Hello everyone, this has been quite a good week so lets get some of the highlights out there!
We began this week quite busy during a zone P day! We got some amazing time to hang out with missionaries and have some fun! Tuesday was our Zone Konference and it was amazing! We loved the format they had for the messages they shared. We were engaged the entire time and really felt like we had learned something and developed a greater focus! I think the more I have been in the mission the more I see the little details in things so it was fun to get to have some good take aways from the Konference! My biggest takeaway was probably that we need to focus our efforts on the things that we find success in! That means that we need to take a second sometimes to plan to be effective and not plan to just do something. A good mission lesson, and a good life lesson.
We had the splits the next day with our district leader, Elder Bobo (My Old Companion), and had a really good time finding. We contacted a lot and had an eating appointment! We ended up not having a full day cause we needed to travel to Copenhagen and sleep in the Zls apartment in order to reach our ferry the next day.
We got on the ferry early Thursday morning and made it back in time for our ward activity which, sadly, one came to. We had some good experiences on this day but Friday was even better! On Friday we had some good lessons and taught one of our friends how to pray and what it means to pray. We thought it was very cool that she asked us to pray for her in the end. Prayer is powerful and I am grateful for this line to heaven and to experience that with this sister was very memorable.
On Saturday we had another lesson with Samson and showed him around the church building! He is learning fast and we believe is accepting quite a lot. It really is amazing to see how many good questions he has and how many good thoughts he has. We had a great time teaching the rest of the Plan of Salvation! We hope to teach him how to pray out loud and invite him to really ponder and apply. I am so grateful to be here with him and to be able to participate in teaching him. It has really been a blessing to me.
We ended Saturday with an eating appointment with our friend, Klaus! He is an amazing Dane that loves talking with the missionaries and helping them learn Danish! He takes his distance from being too involved but honestly we can see how much he cares and we hope to help him come even closer to his Savior!
The big spiritual insight came during our preperation for the Sunday School lesson on Sunday! We were talking about Ether 1 to 5 and we found a cool thought that really focuses on Chapter 2. It is when the Brother of Jared gives the threee questions to the Lord of:
1. How will we steer ourselves?
2. How will we have air?
3. How will we have light?
These three questions were answered in three different ways and give us a glimpse at How god will often answer our prayers!
1. He answered this questions by saying trust in me! He said trust that the winds that I will send forth shall guide you to the promised land!
2. He gave a direct answer and said do this! He answered by giving a solution!
3. He answered by saying,"How do you want me to do it?" Instead of just telling us how to do something he gave the opportunity for the Brother of Jared to give his opinion and act in faith! The Brother of Jared then did so and came to the Lord with his idea! The Lord confirmed the idea and praised the Faith that he had!
These three answers give us glimpse as to how God really will answer our prayers but just in different ways often giving us direction while asking us to make effort and come with solutions! The entire time trusting in Him!
The best news of all is that I get to stay on Bornholm one more transfer. I may have prayed for this and strongly hinted to my mission president that I desired to do so. I feel an extremely strong connection to this island and to my ancestors who once lived here. I am grateful to spend the Christmas season here and to enter my sixth month on this island! I feel so lucky and blessed.
Thank you all for all the prayers and support! I am so lucky to be serving here at this time! Ill see yall next week!
Love,
Elder Lines
Here are some pictures of Zone Konference and of the week!
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