Danish Word of the Week: navngivning (NOUN-gee-neeng) Baby Blessing
Hey family! Ella's baby blessing
sounds like an amazing experience. Her dress was so cute!! I liked that it
matched Emma's skirt. :) I'm glad that everyone got to be a part of it!
This week was a blur of names and
faces-gotta love the first week in a new area. :) We also got rained on more
than I ever have in my LIFE-which by now is really saying something. The
other day, we were in an appointment at a member family's house-they
live right across the street from the train station. We saw the train we were supposed to catch pull up through their
window-and had to run barefoot across the street in the pouring rain to catch
it. Our lives are so frantic. It's hilarious.
I've been thinking a lot recently
about a President Hinckley quote- 'Activity is the genius of this church.'
I love that in Jesus
Christ's church, every single member is a part of building and strengthening it.
An investigator was talking to me one time about family history-He asked why we
think that it's OUR responsibility here on earth to figure all of that out. We
probably make millions of mistakes, it takes forever- wouldn't it be way
more efficient if we just let God do it? There's a bunch of different answers
to that question, but I know that one of them is because if we 'just let God do it,' we
here on the earth would never have a chance to catch the vision of His
work. God gives us opportunities to be involved so that we can have a
living, burning excitement for the work he is doing. That doesn't just
apply to family history work. It applies to missionary work, any kind of
calling, family relationships-it's no secret that this whole thing would go a
lot more smoothly if Heavenly Father would just do it himself. But that's not
the point. Jesus Christ is
the master teacher-master teachers give their students opportunities to try it
out themselves, learn from their own mistakes, practice, and improve.
I'm so grateful that Heavenly Father has given me so many opportunities to
serve. We really do gain so much more than we ever sacrifice.
For example, we were out contacting
the other day with a woman who got baptized one month ago. She had never done
ANYTHING like contacting before, and at first she was way nervous.
Understandable. Eventually we had a couple of good conversations, and then she started
getting braver and braver with stopping people on the street. At the end of our
contacting time, she took us by a cafe she hangs out at a lot. She knew
almost every person in there, and she went up to each table one by one and
invited them to come hear more about this church she had just joined. After we
left, she expressed how exciting it was to share her new faith with her
friends-she felt so good! She was so happy! Those 1 1/2 hours she
sacrificed to come out with us did so much to strengthen her new
testimony. Activity is the genius of this church-and of God's work.
I hope you all are finding joy and
learning lots through being actively involved. You get out what you put in, and more. I love you all so much! I
love the gospel, I love the church, and I love my Savior. I'm grateful that I'm
not expected to be perfect, and that through Jesus Christ's Atonement, I
can be a little bit better every day.
Keep being wonderful! Take care of
each other!
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