Thanksgiving, Family History, a Funeral

Kære familier og venner!

I hope all is well for everyone reading this. I am assuming most of

you are preparing for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Last week, we had a combined zone conference and had a mini

Thankgiving celebration consisting of a turkey bowl (American

football), zone training (great talks, inspiration and setting new

missionary goals for the month), Thanksgiving dinner (I just missed

the Orgill cranberry sauce and the pies in every flavor thanks to Stu

every year) and then, a talent show! My companion and I let 5 other

sisters in a remix of the song Give Said the Little Stream. It ended

up turning out pretty cool, and the great acoustics were a plus, too!

Another fun thing this week: This lady in my ward made tortilla soup

since she wanted to make a recipe from home :)

There were so many great things that happened this week.

On Tuesday, we were walking down the street and noticed an elderly

lady standing on a ladder trying to clean her windows. We asked if she

needed help. She said she did not, but then we just started to tell

her a little about who we were and that if she ever needed anything,

we love to do service. She found out we were Mormon and got really

excited because she said her great uncle was mormon and she had found

some things about her ancestors on FamilySearch.org that she wanted to

show us! She invited us in, we chatted about it, shared a hymn, she

gave us some saft and then invited us back. We are so excited to help

her find more about her family!

On Saturday, we met my Mom's friend from high school, Ingrid. She is

so nice! We had planned to come and meet here. She ended up having to

be in charge of a funeral since she is a Priest and we got to go. It

was really neat to attend and witness more Danish culture. They had

real candles in the church on every bench and a row of flowers down

the aisle. A large majority of the program was singing. The program

consisted of lyrics to all six of the hymns we sang. We are glad we

had the opportunity to be there.

It was interesting talking to Ingrid because she had not known prior

what church we were members of, but as I was talking to her she told

me she was surprised that my mom had changed religions because when

she said she could remember that my mom was a devout Baptist. I told

her that I didn't know that, but I did know my mom is very dedicated

and true to what she believes and that it must have been right after

Ingrid went back to Denmark that my mom started attending The Church

of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and found out for herself it was

true. She's put her whole heart into the faith she has and continues

to share it with others. I'm so grateful for my mom's example to me.

Sister Peterson and I talked with Ingrid a lot of our beliefs,

including what happens after death, the role of baptism, the schedule

of a missionary and the process of getting a mission call. She is such

a sweetheart and had made us bread, took us out to lunch at this cute

cafe and showed us around one of her Cathedrals. It was gorgeous! I

told her that it was the most beautiful one I had been into compared

to the ones I had seen in USA, France and England. It's true though.

Possibly because of the star mural :)

Anyway, it was a great week!

Hope all is well wherever you are reading this.

Love always,

Søster Orgill