So this week was AMAZING!!!!
A HUGE moves call was yesterday morning and Im staying here!! HOORAY! :) We are actually getting elders here WITH us in Kristiansand, so that will be cool!! And They are opening up Sandes (right next to stavanger) for sisters now!! SO Sister Mourik will be serving there and sister clark still in stavanger :)
But wanna know why I am so excited to still stay here?? (besides the fact that I love the ward and the area?) WE HAVE 3 PEOPLE WITH BAPTISMAL DATES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So last week I told you about David...but this week we met with a lady that the sisters had found before. Her name is Temi and she has 2 daughters and they are also from Nigeria! THey have been on vacation, so we met with them a couple days after. Well, we met with her and one of her daughters was listening a little :) And we taught the Plan of Salvation. She loved loved loved it! And She even asked us how she can get to the Celestial Kingdom :) MIRACLE: That morning we didnt know if we should change our plans and do the 12 week program earlier, or continue to just do it at night, like we had planned. But we felt like we should do it in the morning. So we did, and during it we watched part of the district ... an episode where they do a soft baptismal commitment and a hard, (when you find out that this is true will you be baptised?) and (Will you prepare to be baptised on this date?). So we got that idea. We hadnt talked about a hard date for her before. But during the lesson the spirit was SO strong. So Sister Johnson looked at me and we were thinking the exact thing. So I commited her to a soft baptism. and she said yes! Then sister johnson committed her to a date!!! And the date was the same one i was thinking about during the lesson :) She wasnt able to come to church yesterday though...because she was sick :( BUT, yesterday we talked to david about his baptism and he is just SO precious!! HAHA! We taught him in the room with the baptismal font and he was honestly just giddy because he was SO excited!!! He is so prepared and so excited!!!! So the other mans name is Goran. (pinlig, because we thought it was gordan and then he texted us with that name....our bad!) anyways, sister johsnon and bingham had found him a while ago, he didnt show up to their app and his phone number didnt work! SO Then we were contacting and sister johnson contacted him and was just like...i know you! haha, anyways i think ive told you all that before. But we met with him for second time! And we committed him to a soft, and then to a hard!! SO temi will hopefully be baptized on the 14th of september and Goran hopefully the 15th! They cant be on the same day because she speaks english and he speaks norsk (they are most comfortable in those) Anyways, SOOOO EXCITING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) So then we also got a call from the branch president in Arendal...elders used to be there, but not anymore. So he told us that there was a boy that they wanted to know if we could teach! We talked to president and that was totally fine! So, the Cressals (senior couple here went to oslo for a couple days so WE HAD THE CAR!!! :)
My first time driving in Norway! He is an ex police officer, and I drove them to the airport...the first time driving here....SCREMMENDE! But it was so fun! :) haha, we drove to arendal, which was 1 hour away. We had had a great week so we were thinking all was great! I thought the lesson went well, he said yes to a soft baptism, if he finds its true, and said he would read and pray, and kanskje come to church. But then I texted him after we got home and was just saying thanks to him and his member friend. And He told us that he just wanted to learn on his own. We tried continuing to text and see if he would meet once more...but that isn't gonna happen right now. He said we could keep in contact with him though, so thats good. But me and sister johnson were just crushed. I honestly put my heart into that. We met him once and we already loved him so much. And then he said he didn't want us to really teach him anymore. But that we were a big help. We were just silent the rest of the night...for the most part. It was so sad and just made us so sad. But we learned a lot. We learned that we need to learn to teach better to the needs of each investigator. But, that was just a roller-coaster day. Anyways, the funny thing about it is that we had temi commit on wednesday, goran commit on thursday, and then met and got dropped by havard on friday. Anyways, then on saturday we drove to Mandal..about 45 minutes to an hour away...to meet with david!! :) That went well!! This was on saturday :) We just listened to christmas music and talked so that was fun! The drive throughout Norway is gorgeous!!! One thing i love about kristiansand is that you can be in the city one minute, and then in the country the next! SO GORGEOUS!!!
Another miraculous story...we were going with AIda, the philippion lady, to visit one of our investiators Wafaa (from iraq). We got to the door and before we knocked aida was getting a call from her. We heard her baby screaming crying but didnt know what was up. Wafaa was telling aida she needed her or something and aida told her we were at the door. We got in and her baby had spilt HOT tea on his chest and his chest and stomach was just raw! So they took them to the hospital (wafaa doesnt have car so aida drove them) and we ran/walked back to the center.
MY CALVES WERE ABOUT TO FALL OFF! Haha, but we also ended up catching a bus!!! SO that was a tender mercy. We wanted elder cressel to give her son a blssing, because her son had had one before. It didnt work out though, so the next day we went and the bishop and aidas husband gave him a blessing. What they told us was that he had to have cold water on his stomach for about 1 hour and a half, then they gave him anesthesia and scraped his stomach (i guess there were blisters?) and wrapped him up, they stayed in the hospital for a couple days...poor boy. anyways, such a miracle that we were at that door at that exact second she needed Aida!!! We talked to her about the Priesthood/blessings yesterday and that gave us more perspective on what we should do with her. We were thinking about how much longer we should each her...because she cant understand arabisk or norsk (reading very well) and there isn't a MB in her language...korisk. But we felt like we should keep teaching her and see how it goes. Anyways, crazy week!!!!!!!!
Goron, Temi, and David are the poeple we were expecting at church and david is the only one that came. Temi was sick and Gorans brother was in the hospital!! Super disappointing, but all will work out.
Anyways, ONE FUNNY THING :)
When I was on the phone with Havards friend (the boy that was on the teach with us) He was spelling havards name...the second a has an o thing over it, but i cant type in norsk right now...anyways, in my planner....i wrote down what i thought he spelt...SUPER EMBARRASING!!!!! hahahah....i thought he spelt KONOHAIB. And we totally would have called him that if he wouldnt have texted us his name later!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAHA!!!
Oh! And we also ate at our Ward mission leaders house, who recentely got back from his mission in california. And another girl in the ward and another boy ate with us too. Kjempe koselig! :)
Well I love you all so much!!!!!! And I miss you all too!!! Im not going to have much time to email next week, because IM GONNA BE IN TRONDHEIM!!! For Zone Conference in the North!!! Someone from the 70 is coming! :)
Well, love you all so much!!!!!!!!!!!
Jeg elsker dere!!!!
Love, Soster Chapman :)
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