Søster Holbrook and Søster Jones on radio, this is just too AWESOME :o)
Being on the radio!!
Miranda ❤ she treated us to burgers like the good American she is!
Movie night with sister Jones.
Sister Jones and I :)
Where my bike was when it DIDN'T get stolen!
Email from Søster Holbrook:
Hey Everyone!
CRAZY week this week! Last week I talked a lot about miracles. I wrote about how Elder Ballard gave us an apostolic blessing and told us that there are miracles waiting for us in Europe and that God needs us to believe in them. well. MIRACLES HAPPENED THIS WEEK. Søster Jones and I began praying for miracles and every single day something incredible happened.
The biggest miracle was that we were on THE danish national radio station. It has over 2 MILLION listeners and the guy that interviewed us is FAMOUS over here. How did we get this opportunity? Well. It all started on P-day. We had about 40 minutes left of our p-day and were headed to the mission office to look up a quick talk and upload pictures. We had been out in Copenhagen most of the day and were looking forward to relaxing for a couple of minutes. The bike ride takes about 10 minutes so you can see that time was of the essence. We are speedily making our way to the office when the bike lane turns into the right turn lane for cars. Despite our haste, we get cut off by this big van and in my hurried state I may or may not have just popped up onto the sidewalk to bike around (which actually is not legal here... oops.). I am on the sidewalk, and just turn the corner. Sister Jones was less inclined to do the illegal (actually she just wasn't quick enough) so she got delayed. About three seconds later she pops on the curb and follows my lead. When I see that she is following me, I start pedaling when I am stopped by a lady. We stop and she explains to us that she is from this radio station right across the street and she is inviting people up to take a tour of the building. I began to tell her "well. We are missionaries from our church and this is our free day and we only have 30 more minutes...." but she interrupts me and says "that is awesome! you can talk all about that on the Radio." turns out she didn't want to give us a tour but to actually speak on the Radio about who we are and what we do! It is this special segment that they do where they literally take people off the streets to come and tell about themselves. well. We DEFINITELY had time for that!!!! So we go on up and then answer a whole bunch of questions about who we are and what we do and why we do it and what do we like about Denmark... and basically just show all the danish people that we are regular NON-BRAINWASHED people. So many members and investigators have texted saying that they had heard it and that we did a great job! We were able to testify of small truths like "Jesus brings us joy" and was an incredible missionary experience. God does answer our prayers and is performing miracles!
Some other miracles include:
Knocking a random street on splits and a man having a book with a paper on it that said "for the Mormons." He had been waiting for missionaries from a long time ago to come and pick it up!
Accidentally leaving my keys TWICE in my bike lock (once at the busiest station in Denmark) and my bike NOT getting stolen. Seriously. That is a miracle over here.
Contacting for 3 hours with little success. Saying a prayer "Heavenly Father. We want to be out here. Please help us know that we are in the right place at the right time." within ONE minute of the prayer, the VERY next two people we talked to were sisters that Sister Jones had contacted while on splits 2 transfers ago in a different area. They remembered Sister Jones and were so happy to see us!
Going to the church to teach a lesson and seeing Vanessa (an old family friend) that lives on Bornholm (a small island that is a 6 HOUR ferry ride away).
We "dropped" someone because we didn't think she was sincere and then the next day she called us to tell us that she actually does want to come to church with us in the near future.
R and his daughter and his wife ALL came to church this Sunday! Ryan is a really cool investigator that we have that seems to know everything about the church and doesn't believe in God at all. But he can't help but continue to be curious and try to understand why are so different. His soul is searching for something, and he just can't quite make the leap to having faith in something yet. Progress is slow, but we feel like he is someone that will be a member one day. His wife is very atheist and thinks R is crazy for meeting with missionaries. In the beginning she would leave the room, but now when we teach she will stay and offer comments every now and then. So the fact that SHE came to church is INCREDIBLE.
God is performing miracles. I feel so blessed to be here.
Keep on keeping on!
Søster Holbrook
Vanessa from Bornholm - She is Momma Holbrook's great friend's daughter.
Here is the link to the Radio podcast. Our interview starts around 27 minutes
It has been a wonderful week for Søster Holbrook being on the radio, talking to lots of people and learning so much this week also. Grateful for the things she has learned this week and happy she is serving in Denmark.
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