Last Monday,
we didn't do a ton. We just kind of relaxed and bought a ton of chicken to last
us the rest of the transfer. So that's exciting. :) I made pancakes for
breakfast, so that was fun! We knocked into a guy from Yugoslavia (which
doesn't technically exist anymore...) but he spoke a bit of French, and Slovak,
but knew a couple phrases in English and Danish. So after a little Charades, we
set an appointment to bring him a book in Slovak. It was hilarious!! And Ældste
Moulton got to practice his French! (He took a couple years in high school, but
Danish has basically taken over.)
Tuesday was
pretty crazy! We had some good contacting in the morning but some very sad stop
by's. We biked around to try and get a couple people home, but only the
Yugoslavian guy was there! But we luckily had his book! His son explained that
he was leaving back to Serbia soon, so he could take that with him. Afterwhich,
we tried taking a train to Tolne for some service. But the train we planned was
cancelled! Along with the two after that! We ended up waiting forever and then
getting on a bus that was going down there instead. There, we helped Gregory
and his family. He's an American who owns a hotel! He's super nice, but a
little too comfortable with missionaries doing service. We really wanted to
teach him while we ate some food, but we ended up helping make lasagna, moving
wood, and then eating a bit before running out to catch a train. But I got to
help a little bit with fixing his chainsaw (Thanks Brian Crow!) so that was surprisingly
fun! We had a ton of stop by's that evening, which resulted in a couple
appointments, so that was nice!
Wednesday
was pretty uneventful. I basically was looking forward to having choir that
evening, but we weren't sure if it was going to happen. So after a super long
time of working and waiting for an answer, I got excited to stay out knocking
for another hour. And so, of course, we were told that we did have choir and we
were late. So we got kind of chewed out for that... But it was still fun! We
also found quite a few potentials, which was great! We met a man from the Congo
(DRofC) and he was really bad at Danish. He's filler word was "tak"
so anytime there was a pause in talking he'd just thank us! He also gave us
some very nice cough drops as candy... So that was nice of him!
Thursday was
pretty normal! We had District Meeting, which was very focused on virtue and
diligence! I felt very motivated to get on top of the few minutes in between
things where I can get distracted. I just want to use all the time I can to be
more effective. And then of couse, we barely missed our train home so we had to
wait a half hour. So we walked to the Singing Forrest! It was pretty cool. It's
basically a little orchard with sound boxes of people's music of those who had
performed in Aalborg. We found Andrea Bocceli, Elton John, Bob Dylan, Shakira,
Beyonce, and a couple others. it was pretty fun! Then we headed home and did
some knocking. Then! The evening got more exciting when I found a tick on my
knee! We have no idea how it got there, but we took it out! We were trying to
use a hot knife (I don't know if that's supposed to work or not) but ended up
just pulling it out with tweezers. So that was the most exciting part of the
day.
Friday was
highlighted with our lesson with a lady named Henriette! (Shout out to a
specific Ældste Francis who started teaching her sometime last year!) We had
knocked into her and she said we could come back, so we set an appointment! We
were able to take Kurt along with us, which turned out to be quite helpful!! He
knew basically half of her family and she knew a lot about his family as well!
So our next lesson is very possibly going to be in his house! We were really
excited about that! She was pretty excited to read more in Mormons Bog and gave
a soft commitment to church.
Saturday was
normal. We had weekly planning and went knocking. That's basically everything.
We knocked two streets called Horsensgade and Slagelsegade, so we joked that we
just biked quickly over to Horsens and Slagelse to see if they would be
productive. But there were very few people home, sadly.
Sunday was
fun! We had church, which included some American guests!! They needed some
translation, so I was excited to try it out, but we have a couple members who
are good at it, so that's what happened. We have little headsets and everything
though, which was cool! Henriette didn't come to church though, sadly. We're
hoping for next week. After church, Jacob Holm-Larsen showed us how to make
koldskål! So that was fun! We also got some knocking in that evening where we
talked to quite a few fun people and got some potentials!
My spiritual
thought for the week is about diligence. In Preach My Gospel it says: "Diligence
is steady, consistent, earnest, and energetic effort in doing the Lord's
work." I think it's important to realize, at least for me, that
it is not a race to achieve perfection. We're not trying to get better than
others faster. We're just trying to get better constantly! As we consistently
strive to do our best, we will be blessed and be able to see the growth that we
have!
I hope you
all have a wonderful week everyone! Good luck with graduation, end of school,
deciding what to do with free time, etc.
--
Ældste
Bryant Jepsen
- The
Singing Forrest
- Food,
because it's easy to take selfies then
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