Monday, January 20, 2014

January 20, 2014/ Viera 1st w/Sister Kreiberg

Hello!
How are all of you this week? I hope well! Wow things are doing much better over here in Florida!
My new companion is Sister Kreiberg from Denmark and she is awesome.  She is a professional dancer and she speaks 5 languages! WOW! Danish, English, Norwegian, Swedish, and German. It is so funny to be with her because she does
not get the way Americans talk with all the slang and Idioms. The other night I was asking her about her dancing career and I asked if she could show me
some of her dance moves and she said only if you show me yours! Then I said haha I don't think so, I have two left feet and cannot dance, haha then Sister Kreiberg froze with the most awful look on her face and came over to me to look at my feet while she asked me, do you really? I started to laugh so hard when I explained to her that, when Americans say they have 2 left feet it means they are clumsy. Haha its been so much fun, so now for the past week I have been trying to think of American slang to teach her.
Things are going great here in Viera though, Sister Kreiberg and I have been out biking and tracting all week, and we are very very sore!  We were able to get a new investigator this week though and that was exactly what we needed.  We met a young girl named Emily and she is 17 years old. When we knocked on her door and introduced ourselves she told us that her best friend was Mormon, when we asked who the friend was she said Tori Clark, and we told her that she was in our ward! It was way cool! We asked if we could share a message with her and she said that she would like that! She also said that Tori has tried many times to pray with her or read the scriptures, but that she just wasn't really interested, but that she thought it was cool that we were there so she invited us to give her a message. We taught her the message of the restoration and it went great. The spirit was so strong and Emily had mentioned that Tori had shared many of these things with her before. At the end of the lesson we invited her to church and she said she would love to come and that she would call Tori and ask for a ride. She then asked us if we had a Book of Mormon that we could give her, and of course we did. All I can say is that I am so grateful for Tori! It is amazing what influence we as members have on our friends.  Emily wouldn’t have given us the time of day if she hadn't been prepared before hand to receive the message that we had for her. On Sunday Emily also came to church with Tori and had a wonderful time. She loved being in the Young Womens and is excited to continue to come back to church with Tori. We are very excited too! Guess what!!!!! So Anthony and Jeff from my last area have been coming to church every Sunday, and what is even greater is that my last Sunday in Pleasant Hills Jeff's wife Jessy came to church as well, which was a miracle in itself because she was sooo against it! and now just the other day they texted Sister Baker and told her that they liked coming to church and that they were thinking about all getting baptized. HOLY COW!!!!! It is a miracle, I never thought I'd see the day that Jessy walked into a church and she did and I never thought I would see they day that Jeff said he wants to be baptized and look at them now! It is so great to see the changes in people lives as they live the gospel and come closer to their Savior.  I know that they truly have been prepared to receive this gospel and that Heavenly Father is very aware of His children.  I am so grateful to be apart of this great work! I love you all!

Sister Jamison!

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