Danish Word of the Week: VI
SES!
(vee sees) See you later! This is what I
said to everyone in Frederiksberg because it was too sad to say goodbye!
Family! I transferred! Oh man this is the weirdest
feeling. This morning I made it to my new area-a city called Horsens. It is absolutely
beautiful here - we live in a building that I seriously thought was a CASTLE when I
first saw it. But then my new companion-Søster Barrett was like, nope,
that's our HOME! I live in a castle. Pictures will follow. Next week.
Other crazy thing about this
transfer, I'm a Sister Training Leader now. That's the Sister
version of a Zone Leader. That means that I get to go out on splits
with all of the sisters in the zone every transfer and teach little
sections of zone training every month. I'm excited!
Søster Barrett is going home before
the end of this transfer (she extended her mission but she could only stay
in the country for an extra 30 days instead of a full transfer), so that
means that I'm going to have to learn this new area and the STL thing really
fast before she leaves me! Craziness!
That being said, it was really,
really hard to say goodbye to Copenhagen! My home!! But our district
finished out the week strong. The Elders had a baptism on Saturday and one of
our investigators was able to come watch. It was a really special experience.
This last week was full of a lot of goodbyes-it was definitely bittersweet. I am so grateful for all of the
people that I love and everything I've learned from them, and I'm of course sad
to leave that behind. But on the other hand I know that there are even more
wonderful experiences waiting for me.
But, before I left, we were able to
set a baptismal date with one of the investigators I've worked with since the
beginning of my mission. She is Brazilian and she actually took a break from
meeting with us for a couple of months so that she could go to Brazil for
Christmas and New Years. Last
Tuesday, I felt prompted to change our plans a little bit and stop by her.
It had been about 2 months since we had had any contact with her. She didn't
let us in that night, but she told us to come back on Friday. We came back of Friday and she
told us that the day we stopped by she had just been praying that she would
find out what she was supposed to change in her life to find more
happiness. She said that she realized that she missed the spirit the
missionaries used to bring into her home. She was thinking of calling us to
invite us back over, but then we came over on our own! She believes
that was a sign that God heard her prayer. We were just grateful that we
were in tune enough with the Spirit to change our plans and stop by her!
Anyways, she's just wonderful and she wants to be baptized March 21st. YAY.
I love you all so much! I'm sorry
that I don't always have time to write back to each of you individually. Know
that I read all of your emails every week and am just so grateful to hear how
you're doing. You
strengthen me more than you know! :)
Hi mom! sorry I have been so bad at
emailing lately. The time goes by so fast and we have to write our mission
president and do a bunch of other random stuff. So anyways. That's why. It sounds like everything is going well! I'm
so glad the shows are going to be fun and that you're working with Dulcie a
little bit!! Say hi to her for me :)
I'm a Sister Training Leader now.
I'm excited and nervous for this. I've only been in the country for 6
months-this is only my second area-and it's a lot of new responsibility! I hope
I can be a good example to all of the sisters in my zone-and learn this new
area and how to do zone reports and organize splits AND be a good missionary on
top of it all! One of the elders in
my district gave me a blessing before transfers. Søster Reed got
one too. She's training a brand new missionary this transfer :) They are going
to do wonderful things in Frederiksberg.
But anyways, the blessing helped calm my nerves a lot and it just let me know
what I need to personally focus on. We talked a lot in zone training last
week about making sure that we are personally converted to the gospel
before we try to help others become converted. The Sister Training Leaders
shared the analogy of
helping others into a boat vs. jumping into the with them and trying to
push them into the boat. It's much easier to be in the boat yourself and
pull others up than to jump in the Water and struggle with them.
We have to make sure
that our own testimonies are being cared for every day before we can ever
hope to help anyone else. That's basically what my blessing talked
about. It reminded me to take care of my testimony and to focus on the little
daily things I can do to stay close to God so that I'll be able to help
others.
Also, mother, I have had THE WORST
LUCK with cameras so far on my mission. My SIM card got stolen, I lost my
charger, and now my camera is completely broken. Every time I take a picture it
gets all distorted and there are weird lines all over it. I've tried every
trick I know besides actually taking it in to a shop to get it looked at-but
basically I have no camera now. I hope you've all been getting
sufficient Pictures from me mooching off of my companions for the last 6 months
:) I don't really know what to do about this, but just so you, know that's the
situation.
I love you! Thank you for everything
you do. You're a nice lady. :)
Have a good week and have fun with the
SHOWS! I wish I could be there.
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