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HARVESTER 
 
The
 
 Message from the President 
In the undertaking of any quest, we may ask ourselves whether we have arrived at that place wherethe quest will be accomplished? It is a place we know that we will be successful in finalizing our
accomplishments. Others will look upon us and say “Yes, they have arrived.”
 
 What do we need to do in order to “Arrive” in the Norway Oslo Mission? What need you do tofeel that you personally have “Arrived?”
  Alma 58:11; Yea, and it came to pass that the Lord our God did visit us with assurances that he would deliver us; yea, insomuch that he did speak peace to our souls, and did grant unto us greatfaith, and did cause us that we should hope for our deliverance in him.Proverbs 3:5; Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
 We thank you for your efforts of 2008 and we feel we are on course, that we are “arriving” as amission to the level of performance where the Lord can speak “peace to
 
our souls.” Achieving 50
baptisms is putting us on course to achieving a mission goal of 84 for 2009. From your input inzone conferences, the average, or midpoint from the three zones is 84. We feel this is achievable,on course, and within our realm of 
possibility. That by doing so we will feel “peace in our souls.”
Bind the LordD&C 82:10 I, the Lord, am bound when ye do what I say; but when ye do not what I say, ye haveno promise.
 The Powers of Heaven Operate Through Righteousness
 D&C 121:34-37; Behold, there are many called, but few are chosen. And why are they not chosen?Because their hearts are set so much upon the things of this world, and aspire to the honors of men, that they do not learn this one lesson-- That the rights of the priesthood are inseparably connected with the powers of heaven, and that the powers of heaven cannot be controlled norhandled only upon the principles of righteousness. That they may be conferred upon us, it is true;but when we undertake to cover our sins, or to gratify our pride, our vain ambition, or to exercisecontrol or dominion or compulsion upon the souls of the children of men, in any degree of unrighteousness, behold, the heavens withdraw themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved; and when it is withdrawn, Amen to the priesthood or the authority of that man.
Cont.
D&C 101:63-4 . . .I say unto you, I will show unto you wisdom in me concerning all the churches, in as muchas they are willing to be guided in a right and proper way for their salvation--- that the work of the gathering together of my saints may continue. . . for the time of harvest is come, and my word must needs be fulfilled.
Den Norske Misjon
 January, 2009
 
 
 January 2009
Cont.
 We Learn to Know The Master Through Service
 
Mosiah 5:13; For how knoweth a man the master whom he has not served, and who is a strangerunto him, and is far from the thoughts and intents of his heart?Cleansed Through Faithfulness & DiligenceD&C 76:52; That by keeping the commandments they might be washed and cleansed from alltheir sins, and receive the Holy Spirit by the laying on of the hands of him who is ordained andsealed unto this power;
D&C 68:30; ….labor, in all faithfulness; for the idler
shall be had in remembrance before theLord.
 
 We thank you for your diligence and obedience in striving to be a “Preach My Gospel”
missionary. We look forward to a prosperous 2009 and ask that as a companionship you set daily, weekly, monthly and transfer cycle goals for your area that are focused on our funnel to a
standard of excellence. We can do it! It is within reach! May it be said of each of us, “Yes, they have arrived.”
  We send our love,President and Sister PoulsenFrom the Office Mail Room
“Send Me”
When our Elder Brother spoke these words, it changed our world forever.
So why, is it “Send Me “ a Gratis Mormons Bok and a Gratis DVD doesn’t have the power to change
just one
person’s life? For just a moment a TV 
spot or a testimony shared by a member on the internet
touched the heart of one of Heavenly Father’s children enough for them to respond and make a requestto “Send Me”
more! They felt the Spirit and they wanted more! Gule Sider is checked for additionalinformation. We respond immediately! The skolepakke is shipped within hours of their request. Very eager messengers of the Lord are notified and in a day or so, servants of the Lord ride the bus for onehour and walk 5 kilometers in the cold to arrive at
the door of a 60+ year old man who says “I am a littlebusy now! Can you come back later?” As discouraging as it may be, it still has to be more productive than
just knocking on doors. This was a child of God who reached out for just a second. Statistics say that youmust knock on about 100 doors to find one possibility to teach. Your chances are greatly improved withthose who have shown an interest. Some only wanted the information for a school project, one actually came to church once, several were taught the Restoration, others never opened the door or kept ateaching appointment and some have never been found. From the 22
nd
of October 2008 to the 8
th
of Jan2009 we have received 24 referrals. Not one is near conversion but still each new request is met withhope, anticipation and eagerness
 – 
and that is how it should be. No one said that it would be easy, or that
success would come without opposition. But sooner or later one of those who said: “Send Me a Gratis
Mormons Bok will find exactly what they hoped they would find
 – 
a word or a phrase that was written or
spoken “just for me!” – 
as if a voice from Heaven was speaking directly to them
 – 
Spirit to Spirit. When
that happens, we will know that we are truly “Messengers” – 
not to change the world but to beinstruments changing one
person’s life – 
forever. Alan and Susan Arnesen
 
Message from the assistants
”
Charity is the pure love of Christ. It includes God
’
s eternal love for all his children.We are to seek to develop that kind of love.
”
(PMG 118) Our thoughts today are obviouslyfocused on love and charity. If we really understood how much Heavenly Father loves us wewould look at others with a completely different perspective. When we talk to peopleeveryday do they know that we love them? Each and single one? The best way for us to findmore people to teach is to love everyone enough to give them the same amount of attentionand love that Jesus Christ would give them if he were in our place. When we develop thiskind of love we have the spirit and it motivates us to do our very best.We are blessed we have companions, a mission president and his wife, and members tohelp us out. The more we recognize how thankful we are the opportunity to serve a mission(which is one of the greatest blessings we will ever receive), the more we will want to serveothers and truly fulfill our purpose in giving them a testimony about Heavenly Father
’
s sonJesus Christ.
“
You will labor in their behalf 
…
You will try to understand them and theirpoints of views.
”
(PMG 118), not only speaking of the people we meet every day, but alsoour companions and fellow missionaries. When we really love our Heavenly Father we arethankful for every single experience we go through each day, we can
’
t expect to build thekingdom of God if we aren
’
t thankful for the people we are surrounded by. Having Christ likehumility in all things. Our hope is that we can be more thankful for what we have and to bemore thankful for where we are, so we can show our love for our Heavenly Father.Once we have said thank you we don
’
t need to wait too long until we say it again. Notonly thank you in words but in action. Our goal in this life is to help others and ourselves inbecoming Christ like in every way. We love you all and we are thankful for everything youdo to help our mission. We need to do our best for Heavenly Father and the People we aresurrounded by every day. We have two years to serve and more than a life time to think aboutit. We love you and we hope for the best!MVH, Eldste Leatham & Eldste Cramer
 January 2009
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