9/29/2013

Hej alle!

I hope this email finds you all well! Thank you for your love, support and prayers this week! I really can feel that extra help as i go through my week!

THis week was a crazy one! We were barely in our area. We had zone training in Odense, which was an amazing experince, then we had the opportunity to go to the Copenhagen temple while we were in Copenhagen to take a language test to renew our visas. I love the temple! (For those of you WHO have been through the temple, i would highly recommend that you watch The Blessings of the House of the Lord by S. Michael Wilcox. It's from BYU Education week 1999. Amazing talk!)

Our week ended absolutely wonderfully with the baptism of Anne. Anne has a really neat story. My first week here in Vejle, at Ward conference our bishop asked all of us missionaries to Work to find someone WHO was ready to receive the gospel and be baptized on the 21st of September. He had prayed about that day and he said that day felt right. So, we went to Work. We taught lessons left and right and invited all of our investigators to baptism. none of them accepted, except for Annelise. They had found her a few days before i got to Vejle and had invited her to the baptism of an 8 year old boy in the Ward. She loved the baptism and the feeling she got from it. At the baptism, we challenged her to be baptized on the 21st of September. She told us that she would love that! So, we taught her all the lessons and introduced her to many members. The members were so welcoming and so helpful to Anne. She feels as though she is part of the Family now. She's had members calling her, texting her and answering all of her questions. It was perfect! So, after six weeks of working with Anne, she was baptized. It was a wonderful day and the spirit was so strong!  Nothing beats the feeling of helping to bring one of our Heavenly Father's children back to him. Now, I am not by any Means taking any sort of credit because i am not the teacher here, but it was such a Blessing to me to be able to be a part of helping Anne feel the spirit and to have the Blessings of the gospel in her life.

Well, that was my week! I hope everyone has a fantastic week!

MVH

Søster Handley