MIRAKULØS

Hey hey hey!! WOW honestly the time absolutely FLIES here.

So our branch is very tiny.  A good 30 people come to church every Sunday. They are mostly older or elderly people.  We have exactly 1 family in our branch, but their oldest child is 6 years old so we don't actually have any youth programs at all.  If there are youth for some reason one of the Sunday's, they join the adults in RS or Priesthood or Sunday School.  Since our branch really is so tiny, our church is only 2 hours.  1 hour for Sacrament Meeting, Nadvermøde, and 1 hour for either RS/Priesthood or Sunday School.  We switch off every week.  

ANYWHØVEN (anywho in Danish lol jk), this transfer Søster Acosta and I decided to have a transfer of miracles.  And this first week was a week of miracles indeed.  Just going through our week with the attitude of looking for miracles really put an optimistic light on everything we did.  We had 2 less actives come to church which was a miracle.  Then we found 5 new investigators which was a miracle.  We had a fantastic lesson with a recent convert.  We gave out many many Books of Mormon and really just had a miraculous week.  One experience that was really great was finding 1 of our new investigators.  Søster Acosta and I only had a few minutes left of our day to go out knocking.  Because of the lack of time we decided to go somewhere close, so ended up at an apartment complex near our own apartment.  We knocked and knocked for a good half an hour with no luck when we decided to knock just one more floor.  We knocked on the last door and a young adult girl opened up.  She said she was atheist, but listened kindly to everything we had to say.  While we were talking with her the Spirit slowly slipped His way into our hearts told us that this girl needed the Book of Mormon.  We invited her to read it and she took it almost eagerly, saying that she loved to read (which actually threw me for a loop because NO ONE EVER says the love to read.  That was a sign right there for me).  It was just a small and simple experience, but it reminded me that the work we're doing is good, and that going the extra mile is how you find people the the Lord has prepared for you.  

THIS WEEK I encourage you all to write.  Write in your journal, write notes to friends.  Write down whatever you so desire, but WRITE!! Helaman 5:6,7 says, '' Behold, my sons, I desire that ye should remember to keep the commandments of God; and I would that ye should declare unto the people these words. Behold, I have given unto you the names of our first parents who came out of the land of Jerusalem; and this I have done that when you remember your names ye may remember them; and when ye remember them ye may remember their works; and when ye remember their works ye may know how that it is said, and also written, that they were good.

7 Therefore, my sons, I would that ye should do that which is good, that it may be said of you, and also written, even as it has been said and written of them. ''

So write down your thoughts and your testimonies so that you are remembered by your posterity and generations.  Do that which is good, and record it.  Also go and seek out the stories of your ancestors so that they can be remembered too.  

Jeg elsker jer så meget og jeg håber at I kan have en fantastisk uge!!

Søster Esplin

raya.esplin@myldsmail.net