of Mormon and I closed it and just sat there for a second thinking
about the power of that book. You guys, it's true. If you don't know, or if you
forgot, or if you don't think it is, read it. I promise it's true.
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| Note: http://www.floibanen.com/webcam/watch shows a live video stream of this overlook |
Love,
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