Henrik & "Be Where Your Feet Are" 11-10-2014

Hi!

Ok, this week FLEW by. 
Everything is so great here. We have been busy, busy, busy. It's weird because this is supposed to be the slow season, but literally we have not had time to eat lunch these past 4 days. 
I don't have very much time to write. (We have a Zone Activity in like 30 min and we searched all over Fred Meyer to find balloons for it because we said we'd bring some so that wasted like all our email time today BUT we found some!) 

Anyway, highlight of the week would definitely be meeting with Henrik for the last time (since he is leaving). He's driven up to Salt Lake 4 times over the past 3 weeks and its been  so awesome to actually teach someone more than once face-to-face. 
He's been praying a lot the last week but still didn't know whether or not God was there. He said he was reading in Jacob in the Book of Mormon in chapter 5 about the parable of the Olive Tree and got so frustrated and confused and closed his Book of Mormon and said in his head, "This is so stupid, I'll just meet with Sister Isaksen and Helton tomorrow for the last time and go home and forget everything we've talked about." 
So right in the moment he shut his Book of Mormon, we sent him our daily text (we send it out to all our investigators) and that day I had been reading in 3 Nephi, in the Isaiah chapters, and Sister Isaksen and I were discussing them and we loved verse 7-8 in Chapter 22.
It says:

7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee.8 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment, but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer.

So I sent that one! He said literally when he closed his Book of Mormon he got that text. He said in that moment (he 100% does not believe that things are signs from God, he is insistent things are just coincidence) he knew that was God speaking to him. 
It just never ceases to amaze me how aware God is of each individual person. 
We asked Henrik to say the prayer at the end of our lesson and to just ask God if He was there and if He loved him. The spirit was so strong. It was the sweetest thing. 
In his prayer, he just said "God, do you love me? (pause for like 20 seconds) ...I'm pretty confident you do" and then he just said everything he is grateful for. 

I truly know that God puts people in our paths for a reason. 
I just love it here so much. I know I say that every email, but I really do. 

My quote of the transfer is "Be where your feet are." It has helped me a lot on days that I miss home a little bit. I am so grateful to be where I am. 
Also Everyone: you must come see the lights on Temple Square! They all turn on Nov. 28th but there's already a few that go on every night. 

Love you all so much! Thank you for your love and support.


-Sister Helton