October 20

A Miracle followed by another Miracle

So this week is an account of Gods’ hand in the work in Silkeborg.

It begins one rainy day, well almost every day it rains here but yea it was raining and we sat there in companionship study preparing to go and contact a referral that we had received the night before. We planned the bus route and we would have a hour in this little city to contact them. We biked to the bus station and waited for our bus. It came, we hopped on and we continued our journey for the next twenty minutes down a little road in a straight line. We got off the bus and found the house in a matter of minutes, knocked on the door and the answer was a very firm No. Ok so there was 45 minutes before the next bus came and that entire town had been knocked two months before. So Elder Nielsen asked aloud, “so now what do we do?”, and at that precise moment a man in a car drove up and opened the door and asked if we were Mormons. We said yea and he said get in. Without arguing we all slid in and started talking to him, glad to get out of the rain, he recounted his trip all around the US when he was a teenager and told us about the many friendly people that helped him during his time there. He told us that he was not interested at all in the church but that he might invite us over to eat dinner to start repaying some of the kindness that was given to him over 30 years before. Well he took us back to Silkeborg and dropped us of, a crazy experience. Immediately after that we went to a less actives home to talk with her and help her get back to church. She has been meeting with missionaries for over 6 years and had only recently come to church at all. She read about 5 verses in the scriptures and started asking some incredible questions. We discussed some of the things that were on her mind and at the end of the lesson she asked for a blessing from me. Leaving that appointment was probably in my top five of all time strongest points in my life where I could feel the Holly Ghost. The following day she was at church and she participated in the classes after as well. Back to Back Miracles!

It is crazy just how much the Lord helps us out here in the field sometimes, there is just no other explanation. I love you all so much, have a good week

Love GV