Monday, March 10, 2014
Tortilla Soup
Well, as always, we had a pretty eventful week.
Let's see...
-The sisters from Esbjerg came
-Participated in two different cleaning service projects
-Met people on the street gave them copies of the Book of
Mormon and
invited them to meet with us another time
-Finished preparing Kaj for his baptism
-Went to Copenhagen for a leadership council
-Set up/ confirmed assignments for Kaj's baptism (chairs,
refreshments, programs, speakers, music,...)
Saturday was definitely intense. We started off with
throwing a
surprise birthday breakfast party for one of our
investigators at a
member's house (she just moved here from Mongolia last
month). We gave
her American candy and a Book of Mormon we ordered in
Mongolian. She
was so excited to get it! She could not even believe it and
said she
could not wait to read it :)
The next big event of the day... Kaj got baptized! :) After
his baptism,
he bore his testimony about how the gospel has really
changed his
life. Ruslan came. He is from Bulgaria. He talked to us for
a while.
He wondered if he could just come to church for the rest of
his life
and not become a member. We told him he could, but he would
miss out
on blessings and invited him to read the chapter 2 Nephi 31
about why
the Savior was baptized and how it is the only way back to
Him. We are
excited to meet with him again this week after he reads to
talk more
about it.
So remember dinner at the Romanians' apartment last week?
Three of
them (Michael, Justin and Robert) came to the baptism. And
after the
baptism? They stayed to help put the cover back on the
baptismal font,
set the chairs back so everything would be in order for
church the
next day, and then started on peeling apples for an apple
pie we were
going to make. Finally, we all sat down and reviewed the day
eating
homemade tortilla soup, drinking saft and finishing it off
with
American apple pie. Oh and Cosmin was able to make it to
dinner! So it
was the four missionaries and the four Romanians once again!
It was a
great day.
Things are going really well here in Horsens. I love it!
It's a
beautiful city. I feel so blessed to be here. I know that we
have a
Heavenly Father who loves us so much that he has blessed us
with
family and friends, so that we can learn a little glimpse of
His love
for us.
I love you all so much and hope all is well where ever you
are reading this.
Med kærligste hilsener,
Søster Orgill
Monday, February 24, 2014
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| Cleaning the baptismal font |
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| Cleaning..... |
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Romanians friends.
They
came to all 3 hours of church and stayed an
hour before and after
dinner...
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Søster Swett and Søster Henderson
made us cookies for our
year
mark coming up
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Some people refer to where we live as a castle, it's fun. It
used to be an old nursing home. Did I mention we have an
elevator???
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| Romanian food |
Romanian Food
This week was my first week attending institute here. Two
people we
met last week came and really enjoyed it.
The first hour of institute, we had a class where we talked
about 3rd
Nephi, when the Savior came to visit in the Americas. Then
we had
dinner, a spiritual thought and we learned how to juggle
with scarves.
It was way great and it sounded like they want to continue
coming! The
elders also had someone they met come to institute as well,
his name
is Michael. And then get this! The next day, I was on
exchanges with
Søster Swett and met Michael's friends on the street! We
talked about
our beliefs for an hour and then 2 of them told us they
would be at
church the next day!
So, Sunday comes around, we all show up an hour early to meet
with
Michael before church. Him and his friends stayed for all
three hours
of church, met some people after church and then invited us
and then
elders to come eat dinner with them that night so we could
continue
the conversation. They are all from Romania and they cooked
us
authentic Romanian food - kind of like maltomeal, but more
cornbreadlike, complete with Romanian sheep cheese and pork.
Then they
made American pancakes for dessert and we ate them with
sheets of
chocolate. Then we took a group photo. Søster Briscoe and I
will not
be at institute this week because we will be in Copenhagen,
but we
will all be at the baptism on Saturday and it sounds like
the Romanian
group is going to come, too.
Things are going really well here is Horsens, it is starting
to warm
up... Spring is coming! There are little white flowers that
grow right
before spring comes. It is tradition to pick them here, cut
up a piece
of paper with a bunch of shapes (like a snowflake) and then
write a
riddle on it, poke holes for the amount of letters in your
first name
to sign is, and then stick the flower in. If the person
guesses right,
then you owe them a chocolate easter egg, if they don't
guess it's
you, then you owe them one. Fun, huh? :) They are called
vinter gækker
brever.
Kaj's baptism is this weekend. We talked to him about the 10
commandments this last week and about how we believe in
honoring the
laws of the land. He's all ready to go. We are so excited
for him. He
is so happy to begin again, completely clean with the change
of the
season.
I also just realized that on Thursday it will be my year
mark! Kind of
scary. This mission is flying, but I am happy I still have 6
months
left.
Life is beautiful,
Søster Orgill
Monday, February 17, 2014
Three Danes
Well, it really is starting to warm up here, so that is fun.
And, the
work is going great. Here are some things that happened this
week.
-We cleaned out the baptismal font, in preparation for Kaj's
baptism.
(I'll send a pic of it next week).
-Since we only have 2 sets of sister training leaders and 4
zones in
Denmark, we attended two zone trainings and did a 15 minute
training
at both.
-We taught Kaj about the law of tithing, he has full faith
and is
excited for his baptism
.
-Apparently most people in Denmark only celebrate
Valentine's day if
they have a significant other... but we still told a bunch
of people,
"Happy Valentine's day." Then they would ask if we
had boyfriends that
sent us valentines. I told them no, but that sisters, mom
and Grandma
:) They thought it was strange when we told them we would
give
everyone valentines when we were younger.
-Valentine's day is more of a U.S. tradition. Sounds like
only in more
recent years the flower shops here have tried to make it
catch fire.
-We have a list of 22 people we are going to text to invite
to
Institute that we have recently met. Exciting!
-I went on splits for the first time as a sister training
leader.
-My favorite miracle from the week:
I was on splits with Sister Rigby. We were in Horsens, going
to go
visit a less active, but then I felt we should knock on this
one door
(we had been saying hi to everyone all day and knocking on
any door we
even had the slightest prompting to knock on. We knocked
twice, waited
a few minutes, started to walk away and then saw a guy come
to the
door. We asked what he felt was the most important thing in
his life.
He said money and friends. We started talking about how we
are
missionaries and he told us that him and his friends were
JUST talking
about how they wanted to go to a church sometime. He invited
us in.
But, it is a missionary rule that we can only go inside if
there is
another woman there or with us. We asked if there was a
woman in
there. He said yes! So, we went right in! He had a friend
that was a
girl and another friend that was a guy in his apartment. We
talked
about their beliefs, what we believed, invited them to
church and
institute and gave them a Book of Mormon. They were
surprised it was
free. We read a couple verses with them and set up an
appointment to
come back. And, we closed with a prayer. I felt they were
sincere
about it as I asked them to turn off the t.v. and explained
that we
usually fold our arms and close our eyes. They also folded
their arms
and closed their eyes as Sister Rigby prayed. I'm excited to
go back
next week! And, we are hoping they will be able to make it
to
Institute! They are all three Danish, too!
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