1. Arendal!!
2. the beach
3. our walk with Inger Johanne
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!! I hope you had a good father's day Dad:) Thanks for
being the best dad in the world!
I wish you could meet Inger Johanne too. This week we got the hymn book we
ordered for her and brought it to her house when we came to visit her. And then
she tried to play a song from it and we realized she's not very good at piano...
she always wanted to play but never got piano lessons, so then a few years ago
she got her own piano and started teaching herself. But! She's willing to try
and learn the hymns so that she can play in church. Yesterday we came to church
about a half hour before it started and she was there in the relief society room
practicing "As Sisters in Zion"
Inger Johanne has a neighbor who needed some help moving things in her
house and we were supposed to go and help her on friday, but we got there and
Inger Johanne said her friend had gotten some surprise visitors and we couldn't
help her today, but she wanted to take us on a walk. It was beautiful, she took
us along the beach and then through the forest and then it started raining on
us, but it just made it prettier. So that was nice, but we had been so looking
forward to doing a service project! We almost never get to to do service! People
just aren't really willing to accept service here, especially from girls,
they're more likely to ask the elders or hire help. So we've been trying so
hard to find service! Hopefully we'll find some this week.
Also, we went to dinner at our ward mission leader's house this week. I
knew his wife was from Canada, but I found out she's actually from Lethbridge!
small world. She said she's been to Magrath lots, but she didn't know the
Russells.
We've been going on visiting teaching splits with a member in the branch.
She's really cool and we love getting to help her visit teach. We visited this
inactive woman who before was only open to having missionaries coming, but no
members. The first time we brought the member with us last month she got kind
of upset, and told us she only lets missionaries come over because she likes the
company and that she would never come to church. But we came back this month
and it was completely different. She stopped talking long enough for us to
share the visiting teaching message and she was really open with us. It was
really neat.
Saturday night during planning we decided we needed to visit this inactive
woman the next day. We knew almost nothing about her, we just had her address
from the ward list, but we didn't recognize the street name, we only knew the
city. We had no access to interenet on sunday to look up the address because
the library was closed, so we decided we would just take the bus to that city
and then knock on some doors and ask if they could point us in the right
direction. We had no idea if we would even find this house, but we felt like we
should just try. After church we took the bus out to the city where she lived,
but the bus didn't stop at the right stop, so we ended up getting off at
different stop than we had planned on. We got off the bus and just started
walking, and the first road sign we saw was her street, and her house was the
first one we saw. We knocked on her door and she was home and let us in and
told us she's been thinking lately that she needed to start trying to come back
to church. Things like this have happened so many times on my mission, and it's
so evident to me that this is the Lord's work and we aren't doing it alone.
I love you all! And I hope you have a great week!
Love, Søster Knapp
