Dearest Family :) This week has been really great. I feel so wonderfully movitated from General Conference and I hope that you all feel the same. If you haven't watched all the talks, you should find the time to do so because they are truly wonderful. Especially the words of the Prophet in the Sunday Morning Session. You can find all of Conference on this link https://www.lds.org/general-conference/sessions/2014/04?cid=HPSU040614654&lang=eng. Watch it :) It's amazing.
Another thing I want to do is to start sharing what I learned from Preach My Gospel every week and I would LOVE it if you did the same with me. That would seriously be the best. So one thing I learned from PMG this week comes from chapter 9, where it talks about how the Lord will lead you to people who are ready for the Gospel or He will lead those people to you. I love that and I feel like I've seen that so many times on my mission. This week was no exception and I want to share two stories from this past week that show how true this really is:
The first miracle of this week was meeting our new friend Ashley. He's from England and he has a very serious drinking problem. We met him while we were talking with our other friend Ben at the library. Ben was trying to find something in the Bible and closes the book and Sister Hale asks him ”Did you find what you were looking for?” ”No, I did not find what I was looking for” But that response did not come from Ben. It was this drunk man who just sits down on the couch right next to Ben and joins our conversation. Actually before we could really talk to this man, he and Ben got into an arguement over how to spell the word ”Fathom”. Seriously, they argued with each other for about 5 minutes. At first Sister Hale and I were really annoyed with this man but then he mentions that he knows the Church and we ask him how and he begins to tell us about how he used to live with a mormon family when he was 16 and how they were like his second family. He also had lived in South Jordan, Utah for a year or two. So now our attitudes are completely changed towards this man and we begin to teach him as well. He opened up a lot about how he was about to be baptized but he didn't want to "go out all day knocking on doors" and he never could figure out baptisms for the dead and accept it. He told us his life was a mess currently and he wanted to change and he wanted to stop drinking. We told him that the gospel of Jesus Christ can help him improve the quality of his life and he can be completely healed and cleansed through the atonement of Jesus Christ. We were able to set up another appointment with him for the next day and again we were able to teach and testify of the healing power of the Atonement. It was so sad to see Ashley so broken but now he is humble enough to be taught by missionaries again. So that was a great example to me of people being led to the missionaries
I also saw another miracle where we, the missionaries, were led to someone who needed us. There is a recent convert in our ward and He has been really struggling recently and checked himself into the psychiatric hospital. Sister Hale and I thought about him a lot and prayed for him frequently. However, he never answered his phone so we had no way to get in contact with him. But on Thursday night we got a call from an active member telling us she had been talking to a woman named *Britte on facebook. Britte told this member that she was in the Psychiatric hospital and that she would really love a Book of Mormon to read while she was there. This member told Britte she would send me and Sister Hale with it. We scheduled it in for Saturday morning so the member could come with us. But Saturday morning, the member cancelled. That was okay and we headed out on the bus on our own. When we had nearly reached the hospital however, Britte texted us and said that she hadn't slept all night so she wasn't feeling up to visitors but we could drop of the Book of Mormon with the personale. We were kind of dissappointed that Britte had cancelled the visit because we were so excited to meet with her and get to know her. As we were walking to the section of the hospital where she was at, we thought "Maybe Tom (the recent convert) is here." So we tried calling him. No answer. We gave up on trying to find him and just dropped of the book of Mormon. But as we were walking down the stairs after dropping of the book, we heard Tom's voice! We ran down the stairs and to the room just in time to see the doors closing. We cautiously knocked and some people opened and we saw Tom getting ready to go for a walk. He was so excited to see us and we were able to walk aroud with him and go walk to the beach near the hospital with him. I think it was amazing to see how perfectly Heavenly Father's plan for each and everyone of His children is. He knows exactly where to place us at the right times so we can be there for another person. If we just go about trying to do good, Heavenly Father will bless us with the opportunity to serve someone, even if that person isn't the orginal reason we were serving. *Names changed
Life is wonderful and I am so grateful to be here in Denmark, serving the Danish people. And also to be serving with Søster Hale. She is great. Super enthusiastic and just has a great love for life.
Livet er godt :)
Remember the messages at Conference
I love you all!
Love, Diana
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