I'm gonna try something new this week and outline each of my days individually. That way I think I'll cover more ground
Thursday (14 April):
We taught our progressing investigator named Kristopher today. The lesson went really well. He wanted to read the whole Book of Mormon before he prayed to find out if it was true. It sounded like he was going to look for something he felt was wrong with it and use it as an excuse to stop reading. He believes in the Bible so we asked him if he had read the whole thing. He said no, but he knows it's true. I asked him how he knows and he said that it's because he prayed about it. I told him it is the same with the Book of Mormon. You don't have to read the whole thing to know it's true. I'll be honest, I had no idea what to say when he said he wouldn't pray until he read the whole thing. But I found myself asking a question which I don't remember personally thinking of. That was definitely a prompting telling me what was the best thing to say at that point.
Friday (15 April):
It was pretty much a normal Friday for us. A lot of studying and stuff, but at night we had a great talk with one of our teachers, Brother Jaffa. We talked about a lot of things with Norway, and the Norwegian people. It was really great to see how excited he got when talking about the people, and it's obvious he misses being there teaching them. I hope we can come to love the people like that.
Saturday (16 April):
The sister missionaries in our district were teaching their investigator named Anders. My companion and I were observing and I was actually concentrating on reading a book at that point. For the first part of their lesson, it was pretty easy for me to concentrate on what I was doing. But then, they started talking about Joseph Smith and relating the First Vision. The Spirit was SO strong in the room. I suddenly found myself unable to read anymore, I was so spiritually interested in what was happening. I felt like I was trying to read a book while on the sideline of the Super Bowl. They asked Anders if he believed that Joseph Smith saw God the Father and Jesus Christ. He was silent for literally 2 minutes, and the whole time the Spirit was as thick as a bowl of butter in the room. He finally says, yes I believe. He had no other reason to beleive that other then the testimony of the missionaries and the Spirit.
Sunday (17 April):
My companion and I gave a lesson in our district meeting today. We talked about the importance of service as missionaries. We decided as a district by the end of the lesson that service should be the method of how we find people to teach, rather then contacting people on the street. We thought about how when Christ was here, you don't read in the Bible about him walking up to random people and start teaching them. While it works for many missionaries, and I'm sure we will do a lot of that in Norway, I think our focus should mainly be serving the people, just like the Saviour did.
Monday (18 April):
There has been a cold going around the zone. I finally managed to catch it on Monday. I've been feeling a little bit more tired then usual, but other then that I'm doing pretty good. I'm hoping it will be cleared up by the time we leave.
Tuesday (19 April):
Ok so here's the big day. Yesterday, Elder Richard G Scott came to speak at the MTC. He's been called as an apostle of Jesus Christ, just like Peter, James, and John in the Bible, for those who haven't heard of him. So it's a pretty big deal to have him speak to us. My companion and I were lucky enough to get some pretty darn good seats for his talk and you could feel the power of his words as he spoke. He talked about a lot of different things, but the biggest thing was his testimony at the end. He said:
"I don't believe that Jesus Christ is the Saviour of the world and that he lives. I KNOW that he is. I don't believe that Joseph Smith was called as a prophet of God. I KNOW that he was"
When he said those words, I KNEW without a shadow of a doubt that he was called as an apostle by God. I KNOW that he KNOWS, and because of that it strengthened my testimony of the truthfulness and importance of our message for everyone in the world. Every single person who has ever lived on this Earth deserves and needs the message of the Gospel.
I definitely liked this a lot better. I feel like I was able to talk about a lot more. I'll be keeping this format for the rest of my emails, I think. We're down to 12 days before we leave to Norway! Next week, I'll make sure I talk about the address that my mail will have to be sent to from now on. Every couple of months, there will be a chance that I'll move apartments so I'll have to update my mailing address as that happens
Miss you all! Talk to you next week
Elder Sessions
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