26 March 2012

Kjære familie og venner

Well this has definitely been an interesting week! We had a great zone conference and I think our presentation went very well. Elder Bekker and I were able to actually apply the things we talked about with planning and stuff, and we ended up having the best week of our missions. We were talking about it yesterday and we realized that as we planned more specifically, it enabled us to recognize the miracles that happen every day because we better notice the things that are out of the ordinary when we plan.

For example. =)

Last Sunday, Elder Bekker and I talked with a man named Mark. Mark and his wife were taught by the missionaries in Oslo about 10 years ago. The wife really wanted to be baptized, but she didn't want to do it without Mark. Unfortunately, he never felt comfortable enough to be baptized so eventually the missionaries stopped meeting with them. Now they live about 3 hours outside of Trondheim, and last week he was in the city for a business meeting when we met him. Because of the distance, we didn't think we would ever be able to see him again and he wasn't going to be back in Trondheim until the weekend we will be in Oslo in April.

Wrong actually. We planned out exactly where we wanted to walk for contacting on Saturday night. By Sunday evening, we had been just about all over the city. We chose to walk down a back street because we were out of Books of Mormon and we didn't want to meet too many people without having one haha. Lo and behold, we met Mark coming off a bus from his place 3 hours away on this backstreet. He was in town for another business meeting. Out of all the streets in Trondheim we walked down the exact one Mark was going to walk down after traveling three hours on a bus on the way to his hotel. He's only here for a day and I still don't know how we are going to meet with him, but if God is going to go out of his way to have us meet this man, obviously he wants us to do something with him.

That was only one of the many mini miracles we had this week. I guess some people could call that a coincidence, but I'm gonna take all the miracles I can get here =)

It was a good week, now we just need to maintain it. Fernanda passed her baptismal interview yesterday so we're excited for that one. She'll be baptized this weekend right before General Conference...also another thing I'm excited for. President Johansen said our eyes should be glued to the tube and our pens to the paper throughout that entire conference, so I just thought I'd pass that advice along to everyone else. If we believe we really have a prophet and apostles on the earth today, we'd be plain stupid to not write down the things they say that apply to us.

Have a good week everyone!
Elder Sessions