9/16/2013

Hej Alle!

I hope everyone had a fantastic week this week! I'm sorry if i didn't get to answer some emails. Our time this week was a bit short because we are going to legoland! Yay! THe best part is, we're going with a less-active hoping to build that relationship and get him comfortable enough with talking about the gospel so they'll come back to church!

This week was kind of up and Down with us dropping an investigator for the first time. IT was kind of a strange feeling, but it had to be done. He just wasn't progressing and only wanted our visits for the "hygge" (Danish Word that has no direct English translation. The closest thing to it is "cozy" or that good feeling you get after a good visit with Family or friends).

On Tuesday we got to see the queen of Denmark. That was a neat experience! She was right infront of me, close enough for me to touch her! We got lots of great Pictures of that :)

This week we had a wonderful experience with working with the members and receiving referrals. So far this transfer we have only received one refferal. We have been working so hard with the members to build their trust and to get them excited to do missionary Work. Many of them have started to share their testimonies with colleagues, friends, neighbors, Family, etc. but it seemed that once they shared their testimony, they were done. But, that is not the case! So we prayed  and prayed and brainstormed and asked and asked. Nothing was coming of it until one day, we put together a spiritual thought for a Family we were having dinner with that night. We used D&C 18:10, 15-16, the Starfish poem about making a difference, and some real life experiences. We shared it with this Family. The spirit was so strong as we shared and bore testimony. At the end of this appointment they gave us two referrals! We were just blown away. But, we did not stop working to receive more referrals. We visited other families in the Ward and challenged them to think of one person that we could teach in their home. We have many potential referrals we will be following up on. Then, out of the blue we received two media referrals, and yesterday in church, one of the members sought us out to give us a referral that he is excited to help us teach. That is a total of 5 referrals received this week. We will be working very hard to contact them all as soon as we can. It is difficult because they are all spread out over out area, but we feel so blessed to have received them and feel that they are prepared. We are excited to help meet and teach them.

So, NeXT week is transfers. As of right now, we have no idea what will be happening, but we do know that our companionship will definitely be affected by it since we are the tri. I will let everyone know as soon as i know. I hope you all have a fantastic week!

Kærlighed,

Søster Handley

 We got to see the queen of Denmark! Isn't that neat? I got a great Picture, which i attached to this email. It was so cool! She had very Little security, so i was standing right in front of her! I could have reached out and touched her. So neat! 

We saw the queen in Jelling, so while we were there we saw the Jelling Stone. It was so neat! That is the Christening of Denmark. It's got a Picture of Jesus on it. You have to look really really hard to see it, but it's there. Pretty cool, huh?