We woke up and cleaned the whole house, and studied like
champions, and it's been a great day already. :) Sister Hadfield is awesome.
She is so funny! We are really enjoying the work and LOTS of good things are
happening. We're becoming more effective servants of the Lord and the work is
hastening right before our eyes!
Before
I go on, I have some exciting news. Well, exciting for me! I hope you'll be
excited too. My release date isn't until the middle of March! That's right... I'm
EXTENDING! Surprise!!! I told President Sederholm a few months ago that I would
like to extend if possible, but didn't hear anything back about it until
yesterday. President Sederholm called, and asked if I would be able to stay
until March. I said yes of course! I hope that's okay. :) It feels right and I think
it's going to be AWESOME! More time to eat real pastries! ;)
Anywho
everything is going great! We're teaching and finding all over the place - it's
so fun. We had our first appointment with S, and taught him how to pray.
It was the sweetest experience ever! The Spirit was so strong, and I've decided
that teaching people how to pray is my favorite thing to do.
The ward is
amazing, we had Stake Conference in Copenhagen yesterday and it was fun to see
people from Slagelse (and Frederiksberg!) there. It was like home away from
home!
On Tuesday we had our zone training/Thanksgiving fest/turkey
bowl. The zone training was really uplifting and I learned a lot. I got to give
my first training and I was suuuuper nervous, but it went really well. My belt
fell off halfway through, but I played it off by kicking it under a table.
Pretty smooth, huh?
President Sederholm's part of the training was so powerful.
We all felt the Spirit so strong, and it really motivated me to want to
increase the quality of my faith in Christ. Later on in the week that really
got tested.
We were taking a bus out to Korsør and a girl named N got on
the bus that I talked to in September. We had a pretty good conversation about
God and I gave her a card, but not much really happened with it. When I saw her
on the bus, my first thought was "Oh no, how embarrassing! She probably
thinks I'm such a weirdo and won't want to talk to me again." But my
second thought was "you need to go talk to her again." I fought that
prompting for a couple of minutes, but then asked myself if I had the
faith in Christ to be able to put myself out there and talk to N again. I sucked it up and went to the back of the bus where she was
sitting. I asked how everything was going, and she told me that she was on her
way home from work early because her boyfriend just found out he might have
stomach cancer. It turned into one of the best experiences I've had, where we
talked about how she felt and if she believed that God had a plan for her and
her boyfriend. She said "Every time we talk you make me think
more!" It's totally the Spirit, not me, because the first time we talked I
was nervous out of my mind and afterwards felt like I hadn't really conveyed
the message like I should have. When she got off of the bus this time, I gave
her a Book of Mormon and she gave me her number. It was such a good experience,
and Sister Hadfield and I pretty much threw a party after we got off of the
bus.
The
gospel is so good! And I've realized that opportunities to find people who are
open to the gospel are only constrained by my own fear and doubt. Sometimes I
think "oh dear, this is an awkward situation. I can't share the
gospel!" When in reality, it's just me who's being awkward and the gospel
can totally be shared.
Also,
it is SO awesome to see Sister Hadfield learn and grow. She's getting so bold!
Her Danish is getting better and better! She is so excited to do the work and
loves the people so much. I am so impressed by her sincere desire to share the
message and learn. Ahh it is great! I love it all!
Basically,
it's been a great week. There have been ups and downs, but the ups always
outweigh the downs. Plus Sister Hadfield and I both caught the football a
couple of times during the turkey bowl, and made some touchdowns. No big deal.
;)
And
I got the packages! Thank you! Everyone at zone training loved the fish hats! We wear them during weekly planning and we tried to
wear them during football but they didn't stay on.
Love
you so much! Ha' det godt!
Love,
Sister
Barrett
PS
pictures - we failed at taking pictures at zone training. But check out the welove the cop den mission blog! There are pictures galore there.
But
here's us with the fish hats! And Sister HAdfield with a durum kebab... the
best food ever. It's huge! It's delicious! I can eat the whole thing!
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