April 28, 2014

Kjære alle sammen,

 This week has been fenominal. Yes I do not remember how to spell anything any more......sorry.

we have had so many amazing and funny experiences

miracles

this week we have had some really inspired moments. This week as we were contacting on the bridge we felt that we should turn around. We did so and then immediately talked with this lady. She was so great and she loves mormon tab. Has wanted a book of mormon and when we taught her the spirit was so strong. so amazing.

Also 2 weeks ago.We were on the bus I talked to this lady about the church and the book of mormon we got an appointment and then.........as we were going to her house we found two more people that were interested in the gospel

Me and sister r went to contact a lady who was wondering if there are modern prophets today.... way cool

So many miracles have happened. I know they are the hand of God I am so grateful for the love  God has for us.

FUNNY STORY......

we went on splits this week. Me and another sister were trying to get to a members house. we took  the bus and then we were supposed to walk the rest of the way. We ended up climbing this huge mountain it was crazy. We were following the train tracks and it is just crazy

I know God loves each one of you. I am grateful to be a missionary. I love the Lord. I know he is aware of us. love you all

sister shaw

April 21, 2014

http://easter.mormon.org/

this is amazing. I love you all. I know everything is possible because of Him. Have a great week

I had some cool impressions from this week that I would like to share with you all.
7 If ye ^aabide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ^bask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

 8 Herein is my Father ^aglorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

 9 As the Father hath ^aloved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

 10 If ye ^akeep my commandments, ye shall abide in my ^blove; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in hislove.

I know this is true.

with god we can understand that. love should be the highest focus. it is the first and great commandment. 

God allows us to love so much more than we already can. 

do not allow your ego to get in the way of loving. live in the present.

How can you learn to accept love where you are

these are really scattered ideas but are some impressions I received this week. I love you all

søster shaw

 A farm from the 1700s in Trondheim

April 14, 2014

This week was so amazing!! !! ! This week we had a really cool easter concert at the church. Our ward is so talented with people who can do a good job playing cool instruments. This week has been really awesome. We had some cool experience with praying and banking or knocking on doors. Prayer works. The ward has just embraced C and it is amazing to see and we have had a lot of meals with members because of that so that is so good. food is yummy! We are doing good. I love sister A she is the most amazing coolest person. She is so sweet and I am so grateful that we have been working really well as a team. It is fun. 

 And it came to pass after these things, that God did ^atemptAbraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here Iam.

 2 And he said, ^aTake now thy son, thine ^bonly son Isaac, whom thou ^clovest, and get thee into the land of ^dMoriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

 And it came to pass after these things, that God did ^atemptAbraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here Iam.

 2 And he said, ^aTake now thy son, thine ^bonly son Isaac, whom thou ^clovest, and get thee into the land of ^dMoriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

6 And said, By myself have I ^asworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine onlyson:

 17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy ^aseed as the stars of the heaven, and as the ^bsandwhich is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the ^cgate of his enemies;

 18 And in thy ^aseed shall all the nations of the earth be ^bblessed; because thou hast ^cobeyed my voice.

I have been reading some good old testament scriptures lately.

I know that God gives us the things we need so that we can know we choose God. I know that it is after the trial that God promises us the blessings. I know that God is aware of your trials But we struggle so that He can bless I know strength and struggle are intertwined with each other and it is after struggle that we obtaining strength and therefore obtain the blessings of God.

We are children of God. Throughout the week, I would like to encourage you to remember your father more.

love you all

søster shaw 

April 7, 2014 - Baptism

Dear family and friends,

About 6 months ago we met a girl named C. She became one of my good friends. She was amazing and was so prepared and ready to come closer to God and get baptized. It was the most amazing experience of my life and some of my most joyful moments in life come from being with her. She sadly chose to take another path, and dropped us missionaries. That was a really hard time for me. I loved her. I knew and could see how the atonement of the Savior could clean her mortal baggage and bring her greater happiness. The day after we heard this I read in preach my gospel about hope because that is what I needed. It directed me towards this chapter in Hebrews. 

10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

 11 And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:

 12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

 13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,

 14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

 15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

 16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.

 17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

 18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

 19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the beil;

 20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

The words spoke to me. I was still heart broken and I did not quite understand why God could not  have changed this from happening and why my friend and sister chose a path that did not lead her to greater happiness. But I knew  that after faith and patience we Will inherit the promises. 

I did not quite understand what God was promising me in that scripture until this weekend. This weekend another women named C who I also love dearly made the choice to follow God and made a sacred covenant with God through baptism. 

I know this experience has etched into my soul a stronger faith and trust in Gods promised blessings.I  have had this greater understanding of the Lords love and His inability to lye. 

We can trust in the Lords promises to us. He can not lye. This is a life lesson I have learned and will cherish for eternity. 

I love God. He is all powerful. Trust in Him. 

love you all!

søster shaw

The Lord is not so focused on changing us. He is more focused on enhancing us.

April 2, 2014

john chapter 6 

5 ¶When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?

 6 And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do.

 7 Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.

 8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, saith unto him,

 9 There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?

 10 And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about ^afivethousand.

 11 And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given ^athanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.

 12 When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be ^alost.

I know God hears. We can prove Him. We can bring our loaves and fishes to Him and He will multiply them greater than we could ever imagine.

I know God loves He listens He multiplies

Remember Gods grace is always there

the Lord does not expect you to be better than your best 

Have a great week love you all 

sister shaw

March 24, 2014

hello,

this week was full of eating home made gluten free boller so good! getting 50 eggs from a member in the ward. Making pizza. listening to the frozen sound track because one sister brought it. sledding bossing it with my new companion sister angerhoffer....holla...being a missionary so fun.

The coolest thing that happened this week is we got to go to the bethel church. It was amazing. The spirit was so strong and it was fun to listen to some rock christian music. I think the coolest part was that there was a bunch of Norwegians like college age who were just worshipping God. I felt the love of God so strongly for them and I know the Lord is well pleased. They are awesome and they are so amazing to take a stand in a world where many will not. They chose God.

I am not going apostate..... I know the church is true and I am grateful for the reverence and the peace that you can feel when you are at our meetings. I know our church is true and I know that the priesthood is something that is able to help others to feel greater the love of God and reach a greater level of happiness and love.

it was really cool to go to bethel though because we got to be investigators I realized what I liked and what I did not like in the way people were and how they introduced themselves to us.

spiritual thought

we will all meet hindrings in life but we must just keep swimming

God does not care so much about where we have been but just about where we will go and who we will become.

 also this week  I learned to not be harder on myself then God is. We take small and simple steps towards eternal progression. These small steps are what grow the deeper roots. Not just a hard thing and then you are done. It takes small trials again and again to make the lessons learned engrained into the eternities.

Our Father lives. He loves. He answers.

love you all

sister shaw

I learned to cross my eyes on my mission!