Dear family and amazing friends,

 

This week has been such a great one. It has just been full of happiness and joy because I've been able to see the people that mean so much to me here in Horsens make amazing strides in coming closer to Christ.

 

The best experience we had this week was with one of our investigators who is the young man we met about a month ago (the one who had lived in Salt Lake city for like 10 years but didn't have good experiences with mormons). He came to church yesterday for his fourth sunday and then after church, we went to dinner with him at a member's house. On our way to dinner, were were walking and talking with him and he asked us how the "preaching of the gospel was going" and I told him "Great! How is the gospel going in your life?" He told me that it was going good and that he had made a new years resolution to give up coffee, drinking and smoking. That really surprised me because I remember him telling me when I first met him that he would not give those things up. I asked him why and what had changed and he todl me that it was because of spending time with the missionaries and coming to church and meeting people who barely knew him and yet were so nice to him that had changed his mind and his heart. He said that he wanted to be closer to Christ and have more of Christ's light in his life. He then told us that he had already given up cursing because he wanted his thoughts to be purer. He talked about his desire to prove himself to God and his desire to serve other people. It really was one of the best moments of my mission so far and it made me so happy to see this huge change in this young man's life and even in his countance.

 

Sister Orgill and I have been very blessed this past week to find many of the Lord's elect here in Horsens. We stopped by one of our investigators but she wasn't home so we decided to knock the apartment complex. The very last door we knocked, a young mother answered. She is from Poland and speaks limited Danish. So we told her we had a book in Polish we wanted to give to her and we set up a return appointment and came back with a polish book of mormon and restoration pamphlet. Most of the lesson we had with her when we returned was just us pointing to a section and asking her to read it but the spirit was very strong and later her husband and 6 year old son came home and we had the chance to teach them because her husband speaks english. It was a great experience to show me that the Spirit speaks to people in their own language and will help others understand the things we cannot explain about the Gospel.

 

And things are just going so well with our older investigator who is getting ready to be baptized very soon. I'm very excited for him because he will be the first person in my mission that I have found, been through the whole teaching proccess and then seen baptized. Everyone else I've taught, I get transferred right before they're baptized but not this time. Anyways, he is awesome and a great example to me.

 

Miralces happen every day. Remember that. Just open your eyes to them and you'll be surprised at how much the Lord blesses you and how many miracles happen every day. As a missionary, every person who smiles back at you is a miracle :)

 

I love you all!

 

Søster Briscoe