So it is a little crazy how much can happen over the course of such a short time when you are a missionary and I feel like that is how my week has been.
We played soccer this Saturday with some more investigators and non-member friends that members bring and I scored a goal! Et Mål!!!! JAAH! it was pretty cool too cause I scored it with my knee. ja, I'm pretty talented like that. Okay, fine, it was an accident, but I still scored the goal and that is all that matters. Oh, also, I stole the ball away from someone on the other team and they totally hit my nose with their arm really hard and I got a bloody nose again...man, me and my nose on a mission, it just can't take a break...get it? haha, a break? oh the cleverness of me
But going back a little bit earlier in my week, Thursday was a very crazy day, we had a lesson with these two ladies from Ghana and we brought a member from Nigeria who actually served his mission in Ghana. It went really well. Except Africans talk so fast that sometimes I don't even know if they are speaking English or not. But anyways, our Nigerian member just yellled at these two girls for like 30 minutes but it was done in an awesome African man way and so it was really effective and the spirit was way strong. Although at some points in the lesson I almost started laughing because I just thought "wow, is this really happening?" Life as a missionary, we have some fun situations.
Then after the lesson Thursday, we decided to walk by this less active and see what was up with him but we were debating which way to take when sister Ripplinger laughed and told me "that lady cannot pick up her bag. She's tried like 5 times, look at her." So I looked and I could see this lady trying to pick up her purse but her arm was completely limp and her fingers wouldn't move. I could tell that something was not quite right with her so I said "let's go help her" By the time we got up to her, some groceries had spilled out of her bag and she was trying to pick them up with her right arm but she just kinda flopped her arm at the stuff and that's all she could do. We helped her put the stuff back in the bag but she seemed really distraught. I asked her "Er du okay?" and if she needed a doctor. and then she started breathing really heavily and motioning like she was going to throw up. I stopped a nearby Dane and gave them our phone and told them to call the emergency number 112 and then the lady with the limp arm collapsed. It was a really good thing I was right next to her cause I was able to catch her. and just set her head in my lap. Poor Sister Ripplinger was freaking out at this point. I made her help me turn the lady on her side, in case she threw up. Luckily there was this nurse who saw the lady collapse and came and helped us, then a doctor came up and helped us out as well. We had to wait a long time for the ambulance though. We didn't see our less active member but we hope we helped that lady.
on Friday, we went to Assens, a beautiful town on the coast and taught our new investigator Pia. It's funny because she fed us cake and herbal tea. That's something I love about the Danish culture that I want to adopt when I get home: whenever you visit someone, even if you met them the other day, they always have this little tea party set up for you when you get to their house. They have cake and drinks and it's so fancy and nice. I always feel so blessed and spoiled. I want to do that though when I get home is always have some nice little refreshments set out for guests who come visit me.
We also got word on transfers. Well, I'm saying goodbye. Not to Odense but to Søster Ripplinger. It's crazy cause we haven't been together very long and they are already taking her away from me. I am staying in Odense and she is going over to Jylland. My new companion is Sister Barthalomew (i know that isn't how you spell it but oh well)
We also had an amazing lesson Saturday night with our investigator Nynne. We asked her if she had read and prayed about the Book of Mormon and she told us "Well, I actually decided to pray about it before I read it and as soon as I started praying about it I just got this warm feeling throughout my entire body and I knew that this was something that God wanted me to read and learn about." So yes, teaching her is so easy because it really isn't us teaching her. her learning is really between the Lord and herself.
We also had two investigators at church this week! Wooo! record for us missionaries here in Denmark!
Well, Love you all lots! One day I'll figure out how to send pictures, I promise!
Love Søster Briscoe
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