November 2009

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Message from the President
Dear Elders and Sisters,

We were greatly blessed to have Elder Caussé visit our mission. His
assessment of the mission is that we are a mission of great potential, but we

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are undertrained. This is an accurate assessment. For our part Sister
Johansen and I were thrilled and grateful for all of the information and
counsel Elder Caussé was able to give to us. We have committed ourselves to
implementing his counsel and being 100% obedient in an effort to be more

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effective missionaries.
In an attempt to ensure that we get the most from our recent zone conference
with Elder Causse´, we are devoting this issue of the Harvester to the counsel
Elder Caussé gave to us so that we may be better able to increase our abilities
as missionaries. This article will be a summary of many of the things he
taught us.
“In this mission we BAPTIZE CONVERTS.”
“You will learn from the Holy Ghost. He will whisper to you. Focus on your
personal and individual needs.”
“Being a member of this church is to be a missionary.”
“Love is an irresistible force, the love of Christ.”
“There is an urgency with this work. You only have two years to serve your
mission. The Lord doesn’t need us, if we don’t do the work the Lord will get
someone else to do it. The urgency is that there are people who are prepared
and need to be found. We are called to bring about the elect of the Lord. The
elect people are prepared people.”
“A bold missionary is a missionary who is motivated by a love for the people
and a love of the Gospel. A bold missionary is loving and humble, confident
in the Lord.”
“When you go to the members you are there to help them.”
“Baptism is an event, conversion is a process.”
“In finding the elect, your goal is to find an entry point. You should not be
mechanical. Be natural and honest. If you say you are missionaries and they
reject you, they are rejecting you. If you teach a principle and they reject you
they are rejecting the principle. To get an entry point, teach a principle. Ask
a question. Testify. The companion then testifies. The companion then
teaches them a second principle. You need to practice every day. Role play
 November 2009
Message from the President
Continued from page one

“Planning is finding the will of the Lord and making it a part of

your day. We are not working on our plans but the Lord’s plans.
Planning is the key in all you do. The Holy Ghost loves planning.
During the 9:00-9:30pm planning session – no phone calls. We
need to have very specific planning sessions, who, where, when,
how, why and what. Why plan in the evening? Sleep on the plan
when you wake up you will have additional ideas in personal
study. The companionships need to role play the situation. Even
with planning it can fall through. Nephi went out not knowing
beforehand what to do, but he went out anyway.”

Lesson 0. Ask a few simple questions. Get to know the

investigator. Have a prayer. Give an overview of the first three
lessons. Give an overview of the program – 3x3x30 for four
weeks. Give them a baptismal date. Finish by inviting them to
experiment making commitments, to read pamphlets, come to
church make appointments ask for referrals. Do you know….
Finish with the investigator praying.”

Baptismal calendar. After working it out with the investigator,

give the calendar to the ward mission leader. He will give it to
the ward council so the ward council can use it as a blueprint to
know what they need to do to help in the conversion process.
Add an extra week for after baptism where home teachers and
visiting teachers will be assigned, after baptism discussions
taught, and a calling given. If the convert is a man add receiving
the Aaronic Priesthood.”

“Envision the work in Norway with your spiritual eyes.”

“We don’t have enough missionaries to teach all those who are
prepared to receive the gospel in Norway.”

We are asking missionaries in their weekly email to the president

to comment on the principles they are working on and share any
miracles or spiritual experiences associated with implementing
these principles.

Elder Causse´s assessment of our mission was we have excellent

missionaries but we are a young mission and as a mission we
need to become better trained. We need to use our study time
both individual and companion to sharpen our skills so we can
focus on the message and not ourselves.
With Love,

President Armand D Johansen and Sister

Johansen

MISSION TOUR with

Elder Gérald Caussé
Of the Seventy

OSLO ZONE CONFERENCE

28. Okt. 2009 Hekkvein menighet
MISSION TOUR
Elder Gérald Caussé Of the Seventy

NORTH & SOUTH ZONE CONFERENCE

29. Okt. 2009 Romerike menighet
 MISSION TOUR
Elder Gérald Caussé Of the Seventy

Notes from the Mail Room

Soon to arrive is the October Conference Edition of the

November 2009
Liahona. Baptismal calendar forms and a copy of the
DEICATORY PRAYER FOR NORWAY will be included in these
mail pouches!
Notes from the Office
Arriving Missionary
3 November 2009

Steven Jens Linge

Orem , Utah

Eldste Linge was born in Tønsberg, Norway

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November 2009

2009 Message from the Assistants

Elders and Sisters,

SYL. Funny that we haven’t heard or thought about that too much
since the MTC, except the guilty wrench in your stomach when you
breeze past chapter 7 in Preach My Gospel. Let’s just take a few quotes
from that often overlooked chapter.
“Use your mission language at every opportunity.”
“Speak the language with your companion as much as possible
throughout the day.”
“Pray in the language privately and publicly.”
“One of the greatest things you can do to gain people’s trust and
love is to embrace their culture.”
We want you to take a minute and think of the culture of our
mission. Do we have a culture of speaking our mission language? Are we
obedient to this rule? (See White Handbook P. 16) How many of you
when coming to Norway were apprehensive, yet excited to be

Departing Missionary for Yekaterinburg

Russia Mission
2 November 2009

Elder Joseph Hyrum Stoops

Stavanger, Norway
Eldste Stoops was on temporary assignment awaiting his visa to the
Yekaterinburg Russia Mission
surrounded by Norwegian, but upon arrival realized, “Oh, we speak
English here.” This “relieving” realization is not only a disappointment
to new missionaries, but is also a hindrance to the work and to fulfilling
our potential as the Lord’s servants. One of the worst things you can do
 for your companion’s Norwegian is speaking to him or her all the time in
English. Non-perfect Norwegian is MUCH better than none at all.
You have been called to speak Norwegian. Heavenly Father has
invested a LOT of time and money into you, and has given you an
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investigating the gospel. Don’t let the sacred environment of an
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all, and are excited to see the progress of this mission.

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Baptisms Reported in October 56
YTD as of 10/31 Goal year 84
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Mission
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Olsen, Carina 11 Oct 11 Oct Romerike
Instead of just going to a zone conference and thinking that it is nice without
Stake Bishop/Maxwell/Carr
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Yeboah, Jennifer 9 Oct 11 Oct Fredrike
Caussé taught
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Thapa, Hem Bahadur 17 Oct 18 Oct Oslo Stake

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We especially like the feature in Lesson Zero about asking the investigator to
list some of their own personal questions that we can answer for them. This
opens up opportunities to really study for investigators during personal
study. We will master the Lesson Zero through practicals in companionship
study and through practice with ward members. Speaking of practicals, we
decided to try a new teach to find during our contacting last Saturday. We
talked to people about smoking – what their opinions were. Surprisingly
enough, almost everyone we asked was willing to talk. We got two potential