Hey Mom!
I'm settling in really well here. My companion is really
awesome and my heart is set on the work. Sundsvall has an amazing
Branch. I didn't have tons of time to email about the things you
mentioned but I have more time this week so here you go: My mission
president is amazing and his wife also. We stayed at their house and he
interviewed all of us. He is tall, skinny, and takes missionary work
seriously, but is also very practical and reasonable with us. He loves
all of us for sure. I'm having interviews with him this Wednesday and
the interview will actually be in Swedish so that should be
interesting.
Elder Cook fits his name and likes to
cook. We get along great cooking fancy stuff like fancy pantsy
sandwiches, chicken fajitas, curry, meatballs and gravy... You name it. I
sure won't go hungry as long as we're companions.
Love,
Äldste Denton
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The general email from Äldste Denton today
Week 7 - Miracles already?
Hello everybody!
Highlight for this week? We
had a baptism! Her name is Nilza and she is from Brazil. My companion
has been teaching her for a while so he did the honor of baptizing her.
She is so wonderful. The first lesson I had with her was a little crazy
since it was like the third day I was here. She speaks Portuguese and
that was the language her Book of Mormon was in, we had a member
translating what we said from Swedish to Spanish for her which she can
also understand, and I was basically just smiling nodding the whole time
and I couldn't tell you anything that was going on, but it was cool
ha ha! That was miracle number one. Her baptism was so powerful. I got to
play a musical number too and that was super awesome.
Miracle number two: we got back to our apartment last night ready to
finish up our studies when we got a call from a number we didn't
recognize. Elder Cook answered it and turns out is was a wrong number.
But he did what missionaries do and asked if she believed in Jesus and
told her about what we do. Turns out she DID believe in Jesus which is
not so common over here, and she wanted to to know a lot of things. Like
he said we represent Jesus Christ and she ask what gave us that
authority. Elder Cook was like "Well let me tell you all about it!"
ha ha. We told her about Thomas S. Monson and she said she'd give us a
call when she was in Sundsvall and we could meet. Then the conversation
ended. We went to look at her number in the call history and IT WASN'T
THERE... our phone does weird things sometimes... but then all we could
do was actually just hope she called us. So then we start our companion
study and I offer a prayer. This was the coolest part. Have you seen The
Best Two Years? If so, this might sound familiar. I prayed for her and
that she remember to call us and that she would have the desire to call
us. I get done praying and the phone rings. We answer it and and IT'S
HER! So I wrote down her number so fast while Elder Cook talks to her.
Turns out she called back just to ask "Now wait, can who is this Thomas
guy again?" Ha ha, Elder Cook talked with her for like fifteen more
minutes and then we set up an appointment with her. STRAIGHT UP MIRACLE.
All because of a wrong number.
Elder Ballard spoke to Europe last week in a broadcast and said that miracles start on your knees. I'm a witness to that.
I love you all! Have a wonderful week!
Äldste Denton
Pictures
This weeks baptism
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Fancy Pantsy Sandwiches
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