Quick explanation on the word
'fejro.' That is the common Spanish term for how Danes celebrate the wonders of
Mexico. Just kidding, that's an American (me) saying the Danish word (fejre)
and trying to make it sound Spanish. :)
The first week in the Havn! It was
quite extraordinary! Which tends to be the norm, frankly.
Monday existed and was crazy. (see
"The Habor is Kolding" for more information)
Tuesday also existed! We got some
studies in along with emailing and buying food that morning because we got home
too late Monday night. Then we biked out to meet with a newly baptized member
named Henry! He's a refugee from Uganda. He's a super sweet guy, but sadly is
moving refugee camps over to Aalborg, so he'll be in a different ward and area.
Afterwards we did some country contacting! Which was just normal contacting but
we talked to people from Greenland, Denmark, Syria, Iraq, Russia, Romania,
Thailand, and the USA. It was crazy! Quite exciting meeting others from the big
wide world!
Wednesday was really fun! We had
some awesome contacting and knocking, which was pretty normal. We met a guy
named Rob, who is from the USA. (He had to ask us if we were Danish, so I count
that as a win!) We also talked to a guy who invited us into a little bank room
as he fed wads of cash into the ATM. I was pretty sure we'd get arrested at one
point or the other. That evening we had choir, which was fun! There were seven
people there, and I got to (attempt) sing bass. Right after, we went and played
floorball with some members, less actives, and non-members!! It was awesome!!
Floorball is basically hockey on a gym floor. It was really fast pace and quite
exciting! (along with regularly occuring!) Once we got home and showered, we
had ten minutes left. So we went out and just tried to be led by the Spirit. We
ended up walking down a little alley and knocking a tiny opgange. There was a
guy that we were able to testify of the Plan of Salvation to, but he wasn't
super interested.
Thursday was pretty uneventful. We
got rained on in the morning, but then it stopped. We had a lesson with a lady,
but she wasn't home. Luckily our other lesson with Dorthe and Søren was good!
They're a younger (20's) couple that have been taught once before. We had a
member, Kurt Holm-Larsen, along with us. It kind of was good. We basically
planned to finish the Plan of Salvation, but ended up answering a ton of random
questions about anything possible! It was cool to see they were engaged though!
Friday was fine. We had some awesome
contacting in the morning where we found some awesome potentials!! One guy,
Flemming, was quite positive after initially turning us away. Sadly, he works
as a traveling chef so he's gone all the time! We then had Weekly Planning and
stopped by a ton of people! We met this 23-ish year old Dane, Nicolai, who
asked us who we were. He turned out taking a Book of Mormon and telling us to
stop by his house again. So that was cool!
Saturday was incredibly helpful! We
stopped by Nicolai and he let us right in! He admitted he had been drinking the
night before, but he had still read the first page of the Book of Mormon!! We
didn't have a ton of time with him, but we made an appointment and encouraged
him to keep reading! Then we headed to meet with David, who is a Burmese
father. He's pretty good at English though. We talked about the Gospel of Jesus
Christ and he really liked it! He didn't want to commit to church becuase his
family doesn't understand English or Danish, so we're working with him on
coming himself first. Then we headed off to District Meeting in Aalborg! That
city is really cool! It was kind of fun coming in through the fields and
beaches to a city. We all went to Pizza Pasta Place for lunch before, which was
pretty good! Then we met the Zone Leaders (Ældste Merrill and Ældste Saviano)
at the church. We had an awesome meeting about Prayer and Inspiration! It was
awesome!! We talked a lot about how prayer is able to change what we want in
order to accept what God wants, and also how faith strengthens our prayers. It
was awesome! Unluckily, we had to run out of the church in order to catch a bus
to catch the train to get back to Frederikshavn. Once home, we did some
contacting and knocking. Then we ate tacos for dinner because it was Cinco De
Mayo!! (We have to have fun somehow, right?)
Sunday was pretty interesting too.
We had church, which is always interesting in a new area. The branch is
apparently all two families (Kristensen or Holm-Larsen). I was able to share my
testimony, which I was actually really looking forward to. Then we had a good
guest class, taught by our Branch Mission Leader/Branch President's Counselor
Eric Toft. He's really cool!! After church, we were invited to eat with a
member named Kamalini. She's from Sri Lanka. It was quite exciting. She made us
some Tamil food, which was pretty good!! She is a very animated person and has
a really strong testimony in the gospel! It was awesome!! Some of her
grandchildren came over and talked with us at the end, which was pretty funny.
Other than that, we got our Weekly Planning done.
I had a really cool experience this
week that I wanted to share as a spiritual thought. On Wednesday, we went
'Spirit Finding' which is how we were able to testify to that man about the
Plan of Salvation. It didn't seem to be very effective though, so I was curious
why we ended up there. But just a day or so after, we knocked into Flemming. He
told us that he wasn't religious and never had been, but he later disclosed that
he used to believe until his mother died when he was 12 years of age. It was a
really cool experience to be able to testify to him that he would see his
mother again. I personally feel as the first contact, Wednesday evening, was
preparatory for me to be able to testify with the Spirit to Flemming. I was
prepared and willing to share the testimony I have, because I had done it
before. It was a witness to me that God prepares his children to succeed. He
truly wants to lead us in the way that we can become the best! And he will do
that! So as a challenge, try to share your testimony somehow this week. As you
share it, you will become more familiar with how, when, and the Spirit that
comes with your testimony! You will become a greater tool to your Heavenly Father!!
I hope you all have a great week!!
Good luck with Finals, AP's, Graduations, etc.!
--
Ældste Bryant Jepsen
-Cinco De Mayo!!
- Ældste Moulton and I
- There's an island in the distance.
And that's in our area!
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