Keep on Shining

Man it has been a busy week. We have seen a ton of things happen. We have found many people who wish to hear a little more about the Church. We have actually picked up a new investigator from recent convert! Turned out to be his daughter!!!! It was pretty awesome to just see it unfold. We went over to visit our new convert and turned out his daughter was visiting. We started talking with her and she was asking some great questions!!! Her father was even teaching her as well! At the end she offered to do the prayer herself!!! We asked if there was anything we could do and she asked if we could come and do some service for her.

A couple days latter we went and hanged a lamp on the ceiling, Lower a shelf, and put up a soap dispenser. May I just say how awesome it was to use power tools again!!!! I will admit that I am so grateful to have craftsman in the US!!! These little battery powered screw drivers just didn't do justice =(. But It was so much fun to drill into some walls again!!! At the end of a very long service project, took an hour to find all the missing pieces to the lamp haha. We asked if we could come back and talk with her. She readily agreed! And we will now be teaching her with her father (the new convert)!! Look at that Member missionary work actually pays off in a very small branch!

Well it's been an awesome week! I hope that everyone has a great week. Last week of February Man I feel like I'm getting old. My siblings just past their birthdays, college is coming up and everyone just looks so young in the mission. Not too many old guns left haha. So weird to think that I am going to be one of those old guns (who knows I could be already haha). Have a great week! Keep on Shinning!

MVH,

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Amazing Week

Well I can honestly say that it has been an amazing week! We had the opportunity to visit with an awesome couple twice this past week. The first time we talked about the Atonement of the Savior and the second about answering questions on baptism, showing baptismal interview questions and on service. While we were talking with the girlfriend about what will happen when she is baptized she turned to her 'boy friend' and said ''I want to be baptized!''. Completely threw me in a warp hole. All we need to do is help them get married haha. But we will be meeting with them again on Wednesday and we look forward to teaching them about marriage and the law of Chasity.

Another crazy thing was that we visited with a less actives mom, who is also less-active. Shared a small message with her, than the next day she popped in for church! She sat in and listened and participated. We had the opportunity to talk with her and she opened up her feelings to us. She talked about how she wants to come back because of one of the members persistence of being a friend and inviting her and also how Elder Warner said to her that ''The Skive branch needs her''. And this whole time she was feeling the opposite of that. She told us that if she was going to come back than she needed to do it faithfully and as a member missionary. She has purchased even a Preach My Gospel to help her with that!!! She also will be helping our new senior couple today with getting around Viborg. It is safe to say by the start of March she will be reactivated! The Skive branch is growing! What a blessing to be a part of it!

Oh and we also got a senior couple (previously mentioned). They are awesome! They will be staying here in Viborg and doing Records Preservation. Because Viborg has a national achieve base here for family history. We helped them move in and they are just awesome.

Well hope everyone has a great week! Keep letting your lights shine! You never know how much good you do everyday!!!

P.S I love our living prophet!

Ældste Jantzen Read

Sad to say goodbye to Elder Warner!

Yep we got transfer calls this past Friday. We found out that Elder Warner will be moving to Svenborg. And we also found out that I will be yet with another older missionary and his name is Elder Jensen!!! (pronounced danish way yen-sen) haha. He has been on the mission for almost two years and is pretty awesome!

But it has been an amazing week! We have had the opportunity to see the Lord's hand truly turn the city of Viborg's work around 180 degrees!!!!! We have found so many new investigators and have taught a ton of lessons. One of the people we taught this past week actually wants to be baptized!!!! There has been so much success that has happened in the past week. I've never taught this many lessons in a week on my mission! It's just unbelievable to describe.

We said goodbye to Cecilia (the car) yesterday. But luckily she will be transferring to Skive's area. haha. So the car is still nearby haha. Don't think that President trusts my stories of getting better a 100% haha. But it has been an amazing week" I hope that everyone can feel of the blessings and the work of salvation unfold. the Lord truly is hastening his work! I know that this is true! Have an amazing week and keep letting your lights shine!!!

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Younger Missionaries have a lot of faith!

Well not much to report on. haha. Actually this email is going to be short because we need to take an essentials preparation day because we're going to have a district activity in Randers on Thursday.

But everything is going well in Viborg. This past week has been extremely busy. We had the opportunity to find tons of new people this week. We were able to go to Randers for companion exchanges. It is amazing to see the faith in the younger missionaries. I was with my companion and he didn't want anyone to by pass him. He was a contacting machine. Than we started knocking and he proposed the idea to knock a section again because not very many people answered the first time. My initial thought was 'well we could just keep going were you left off'' But than I thought differently and thought why not? I really didn't go into it with much hope. We started knocking and after the 5th or 6th door we already gave out a Book of Mormon and a couple of pamphlets to different people. Sheesh!!! Than after we left the building we contacted a woman and had a 20 minute discussion with her. Man it just goes to show you don't give up early or don't say no to an okay idea! haha.

Me and Elder Warner have seen great success in the Viborg area. It is great to see how much the Lord has blessed us even when we were out of commission for a while. The Church is so true! If you don't know it than FIND out for yourself!!! I know that our Saviour lives and loves us. We have an Eternal Father in Heaven and he is ready to answer the question that we have when we humble ourselves before him! I love you all and wish you all have a marvelous week!

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