I am a District Leader now and we are in the same area, Elder Heninger is still my comp and the best part is now we have a car for the first time in 10 months! Raccoons watch out! :] We have now added 36 new investigators and hope to put 22 people on date to be baptised this week and probably next week to.

Of the Work. I tallied up the numbers yesterday, this transfer (over the last 5 weeks) we have added 28 new investigators, done 32 lessons with members present, not to count the other lessons. And we have 7 people with baptism dates!

I don't know why or how the success is happening i just know that a great spirit is overshadowing the work we do, when we do it the Lords way. I am so excited to see the miracles keep on coming. Do what the Lord says and he is bound to bless. And remember repentance is a daily thing we should do, we should repent perfectly.

Repentance is one of the greatest blessings of our heavenly father.

Chuck Norris

Things are great here we are finding lots of people here and the biking is going well. I am really excited to see what happens with some of out investigators here soon. My comp is Elder Heninger and we get along great! All is well. Also we have a pet it is a praying mantis. His name was chuck norris but it is now Lokie the Notic God of the Underworld. :] He ate an entire grass hopper.

Hi

Well I am in the Granger North Stake with a greeny, Elder Heninger! He is from Medicine Hat, Alberta Canada. It is his second transfer and I am way excited about the transfer this stake has a history of being the highest baptising in the mission! The only thing that stinks is that I am still on a bike and I am in a much bigger area. We will be loosing some weight fast this transfer, it is a 20 to 30 min bike ride from one end to the other of the area. I am still in the west side of the valley . I hope to baptise alot and I found out that one of my recent converts lives in the area! Rannie Sin! Her friend is on a mission in Alaska and met my mom and dad after she was baptised.

365 Days later... : )

How many baptisms? 15
Weirdest thing eaten to date? Nothing that wierd just green food when I was a greeny.
Funniest experiance? Almost stabed a guy who broke in to my appartment but it was a joke : )
Scariest experiance? Nothing to bad
Aprox miles riden on bike? 400 miles
Aprox doors knocked? 550
Favorite companion? Blackburn
Favorite ward members? Bro Bullock, Bro Sis Stout, Bro and Sis Shammy, Prez Gillett, Mitchel and the Grandmas
Favorite scripture? Alma 5 14:16
Most spiritual experiance? Finding out how powerfull the atomement is.
Cool Story? We just had this huge fireside where we had The Moleni Brothers and Onevoice sing! It was way cool! We had 450 people attend, and got 66 referals and because it went so well we get to watch a movie this friday "forever strong".

Currently..

We are teaching 13 peopole and alot of less active people.

Transfers!

My new comp is Elder Blackburn he is from Oregon and is Haakans cousin so that is realy cool. Haakans mom is his aunt. I'm in the West valley stake, in an area that borders on my old area. so that is cool! We're teaching a guy his name is John and He is a guy from LA. He is 39 and got out of prison 8 months ago. His testimony of Joseph Smith is amaizing! He knows it is all true and we are getting special permision to get him baptised on the 8 of Aug. He is truly converted he is what you call a dry mormon because he has not been baptised yet.

Pictures!

Elder Norton, His Dad, mom, niece Kate, nephew Ty, brother in law Jared and sister Jacque

So Matts mission president allows family to see each other if they are in town for conference. We came down a few days after conference for Vanessa's Graduation and Matt received special permission for us to come give him a quick hug! It was so fun to be able to visit him! I hope it wasn't to hard on him to see family for a quick second and then leave all over again!

Elder Mattews and I

Elders I came out with from the MTC

Hawkin's cousin Elder Blackburn

Golfing with the former Mission Pres

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread. --Bill Cosby

Well I have been doing pretty good, except I had food piosening last night but I'm good today.

So here is a cool story. We were talking to some guys at Winder Dairy and they were going to hook us up with free bread, so we said cool drop it off. That night Elder Jackson and I got home about 9:20 and it is pitch black in the house. Jackson said turn on the light to see if they brought the bread by. I hit the lights and there is this big dude with a beard on our couch. He says "Where is the money!" Jackson said "whoa you scared me bro!" I said who are you?" He said "Thats for me to know and you to find out," I said "What does that mean?" Then Jackson turns to me and says "Norton where is the bread?" then I ask again "who the heck are you?" and at this point I had my knife out and my bag on the ground ready to fight this guy. Low and behold all the dudes from Winder Dairy jump out!! That was the best practical joke ever! Even though I almost stabed a guy. : )

Visual Aids... : )

Robert Lucken

Rick

Greg Fabian

Celina Naita

Brady Belka

"Life is Change, Growth is Optional"

Elder Fotofili was transferred and I stayed and am with Elder Ngawaka (na-waka). He is from New Zealand and has a sweet accent. The teaching is going really well because we are trying to be really obedient.

One to remember........

February 4th 2009------

Today I was able to go to the Salt Lake City Temple for the first time on my mission!!

Norton's Newest Neice!

Brooklyn Paige Norton was born to Elder Norton's older brother Shayne and his wife Crystal on February 10th 2008!

Finding "Contacts"

So here is an ok story.

When I was in Green River Wyoming, with Elder Moala we saw a game of football going on and thought what a great way to contact people. : ) ...........we had great success in contacting because it was a great game of tackle football. We promptly took off our ties and coat and joined the game.

Like the Strippling Worriors we were not the biggest, but God was on our side, and we played like fierce pumas. Both of us scored 4 times and tackled people hard. I drug 4 people into the touchdown with me on one play. It is not often we can play with this much force so we seized the opportunity. When it came time for round 2 every one wanted the missionaries on their team for we were mighty warriors on the field of battle and our limbs were strong for we did not consume strong drink(beer) like our opponents had, thus we were blessed with much success and our hearts did rejoice for we were victorious. Thus ended the 1st year of the reign of the missionaries.



FOLLOW UP:

One of the footplayers was inactive and has been coming lately. Elder Moala is currently teaching this gentleman's cousin and family.

Last Monday I personally baptised 2 kids Kenny and Clay Cudney!

Transfer:

I have been transferred to west valley in SLC, I'm in the Jordan north stake. My companion is Elder Fotofeli he is from Tonga. Our new apartment is much larger and nicer than the last one and it's a lot cleaner. I'm looking forward to see what the valley has to offer.

Baptism Update:

So far we have had 4 with 5 on date to be baptised in Dec. The Lord is blessing us in our work.

Turkey Day in Wyoming:

For thanksgiving we went to Evenston and played 6 hours of sports; football, basketball and volleyball. I am so out of shape... its diet time! We had dinner that night at a member's home.