9/9/2013

Hej Alle! I hope everything is well with everyone! I'd like to start out today by thanking everyone for their support and their enthusiasm about missionary Work. It gives me great joy to hear and see all of the great missionary miracles happening everywhere because of the faith and excitement of the members. Keep up the good Work!

This week was pretty crazy with splits, zone training, lessons and the baptism of an 8 year old girl in the Ward. Literally every second was planned out for us. But, as it is in the life of a missionary, lessons fell through this week and not everything went quite as we had planned for it to go, but great Things come of those inconveniences.

One of these inconvenient moments happened when we were on the bus going to a members house for dinner. A lesson had fallen apart just before that, so we were a bit early coming to the area. We were sitting together on the bus in a Little area with four seats. A man got on the bus and took the fourth seat by us. He asked us why we were so happy. A missionary's favorite question! We explained to him who we were and why we were here. He really liked our answer and proceeded to tell us about how he was trying to find God in his life Again. As we talked (this was an extremely long bus ride) he told us about some of the trials he has been through in the past two years. He's had it pretty rough! This man broke Down crying in this conversation. We could tell that he was embarrassed by this, but we just comforted him and let him tell us what was going on. We talked to him about the plan of salvation and how God has a plan for every one of us, and that God loves him as an individual. He told us that it felt amazingly good when we told him that, so he invited us to come over and teach him more. We called him the NeXT day to set up the appointment and he was just so thrilled that we were serious about it! I love those tender moments like that. It makes me so excited to be a missionary and to bring people this glad message of the restored gospel.

One other story from this week. Saturday night my companion randomly fell ill. One minute she was fine, then the NeXT she had a really high fever. We decided to go in early so she could rest up. As she was getting ready for bed she had a sudden case of the chills. She was shaking so bad she couldn't even talk and could barely move. She almost passed out a couple of times, so Sis Ripplinger and I got her into bed. We took her temperature and it was 39.5 C. Thanks to the conversion Tool on our phone, we discovered that her temperature was 103 F. Not good! We got her chills to calm Down, then we called the mission nurse for help. She gave us a few Things to do to help, then made sure we were going to get a priesthood Blessing. We called the bishop WHO sent two close priesthood holders over. They gave her a Blessing and almost instantly she said she was feeling better. Her fever was still 103, but she was able to get to sleep after that. Søs Ripplinger and i didn't get much sleep that night because we were watching søs Orgill so closely. We had the night doctor's number out and ready just in case. But, Sunday morning, Søs Orgill woke up and felt 100%! No fever, nothing. her only complaint was that she was a little tired, but she was up and her happy, morning person self. That, to me, is a huge testimony of the power of the priesthood. There is no way that she could have gone from so sick with such a high fever, to feeling completely normal the NeXT morning. I am so grateful that we have access to the priesthood, literally God's power, here on the earth today. I feel so blessed that i can have access to that after just a phone call. It really is amazing that any worthy male WHO has made the baptismal covenants can administer that power. I am so grateful for that power in my life. It hit me this week just how amazing it is.

I hope everyone has a wonderful week this week!

Kærlighed,

Søster Erin Handley

 At the midevil festival with a fun German couple

My companions and i while we were waiting for a bus! Yay! Someone told us that we are like Napoleon ice cream. We've got Vanilla (me) Strawberry (Søs. Ripplinger) and chocolate (Søs Orgill) Fun! Haha

 Me next to a canon on the ramparts in Fredericia above the moat. SO cool!

The last is me with the meat Loaf i made all by myself with no recipe. I was pretty proud of myself haha

I hope you enjoy!