My best bud Thomas got baptized on Saturday! He's in a wheelchair as you can see from the Picture. It took three people to get the job done! Two carried him into the font while a third propped him up and said the prayer. So great :) I'll admit I was a little worried about the Whole thing going smoothly at first. There was a bit of debate when I was in Odense about baptizing Thomas. But during the baptism (I got to be a witness :)) there was such a great spirit present and Thomas bore a very powerful testimony afterwards about the church and about how we are a light to the other people here in Denmark.
It was great, Thomas kept explaining the church to the nurse that had to come with him, he told me he wants to be a missionary like us one day so I guess he's getting a head start haha! This man is a big example to me. After he was carried out of the font he had the biggest smile on his face even though I'm sure it was not comfortable being pushed underwater with no way to plug your own nose. He just kept saying what a wonderful feeling he had. I stayed just a minute or two after everyone left, and he was just full of joy even though he was going to have to get help changing out of the wet clothes. It meant so much to him! Right after the baptism my other best bud Fredjuf showed up. If you've been an avid follower of these emails then you might remember Fredjuf from the very start of my time in Odense. He had a baptisimal date but we lost contact with him right before I left. He came back to the baptism and it was the first time he'd been to any church activity or had any contact with the elders since I left. The elders serving in Odense now didn't know who he was or that he wasn't a member so I went and talked to him for the rest of the program and he told he he'd love to come back to the Young adult activities that have at the church! What are the odds I was put there at the exact time he came back to the church to introduce him to the new missionaries and get him interested again? Definitely a blessing. I'm way punmped! Hopefully he can see himself to the font this time around haha!
I also got to visit Jens, the artist that painted a picture based off a spiritual thought I shared with him.
I'm gonna see if I can get it.... it's a little pricy though.
On another note, I GOT TO SKYPE MY FAMILY :) It was way fun to see them all again. Love you Guys! And Mom for Mothers Day I couldn't really get you flowers considering I'm like 5000 miles away. So I just got you a Whole field them instead :)
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY
Love you :)
So much fun to see the Family again, even though the time I got was not even close to enough. I can't believe how much is changing and how much you've all grown up. Makes me realize time is still passing even though it all seems the same to me over here in my mission bubble. That's ok cause I still have a year of it left! We have a lot of exciting stuff going on here in Holbæk now and I'm super stoked to get to see it all happen. So even when I realize everyone elses lives are going forward and a lot of friends fail at writing and I have only my weird little EFY songs as comfort music I'm glad I get to see the big changes like what happened with Thomas. Cause that's why I'm here, the rest will take care of itself when I come back. So I'll keep plugging away. I only get a little bit longer to enjoy this part of my life.... why does time keep going forward? Someone should tell it to do something different and exciting for once.
Anyway. Hope you all enjoyed my weird little stories from this week. I promise there will be more next time! That's the great thing about this country, there's a ton of random little adventures just waiting to happen. Also nobody is waging war on the Eastern half of my mission, so that's a plus. Don't die Conner.
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