Friday night Brother Jensen - our Seminary and Institute Director from Germany arrived in Iceland for another great round of teaching. He began with a Fireside for the Young Single Adults on the signs of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and how we have to receive our own testimony of these signs.
Sadly for us Saturday was our last day with Brother Jensen. He has been a great asset to the Seminary and Institute teachers and students in Iceland. His next visit to Iceland is in March after we leave so we will miss him but Iceland will continue to be blessed by his great skill as a teacher of the Gospel. We began the day with teacher training specifically for the 5 Seminary and Institute teachers. There was a great discussion on how to help the students develop their own personal testimony that The Book of Mormon is the word of God. While Brother Jensen was teaching the teachers, the Seminary students were having a scripture chase activity as today was devoted to the Seminary students. After the teacher training and the Seminar activity, Brother Jensen met with the Seminary students to teach them. At about 1 PM we broke for a delicious lunch which Sister Bremner had prepared and Elder Koyle did the grilling. As we were eating, I asked some of the students how the day had been so far and they had really enjoyed it. Little did they know how much more they would enjoy the day because next we spent almost 3 hours in the National Museum of Iceland. The first two plus hours were directed but they enjoyed themselves so much they kept going until we finally had to leave. Sister Bremner had put together a discussion that was conducted by the Reykjavik Branch President so it would be in their language. The theme was to help the students understand why The Book of Mormon was written and how they can liken it unto themselves as they learned about the history of their own country. She provided each of the students with a list of questions (translated by Sister Sveinbjörg) and a journal and pen so they could think about what they were learning and write their thoughts and discoveries down which we saw them doing. She had also found an Icelandic legend about a great white God who came to Iceland and about gold plates being hidden in the grass. The legend also had drawings. The legend and the drawings fascinated the students and they want to know more about it. I think we can feel it was a successful day when the students keep going until we finally have to end and they want to know more.
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