Tiina gave me specific permission so that I can share her story with you all :)
This past weekend our great investigator who we met 2 weeks into this transfer was baptized! Tiina is a 46 year old Finnish woman who is married to a Muslim man. Tiina had been online searching, and found a little about the Book of Mormon. She ordered the book and it came two months later (so long--but "coincidence" is that it came on the day of transfer calls... the day that Sisar Jacobsen and i were called together to Turku). The book came, she read a little and then wanted more help understanding it. She literally refereed herself online to the missionaries...she was in the elders area and for some reason the church referral system kept sending it to ours. We called and met with her the very next day! (happened to be my birthday actually--Gods little present to me). When we later found out that she wasnt in our area we had already set a baptismal date and taught a few solid lessons. Our President gave us special permission to teach her because things were going so well (does NOT happen very often). Tiina progressed so fast, did so much studying, asked for the ENTIRE gospel library and "did her homework" like she always told us. She progressed like I have never seen before, even stopping coffee and tea the day we mentioned it (we stopped sugar with her and every night we called each other and cheered each other on). Tiina got a special situation where we was able to be interviewed by our mission president. After the interview he told us that she is a "very well prepared and converted woman" and we said "Presidnet, that wasnt us...it was all her!". Tiinas baptism went so smoothly. She had four of her friends come (she even invited more than that) and after we talked to them there and they werent too interested in learing more she came up to us and whispered "how many books can I have? I want to give them to them later then.." It was awesome. She is already a missionary!
We sang us two and the elders Come Follow Me at the baptism and the water was workin. Such a good experience. She is amazing. She has already gone on a member present lesson this week with the elders :) Such a rockstar.
Heavenly Father really does lead us to the ready people! I feel like we did very little to further Tiinas progression...she did it all herself...with the Spirit.
Moral of the story: Tiina is so rad and we are so blessed to have met her.
It was quite an amazing week:)
Sisar Cardon
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| 9 months left!!:) |
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