TRC is Hygge! ("who-ga")

It's been a really fast second week! I'm amazed that it's flown by so quickly! It's all started to kind of blend together. I'll try my best to give a good overview of what's happened so far. And please excuse my lack of englishing skills. I feel like danish is slowly taking over.

Basically with our "investigators" (or undersørgerne), we taught Katrina five times and got her to commit to church, praying and reading scriptures daily, but she wouldn't commit to a date for her baptism. Luckily she said she would be baptized once she knows it's true. But we won't have any other lessons with Katrina. And now my danish Restoration pamphlet is gone with her... Hopefully she still remembers how to pray though! ;) We've taught one of our new investigators, Martin. He's pretty difficult and not interested about doing anything with what we've taught him, so that's exciting. We just need to get a way to intrigue his interest. Then just yesterday we had TRC for the first time! Teaching Resource Center is pretty much members volunteering to have the rookie missionaries home teach them at the MTC. I felt like it would be much easier, but everyone else in our district was pretty stressed over it. Luckily Sister Reed (our third teacher and Katrina) gave us a good pep talk about how we were called to Denmark, not Texas or Colorado. It was pretty inspiring, but kind of hard to understand because it was in Danish... But we taught an old guy first and he was super nice! He spoke a bit in English though, so that was exciting. Then we taught a lady who went on her mission to Denmark. Both of them were super nice to us and basically amazed we could teach in Danish after only two weeks learning the language. We talked about the Hand of God in our lives and we read some scriptures about Alma and Amulek escaping the prison and people fleeing like goats from lions, and then Mosiah talking to his sons about the importance of the scriptures. It was really good!! Basically all of us loved our experience! Now I have to explain what hygge is. It's pronounced who-ga, kind of like an old car horn. It's basically an indescribable feeling of joy and love but specific and personal for each person. But as we were walking back to the residence, Ældste Myers was clicking his heels and kept saying "TRC is amazing! I want to live in TRC! TRC is hygge!" It was basically just hilarious. 

Now showing the diligent and gospel centered side of us missionaries, we aren't always on task... Ældste Wright got some 24th of July things from his mom which included some little glowsticks that have plastic American flag topper things. So, like all mature teenagers (or deacons) would do, a tomahawk battle ensued. It's boiled down to an ongoing duel between Ældster Myers and Wright. Sadly Ældster Bailey and I are in the same room as both of them. They've already had a duel complete with coats flicked back to reveal the holstered glowsticks, and random sneak attacks. Ældste Wright locked his glowsticks in his closet and ate the combination paper to keep Ældste Myers from taking them. But then he didn't lock it once and battle ensued again. So yea, that's exciting! 

On a more legal note, our district has played soccer twice this week!! It's honestly been my favorite exercise activity ever!! None of us are very good, except for a new Swede who played comp as well, so it's pretty nice we're all equally incompetent! On Monday we tied 4-4, so we played again Wednesday, but we have no clue what the score is. I'm converting the others though. Several of them said soccer was more fun than basketball. ;) Slowly but surely! They'll all come to realize the true superior sport! (No feelings were harmed in the sending of this email.)

I've seen quite a few new people here already! Elder Sam Francis, Elder Justin Butler, and Elder Jace Callor all came last Wednesday and now they're seasoned vets. I saw Elder Hayden Prows the other day along with Elder Tyler Peterson. They're all fellow darts, so it was fun to welcome them all. Also, I think SøsterAndrizzi (our district sister) is getting either more used to all the guys or more annoyed. It's kind of hard to tell becuase she's so patient and nice to all of us. Our teachers are amazing though! Ældste Myers told Bror Curtis about a Danish rap he heard, but he didn't understand it, and then he told Søster Reed that she looked from the spy from a movie, Salt. Then the next time we saw them, Bror Curtis had listened to the rap (which isn't a good song apparently...) and Søster Reed had watched Salt!! They're just the kindest and most wonderful people! They're awesome and make "learning" Danish so much better! Søster Reed is the nice and sarcastic teacher who laughes with us, then Bror Curtis is the nice and half-Danish teacher (also super tall), and Bror Bateman (who is on vacation this week) is the nice very-not-Danish-looking teacher who laughs at us quite frequently. :D They're all just amazing!

That's all from this Dane though. I hope you all have a wonderful week and you can take time to see God's hand in your life! I'm very glad so many of you were able to experience and love Trek! I loved hearing about your experiences and thoughts!

Jeg vil Gud elsker i! Vi ses! (“God loves you! See you!”)

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Ældste Jepsen

-Elders Gheen, Jepsen, and Francis
-Some Random Class photos, Ældste Angerhofer is the juggling master
-Our sweet study spot in T4, luckily by a piano so I could practice up a bit ;)