Week 6 5/14/2013

Hallo alle!

Last week in the mtc! AHHH!!!! Crazy how time flies! I can't even believe it! It feels like we just got here. I've seen 5 or 6 friends come and go and i'm still content with staying here. Don't get me wrong, i'm super excited to go to Denmark and teach real people and bring them to this wonderful gospel, but i love my district and my teachers.

This week was quite interesting. IT was a great week. We had a lot of laughs and even more amazing spiritual experiences. This place is just a constant spiritual high.  love it!

We taught a lesson to Søren this week. We were teaching him about the law of chastity in Danish, which is awkward enough, but then the words for prostitute and obedience are very similar. I'm pretty sure that we may have told him to be a prostitute about the law of chastity a few times... woops haha To make things worse, one of the søstre in my companionship accidentally grabbed a swedish pamphlet for the law of chastity. The words in swedish and danish are very similar, but the letter placement is very different. She tried to sound it out and accidentally said the s-word... haha we couldn't stop laughing the whole lesson! Every time anyone said that word we just laughed and laughed. It didn't help that bro williamson makes really funny faces when he's trying not to laugh. haha it was an interesting lesson.

 So, we got our travel plans this week. Crazy to think that on Tuesday i could be on a whole other continent, in a new country speaking DANISH! AHH!!! Like Frenchy always says, it's just a hop skip and a boat ride away. Well, more of a plane ride. It's crazy to think that it's so close.

We don't really know what's going on with our visa's at the moment. The last group didn't get theirs, but then again, on all of their paperwork it says they are coming into the country the same day as us since they moved them back 6 weeks. We all fasted this last sunday for them, including our teachers, and we have made it a goal this week to be exactly obedient, since obedience brings power. That includes getting up 5 min early so we make sure we are all out of bed on time and we hava community prayer. We make sure not to be a minute early or a minute late to anything and we go the extra mile to make sure we are EXACTLY obedient. That includes crossing between the lines of the cross walk at the temple, not eating anything at all in the classroom except for mints (That's a hard one), turning all lights of at exactly 10:30 and changing our laundry time on p-day. (apparently we have a p-day schedule no one knew about). It's only the second day but it's already been hard. It was especially hard for our companionship yesterday. We all decided that it's because we all prayed for patience and exact obedience at the same time. Big mistake... haha I think we've worked out most of the kinks. It helps to have the spirit on your side.

This Sunday was absolutely amazing. We had some amazing speakers. Relief society was especially amazing. The spirit was so strong. Sister Janice Kapp Perry who wrote songs like A Child's Prayer, Helaman's Army, and I Belong To The Church of Jesus Christ came to talk to us. SHe also wrote the music to As Sisters in Zion. She gave a beautiful talk on the sanctification of a missionary and simplicity in music and in words. She wrote another song with the tune of As Sisters In Zion that is the sister missionary song. I can tell you that it was totally inspired. She had us sing that in closing. The lyrics were amazing and perfect for missionary work and the spirit was almost tangible in the room. The music kept building and building. The song got louder and louder as we sang. It got to one line that said something to the effect of we share our glad message with all who will hear. We go forth enlisted with Helaman's army in numbers far greater than ever before. That line is especially special to us sister missionaries since we are those numbers far greater than ever before. It hit us all, hard, and everyone started crying and we all had to stop singing, but the singing in the room didn't get any quieter, infact, it got louder and louder. It was overwhelming. It reminded me of when i was in the general conference choir and the choir director said that when you get that many worthy people together singing, that if they are all living how they should and are receptive to the spirit, you can hear the angels singing. I think that is exactly what happened. There is no other way that that could have happened. I am still in awe of that moment. I will always cherish it in my heart.

Søster Rogers is like a scripture queen. She knows a scripture for everything! She always finds the perfect scriptures for our situations of trials that we are dealing with. Well, she did it again this week. Someday i am going to be just like her. Anyway, we have all been crazy worried about our visas since we got our travel plans. It's been weighing down on all of us. It's kind of been distracting. So, Søster Rogers decided that she was going to find something to help us. What she found was amazing and fits our situation perfectly. The scriptures cease to amaze me. She read in 1 Nephi 7:12-13. It says:"Yea, and how is it that ye have forgotten that the Lord is able to do all things according to his will for the children of men, if it so be that they exercise faith in him? Wherefore, let us be faithful to him. And if it so be that we are faithful to him, we shall obtain the land of promise" I don't know if we could have read anything more perfect for us right now. The Lord is able to do ALL THINGS. If we are faithful, we shall obtain the land of promise. The land of promise to us is Denmark. We all got a piece of paper, signed by the prophet to tell us that we will be in Denmark. If that is the Lord's will, we will be in Denmark. Wow. And if we are not supposed to go to Denmark yet, then that is ok, because the Lord does all things according to His will. I love it. It brought so much peace to all of us and we have been able to focus much more now.

Jeg elsker jer!

Have a great week!
Kærlighed,

Søster Erin Handley