Kolding our Fathers

This week's email will be awkwardly short, so I apologize upfront. 

Basically everyday was normal. We had a ton of eating appointments with the Bornemann family, which was incredible!! I love that family so much!! Their son Joshua wants to play soccer with us (or maybe it's just that we really want to play with him, but that's ok).

Tuesday, we did some finding and tried setting up some appointments. We also tried to officially/legally move into Kolding, but we couldn't so that was awkward. Especially because we're still living here.

On Wednesday, Ældste Weaver and I shot up to Horsens to get my biometrics done. We waited for two hours and then got it done in 15 minutes. Then we came back to Fredericia to eat with Nina Fonnesbech (a member) and she told us her conversion story. Then we started some splits with the Zone Leaders but we just went contacting.

Thursday was also crazy. We had District Meeting at noon so we studied before. Then Ældste Foulger and Ældste Moulton came for splits with the Zone Leaders. We had a lesson with Rosa, to which Jens Sørensen came with us. It was a good lesson. Rosa isn't super positive, but likes talking. Jens was super helpful though and he invited her to drive to church with him!! Yay for member missionaries!!

On Friday, we did a lot of finding. It was good practice! We also had an eating appointment with Niels Nielsen's family. They’re awesome too! It's hilarious being in this ward! Everyone is just so normal/weird with the missionaries! We're just all best friends!

Saturday was interesting as well. We wanted to have soccer with Joshua Bornemann that morning, but it got cancelled because we started actually planning at 10 on Friday night. But we then got transfer calls. The rumor was that Kolding would be downsized to a 2 man. Which rumor was shattered by President a last week when he just texted all of us and told us it would stay a 4 man. So I assumed I would be staying here, and I was right. However, Ældste Saviano is also staying! That was unexpected. The four man is now Ældste Preece (as the new Zone Leader) and my companion is Ældste Schaffer!! We were also told that we wouldn't be going out of our area much the next transfer, because we are getting less travel funds. So basically, we've been secluded fifteen minutes from the majority of the ward... The rest of the day was decent. We did some Weekly Planning and then some finding.

Sunday was basically overtaken by the ward. We had an amazing Testimony meeting where almost every person who got up testified of missionary work. We had four missionaries leaving the ward (including Sister Baird who is going home). Person after person stood and bore testimony of how the missionaries had served them in a variety of ways! It was incredible!! We all felt super loved! We had an eating appointment with Ketcha and Poul, which was awesome!!

Spiritual thought: Be amazing! pray!

--

Ældste Bryant Jepsen

-Missionaries who attend the ward in Fredericia:

Ældste Cannon, me, Ældste Smith, Søster Peterson, Lise Kohr (she's an awesome member who loves all the missionaries, it's pretty funny), Søster Baird, Ældste Saviano (trying not to be apostate by Søster Baird), Ældste Woodforth, and Ældste Weaver
-Ældste Weaver and I
-Our apartment's matching sunglasses
-At the train
-A Wheelchair swing
 

 (Wheelchair swing? He also sent a short video clip of him on it.)