Week 45

5/8/17

Well hi all! This week was great! We had a baptism with an investigator her name is Savanna and it was great! We just had an amazing week in general! I sadly got sick with food poisoning for a day,  2 days after my companion got it , it wasn't so fun , but we still made it to the baptism looking and feeling great!

We also had a family reunion for my companion Sister Dietch because they weren't members of the church so our president said we could go. We had so many of them ask about the nametags, and what we believed in , why we do what we do. It was so great and wondeful! I was helping 2 of the little boys climb up a slide outside while my companion talked with someone for a while, and then the 2 little boys' dad said it was time to leave and one fo the little boys said "Vi ses næste år!" which means see you next year, and then he turned around, looked at me and said " du komme næste år ikke også? Fordi jeg gerne ville se dig igen!" which is youre coming next year right, because i want to see you again! haha it was so cute and funny it made me feel good so I just said "det ved jeg ikke. Måske! jeg kan måske komme næste år!" (maybe! i dont know i maybe can come next year )
ahha. All the aunts and uncles and family who heard all started laughing  . It was funny , they were so cute!

 The baptism was amazing! I was standing by the font holding Savannas towel ready for her to come out of the water, and as she went down in to the water there was a giant cloud of the spirit that just flooded the room it was fantastic, so inspirational ! anywhoo, I loved it! Have a wonderful week all!
I'm so looking forward to talking to my family next week for Mother's Day!

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Sister Kemiella Quinton
Denmark Copenhagen Mission

                                                                                    Savannah and Kemi

Week 44

May 1, 2017


ALl is well here! We have a lot of fun things coming up this week!

We have a baptism on Saturday for our investigator Savanna! she's technically our investigator, because we are the ones who help her and do everything for her and teach her and go over a lot, but the elders offically "teach" her so shes their investigator, but nahhh ahah. Shes getting baptized this week on Saturday  my companion and I  sister Dietch are planning it! We're way stoked!

I got to bear my testimony in my new ward here in Lyngby, and as I walked up, I saw a man who winked at me on the stand afterward  I went and sat down. Then the bishopric member announces that the first talk will be Thomas Kofod, he plays Jesus in a lot of the church films and videos, and then the guy who winked at me gets up... I had seen him once before and met him but I didn't recognize him because he was all clean shaven and had short hair and no beard.. I had a real life moment where I didn't recognize him at all , told my companion later that U was ashamed because I "hadn't recognized my Savior" lol. She thought it was funny haha. He later came up to me and told me that he like my bleached strip in the back of my hair.... I've had that for 3 years now, and its grown out a ton, but our mission president was standing right there for that conversation and I felt so bad because I had redyed it right before I  left on my missoin ahah. But its okay it works out hah. Thomas told me that he like it and how it was fresh and made me look like a Dane basically ahha. it was funny. Wow many times in life do you get to say that Jesus was in your ward? Lol
Our investigator Savanna who is getting baptized, she's getting baptized by Thomas so we all made the joke about how she was literally getting baptized by Jesus haha. Lots of constant Jesus jokes haha. He's an amazing member though! How cool to be able to play the part of Christ in movies.

All in all, its been a great week! I was on splits with the Sister training leaders this week and we were in a lesson with an inactive woman who I originally had been the one to knock on her door and ask if we could visit and talk more and she said yes, we had a lesson with Inge and the lesson was about prayer .I felt as if at the end of the lesson to share something from 3 Nephi, so instead of ending the lesson, I opened up my scriptures, and talked and testified about prayer... She just stared at me and I  could see it meant something to her it was an amazing moment! She has always been a little wishy washy about stuff, but she looked right at me and we held eye contact the whole time i talked about it and i could see she was so interested in it and was feeling happy . it was great!

anywhoo, have a wonderful week!!!!

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Sister Kemiella Quinton
Denmark Copenhagen Mission

                                                  English and Danish boxes

                                                         My comp with a face mask

                                                          view from the 14th floor!

           A member named Emily, from Idaho , visiting Denmark for Geneolgy work spied these girls at church and texted a picture to our moms!  

Week 43

4-24-17


Hej! Hvordan går det med jer?! :)

Everything here in Denmark is amazing! Lyngby where I'm now serving is wonderful as ever! We have had to the opportunity to get someone on baptismal date, and give so many books of mormons out this week, me and my new companion just feel an insane fire that we can't explain! We are really excited to see how everything turns out this trasnfer :) we've had so many amazing experiences I  can't even explain them all! Suffice it to say,  we have several new investigators as well :)

We also had a guy let us into his house at one point when we were knocking
(it was allowed don't worry ahha) and Sister Dietch asked him if he knew who Jesus Christ was.. It sounds like a retorical quesiton, but it made sense with the questions we had asked and the way he had asnwered ahah.  But this guy had obviously known about Jesus Christ and his previous answers were way misleading, because she asked him that quesiton, and basically summed up in English, is what he said was " oh no I didn't know him, he died right before I was born...." and I had caught his joke because I was like, wait a second ahah but SIster Dietch just kept talking and was like okay! And the guy started grinning because she hadn't caught it, and he looked at me to see if I  had caught it, and I was grinning way bad too . I just kept nodding along with what she was saying it was hilarious ahah. I told her after the lesson and she was dying laughing ahha

We also had stake conference, and at one point in the saturday session, the general authority, who was speaking, made fun of his friend Jens,  in the audience, and then he said so in english, and then the danish translator said the same thing in danish, but in danish he said " Jeg Kørt lidt på Jens" and the exact translation of that is "I  drove a little on Jens" and so me and my companion just started laughing to ourselves, and the authority, had been talking to Jens who was in the audience who was like 2 rows in front of us right where we were, and he like saw us and goes " okay girls in front laugh or else I might call on you next!" and it was so funny because he didn't get it because the translation itself was way funny and it wasn't him, it was the translation to danish ahah. it was so funny and awkward ahha. but overall, it was a wonderful week! And I hope you all had a wonderful week as well!
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Sister Kemiella Quinton
Denmark Copenhagen Mission

                                                       Beautiful Danish Money

                                                           Yes they do have Mc Donalds!

                                                             Queens chair with a K on it!!

                                                          Working hard!  ANDDD ICE CREAM

 

Week 42

4/17/17

Hey all! This week was wonderful! I'm doing great! I just got transferred to Lyngby which is on the outskirts of Copenhagen! I'm way excited! I did splits here before twice or three times when I was in my first area Rødovre! SO I was way excited to come back to Copenhagen because Copenhagen holds my heart :) København i mit hjerte!!! haha
 I'll miss Odense and all the People there, but k back to the best place ever :)

My new companion Sister Dietch is wonderful! She's from Provo Utah and shes been out about 6 months now. So were gonna kill it here in Lyngby!

This week, we did so much service to a family in the ward to help literally rebuild their whole yard, driveway, and everything.. One of the days that we did service we were there for about 6 hours. And that was just ONE day! We also had several amazing appointments with investigators this week!

I also sang in church for Easter(påske) yesterday! I actually sang for my ward, and then I sang for the other ward an hour later! Haha it was so crazy! The first hour, our investigator Thorbjørn came because I was singing, and he found out before I walked up , that I would be transferring. He was so sad! He was like thank you for everything and all the times you've helped me! I was so sad to leave! And after I sang, he was like thank you so much that was amazing! My voice actually cracked so much during that song because I felt the Holy Ghost so much, and I also was really nervous, my voice could not hit any of the high notes, so that was a little awkward but sometimes , Holy Ghost has other plans ahah. The Second time I sang it went a lot better! I even had a member who is struggling way hard financially right now, he came up to me and was like, that meant so much to me sister quinton. and then he was like "I'm a fat man, and its hard to make any emotion get through all this fat.. But THAT hit me right in the heart thank you!" I was like awww yay! Haha it made me feel really good that people liked it :) ahah I was way happy! And apparently several people were crying during it which I didn't know but i wasn't really looking at peoples faces so much ahah. But it went good!

As a departing fun thing, all the missionaries on Fyn we did a "sing battle" because 2 other elders said they could write a better song than me so I told them to bring it on ahah. And we both wrote songs, and they say mine hands down was better, but Theirs hands down was better in my book it was wonderful ahah. And then I sang an actual song I had seriously written not like a joke song, and everyone loved it! Which made me feel good as well ahah. I hope all goes well!

Lifes great here in Denmark! love you all tons! :)
Happy Easter!!

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Sister Kemiella Quinton
Denmark Copenhagen Mission

                                                     new companion Sister Dietch

                                                        Rikke

                                                               Aviaaja

                                                            Alice Held

                                                                               Sister Buxton who heads home in May

Week 41

4-10-17

Hi everyone
Well, this week was very busy ahha. We had tons of things to do! We did splits in Vejle, then we did a ton of service and yard work for people. We also had zone conference and we were in charge of cake night so then we got to do all that fun stuff.  We did more and more service, and then we went to an advent church here and  we did quite a few other things ... it was a really busy week.
I honestly dont know where the time goes. haha. It was a great week though. I hope you all had a great week as well!

We had an appointment with our investigator Thorbjørn this week(have I ever mentioned that translates to Thunder Bear?) we asked him about praying. He's had a hard time with that, he prayed for a straight week! He said he loved it and wants to do it again! He also prayed at our cake night in front of several people which was  also a miracle! It was a terrific prayer that was so spiritual and heart felt. He's on his way to baptism!

We also had a great discussion over cookies and fanta with our investigator about Jospeh Smith and the Book of Mormon because she read the first 16 chapters in first Nephi.We were way excited :)

All in all, its been productive and amazing week in Denmark!
I'll probably get transferred this week,I find out on Saturday and then I move on Monday. I've been here 6 months and I will really miss Odense, it's a beautiful place .
I know the Lord has plans for me and all of his children! Love you all tons!

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Sister Kemiella Quinton
Denmark Copenhagen Mission

  me, Sis Whitlock, Elder Weaver , Elder Hunt. Elder Hunt sings the vocals for the song Priceless on                                                         the  new EFY 2017 song.

                           me, Sister Mcarthur, Sister Jones and Sister Whitlock at zone conference

                                                      Sister Hansen warming her ears

                                                     Vejle

                                                    Zone Conference

Week 40

4/3/17

Hey all! 

This week was awesome ! We had a lot of opportunities to do a lot of work, and we had so many miracles! 

We got to watch General Conference, and if I'm being completely honest, I love general conference! I love being able to take questions to the Lord,  that I have, and in some time  throughout the  conference,  whether its during or after,  I always get an answer to my quesitons. I love reading the notes I took of  general conference too! It boosts my testimony beyond belief! 

This week we had an appointment with an investigator , it started  off, as we went to leave, With a flat tire, so I quickly borrowed other sisters who were doing weekly planning. They said yes, so we took off for our appointment! Our investigator was late, when we called him he was still sleeping so we rescheduled (  it would take him about 45 minutes before he could make it to our appointment) . We were a little bummed, but we decided to go knocking before our next appointment at 2pm...  we were biking by an inactive members house on our way to our knocking place, we stopped because we saw tons of yard equipment. we biked quickly back by so we could "wait it out" for a few minutes so we could help them but if they refused, we wouldnt have to take a different way to our knocking place. So we stopped our bikes a little down the street, then we saw the nonmember wife come out and start working in the yard again.(the inactive member (he has no legs). so we "biked by" again and we stop and talk with the nonmember wife for a few minutes. Turns out she just had all of her teeth removed a little bit ago. so we offer our help to help in the yard, and so she let us! We worked for about 45 minutes or so before our next appointemnt, and then we went to our next appointment where we had a wonderful conversation and she was so positive! Then we went back to the inactives house and helped his wife again for about another 2 hours or so and talked as well. it was so great! It was a miracle that the other sister missionaries were just weekly planning and going contacting the last part of the day, because instead of me borrowing the bike for like 2 or 3 hours, we ended up using the bike for about 7 or 8 that day... It was such an amazing experience helping the sister with her yard work! I definitely know that God works in mysterious ways sometimes,  he will always provide us with what we need! I hope you all had an amazing week like I did, and that it was spiritually enriching! God loves us all as his children! Love you all tons!

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Sister Kemiella Quinton

Denmark Copenhagen Mission

Week 39

3/27/17 Hey all! 

I hope your week has gone wonderful! We had 2 baptisms in Odense this week! It was so amazing and wonderful they have great things in store for them :) we had Lizette and then we had Mati who were baptized. it was so great! One of our investigators came to one of the baptisms, and his face was so excited and you could just see the pure joy on his face he was so amazed! When I talked to him right after they were baptized, I asked him what he thought and all he could say was Hold op! Det var meget spændende! Which basically means wow that was way wonderful! It was such an amazing experience and I'm excited to see how our investigator Thorbjørn does in his journey in coming to Christ as well! 

This week we also had our ward talent show but it was 2 wards combined, and I sang with 2 of the other sister missionaries and a girl named Isabella who played guitar. We sang "I  will rise" by Chris Tomlin and it went well! I had a couple compliments say that I sang  good so that made me feel nice. haha. 

Its always sweet when people compliment you on your voice! It was sunny almost all week this week! We had weird weather last week, but it only rained 2 times this week and for very short periods of time. the rest of the week was warm, sunny and all that fun stuff! I forgot what it feels like to bike without a big winter jacket haha. 

Not much else happened this week , The 2 baptisms are the highlight ! 

 I know this coming week will also be amazing as well ! Have a beautiful sunny week!

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Sister Kemiella Quinton

Denmark Copenhagen Mission