March 11, 2013

March 11, 2013

It was a good week for us. Frustrating week as well, but good.

We had plenty of great appointments with our investigators. We had one with

a investigator and that was a very ideal lesson. She said that if she found

out that these things were true if she would be baptized. With the spirit

present she accepted, but she has to find out its true first. But then

following right after that, we asked if there was anyone else that maybe

could be interested in our message. She really thought about it for a moment

and then mentioned her mom might enjoy the message. That was obvious

evidence that her heart was being softened. Getting true good referrals are

very hard. You find them through the ideal situation of having the spirit

present and then asking while they are under the influence of it. That's

sorta what I've come to understand about it. In line with that method of

finding, I've been really frustrated about that lately. I've been content

with knocking most my mission. But a few days ago I just got way annoyed

with it. I looked out over the endless seas of upgangs and thought that

this just isn't working or at least not working fast enough. I could knock

the rest of my mission and get nothing. Too many areas to search. In this

area I could knock upgangs from sunup to sundown for weeks and not even

make a dent. That was just really annoying and frustrating to me, even with

the spirit to guild us. That's why one applies better ways of finding. Like

referrals.

Æ. McDonnell and I did try to try one of those other methods of finding. We

tried registering at the Kommune for Frivillearbejde, (local community

service) but that didn't work. They couldn't help us and the online self

help service was just too confusing. So that idea sorta felt shot down for

us.

We DID have several great lessons with some of our investigators. One was

with a young dane. He actually invited his two friends to our appointment

and we had a long, but good lesson. That was really cool because he was

interested in just what drove us to go and live the gospel like we do. We

bore testimony that we did it because it was true.

We also met with another of our prime investigators. We taught him about

keeping the Sabbath day holy. He basically understands all the principals and

commandments. He's also willing to be baptized when he finds out its true.

He continues reading in the book of Mormon and though he hasn't received an

answer that its true, he feels that every time he prays that he should keep

reading. So that's good news. Now what we figure is we just need to get him

to set some goals to work towards. He did say that he wants to apply the

word of wisdom because he wants to stop smoking. So he's in the right area.

Just gotta set those goals.

Let's see... Lots of stopbys and lots of knocking :-p in between. The

weather has been getting much better and worse. We've had a few days of sun

and shine and warmth and a few others where the wind wants to tear our face

off with its cold. We DID run into this one ''Missionary for Islam'' where

he let us right in, but then wanted to bible bash us on how Christianity is

wrong. Luckily Æ. McDonnell had that happen to him once, and he knew all the

tricks the Muslim was going to use. So he tactfully weaved his way out of

the situation without contention arising. ´Plus the spirit was there when

we did testify of the message we were out to share, so take that.

But other than that. I'm on the short side of time.

Wish the best of luck for everyone!

Æ. Tyler Christensen