Skive, Sweet Skive

This past week was basically just insanely busy, but also not in our area. It was quite strange. We spent our P-day yesterday trying to find a good winter coat for me, but there weren't any styles and sizes that actually would work for me, so my searching will continue. But then Finn and Dorthe couldn't have us over that evening, so we ate by ourselves for the first Monday in a couple weeks. 

Tuesday through Thursday we spent in Copenhagen for the 30 Day-In Meeting, which was shifted this transfer to be more of a 43-ish day meeting, but it was all good! We left Skive at about 9 in the morning and arrived at the Mission Home at about 4. We luckily were able to play UNO with the Elders from Herning, so that was quite exciting. The next couple days were full of awesome training, amazing food (Thanks to Sister O'Bryant!), and just overall jolly experiences with all the Elders in my MTC group. It was super fun! A few highlights: lots of random role plays in Danish, a now broken basketball hoop (it was actually not my fault, I was just watching in a suit), and trying to get enough beds for everyone to actually sleep there. While in the 30 Day-In Meeting, President spoke with Ældste Brown and they decided (with Ældste Brown's family) that he needed to go home early because of a medical situation within his family. So through the course of those three days, I was nearly guaranteed to be staying just like I had been for the transfer, to at least getting a new trainer. Suddenly, transfer calls became a lot more stressful for me. 

We were also able to go to the temple while we were in Copenhagen. I love the temple!! It's so amazing!! I also have decided that the Copenhagen Temple is in my top two favorite temples. It's cool on the outside, but the inside is breathtaking. It's gorgeously simple and the Spirit there is so unlike the business of the city around it. The temple is an amazing place where we are able to focus on the blessings we have from our Heavenly Father and feel of his love. If you haven't been to the temple lately, I strongly encourage you to go! It's definitely worth the trip, no matter the distance or time it takes.

Friday and Saturday were splits in Aarhus with Ældster Christensen Senior and Junior. It was quite interesting because we had District Meeting on Friday as well, so we didn't have too much time to go out and work. We did have an eating appointment with the Trapp-Nielsen family, which was quite fun. Stephanie Trapp-Nielsen is the only Dane I've met that wants to speak English more than Danish. It was quite interesting, but she went to BYU for 4 years so it wasn't too weird. 

We were in Aarhus for transfer calls Saturday morning. President called us at about 7:45 and asked who was in the apartment. He started by joking with Ældste Brown that his new companion was named Julie, so we'll see if he actually finds her back in Houston or at BYU. ;) I was next on the list. I wasn't surprised to be told I was staying in Skive. My new companion is... Ældste Spencer Saviano! He's from Roy, Utah and was training Ældste Angerhofer in Slælse (on Sjælland).

Then Saturday and Sunday were taken by watching conference and preparing Ældste Brown for his departure! We watched all sessions except for Sunday afternoon. We only watched Saturday Morning and Sunday Morning Live because of the time difference, but we watched Priesthood and Saturday Afternoon both on Sunday as well. I only watched two sessions in English, so my notes on the Danish sessions are almost all my own thoughts on the subject the talk was about. I'm very grateful that we can go back and watch, read, and listen to conference. We can always learn something new from the things God's servants tell us!

Today, was basically all transfers. We left for Aarhus and sent Ældster Brown, Erickson, and Christensen Sr on the same train towards Copenhagen, then I stayed with Aldster Christensen Jr and Smith until Ældste Saviano came and we left back for Skive. It's been really fun with him so far! I'm excited for the transfer and all the progress that we're going to make!! Just a little more on my new companion too! Ældste Saviano is a wizard on the piano and has also started playing the guitar! I'm very excited to work with him here! He's a super nice, humble guy and he'll be great to work with! (I've only been with him for a couple hours so far, so I don't have many other details...) I'm also our designated driver, so that's exciting! I'm quite happy about it.

Thanks for reading this long email and I apologize if something didn't make sense. We're headed off to another appointment with Finn and Dorthe, so that will be great! We also helped Elna set a Baptismal date of October 14th! So that's coming up quickly and we're trying to work with her on building her foundation on Christ. We also haven't been able to meet with Karsten for the past while, so we're going to try harder to get a hold of him now that we're back in the area. But some amazing things are going to come from Skive!! Hej hej!!

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Ældste Bryant Jepsen

-This was the couch of strange acceptance. The picture isn't deceiving, you shouldn't be able to fit that many people on it 
-Ældste Brown fell asleep on our train, so I took a selfie! 

(He falls asleep quite often)
-Ældste Saviano and I emailing in the church 
(I just barely took that picture...)