This week has been pretty great, so
I'll give a decent rundown.
Monday was pretty relaxed. We
basically caught up on sleep and got our groceries. It wasn't too extensive.
Tuesday was quite an abnormal Skive
mission day. The Viborg area is opening soon and the Forslunds (couple
missionaries in Herning) needed help moving furniture into the apartment, so we
went over to help them. Turns out, the Herning Elders were there as well! It
was way fun! We basically used our extreme interior design skills and then the
Forslunds took us out to lunch at Sunset Boulevard. It was awesome! We also had
a lesson with Helle, who had cancelled her baptismal date (again). So we just
reiterated the lessons we taught her to just rekindle the flame for her. We
also had another appointment with Finn and Dorthe! Dorthe had gone to the
hospital so we hadn't been able to visit, but she's feeling much better and it
was a wonderful appointment. We might need to have some White Handbook thoughts
with them though. Dorthe gave me a hug and kissed my cheek, so that was
awkward...
Wednesday was the most interesting
District Meeting I've ever had. As we were driving down to Herning, Ældste
Schaffer (the District Leader) explained that the Zone Leaders would be showing
up halfway through the meeting, but they needed a ride. And then he and Ældste
Danielsen-Jensen (the Ammo-man) had to leave literally an hour after the
meeting begun, so they needed a ride too! So basically Skive is the District
chauffeur. It's fun. So we missed the updates with most of the District, but
then the Zone Leaders waited for us to train for the Christmas
Initiative.
Thursday was Thanksgiving!! It was
quite anticlimactic for us, except we did get a ton of food! The Forslunds
needed help putting together some desks for the apartment, so we switched
around some things and got those thrown together. (They said they can't speak
Ikean.) Then they took us to a Chinese Buffet! It was super nice and we had a
way good discussion about how to build up the branch! Then we came back to
Skive, went finding and were at the Family History Center. But then to our
surprise, Bodil and Knud Christensen came and bought us pizza for dinner! They
apologized that it was just pizza for Thanksgiving, but we were very thankful.
It was great! We also made cookies that evening. So it was a good Thanksgiving!
Friday was great too. We had our
Weekly Planning, which went considerably more smooth and quickly. Then we
visited Helle and started setting up a baptismal calendar with her, and she got
quite excited about it and was ready to keep pushing forward! She's just
awesome when she's motivated! We then had an appointment with the Kvists where
we actually sat down with Ana and Ray and just talked about the Plan of
Salvation. It was awesome! Ray is a Catholic but he really liked what we talked
about. We also got to talk with Jakob and Sten who are both just good friends
with us, so that was awesome! After those great appointments, we dropped off
cookies at Elna's house and for Rune's birthday! Sadly Rune wasn't home, so we
just left them there.
Saturday was good too. We spent a
couple hours calling previous and potential investigators. We got quite a few
appointments and our Area Book is much more organized now, which I really like.
One of the appointments we set was later that evening with Ali. He's the man
who randomly came to church a couple times, but we couldn't ever get a hold of
him otherwise. We basically just had the best How To Begin Teaching with him!
Ældste Haruch and I totally backed each other up and just handed him pure truth
that built off of his knowledge. It was sweet! Then he committed to come to
church as well! We also met with Karsten after that. He's progressing along
with the 12 step program, and he said he'd come to church as well.
Sunday was rough. It started going
downhill when Helle texted us (again) and said she wasn't coming to church, and
didn't want to be baptized. Then as we were going to pick up Karsten for
church, he passed us on the side walk. He said he wasn't feeling well so he was
going to a friend's for some coffee. But on the bright side, Ali did come to
church! It was a bit awkward because he was asking for financial help with some
debts (because he's a refugee), so we talked to Knud to see how we could help
out. Then after that, we went finding again. It was pretty good!
Monday/Today was really weird. We
basically spent our day trying to work out the few appointments we had. We went
to Viborg and visited the Domkirke just before an appointment with Elna, but
then she cancelled on the doorstep (again). And she said that she hadn't
watched the Testaments like she said she would. After that, we tried visiting
an old Mine, but it was closed for the winter. But it was a cool walk through
the woods! Then we spent basically the rest of the day trying to get in contact
with Ariath. We had an appointment with him, but we had to change the meeting
place because it was in our red zone. Then he texted us and generically said
that he wasn't interested enough to meet somewhere else. So we decided to go
finding some more.
We've really been focusing on
finding more. We've also definitely seen the positive of that. We've found more
new investigators this past week than I have for quite a while. I'm way happy
and excited to keep working with those we've found and teach them about this
incredible happiness and truth!
As far as a spiritual thought, I've
been reading in a talk called the Fourth Missionary. The subtitle explains that
it shows the difference of missionary types and why we can become that. The
fourth missionary is a complete disciple of Christ. It takes a lot about giving
up all that we are to Christ so that He can make us the best version of us that
we can be. I really like that! It talks about giving up all our good and bad
desires to Christ so that He can guide us to becoming perfect! So I invite all
of you to think of how you can more fully give yourself to Him.
Thank you for the support and the
fun emails. I hope you all ate enough food to make up for me missing
Thanksgiving! Have a fantabulous week!
--
Ældste Bryant Jepsen
-Because we had hats!
-The Viborg Domkirke museum! (It's really small!)
-The old mine that we walked too, but it's covered in leaves and closed...
-The Viborg Domkirke museum! (It's really small!)
-The old mine that we walked too, but it's covered in leaves and closed...
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