Week 67

Hello all! Im doing great here in Holbæk! :) we had a crazy week of doing lots of little things that needed to be done , but thats okay it  gives us the chance to do lots of missionary work this week :)  we had a crazy time! 

 One random thing was we helped set up for  2 straight days for a harvest festival for our ward. The woman in charge of it didnt have anyone to help her except the missioanries and 1 other member . It turned out to be super fun,  so that was good :) We were asked to teach a line dance( us 4 sister missionaries) so we asked our Mission President if we were allowed to  and he said “yes of course you can line dance! “

So that was way cool! He was like as long as you're not dancing with someone else your good :) so we went out there, and the other sisters choreographed a short dance, and then we danced it, but we didn't have the music we needed , which was an 8 count song, so the 2 songs the members played for us to teach with, was "Cant stop the feeling" by Justin timberlake, and "Thats what makes you beautiful" by One direciton, and man it was so fun! We had a moment of pure bliss as missionaries to be able to help serve, and we had a smal blessing of getting to hear 2 really good songs : Doesn't happen ever as a missionary ahha..it was way fun! That same evening, a woman we are teaching  was there and she was dancing, and she saw the other sisters investigator sitting down on the side by himself, she goes up to him trying to get him to dance (shes a little bit older and braver than most) and he said no and literally went running outside of the room because apparently he hates dancing ahha. it was way funny to see him run , we all had a good laugh. He still came to church the next day so that was good haha. 

We also got to attend a baptism for a guy named Benjamin who sister Smith taught, and it was way good! It was way fun too! I love getting to see people enter into a pagt( i cant remember the English word) ..... wait... a..  covenant with God! :) 

We got to teach about the Holy Ghost to an investigator, and it was excellent! We think we are making some progress slowly in our area again, so thats good. I hope all of your weeks were great as well! :) 

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Sister Kemiella Quinton

Denmark Copenhagen Mission

                                       Sister Smith Kinder-eggs ( The surprise inside is the best)
                                                        facemasks and fun in the sun.

Week 66

Oct. 2, 2017

Hey all! this week was great! I got to spend the last week with Sister Jones here in Holbæk, and it was fun! Thursday, we got my "2 month mark pastry" so that was fun :) !
On Friday we had district meeting, after lunch we surprised Sister Jones, (the past 2 weeks I've been planning her birthday! )  I wasnt mentioning her birthday really because I knew she might expect a party. We sang to her, someone brought a chocolate cake, and then 2 elders brought in a couple of 3 foot long confetti canons, and we blew her away! There was confetti everywhere it was great! she loves confetti :) we played ping pong, we put straight saft syrup in little cups haha. it was way fun! then on saturday, we had an investigator and youth type activity where we ate pizza together, watched a session of conference, then played ping pong! There was about 13 people there it was super!
Sunday came for Sister Jones' actual birthday, that morning at 2 am I got up  and went to our bathroom, and blew up some baloons, threw them around our apartment, added a few little fun gifts I'd gotten for her on the couch, and then waited for her to come out. When she did she sat on the couch said close your eyes and I  grabbed a baby confetti cannon then said open your eyes and as she did, I shot her with confetti again it was so fun! we had a great week!
Of course conference was amazing! I'm so glad we have conference twice a year! In conference one of the speakers talked about how we should serve others. One of the things I thought about, was how sometimes we get so focused on ourselves, and comparing ourselves to others, and we don't always see their side of the story. we are so focused on how we are right, and what needs WE have, that we don't often see the bigger picture . Its not really ABOUT us. We are important, but that doesn't mean we deserve number 1 always. I think one of the greatest things we learn as missionaries is to care for the needs of others, and to not do things because WE want them, or WE know best, but we do things for our companion and others because they are our friends, and loved ones, and because the Savior would serve. Service is hard, but it is as were told, the second greatest commandment. And if we Really do love the Lord as the first commandment says, then we channel that by loving our neighbors more than ourselves , putting away our desires and wants for someone else. We look to build others in their successes, and mourn with them in their losses. But we always continue forward, striving for the light of Christ, and being an example.
Challenge of the week: encourage you and I , to do the same this week as we have been counseled in General Conference. I know it will bless your lives and bring the happiness you search for.

Have a great week!

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Sister Kemiella Quinton
Denmark Copenhagen Mission

                                                              Sister Jones and I

                                    Sis. Jones Surprise Birthday!1 She LOVES Conffetti!!

                                                  Awesome 3 foot conffetti canons!

                                               Great Day!! Happy Birthday Sis. Jones

                                     My New Companion Sister Smith from Highland Utah

Week 65

9-25-17

Hey all! This week was a little slow but it was great!

This past Sunday we had a lunch after church, and there was this older couple who were not members who, were the parents of one of the members,  they had come that day for the food. I sat down next to them and we were talking ,  they were way sweet and way cool! At first they were a little weirded out that I was talking to them, but then they were way friendly! It was fun just asking them questions and seeing how they wamred up to me after a few minutes haha. When their member son came up to me as we were talking, he goes "hi sisters... englihs?? or Danish??? (his wife is from England) so as I go to answer, the  his mother says in Danish "she can do both parts equally as good!" and it was such a compliment to me because when an old Danish woman says you can speak Danish just fine and do English just as good, it was a real compliment that doesn't happen often with older Danish people or young ones for  that matter ahha. they just call us foreigners. I felt very grateful and pleased by her compliment to my Danish :)

This week taught Sunday school , the lesson was about the sacrament and repentance. We had 2 investigators in the class, they were with the other sisters missionaries,  as we talked, at the very end after we had written the "steps" of repentance, they both pulled their phones out and took a picutre of it :) it was so cool and cute! hhaa. they took pictures of my terrible handwriting about how to repent :)

We also were on the gå gade and streets of Slagelse, as a district,  to give out books of mormons and give people the chance to read one page from the book of mormon. It was way cool! I stopped this older lady, after 5 mintues of talking to her, her daughter who was also quite old came up and I  talked with them there on the street for an hour, and the rest of the district had packed up the table by the time I finished talking to them  . It was way exciting at the end they both took books of mormons and it was just great :) they were way sweet and open to hearing about the book! anwyhoo, life is doing great, and the car area is grreeeaaaat! :)

Have a great week!

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Sister Kemiella Quinton
Denmark Copenhagen Mission

                                             Danish Plan of Salvation wooden puzzle

                          sign on the side of the bridge says Hoebæk even though its spelled Holbæk 

                                                  A funny way to say "Wet Paint"

                               Drawings our investigator ,Alex, did while we were teaching him
                                                               helps him concentrate.

Week 64

9-18-17

I hope you all got my general last week, but it didn’t seem like it went through so sorry about that!

This week was good! We took an essentials p day so that our district could go to Bon Bon land... but uhhh we didn’t end up getting to go.  Sister Whiltock and I went to Odense to see the baptism of Rikke! We knocked into to her and then I taught her for a good while so it was so cool getting to see her baptized :) it was so really great! God is great, and getting to watch him work in others' lives is amazing :)

On the way back from the baptism, we saw 2 other sister missionaries, apparently there was another emergency transfer because a sister got threatened by a crazy person. The 2 sisters who were affected by the transfer (they were not threatened) was Sister Player and Sister Barney, and then we saw Matthias ( a member) at the train station as well! It was so cool because we had the original Odense squad back together like a year later! it was so cool :) so we took a picture :) on the train ride back form Odense, we saw a fight go down with 2 guys, and they have these weird plastic divider things between the doors, I watched as the fight began less than 15 feet away from me, and I watched one guy slam the other guy, and his body flew and smashed against the plastic thing.. It was way intense... and surprisingly, the plastic thing didn’t break that was surprising. Blood everywhere.. The authorities didn’t even clean it up. Gross. It all worked out okay, they got the situation under control here really quickly. It was still a little unnerving.

Our zone leaders have a joke with us that whoever cannot give out more Book of Mormons that the companionship, then we have to write a rap.  So this week we worked our butts off, and it only amounted to 4 books of Mormon... so we built it up way big this week and the zone leaders were way worried because we wouldn’t tell them how many we gave out. Then they told us they gave out 26!! When we told them 4 books of mormons, the zone leader was like that’s it?! You had me stressing all week I thought we were gonna get destroyed! I was having a heart attack all week! ONLY 4?! haha it was so funny haha. It was a rough week for giving out books, It was still a good week. anwuhoo, hope you all are doing well, stay awesome!

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Sister Kemiella Quinton

Denmark Copenhagen Mission

                                                      Matthias on the train

                                          The mission Pres Wife center back Sister O'Bryant

                                                   Mission Training Conference

                                                                Sister Jones and I

Week 63

Sept 11, 2017

Gosh this week was such a whirlwind! We had so many fun things going on! First, we had our zone conference, and that was very enlightening and fun! Then we also had splits with the STLS, and that was fun! Me and sister Jex were in the rain all day and it was the worst because it’s the misty rain that somehow soaks through all your clothes really fast haha.

Me and sister Jones got to get a new car, they are switching out all the mission vehicles to newer ones, so our new car is awesome! Her name is Lucy ( apparently everyone names cars and stuff here as a missionary. I think it’s weird but I went along with it hahah) and our GPS which we decided to put in Swedish and see how much we understand (we are trying to learn Swedish) his name is Benjy.

We were way sad to give in the old car Melanie, and the GPS Ben, but that’s okay our newer things are way cooler. So yeah ahha. 

My knee is doing a little better this week so that’s good! 

Sorry so short!

All in all, missionary work was a blur but it was great, and everything else is doing great! So that’s good. Hope all is wonderful there at home! I look forward to hearing from all of you! <:) 

Sister Kemiella Quinton

Copenhagen Denmark Mission

                                                    Yummy Triangles!! Look how BIG it is!

                                                   Flower vending machines.

                                        Sis.Fife the only one that can fit my small helmet!!

                                               Sis. Jones  More mask time...pores are important,

                                                         Sister Whitlock and I at Rikke's baptism

Week 62

9/4/17

Well, hello al! This week was... eventful.. Basically long story short, I've been having problems with my knee when I got hit about 5 months ago in Soccer, and I will be needing an operation. I have been given an earlier release date of November 29th, which is a little less than 3 months away. if I am in too much pain, then I will get a medical release early and I will come home and get the surgery. I'm not sure how the tables will turn yet, but I hope to finish my mission as much as possible before i am finished and go home. I love Denmark, and I've seen so many people change theirs lives...There was an elder here who asked me " what kind of mission are you serving sister Quinton?! You’ve had so many crazy things happen to you!" ahha so that was funny ahha.

I've been transferred to Holbæk and I’ll be in a car area with Sister Jones who was in my MTC group.
This week(before i got transferred when i was with sister Fife in Horsens) we taught the word of wisdom to a man, and it was so cool because we got him to go down one cigarette for that day and he didn't drink either the entire day, and he was so present and  there in church it was so cool!! :) He has been trying so hard to live the word of wisdom, and you can see its starting to affect him in a positive way :) I love teaching others about the gospel and Christ :)

Something I've noticed in this process of my knee and all the things I've been doing is that as missionaries we give so much, as members too, sometimes we give so much when it's all we can do. As I've been realizing all the things going on this past few weeks with my knee and getting transferred to a car so I can last longer, I've been wondering, have I really done enough? Have I REALLY given the Lord all I can every single day? I think a lot of the time the answer we give ourselves is a question, and it is, "well, what is my all? What IS my best? “I think that depends. But if we feel satisfied with the way we have acted today, then I believe the answer is yes. One thing I learned from an elder here and one of my dear friends in the mission, he one time said, the question he asks himself every night, is "have I brought myself to Christ? Have I brought others to Christ?" if the answer is yes, then you have done a good work that day. The other piece of advice I have, (as once said to me), sometimes our best is going out, doing lots of things and spending a whole day out there, doing things that need to be done and serving and being here and there and that’s great because it’s our best. Then other days, our best is just to get out of bed and get dressed. Whichever day you are having today, I would hope that you realize, you are trying your best. If you have brought others or yourself to Christ today, then you have had a day, where the love of the Savior can reside. I would encourage all of you who do not feel as if you are doing enough, or aren't good enough, keep praying for the love of the savior, and keep trying because if we are trying, we are doing something, and something is making us move forward towards Christ.

Hope you all have a wonderful week!

One more thing:

This week we had an eating appointment with the elders, and the first thing was a the old guy who was our host brought out these drinks that looked like strawberry pieces in cream. Turns out, it was yogurt and shrimp. I was like oh crap I can’t eat shrimp.. Like the one time I did I gagged.... so like the old guy walked out for a minute, and everyone else was done of the missioners because it was just us 4 then the old man. I looked at all of them frantically and was like I can’t eat the shrimp. so the coolest elder ever, Elder Stephens grabs the cup from me and scarves it all down for me in 10 seconds before the guy came back, and he got yogurt all over his face then just casually wiped it off then the guy walked back in a few mintues later.. but it was insane crazy and funny I was so grateful!!! 

Sister Kemiella Quinton 

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Sister Kemiella Quinton Denmark Copenhagen Mission

                                                         Sister Fife and I

                                                        My new companion Sister Jones

                                                                Fife and I

                                                                   The Odense Group