Love these two sister missionaries, they are AWESOME and have a great time together!
Sometimes life is a LONG road ahead of you. But if you keep your balance and stick to the Lord, you will make it back to Him in the end.
Email from Søster Holbrook this week:
| Transfer news: I GET TO STAY ANOTHER ONE WITH SISTER WHITLOCK!!!! She is so incredible and has changed the course of the mission. I love her so much and am incredibly grateful we get six more weeks together!!! So this week started out great, had a great middle, and ended great! The start: On Monday we met with one of our investigators A. He's a young 19 year old, super cool guy with stylish clothes and long bangs with braids in them. He looks too-cool-for-school. But not too cool for baptism!!!! He agreed to be baptized on August 19th! So that was way exciting! We had a little time before the end of the day, so even though it was raining buckets we hit the gå gade (this outdoor shopping mall kind of place) to find some people to teach! We stopped a guy and ended up having a great conversation with him! He had this little umbrella and he tried to cover us (but mostly Sister Whitlock because she does NOT have a rain jacket. Crazy I know) but it didn't work all that great. But I think seeing us getting drenched really softened his heart because we were able to talk to him long enough to bear testimony of the restored church of Jesus Christ! He wasn't interested in learning more, but he agreed that if he ever saw us again, that he would stop and listen to our message. He also took pity on us and gave us 100 kroner to go and buy a warm dinner with. We felt so successful because we know that we built his faith! Even if it was just a little bit. The middle: Mathias passed his baptismal interview!!!!!!!! We look forward to his baptism this Saturday! He is ready to follow the Savior and repent for the rest of his life! In fact, he was SO excited to come to church this week and he straight up ditched us and took an earlier train to church! Our church building is in Fredericia, so it is about a 15 minute train ride away. We normally ride the train with Mathias and then Elder and Sister Yates pick us up from the train station. So imagine our surprise when we show up to the train station and he is not there! We called him and he said "I am already in Fredericia. I am on a bus to the church right now!" It actually ended up working out really great though because then we had room in the car to pick up a recent convert who had also asked for a ride last minute. When we asked Mathias why he didn't wait for us, he just said "It must have been the Holy Ghost. Because then there was room for the last person in the car." So, we were somewhat salty that he burned us, but.... I guess we can't be too grumpy after-all. ;) |
The end:
The preface to this story- there is a lady named Kat who had been taught by the enders for 5 years. She lives all the commandments, comes to church every Sunday, believes it's true but has never been baptized (that's what we call an interrogator). I think it's something with her family, she grew up a Jehovah Witness. Well this Saturday she woke up from a nap and thought, "I need to get baptized. Tomorrow." There was a lot of scrambling to get things together, and a baptismal interview from the mission president over the phone, but she was baptized yesterday after church! It was so amazing and I am sooooo happy for her. And it was good because Mathias was able to see a baptism before his own! He really enjoyed the service and was excitedely telling people about his baptism!
To those who actually read my novels, thanks for the support!
Søster Holbrook
Beautiful daughter of God.
Another beautiful daughter of God.
Another great week for Søster Holbrook in Vejle and Denmark is just beautiful! It is wonderful to see her grow and become more and more every week. She is AMAZING!!
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