This week was great! I wrote you all earlier this week, so there isnt much more that happened....okay there actually is....DAVID WAS BAPTIZED!!!! :) Ah man, the coolest thing ever :)
Let me start with Thursday afternoon. After I emailed you all, later that night, we went and visitied one of our investigators Temi....she is also from Nigeria! (we are honestly preaching to the world here in Norway). We tried teaching the 3rd lesson. We got to baptism and she had lots of questions! She got really confused and then she was just like....``I have one thing to ask of you both`` Inside I was like....oh no...shes gonna ask us to leave and never come back. And sister johnson was thinking something like....to have us stop teaching her. And then Temi said, ``Please just pray for me, that I can understand.`` Ahhhh :) It was so good. We are going to meet with her more this week so that will be great! So then on friday we met with our investigators Rai and his daughter...amega? im not sure exactly haha but they live in a white van...last I knew. Anyways, they have a stand set up where they sell hats and sunglasses, etc. Close to the domkirke by the gågate. Anyways, we have visited them there before, but this time we wanted to teach a lesson. So we did! We taught him and his daughter the 2nd lesson :) She has been reading and he hasn't been reading....gonna start soon i think! And she has read a little bit out loud so that is good. He is norsk and she is half norsk half indonesian!
Anyways, then we had a bbq dinner with the YSA before institute, and we went to institute because our investigator David came :) So, then we have saturday! Sister Johnson was so stressed out for the baptism! For some reason i was just super chill and not very nervous. That came later. haha :) Anyways we did some contacting, got ready for the baptism, ironed the clothes, printed off the programs, etc. Then we went to the church early with the elders and practiced the song we were going to sing ``Our Saviors Love``, filled up the font, etc. :) I didnt end up getting nervous until we were waiting on David to get there.I wasnt really nervous...i think i was just mostly anxious! David asked for an old philippino man in the ward, Jose, to baptize him.
So as soon as david walked in, Jose began to show him how he would be baptized. ...before I go farther I just have to say WHY DO WE HAVE SUCH A LAUGHING PROBLEM IN OUR FAMILY!? You will understand when you hear the rest of the story...oh my goodness hahahahahahaha :) So david didnt know how to be baptized so jose was showing him and when jose lifted up his arm into the square, david was just guessing that he was gonna hold joses hand so thats what he started to do and it was hilarious! immediately we told him that wasnt right hahaha...So we got David and Jose in their white clothes and then took pictures :) David was just glowing when he stepped out in his white clothes. He was smiling and just SO happy :) Then we started the meeting! Sister johnson gave the talk about Baptism, and Aida Ibanez (philippino lady....joses wife) gave talk on the Gift of the Holy Ghost. And then we 4 missionaries sang Our Saviors Love. And David told us later that he just LOVED it. It was accapela and in parts and it really helped bring the Spirit. Then it was time for David to be baptized! :) We went downstairs to the font. Sister Johsnon and I sat in the second row and watched as David and Jose stepped into the water. He was so excited and the Spirit was really there :) David told us after he was baptized, that he was praying while he was walking into the water and he felt like a big change was coming :) So Jose baptized him, but his tie or hand didnt go completely under, so they had to do it again. But David didnt know that so he got out of the water and gave me and sister johnson two thumbs up with the biggest smile on his face! But they were told that they needed to do it again! So they do it again, but his tie floats up. but he tucked his tie in and they tried it again. But then, Jose wanted to make sure that David is under the water, so he leaves him under there, bubbles are coming up because (im guessing) david was breathing out. And then when Jose tried to pull him up, he dropped him a little and so david was slipping in the font and Jose had a hold of his neck, trying to pull him up!!!!!!! HAHA! I DIED! One reason I think i laughed that hard, was honestly because the Spirit was so strong. I was so happy. And Sister johnson and I talked about it and I think that the Spirit likes laughter. Especially for Davids baptism. He is always smiling :) But then we just had prelude music until david and jose came back. We ended with 3 testimonies, from a boy named Giovanni, me and a boy named Jaime. I was So emotional. I cried during sister johnsons talk a little and then when i bore my testimony the water works came. I was able to express how much I care about David, and how me and sister johnson really love him. Later he told me he was almost crying, or crying during his meeting. David is amazing. He was always talking about how excited he was to change and to be baptized :) ``I cant wait til I see that day!`` He is such an example to me. He is always serving and loving Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. Man, I just love him so much!!!! He was sad to hear that he wouldnt see us as often. But we will still see him :)
Then after the meeting we had refreshments :)
Then yesterday he recieved the Holy Ghost! I played the piano in primary for the first hour, and then we had S.S. and then Sacrament Meeting! I tried translating for David, because this was the last Sunday in the church building because they will be starting construction! now we will have church at a school! Anyways, i tried translating...and I kinda made up some of what I told him. hahaha it was still good though! Sister Johnson told me she does that sometimes too. hahaha
Anyways, then he was able to receive the Holy Ghost! He asked a man named Rolf to give him the Holy Ghost. It was so cool to feel that feeling I get when I hear those four words. He had a great blessing and after when he came and sat by me, i asked him how he felt. He said, ``i feel cool. I feel cool.```He told me and sister johnson that he felt something over his head. :) We gave him a triple combination scripture set with notecards we both wrote on. :) The ward was so sweet to him and came over and welcomed him into the ward and congratulated him! During Sacrament Meeting it was actually really cool. There was a lady that bore her testimony. At one point, I was just saying words...translating, but not really listening to myself. And a little after that, i looked over at david and he was crying. it was so amazing. Whatever it was that I translated, was what he needed to hear!
Anyways, I love David! This one thing will show you all how David is. Everytime we call him and ask how he is, he answers with ``BEAUTIFUL!`` and if he doesnt, we assume there is something wrong hahahaha :)
Ah i love him!
But after church yesterday, we ate at the Torjesons house, i served with their son in Stavanger! haha anyways, they have a plum tree right outside their house, so we got to pick from there and eat :) Then we had a DEILIG dinner! And DESSERT! I was SO FULL! You know you are fuller than you should be when you can feel it in your shoulder blades. hahaha
But for dessert she made homemade, apple pie with whipped cream, plum pie with sour cream, and Apple Porrage with cinnamon and milk! And then there was ice cream :) My favorite was the apple porrage! I have NEVER had anything like it! It was SO good! But i was SO full! haha
We also met with a less active family yesterday named the Williamsons, she is going to teach us to knit soon, so that will be fun!
then we met with one of our investigators, Wafaa. I love her so much! This was the first teach I got pretty frustrated though. I shouldnt have...but I really felt like there could be a spiritual experience...and her son kept making noise and crying, etc. It is really frustrating...but all is okay :) I LOVE her! She can't read Arabisk very well, or norsk, her main laguage is Kordisk. But she is still trying. :) Other than that, life is great! We go to Stavanger tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For Zone Leader Training! :) And Im super excited about that! Today we are going to go and hike up by some lakes and then go to a World War 2 museum! Those are our plans, so hopefully that works out! And then were going to a members for dinner and to teach a lesson :)
I hope you are all doing great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I MISS YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!
Love, Søster Chapman
P.S. Jeg har vært på misjonen min for nesten fem måner!!!!! AHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
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