Ping Pong Prodigy
January 22, 2018
Danish Word of the Week: et frø = tree. en frø = frog. Be careful when explaining Alma 32. There have definitely been a couple times where I thought I was talking about how to grow your faith into a tree, but I actually taught how to grow your faith into a frog.
Danish Fun Fact: 5,731 million people live in Denmark.
This week was a fun one! It began with, as all good weeks do, knocking on doors. Tuesday morning we, to our despair, had an appointment cancelled on us. We felt prompted to go back to a street that we had knocked last week and continue finding there. We missionaries are not ones to say no to a prompting, so we went back. We walked up to the first house and noticed a cat. The cat then proceeded to follow us to every single house for the next 7 or 8 houses. We thought it was kind of strange, but we are also not ones to get rid of a cat who obviously wants to be a missionary. We got up to the 9th door and starting having a nice conversation with the Christian lady there. All of the sudden, the cat shoots out from behind us and into her house! Turns out, it's her cat! The cat had been leading us to her! She took a Book of Mormon and became a new investigator! What a way to start out a week!
Another fun event of the week took place in the form of the 30 Day In Training! Our dear baby Søster Critchfield has now been in the land one whole month and to celebrate this momentous occasion, The Mission President and his wife invited us to a training with all of the other new missionaries. We got to spend 3 days in Copenhagen and learn how to be the best missionaries the world has ever seen. We even got to play a little Ping Pong too. Needless to say, I slayed. Hahah, but it was a great training and I learned a ton of things I could change to be a better missionary. I. Am. Pumped.
Another fun thing that happened involved our new investigator Krisom. He's from Thailand and we met him last week. We had an appointment scheduled with him for tuesday, which he cancelled but then rescheduled for saturday. The day of he texted us saying, ''I also have 2 friends coming that want to be saved!'' We showed up to our appointment with 1 Thai and 2 Danes, actively interested in what we were saying! It was awesome. They asked questions such as ''I want to know how being a Mormon affects your daily life,'' and so on. They each took a Book of Mormon and said that next time we meet, Krisom will make us authentic Thai food. It was a little big miracle.
And to close off our amazing week, I got to perform my flute not once, but TWICE on Sunday! I had brought my flute to church so that I could snag a few minutes of practice time before the meeting started, and the music coordinator heard me and asked if I could play for sacrament meeting that day. So Ældste Preece and I whipped something together really quick that our 2 investigators that came to church loved! Later that night, the København stake put together a Classical Music Night and I got to be apart! The entire concert was absolutely lovely and I felt right at home.
The lesson I learned this week was that God does hear our prayers. I have been praying for people in this area to be ready for the gospel for a very long time. This week, God showed me that He has been listening and is leading me to those that He has prepared. In Alma 37, Alma writes to his son Helaman, ''Counsel with the Lord in all thy doings, and he will direct thee for good; yea, when thou liest down at night lie down unto the Lord, that he may watch over you in your sleep; and when thou risest in the morning let thy heart be full of thanks unto God; and if ye do these things, ye shall be lifted up at the last day.'' God is not only God, He is also our Heavenly Father. He wants to hear from us and He shows us He listens by blessing us and answering our questions. I needed that reminder this week.
Jeg elsker jer rigtigt meget og håber at I have en god uge! Hej Hej!
Søster Esplin
raya.esplin@myldsmail.net
Danish Word of the Week: et frø = tree. en frø = frog. Be careful when explaining Alma 32. There have definitely been a couple times where I thought I was talking about how to grow your faith into a tree, but I actually taught how to grow your faith into a frog.
Danish Fun Fact: 5,731 million people live in Denmark.
This week was a fun one! It began with, as all good weeks do, knocking on doors. Tuesday morning we, to our despair, had an appointment cancelled on us. We felt prompted to go back to a street that we had knocked last week and continue finding there. We missionaries are not ones to say no to a prompting, so we went back. We walked up to the first house and noticed a cat. The cat then proceeded to follow us to every single house for the next 7 or 8 houses. We thought it was kind of strange, but we are also not ones to get rid of a cat who obviously wants to be a missionary. We got up to the 9th door and starting having a nice conversation with the Christian lady there. All of the sudden, the cat shoots out from behind us and into her house! Turns out, it's her cat! The cat had been leading us to her! She took a Book of Mormon and became a new investigator! What a way to start out a week!
Another fun event of the week took place in the form of the 30 Day In Training! Our dear baby Søster Critchfield has now been in the land one whole month and to celebrate this momentous occasion, The Mission President and his wife invited us to a training with all of the other new missionaries. We got to spend 3 days in Copenhagen and learn how to be the best missionaries the world has ever seen. We even got to play a little Ping Pong too. Needless to say, I slayed. Hahah, but it was a great training and I learned a ton of things I could change to be a better missionary. I. Am. Pumped.
Another fun thing that happened involved our new investigator Krisom. He's from Thailand and we met him last week. We had an appointment scheduled with him for tuesday, which he cancelled but then rescheduled for saturday. The day of he texted us saying, ''I also have 2 friends coming that want to be saved!'' We showed up to our appointment with 1 Thai and 2 Danes, actively interested in what we were saying! It was awesome. They asked questions such as ''I want to know how being a Mormon affects your daily life,'' and so on. They each took a Book of Mormon and said that next time we meet, Krisom will make us authentic Thai food. It was a little big miracle.
And to close off our amazing week, I got to perform my flute not once, but TWICE on Sunday! I had brought my flute to church so that I could snag a few minutes of practice time before the meeting started, and the music coordinator heard me and asked if I could play for sacrament meeting that day. So Ældste Preece and I whipped something together really quick that our 2 investigators that came to church loved! Later that night, the København stake put together a Classical Music Night and I got to be apart! The entire concert was absolutely lovely and I felt right at home.
The lesson I learned this week was that God does hear our prayers. I have been praying for people in this area to be ready for the gospel for a very long time. This week, God showed me that He has been listening and is leading me to those that He has prepared. In Alma 37, Alma writes to his son Helaman, ''Counsel with the Lord in all thy doings, and he will direct thee for good; yea, when thou liest down at night lie down unto the Lord, that he may watch over you in your sleep; and when thou risest in the morning let thy heart be full of thanks unto God; and if ye do these things, ye shall be lifted up at the last day.'' God is not only God, He is also our Heavenly Father. He wants to hear from us and He shows us He listens by blessing us and answering our questions. I needed that reminder this week.
Jeg elsker jer rigtigt meget og håber at I have en god uge! Hej Hej!
Søster Esplin
raya.esplin@myldsmail.net
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