Remember You Are Talking to Your Loving Father in Heaven.

Wow! I don't think I have ever been this busy my whole mission! 

Trondheim is hopping! 

We had so many members come on teaches with us last week! 

It was the most I have had my whole mission. 

I am so grateful for good members. 

If there is one I have learned on my mission it is that 

the members in Norway are solid faithful members. 

They have to be. I love them. 

You know the group of Africans we stopped last Sunday?

 well one of them is a new investigator. 

We met with him this past week and he is super cool. 

He got into Anti stuff before meeting, but we cleared a lot of things up with him. 

I am sick and tired of this Anti business. 

People go to the right source for knowledge! 

We also met up with two french guys and they are very interested in what we believe and our culture. It is nice to hear people say they like seeing good Christian girls. 

It is not so common in this world today. 

Lots of good things happened. 

I definitely learned a lot this week. 

Something that helped me this week was 

the knowledge of believing in a LOVING Heavenly Father. 

We had an investigator ask us this week why we believed in what we did 

and not in other religions.  

and How do you know it true? 

There are so many different reasons why I believe what I do 

and there is the simple answer to how you can know it is true.. 

Moroni 10:3-5, 

but I am grateful that I know that God is loving. 

I could see people not wanting to join a religion because 

the pressure of rules and maybe thinking God is scary. 

I guess what I am trying to get at is that God is not scary. 

He is our Father. 

He love us and knows us better than we know ourselves. 

He wants the best for us. 

We should not think he is scary. 

There is hope in his promises. 

He gives us commandments because he loves us. 

He wants us to be happy. 

You can't know the blessings that come from keeping the commandments 

if you don't try keeping them. 

There is so much wisdom, hope, and peace 

that comes from knowing that God is loving. 

So when you kneel down to pray tonight, 

remember that you are talking to your loving Father in Heaven.

Love,

Søster Allen

Sweet Sister Peterson and I

Trondheim Colors and lights

best purchase ever!

Boy I Am Glad I Decided to Serve a Mission.

Hallo alle sammen!

Transfers week and we lost Sister Sorensen.. she went to Oslo (my place of birth). So the trio is not a thing anymore, but me and Sister Peterson are killing it with the missionary work as a duo. I love Trondheim too. :)

Me and Sister Peterson had some miracles happen this week!

So last week we called a lot of former investigators and got appointments with them for this week! We met with some of them this week and they were way positive lessons and I am really excited about it!

We had a Halloween party on Halloween with the YSA and it was way fun. We had an investigator come!  I of course won the Halloween Trivia game. I don't know if I should be proud of my knowledge about scary things and movies or not.. oh well!

Yesterday at church was soo good! The spirit was way strong and I feel like I know the ward a lot better. After church  Sister Peterson and I hit the streets and had some cool experiences. In 2 hours we were able to get 3 lessons and 7 gospel conversations! We stopped like 3 Martin in a row.. we thought that was weird. We stopped all these Africans that just got out of their church.. hahaha but hey we got their numbers! It was a great contacting session and the Lord blessed us.

I am grateful for the experiences I have had in Norway thus far. It has been almost a year since I left for my mission and all I have got to say is.. boy I am glad I decided to serve a mission. Norway has my heart forever. I don't want to come home.. even though sometimes is gets way hard. I want to be a missionary forever. It is the most fulfilling thing I have ever done. Well, hope you all have a good week and go tell a loved one how grateful you are for them.

Happy November!!
Love,
Søster Allen

A Picture Update

View of Trondheim

 Me and Søster Sorensen - last district p-day lunch

Visiting a family in the ward

Dinner with the district and Playing games!

Zone Leadership Training

Trondheim in the Fall

Fall in Trondheim

Our visit to "Hell"

The train station in "Hell"

Weekly planning and weekly planning snack. :)

Taking a picture after a miracle!

 I love this Trio!

Miracle Lessons

We had four miracle lessons in one hour, 

a random lady came to the church to "get strength from God",

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!!

First we were at MMK our Ward missionary leader thing 

or whatever it's called in English 

when 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. 

We greet her and she only speaks broken English and no Norsk. 

Cool. 

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 to for strength but God. 

Good choice lady.

We continue 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, 

never to be heard from again. 

The week goes on and we get a random call from a member and our investigator saying 

THE NORTHERN LIGHTS ARE OUT! 

wow they were stunning. 

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 and we stop to say a prayer. 

But we invited some members to pray with us, Saying 

"we're gonna 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 guys 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 canceled due to a hang over.

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. 

I knock on the door. 

No answer

She rings the bell

No answer

Søster Peterson then goes to put a car in her door saying we'd been there when 

SHE ANSWERED! 

Her name in Inger and when we introduced us Inger almost died. 

She was so happy to see us! 

Søster Peterson told me later how weird it was that someone was actually happy to see the Mormons haha yeah I have to agree with that. 

Inger let us in and we talked about the Book of Mormon and got another appointment to come back this week!

Pretty great week!! Love you all!

-Søster Allen

Pretty Trondheim

We visit this old man Mangus and his wife and this was the first time we saw up in his wheelchair and not in bed! We turn the corner and he is rolling along with an orange piece in his mouth. It made us so happy! He told the nurses that the missionaries were here to see him. :)

Teach Fearlessly.

Wasn't General Conference the best?!
I love general conference, especially as a missionary. Shout out to Pres. Russell M. Nelson's talk about women. How empowering! There were so many good talks. I am really excited to study them for the next 6 months.

Interesting things that happened this week:
We did a question and answer at a children's school with the soon-to-be teachers. Afterwards we "accidentally" left a Book of Mormon and one of them came running out to us and said, "Mormons! You left your Bible!" haha It was funny.

We had a cool contact with a lady on the street that day. She was so excited to receive a Book of Mormon for free. Unfortunately, she doesn't live in Trondheim, so we referred her to the missionaries in her area. It was way cool though. Heavenly Father really leads us to those that are prepared and willing to listen.

One day we had the sister training leaders with us and it was a blast. I love it when they come!

Me and Sister House had a cool contact with this boy on the street. We helped answer his question, "If there is a God than why do children die of cancer?" I could see a satisfied look in this boy's face as we testified of the purpose of live and how God has a plan for all of His children.

On Friday we had an appointment with a girl Sister Sorensen and Sister Peterson met on the street. We were late because we missed our bus stop and the girl was not there. :( We were way upset, so we walked swiftly into the city to try and find her. We didn't see her. We decided to say a prayer in the middle of city and ask Heavenly Father to help us find her, so that we could give her a Book of Mormon. After we said the prayer we turned the corner and guess who was there.. the girl! Heavenly Father had answered our prayer.

I am so grateful to be a missionary at this time. I am so grateful for prophets and apostles to help lead and guide us. The heavens are open and the world is preparing for the 2nd coming of Christ. It is our time to step forward. Be covenant keeping saints. Speak with power and authority. Make things happen with our faith. Teach fearlessly. Express our belief with confidence.

I love the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is the ONLY way to true and everlasting happiness.

Love,
Søster Allen  

We got caught in a rain\wind storm!

Women's Conference Session

We were the only ones who showed up.. 

We had a potluck afterwards and the best cake!

Trondheim District

Should Sister Peterson go brunette?

I laughed so hard when I saw this picture. haha

Streets of Trondheim

P-day fun at the cathedral city

Streets of Trondheim