Aalborg

Tell me, How can you find out if Joseph Smith was a Prophet....READ AND PRAY

Well if anybody would like to know about that man we gave a Book of Mormon to last Sunday. We met with him last Wednesday. We taught him the Restoration. He had some questions about what a prophet was. At the end of the taught part of the Restoration we asked him if he would read the Book of Mormon to find out if it's true and that Joseph Smith was a prophet by praying to God. He responded ''I've already done that with Joseph Smith'' Wait WHAT!?!?!?!? We asked him what he ment. He responded ''Well I checked out the Website that you gave me for Mormon.dk and read about Jospeh Smith and the Introduction to the Book of Mormon.And he said that he prayed to know if Joseph Smith was a prophet and I got an answer that He was a prophet''........... uh........... what?!?!...... Is this really happening? So we just kept on going and invited him to Baptism. I was wondering why we picked a specific date so quickly. It was because he is ready to get the invitation now. Even though we just met him ahaha. It was just great to be apart of inviting him to baptism. We later came back two days later and had another appointment with him and he was just all for joy! We are going to meet with him again this Wednesday. Wish us luck!! Elder Wilsher and I have continued to see the success come from our work. We have found more people than ever in the past week.

One night we had a good hour of knocking, we had practically no success. Everyone kept saying no. We had one appointment that night and Elder Wisher thought it was time to go. I just had the thought nah we could finish this apartment before we leave. We have enough time. And it was amazing to see that the next door we knocked on was a young African woman. And she was currently rooming with two other people who come from Latvia and Bulgaria (Unfortunately both men), and another we found out comes from Hungary. (A woman). This was just a room of college students. We talked with them and having Elder Wisher and his personality we were able to be accepted to come back another day. We later dropped by last Thursday of the idea of making an appointment but turned out they just let us in. Three new investigators in one appointment. We just so happened to have copies of the Book of Mormon in their languages =) and they were so excited! We have another appointment for tonight!

That's pretty much the big news of the week. We are doing amazing here in Aalborg. Elder Wisher and I are truly seeing the Lord pour out his blessings upon us and especially this area. Words cannot describe the joy that I've experienced since I've been here. So much has been learned and much has been worth it in the long term. I recently read D&C 31 this morning

''....my son, blessed are you because of your faith in my work.

2 Behold, you have had many afflictions....

3 Lift up your heart and rejoice, for the hour of your mission is come; and your tongue shall be loosed, and you shall declare glad tidings of great joy unto this generation.

4 You shall declare the things which have been revealed to my servant, Joseph Smith, Jun. You shall begin to preach from this time forth, yea, to reap in the field which is white already to be burned.

5 Therefore, thrust in your sickle with all your soul, and your sins are forgiven you, and you shall be laden with sheaves upon your back, for the laborer is worthy of his hire.''

I'm not saying that I am completely cure of everything but I do know is that I'm back in the game for more of the right reasons and more desire. I'm sure that I will have more hardships and you will be the first that will be told. But I know this work to be true. This time is truly priceless and I am not willing to trade it up for anything. Have a wonderful week! Love you all

Ældste Jantzen Richard Read

Well this email is probably going to be a shorter one today. I am in the process of downloading the Book of Mormon in Danish for our investigators. But I just want you all to know that everything is going amazing in the Aalborg II area!!! We were able to meet with ur awesome invetigator twice last week, he came to a baptism and also came to church!!!! (Also asked if we could find a way to download the Book of Mormon in Danish because the website is down). But our investigator is so amazing! Happiest man as anyone could be! All smiles and awesome! Me and Elder Wilsher had an interesting experience where we planned on teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ but investigator started asking about Christ and if he was just a prophet (because that's how he understood it). Immediately we both had the thought to say ''oh that will be taught in church or next time, or we haven't planned that''. We both knew though that we needed to teach the Plan of Salvation and focus on Christ. It actually helped a lot because that's all I could hear in church yesterday was Christ being our Saviour.

He also is willing to live the Word of Wisdom like a champ! We just read the revelation in the pamphlet and he said you know what I have experienced this of more energy!!!! And agreed to just live it and give up drinking coffee! We are so excited to meet with him again this week.

We also have been doing a ton of service. We actually had to move a piano 2 flights of stairs and back up 3 flights of stairs. Luckily Elder Wilsher and Elder Zalewski had harnesses and biceps of steel haha. But it's been a good week.

Well Hope you all have a great week! That's all folks. Love yah!

Ældste Jantzen Richard Read