(From Jordan’s mom: sorry for the late post! This post is from last week - written October 12, 2015! Sister Peterson had a hard time loading her
pictures so included are just a few of beautiful Trondheim and others from her
companions. More to come this week along
with her new email, but for now – enjoy last weeks email.)
In the words of my
companion.....
“This week was actually
not very interesting...
We only had four miracle
lessons in one hour, a random lady came to the church to "get strength
from God" and for the first time ever on our missions someone let us into
her house when we knocked on it! AND we saw the Northern lights!!”
Just kidding........ THIS
WEEK WAS AWESOME!!!!!
WE SAW THE NORTHERN
LIGHTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THEY WERE INSANE!!!! A member Pelle texted us which was
way nice and we ran outside! THEY WERE BLUE AND GREEN!! They were so pretty!!!
The next couple pictures are from Elder Gingrich up in Tromsø!!! AMAZING!
We visited Lars and
Evilena this week and we decided to watch the Joseph Smith movie with them. The
hour long one is the best one!! OH MY GOSH the spirit was so strong!! It was so
cool! Afterwards we all bore testimony about Joseph Smith and I know for me, every
time I watch that movie my testimony is strengthened so much! I know that
Joseph Smith was a prophet called of God. I am so amazed that through all the
challenges and trials that he was faced with that he still continued to follow
what the Lord commanded him to do with faith. Joseph wouldn't have gone through
everything he did if everything was made up and fake! This gospel and the Book
of Mormon are true!
We visited a less active
Elin and her sambor, Kenneth this week!! They are too cute!! They fed us the
yummiest lasagna ever!!
Visited Majken this week.
I love her baby!! It really kills me that I can't hold her.... and she gave us
cookies!
We visited Bestamor and
Bestafar again this week! Bestamor told Sister Sorensen she needed to cut her
hair hahaha and Bestafar (Mangus) it was the cutest thing ever!!! We went into
his room and he wasn't there... a little alarming because he is way sick and
like confined to his bed, we assumd the best and thought maybe he was getting a
bath and we would come back next week. On our way out we turn the corner and
there he is!! In his wheelchair with an orange hanging out of his mouth! It was
the cutest thing ever!!! He looked way good!
This week was full of
water balloons! So to start Sister Allen thought she would be sly and throw a
water balloon at me to get back at me for scaring her throughout the week, but
she missed me and hit Sister Sorensen instead hahahah. THEN we were out trying
to find a less active and out of nowhere someone throws a water balloon at
us!!! What the heck!?
The amount of boller and
ice cream that was fed to us this week from the elderly was insane....
seriously I never want to eat those things again!! The worst thing is you can't
say no!!
We did another street
stand this week! Dang people were not so nice... but! We did give out a Mormons
Bok, to a little boy! haha him and his siblings came up to the table and asked
if it was free and then took it and skipped off! It was really cute
At soccer on Saturday I
scored a goal! That was a big accomplishment! I am still terrified of the
Norwegians, but it is still way fun!
On Sunday I had to translate
for this cute Chinese lady in church. She doesn't speak Norwegian, so I was
translating from Norwegian to English to her! It was way fun and I am way
surprised at how much I understood. (About 90%)
Mido came to church and
he was dressed nice!!!
We were at MMK our Ward
missionary leader thing, Myhren our church phantom walks into the room, and
says that there is a random lady needing to talk to the missionaries. So me and
my companions jump at the opportunity to go and talk to this women. Her name is
Karolina. We greet her and she only speaks broken English and no Norsk. We
start talking to her and she informs us that she is going to have an operation
that next day and that she didn't know where else to go for strength but to God.
We showed her around the church and she wanted to go into the chapel.
We continued talking to
her and telling her about how God will help her and that everything will go
according to His plan. We then ask if we can give her a Book of Mormon.
She agreed and we left
her in the Chapel and RAN down the hallway frantically searching for a
Bulgarian BOM while our MMK meeting was still going on. We look and look with
no luck.
So we go and sprint to
our apartment-- that's luckily across street.
Grab the BOM come back give it to her, Bare a solid testimony of the
power that it has. We then exchange numbers and she leaves. IT WAS THE COOLEST
THING EVER!!
Then Sunday comes and we
were short 4 lessons. Not cool because we've been struggling to reach all our
goals and frankly we just wanted to hit this one. So we're about to leave
church on Sunday and we stop to say a prayer and we invited some members to pray
with us, Saying we're going to get these lessons with YOUR FAITH! So we go with
a prayer in our hearts knowing that the Lord would help us bring people unto
Christ. And within an hour we got the 4 other lessons we needed to make our
goal! It was so awesome! The Lord really does amplify those He calls. Then one
of our appointments cancelled due to a hangover....don't even get me started.
Our backup plan was to go find a former investigator. We look up the address
and head out. We make our way on the bus and 20 minutes later we're there.
Søster Allen knocks on the door. No answer, so she rings the bell and no
answer. Then I go to put a card in her door saying we'd been there when SHE
ANSWERED! Her name is Inger and when Søster Allen introduced us Inger almost
died. She was so happy to see us! She told us to come in and started talking
with us! We didn't have a lot of time because we had to catch the bus, but we
made a return appointment to come back!
Later I told Søster
Sorensen how weird it was that someone was actually happy to see the Mormons
haha and she said yeah I have to agree with that. That was the first time I
have ever been let in except two other times that were by crazy people who
didn't know exactly who we were.
It was so awesome to see
the Lords hand in our work this week. I truly feel like he was there every step
of the way even when we felt like we had no clue what we were doing!
I know that the Lord
calls each of us for a reason and that as we focus on what He wants, nothing
will go wrong. Just trust and rely on him and trust in the way that HE will
lead you!
Jordan's Tidbits:
- never become too
attached to a nametag... my favorite one that I have used every day for 13
months got lost somewhere in the streets of Trondheim.....
- When you get a
prompting...follow it!!! We were on the bus and Sister Allen asked me if I had
a card she could give to a man on the bus. I was so proud of her!! She followed
him off the bus and walked him down and then gave it to him! As we were walking
away Sister Allen goes I felt way good about that and then Sister Sorensen goes
really? Cause I thought he was a perv... hahahahaha HOWEVER!!! Follow your
promptings and Heavenly Father will bless you
- Next week Sister
Sorensen and I start the Doctrine and Covenants challenge! So when missionaries
get to the last 138 days of their mission they start from chapter 138 in the
Doctrine and Covenants and read one chapter everyday backwards till chapter 1 and
then that is the last day of their mission! We start this week!! SO CRAZY!!!
- I scared Sister Sorensen
this week and she screamed so loud!! I thought she was going to have a heart
attack! It's Oktober, so Tis the season to be scary!
- I LOVE FALL!!! It is
the best time of the year!
Scripture of the week:
Alma 5 verse 26 and 27
*And now behold, I say
unto you, my brethren, if ye have experienced a change of heart, and if ye have
felt to sing the song of redeeming love, I would ask, can ye feel so now? Have
ye walked, keeping yourselves blameless before God? Could ye say, if ye were
called to die at this time, within yourselves, that ye are sufficiently humble?
That your garments have been cleansed and made white through the blood of
Christ, who will come to redeem his people from their sins?
I chose this scripture
because it really made me ponder and think.... If I have changed especially
since being on my mission, can I still feel the change? Am I still continuing
to change and become better? Am I using Christ to change or am I doing it on my
own? Am I living my life everyday so that I can be clean and live with God? At
the end of each day, would I feel embarrassed to face God? Am I constantly
remembering the Lord and humbling myself?
These thoughts and
questions really helped ponder who I am, who I have become, and who I want to
be!
Åndelig Tanker:
- The gospel is simple,
don't make it more complicated than it needs to be
- If you see someone you
don't recognize at church, SAY HI!!!!! We need the members help! It is so
important that they fellowship new people even if they aren't investigators!
- Food storage needs to
be an important thing! You never know when it is going to come in handy! It is
better to be over prepared than underprepared
- So one of my favorite
talks from conference was about Ponderize! This is from the talk and the link
is for the whole talk! "My second invitation is quite different from and much
more important than the first. It is this: I invite you to “ponderize” one
verse of scripture each week. The word ponderize is not found in the
dictionary, but it has found a place in my heart. So what does it mean to ponderize?
I like to say it’s a combination of 80 percent extended pondering and 20
percent memorization."
There are two simple
steps:
First, choose a verse.
Second, read or think of the verse several times each day and ponder the
meaning of its words and key phrases throughout the week. Write down a verse of
scripture each week and place it somewhere you will see it every day.
So I would love to invite
you all to try and do this!!!
glad i dere!!! ha en fin
uke!!!
xoxoxo
Søster Jordan Peterson
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