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| all the sisters in Bergen with our sweet investigators, Anna and Anisha |
How has your week been? I hope that you have had a good one!
So... you know Mina? We went and taught her this week and we asked her to say the closing prayer and she pointed to her dad and said, "No. Make him say it." So you could tell that her dad didn't want to say it and he felt uncomfortable but he took it like a man and said it. It was a really neat thing to hear him pray. His wife walked us to the door after and she was so excited that he had prayed. During weekly planning Sister Peterson and I were trying to find a video of someone being baptized for Mina and we found one from the District about a part-member family. We both felt very strongly that we should show that video and then talk to Anders about baptism the next time we teach them. We fasted yesterday for their cute little family and I know that they are on their way to bigger and better blessings! We'll meet with them again on Thursday. Pray that he will accept the invitation to be baptized!
Our little area has been struggling lately, but we are working working and praying and fasting to help it grow. Sometimes I forget how in charge Heavenly Father is of His work. I don't know what He has planned for this area, but I know they are big things and I'm grateful to be here watching it grow. We're going to work on all of the part active/less active families this week and start finding some truly prepared people.
I went on splits with Sister Knapp (the other sister training leader that lives with us) on Saturday and we met some interesting people on the street... some really nice, positive people too! But we got attacked by a Muslim man that wanted to fight about why we don't believe the same things and an old man pulled out his camera and asked if he could take a picture of us, and we got kisses on the cheek from another dude from Chile. Haha. You never know what's going to happen when you go outside.
We also knocked on lots of doors in the crazy pouring rain and wind. One of the guys we talked to said, "If God is there why don't you ask Him to give you better weather?" We laughed and said, "We don't need it because that's not what makes us happy. It's so much bigger than that." And it's true. All these things add to the adventure, but they don't take from my belief in God.
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| milkshakes at the spoiled hotel |
Our hotel stay was such a luxury! I don't know how we got so spoiled. We ate way too much food and slept in pretty white beds and had the most fancy continental breakfast I've ever seen in my life. It was nice to be so central in the city too so we could walk out and be right on the streets to find people and take buses. It was a nice little tender mercy.
A sweet 80 year old lady in the ward also taught us how to make kjøtt kaker this week so I'll make it for you when I come back!
I've been reflecting a lot this week about what a mission is turning me into. I'm on the downhill, and next month I will have been a missionary for year. I am so grateful for the opportunity to be here and for the experiences that are teaching me to feel more deeply and love more wholely.
God loves us so much.
I love you! I miss you like crazy and I know that prayer is keeping us together!
Love,
Søster Pyne
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