Well we had a pretty good week this week. I'm pretty sure I talked about Renaldo last week, the man from Nicaragua who came to our language class. Well we met with him pretty much every night last week, as per his own request haha. We set a baptismal date with him for the 15th of September. He would definitely be able to make that if it weren't for his job. He works Saturday night-Sunday morning and so he isn't able to come to church. Which is kind of a problem for him getting baptized. He likes everything we've talked with him about though, and he brought a friend with him to the center on Friday. So we're just hoping and praying for a change in his work situation. He's not exactly in a position to ask for a change of hours or anything like that. So we need a miracle.
We're continuing to work with the members, especially the families with inactive youth, who were referred to us by the bishop. We haven't had too much progress with it just yet, but the families have at least reacted positively to the idea of us, someday, coming to get to know their kids. We're hoping to gain their trust so we can change that "someday" to "today"...but that's a work in progress.
This upcoming Sunday is my year and a half mark on the mission. We have transfers in about 3 weeks and after that I'm only going to hear my name read two more times during moves call. It really is insane how quickly time moves on our missions. March still seems forever and a day away, but it'll be here before I blink.
Elder Godfrey, one of the zone leaders here in Oslo, and I had a pretty cool experience yesterday after church. A man who was visiting the church for the first time asked the bishop for a priesthood blessing and Elder Godfrey and I were asked to participate. Another member actually said the blessing, while Elder Godfrey and I stood in, but it was the most powerful priesthood blessing I've been a part of. As we stood there with our hands on this man's head, you could literally feel the power of the priesthood in the room. It was pretty legit. Hope it helped him, haha.
Well that's all folks! Fun fact: "et folk" in norwegian means "a people" Go figure.
Elder Sessions
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