Update on last time. ‘A’ has made a goal of going to the temple on the 21st of
November. Very reachable goal. We're filling in the calendar now with meetings,
and things she needs to reach before that time. We're excited, and hoping she stays
with it even now as she starts going back to work.
This week was pretty crazy. I felt like we may have had a
bit of a struggle since coming back after the mission conference with hitting
our stride from last week. In any case we still received 4 new potential
investigators and one new investigator throughout the course of the week.
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| Sunset over Viborg |
The 4 potentials all came from an idea we had along with the
Skive Elders to make a small booth on the gågade during splits in the morning
time, and it ended up being quite a success! We talked with many people, and I
think Elder Pike has finally broke through any anxiety he may have had with
stopping random people on the street.
Another crazy experience this week was the Church headquarters
referral we received to a woman named ‘T’ from Tonga who needed a Blessing. She
has many friends in the Church who encouraged her to receive a blessing. She had
complete faith that it would work is what she told us. She has 3 blood clots in
her head, and was in need of some comfort.
The journey was a bit of a struggle up there to Aalestrup,
and back as you may have heard from Elder Call :P poor planning on my part, but
I felt strongly that this women needed some help. After the blessing she wiped
away tears, and we testified that the comforting feeling she felt was the Holy
Ghost. She was agreeing with everything we said, and the spirit was bearing
witness of everything we were saying to her.
We invited her to be baptized to which she promptly said
'YES!' I was taken aback. Once I had gathered myself I threw out a date and
that's when it gets weird. She says that she is pretty sure she is already
baptized because she got baptized along with a friend when she was younger just
because it seemed like the way she could fit in. Elder Pike and I are going to
do some research on that, but she said if she had to be baptized she'd be doing
it out of her own will this time rather than to just follow a crowd. Like I
said though, we'll have to figure it out. It was just a crazy meeting, and the
spirit was so strong.
I had a pretty good week this week.
We didn't have a lot of time to do some of the things I
would have like to have done while we were in Copenhagen.. :P We
did have a good trip though, and it was a lot of fun to see all of my old
companions, missionary friends, and MTC group.
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| My MTC District at the Mission Conference |
I loved the photos that you all sent this week. I'm
way jealous of the lake trip. It's returning to jacket weather here,
which I actually like better as a missionary, but the sun and fun still looks
nice every once in a while ya know? We'll be going back to Copenhagen
fyi, so I should be able to get a temple picture, but Nyhavn could be an out of
the way stop by that we might not get to. We'll just have to see. Elder Pike
really wants to go too, so we'll try our best.
I'm not going to lie, this last week kind of burned me
out. We were just running from place to place, and I kept feeling like I
wasn't able to BUY the right decision. I just kept making mistake after
mistake. I got really lucky that we had the spirit with us, or else this
week would have ended in complete disaster.
Sometimes I just feel like I can't make the right choice,
AND help others. We ended up almost walking back that night from Tuna's
because I didn't realize that there wasn't a bus that would drive back after 8
o'clock.. She really needed that blessing though. I don't
know. Maybe we should have just waited, and then that would have been
breaking another rule of not contacting a church headquarter referral within 24
hours :P
It would have all been avoided as well if we hadn't went to
the wrong city first. I get my Danish vowels mixed up one time, and we
get taken a half hour in the wrong direction :P
I really did have a good week, just very busy, and I didn't
have a lot of time to sit down. Running for trains, running to grab our bikes
on Sunday morning because we forgot them that night after our trip up to Tuna,
when a member ended up having to come and pick us up late, running to pick up
our investigator to take him with us to church ... Running. I just felt
like I needed a break.
I'm feeling much better today, just tired. Then we got
a phone call that one of our investigators whom we had an appointment with
moved to Turkey.
Anyway, that was my venting session. I think I'm
good now.
I love you both very much, and want you to know that I'm
doing just fine. Have a great week!
Ældste Pitcher
