My faith is the most important thing in my life. That is why I am spending 19months of my life away from my family on a mission to Denmark assisting in sharing a special message. That message is that God has prophets on the earth today and he loves us. Yes, he wants to bring joy into our lives and has a "Plan of Happiness". There has been a lot of news around lately and a lot of misunderstandings about who we are and what we believe. I want to share this video on Myths and Reality on the link below.

Please take time to let it download, you will be glad you did. And when you see our missionaries on the street say "hello" and remember, they have a special message from our Heavenly Father for you.

http://www.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/media/mediaplayer.swf?media=http://broadcast.lds.org/newsroom/video/flv/12-10-2007_13_Million_Newsroom.flv&type=FLV

This is the street Great Grandpa Peterson from Birkerov, Denmark. He may have lived here or in the other house around the corner. He didn't own the house but worked for someone. We had fun driving around yesterday with the Clark after we went to church by there. Watch the slide show coming later.

Happy Birthday to our Grandchildren:

Simeon Feb 14
Jaxynn Feb 16
Garret Feb 20
Ryan Feb 22

Have a great day.

Check out my Slide Show!

We finally got our pictures of Grady and that special event.  As most of you know, I was there as a computer on the tray, trying to hear what they said and see everything.  It was great to be apart of this event clear over hear in Denmark.  We can't wait to get home and get our hugs.

Well, he finally came.. Grady Blaze Gunter, our 27th grandchild, a tie breaker (13 girls and 13 boys). Yes, Amber had her baby at 4:27 on the 5th of February weighing in at 9lb 4oz and 21.5 inches long. At least that is what I heard as I was a computer on the table hanging out. Yes, we Skyped me in to the room and I hung out for 3 hours. Couldn't hear much or see much, but I was there. Isn't technology great.

Small Miracles in our Mission II

By Søster Magstadt
Sister Bomgren and I have been praying to find the elect, as I am sure we are all doing. It was something I felt I wanted to do, but I wasn’t sure how to make it happen. This last Saturday, walking home from our weekly correlation meeting, we were stopped by our Ward Mission Leader and his family. In our meeting, we had just discussed a less active we could visit and our mission leader and his family offered to drop us off at her home. It wasn’t in our plan, but we both thought, ”why not”.
After our short visit with the less active in our ward, we started heading home for the second time and were contacting along the way. One of the last contacts before we reached our home is one we feel was ”placed in our path”. He is a younger Danish man, about 29 years old. We contacted him in the same way we would anyone else, we didn’t say anything profound, but received a different response, a ”YES!!!”
He was interested in coming to church. I would have normally felt it would be too much to SMS him, the same day we met him, but felt I should. I reminded him of church with the address and the time and, to our surprise, he wrote back, ”Vi ses imorgen!”
He ended up coming to church yesterday (Sunday). The ward was amazing at welcoming him. The bishop helped us teach him about the Restoration and then another member sat with him in Priesthood and gave him the Book of Mormon, the new Sunday school manual on Joseph Smith and a copy of True to the Faith. He walked out of Priesthood with a stack of books. I think they were excited he was a Dane!
I realized yesterday that I needed to be more patient. I had to do my part and show the Lord my faith, by praying to find “the elect”, studying to teach ”the elect” and contacting to talk to ”the elect”. The Lord has promised he will answer our prayers, but it is in his time and his way. We aren’t sure what will happen with our contact, but it is exciting to know we are the Lord’s instruments and are sharing His true Gospel. I know there are more elite to be found and prayers to be answered. Go get ’em.

Look fast Æ Dickison and Æ & Søs Fonnesbeck, this will not be up very long.





Some of you have heard about our Cinderella story about Christina and Sebastian, but now I am going to share it with my blogging world.


Christina is a very good member missionary. She activated a young man and sent him on a mission. While he was gone, she continued to further her career dancing with the Royal Copenhagen Ballet.

In Sweden, Sebastian was dancing and loving it. He had just received the part of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, the part he had always wanted to play. But there was something missing. He had applied to the Danish Royal Ballet and had been accepted. He felt that he should turn down his part and go dance in Denmark.

When he came, he met Christina and they became friends. I heard that he was her dancing partner but I am not sure. He became interested in hearing about the church and the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. So Christina set it up for the missionaries to come to her home (apartment on the 6th floor of a downtown building by the Royal Copenhagen Ballet) and teach him. We were able to participate in a couple of lessons. One lesson we were sitting there listening to Elder Dickison talk to him in Danish and Sebastian responded in Swedish. There was complete understanding between the two. He was challenged for baptism and accepted. All this was done in our presence. I knew something was going on and felt the spirit, but wasn't sure what because I didn't understand Danish or Swedish. After we climbed down 6 flights of stairs to the street, I asked "What happened?" And then they told me he was going to be baptized. We were all so excited. That was just the beginning.

In October we had been invited to go see both of them dance in a ballet. We enjoyed it while tying to find them among the dancers. This year Christina received an award from the Queen for a lot of money to help her in her studies as a ballet dancer.

In December, Sebastian was baptized and Christina's missionary came home that same week. She was all tied up in knots. Which one did she truly love. She decided to choose Sebastian as she had fallen in love with him. The rejected missionary felt really bad. In sacrament meeting he bore his testimony and said that when he came home from his mission, he didn't have a place to stay, he had lost his job and now his girlfriend. But he didn't lose his testimony. He has since found a very beautiful, sweet Swedish girl and they will be married this year.

On December 29, 2007, Sebastian and Christina were married for time and all eternity in the Copenhagen Temple. Following the temple ceremony, they had a beautiful reception at the ward, just a block away.





On January 8, 2008, we were able to get tickets for the Nutcracker that Christina and Sebastian were dancing in. As we were waiting for it to start, the Queen appeared in her box just below us. So all the dancers would bow to us. (I really think it was for the queen).



This first video is of Christina and she is the front snowfake on the right.

We had been watching for Sebastian and couldn't find him. Then in the second half, he came out as the Snowflake Prince. We were really impressed. I hope you enjoy the video.













So that is the story. It could have only be better if Christina had been the Snowflake Princess. But she had to take time to have a princess wedding which was much more important as her temple marriage will last forever. This is another miracle story and it has now been recorded on my blog.

Hey, Did I tell you we went to the Nutcracker with the Queen? If you look closely you can see the queen's head below us. I think she might be reading the Book of Mormon. Do you? We went to the Royal Copenhagen Theater and watched our friends dance.






Dana Stewart is a young girl in our ward who dances. We went back stage to see her dressing room.


More of the story to come.