June 16, 2014

kjære alle sammen,

This week I was eating breakfast while I was studying and I had a pen jar and a glass of milk on my desk. I accidentally put my pen in my milk!! We were done studying and I saw my milk and just started laughing.

On saturday I decided to eat a hot dog for breakfast and then I got my hot dog and I noticed that my hot dog popped and there was no meat inside just the skin around. That was super funny too.

Something that I learned this week is that there is only pure acceptance of ourselves and others in the celestial kingdom.

have a good week

søster shaw

June 9, 2014

Dear family,

This week has been amazing and so many miracles have happened!!

example of many

we got on the bus to get to an appointment to one of our investigators. We had a quiz and grill this week and I invited her to that(the girl sitting across from me). She just asked me the question what is the difference between your church and other christian denominations. We had the oppurtunity to meet with her that week. She is a precious daughter of God and it was very cool to talk with a fellow sister who has such a strong belief in God and the love He has for her. 

One of our investigators came to church after about a month of teaching him and it was so cool how his countenance changed and how he suddenly became much more curious in the message we have been sharing with him. 

I am so grateful for the joy that I feel here on my mission this is where I am happy and this is where I thrive. 

I love God and I am grateful for the blessings He has given me and the oppurtunity I have to be here in this blessed amazingly beautiful country of Norway. I have the best mission in the whole world. I am grateful that the Lord has given me the oppurtnuity to do hard things. 

 1 samuel 7:3 ¶And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye doreturn unto the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare yourhearts unto the Lord, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.

I know that when we focus on God and do not let other worldly gods distract us, we recieve the help of God to win our personal battles. 

I know that relationships are eternal and that if things are not worked out here on earth they will have to be worked out in the eternities. So there is no room to be fake or insincere. It is important to communicate and work things out. 

love you all 

søster shaw

June 2, 2014

Dear Family and friends,

i LOVE YOU ALL. I hope you all could have a good week and have a good time. Have a great week!

This week has been really cool. We have had transfers and that has been really good. It is always good to mix things up a little bit. I am happy to have more days and oppurtunities to serve people.

I am praying for you guys. Remember the great potential we have and do not allow other people to decide your potential for you. That is decided by God. Remember how much you can contribuite in the kingdom of God and how much God will help you reach your potential. 

stop doing just be. 

søster shaw

May 26, 2014

Dear Family,

This week is the most rewarding yet stressful week of my entire life. We had two baptisms for two different people!

These people we found and taught and were able to see their whole progression as they came closer to the Lord Jesus Christ and were able to see the light shine brighter in there eyes and watch their eyes radiating with the love of Christ after their baptisms and confirmations. It was an amazing thing.

Eternal progression takes work and stress, but it is amazing there are no shortcuts. Our potential is so much bigger than we can comprehend but the only way to recieve this potential is through God and the atonement. We have to reach higher heights and fly to the edge where we will fall if God does not save us. We often put ourselves down because of dumb things we do and say. The thing is  we all do dumb things. If we were to look at our true heroes the only difference between us and them is they used the cleansing healing atonement of Jesus Christ and became better. Christ is change. Through Christ we can change we can stop being dumb and become like our hero Christ himself.  

In the words of Paul

16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

 18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

   side note: we worship  other gods  when we are more occupied with what others think instead of focusing on what God thinks.

have a great week,

søster shaw

May 16, 2014

Dear Family and friends,

Our area has been very blessed lately and we are truly seeing the power of God as we are doing missionary work. Life is great and has never been better. Today is the national holiday for Norway and we are so excited to celebrate and see all the people wearing the national clothes. 

We are all children of light. We are meant to shine. When we ask God what He needs for us to accomplish He will tell us. We can know with a surety that we are on the Lords errand and we can know of our eternal worth and the many gifts we possess that help our brothers and sisters here on earth. 

This week pray and ask God what you can do to help the people around you. I know if you pray and listen your mind will be inspired and you will understand how to help the people around you.

have a great week until next monday

søster shaw

May 12, 2014

Dear family,

Happy mothers day to all you great moms out there! I love you all.

Many miracles have happened this week. Today we are meeting with two people that do not believe in God and I am so EXCITED! today we went and visited a castle and learned about the history behind this beautiful city of trondheim. I love you all so much.

Yesterday the stake relief society president talked to us and she talked about a story about these african children. They put a beautful bowl of fruit in the middle and with a group of african children. They told them that the person who would reach the fruit bowl first would get all the fruit.  What happnede astonished everyone. the children held hands and all toughed the fruit bowl together and they said a word that means. if one is not happy then the others are not happy. This was a really cool thing. I want to develop this attitude stronger in myself and I know that if one is not happy then the others are not happy

Today I ate whale. Did you all know that you can eat whale raw. and many hunters would take off pieces of the whale and just eat it right after they caught it. Yumm delicious.

love you all

søster shaw

May 5, 2014

dear family and friends,

This week we have had the biggest miracles. 

We were on the streets talking  to people we talked to this man. He was way positive and was way cool. We talked to him about God and then he had to catch his bus and  we gave him a card and told him to call us. I wanted so bad for him to call us but the liklihood of that happening was not too high..We tell many  people that and I have never gotten a call. We got a call a couple day later from him and then we set up an appointment with him the day after. This was crazy. Then we talked with him more about the gospel he has a lot of really cool experiences.  Right before he  had met  us,  he had been thinking about why more people do no talk about God . Then we met him and he was so surprised we talked to him about God. It shocked him, so he called us.  This experience was incredible and these things just do not happen without the power of God. 

I know God is a God of miracles. With God NOTHING is impossible. We can rely on Him. He will be there. 

It is through the power of God that miracles happen. 

3 nephi 19:23 And now Father, I ^apray unto thee for them, and also for allthose who shall believe on their words, that they may believe inme, that I may be in them ^bas thou, Father, art in me, that we maybe ^cone.

Christ wants us to become one with Him and the father. This means many mountains to climb and eventually we will be taken higher, to His level.

love you alll

sister shaw