8-13-17
Wow
this week was full of so many things i don't know where to start...
First thing, Me and my
comp ate sauce that had mold on the top of the lid because we thought it would
be fine and we were hungry haha... it was worth it and we didn't get sick
haha.
Next thing, is I had
the opportunity to go down to Odense where i served for 6 months, for a baptism
of an investigator i taught for 6 months! His name is Thorbjørn and it was so
great! But first, me and my old companion Sister Whitlock got on the same train
and did splits so we could go down,(we were together for 3 transfers in Odense)
and so we went to see a family that we had taught a tiny bit. Their names
are Signe, Sebastiana and their 2 kids Astrid and Axel. Astrid shares a
birthday with me so we took a birthday gift to her as well. We went over and
they were expecting us, we talked, laughed, talked about why we don’t drink
alcohol or coffee, and drank herbal tea together and ate cinnamon rolls
together then they made us dinner! It was so great! Sebastian lived in Moscow
and Saint Petersburg in Russia for a while and he speaks Russian so he asked me
if I knew the Russian birthday song with the crocodile and I was like yes i do!
SO he sang it and I hummed the tune because i couldn't remember the words (Danish
has flooded in hhaha) . But it was great! They are the cutest family
ever"!
We went to
Thorbjærns baptism, we walked in to see him and he was so surprised but excited
to see us! Then we go upstairs to sit down, and we see another investigator who
I taught for 3 months before I left (me and Sister Whitlock had knocked into
her) and she (Rikke) has a baptismal date for the 16th of September! So
everything is going so great!!! Then the baptism happened, and when he walked
in to the font >Thorbjørn was breathing so hard he was so nervous! i
actually got way teary eyed when he went down in to the water which is weird
because I'm not emotional haha. it was great. Then when he walked back in after
he had changed clothes, he was wearing a SUIT! a nice European tailored suit it
was so awesome!!! I was so proud he looked like a Mormon :) haha. After the
whole service, i went up to him and told him congratulations, and he told me
that the first time he had really felt the Holy Ghost was the last Sunday I was
in the ward I had been serving in (when i sang) for Easter. ( i sounded
so terrible that day) but i remembered when he told me that, i instantly
remembered . That day i had been praying so hard as he was sitting next to me
to feel something, that he would receive an answer and FEEL the holy ghost. and
it was awesome to see 4 1/2 months later, to see and recognize that answer to
prayer. Then later, my old companion, Sister Downs, came up to me and she said,
"you know that letter you wrote to him and you left it in his mailbox when
you left about your testimony and whatever else it said? He has told us so many
times that that letter was when it really changed for him. That helped him
really see it was time to change" and that made me feel so grateful for
the opportunity i had to teach Thorbjørn! I'm so glad my testimony and honesty
was felt in the letter and in the song I sang. It wasn't me, but I'm grateful
God worked through me to help Thorbjørn :) Then after that evening (the
baptismal service and snacks) my old comp and I played a song i wrote called
the "Master carpenter", and he loved it! He was like you wrote that?!
then the last thing was I was writing in his baptismal memory book for the day,
he came and sat next to me and told me, hey I'm still writing a letter response
to your letter you gave me... I've rewrote it like 5 times but I'm gonna give
you a response back.. I thought it was the coolest things to have someone say
that to me!!! :) all in all, it was a great experience and I'm so excited to
keep hearing about his story and adventures on his conversion to God :)...
The last fun adventure
we had, was we went on Strøget( a big outdoor shopping center in the middle of
Copenhagen) and we had 2 groups of like 10 missionaries each and we tried
getting people to read a page from the book of Mormon and they could take a
free book if they wanted, and we also had pamphlets, and it was so cool! It was
awesome to see the results and see what people thought.
All in all, the week
was fantastic! i hope the missionary work is doing great where all of you
are as well. Love you all! Stay amazing!
--
Sister Kemiella
Quinton
Denmark Copenhagen
Mission
Konstantine
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