This
week has been crazy! We had so many awesome moments and all! A couple funny
things that happened this week was that a Danish elder here who is actually
serving in Zimbabwe, he leaves on Wednesday, we were talking about education
and he says " Yeah well all everyone in Gymnasium does is drop out and
they go own their dads kebab shops" haha. Its funny because gymnasium is
like high school, but its kinda not, its a little older as well, it's between high school and college. And Kebab shops are EVERYWHERE in Denmark.
They are like these burrito things with kebab meat, and all this other stuff.
If you go to the right place, they are super good haha. SO that's why that quote
is funny lol.
I was also told this week by one of the Elders that I look like
Felicity Smoak from the tv show Arrow because I had my glasses on.(my family says the same thing)
I'm so lucky
to serve in a district with all the amazing elders and my companion! All the
Elders are closer to going home so they all have tons of experience with the
language and what not. It's a good learning experience to interact with them.
They are a little fun too which is good when we all have a hard mission work
day and we can say a joke where we all roll in laughter for a few minutes then
we are good for another week until we see each other all again haha. And all the elders have a good place in their hearts as well. They all will do great things
one day.
Another funny thing that happened this week was I was told by our
recent convert Frederick that I was the biggest "mormon gangster" he had ever
known. he then called me the biggest gangster ever haha. So that was fun! Last
funny thing is that
We were putting chairs away with our mission president in
the church, and I didn't know what system they were doing it by because they would
randomly put the chairs the oppoasite ways. So I asked and then they said it
was 2 one way then the other. i was like ohhhh that makes sense and then my
mission president to me goes, you can tell that the beehives never have had to
stack chairs before haha. I just laughed it was so funny hhahha.
An amazing experience I had this week was< The two elders who are Assistants to the
president called me, and asked me how well I was at russian. I was
very hesistant and I asked why, what they were thinking of. They said that a
russian man who they had met with a lot of times was about to not meet with them
anymore( he is so close and has so many awesome ideals and he really needs more
help finding God in his life) and they told him that a sister was learning
russian. So he decided to meet with them once more and watch a video in russian
of the restoration with Joseph Smith. So they asked me to bear my testimony of
Jospeh Smith. I aske them to let me call you back in an hour. I was on splits that
day in another area. So we go to the librabry, I type in a couple phrases of
how I actually felt about the Book of Mormon and Jospeh Smith into Google
Translate because I didn't trust myself to remember all the correct conjugations
and ending s since there are a lot in russian. So then I called them back and I said "okay, I'll do it!" I then worked on memorizing the words I didn't know in Russian so that my testimony would be sincere because it was from my heart and
the wanted the russian man to know that. We go over there, my hands were
shaking so bad since I've forgotten so much russian since I'm trying to learn a
comletley different language. We watch the restoration in russian, and I understand some of it which eased my pouding heart a little bit. Then we talked
for a few minutes, and then the elders asked if I'd bear my testimony. I said a
few things in english first about really finding for ourselves and trusting
God, then I bore my short and sweet testimony on Jospeh Smith to him. And he was
like yes I know that also is true in russian. And then we had to leave early,
but after that the elders said he still wanted to keep meeiing with them
because he said we sisters were angels! So that was awesome! I was able to use
the little russian I rememeber to help someone else feel the Love of God for him
and hopefully he knows just how true this gospel is.
Something I really loved from conference was that we don't NEED to know all things. We
just need to KNOW God and know he has a plan for us. This really struck me as
we really don't need to worry so much about what we don't know. We just need to
know, What we know, and trust in God and have peace in our hearts. As Russell M.
Nelson said, "none but saints can be happy under EVERY circumstance. We must
trust in the Lord and despite our diffiuclt and hard times, he will always
bring us up out of the darkness. We just need to know who HE is, and know How
he is and always has been."
We have to trust in our loving Heavenly father. I
miss you all so much and I hope you enjoyed conference as much as I did! Love
you all!
--
Sister
Kemiella Quinton
Denmark
Copenhagen Mission
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