Hey Mom,
I promise I didn't forget your birthday,
I figured I'd just save the B day greetings for the P day that was
closest. Looking back now though, I should've done it last chance I had
to email. Hope you don't mind. Happy Birthday!! :) I'm
glad you enjoyed the tag. I was going to put a note with it, but it was
really rushed/ I didn't think of that until Breanna (that's weird to say) told
me to at zone training and didn't have time to ;) I'm glad you got to
meet some of the missionaries. They are a good feel for just the caliber
of missionaries that this mission produces. They are all fantastic, and
especially those you sent pictures of :)
Go ahead and just buy the camera
and ship it to my address. It's: Belvedervej 52. 2, 32
3000 Helsingør DK
Let me know if there are any
other problems you have with it, and maybe I can just find one here. I
just feel like I'm always way too busy to look around for anything like that so
this way seems easier, but let me know.
Here's how my week went... It's
been a pretty exciting week here in this part of the country. Last Monday
Elder Lester and I went to our investigator 'V's house so that I could get
my hair cut. It was the first time I got the experience of teaching as
someone else cut my hair. It was a great lesson and she accepted the
challenge to pray for an answer if Jesus really is the Christ (since after
using the baptismal questions we realized we needed to start right from the
beginning).
Fast forward to splits on
Thursday and she got her answer, she knows Christ is her Savior. I was ecstatic,
and what was more, Elder Bradshaw and I had an incredible experience of our own
happen the same day.
While out knocking in Frederiksværk we knocked into
a man that showed a lot of interest in the church. He said he was busy at
the moment, but told us he would really like us to come back, so we exchanged
information and left to knock the next door. After knocking the next door
though Elder Bradshaw got a call. It was 'F', the man we had just
exchanged information with, and he wanted us to come back.
Elder Bradshaw and I started to
get anxious... We weren't sure what to make of this man telling us to come
back. When we got to the door he invited us into his house and had us
make ourselves at home. He went on to tell us that after we left he sat
down alone in his house and felt suddenly awful telling us to come back later when
he had time right then. He felt prompted to call us back. He added
that he knew we were servants of Jesus Christ, and that he had a desire to come
back to Christ, being religious himself, and knowing that the Savior had helped
him through so many of his life struggles.
I felt the prompting to tell him
exactly what he needed to do to follow the Savior, and extended him the
invitation to be baptized. He said 'one day' and then started off into
another topic. We were running late to another appointment, but he said
we could stop by at any time, and that he was willing to meet again.
It was an incredible lesson, and
experience for both Elder Bradshaw and myself. Things like this always
happen on splits.
'V' also asked me to make a
wreath for her out of branches from her front yard. It actually turned
out quite nice... And that's just the trouble ... Elder Lester is now showing
everyone he possibly can and bragging about the stupid thing. 'A' (a
Norwegian women in our ward) is even talking about setting something up with
the relief society so that I can hold a class on it... not that I'm not flattered,
but.... Hopefully everyone just forgets the whole thing ;)
I also found out that the girl
that gave me her phone number at Matt Boulton's wedding reception is Elder
Lester's ex-girlfriend's sister.. Ha! It was a funny little
connection. I've had a pretty great week.
You are all in my prayers, I love
you all so much!
Ældste Pitcher
