Monday was pretty relaxed! It was
officially transfer day! So Ældste Moulton and I reintroduced ourselves to each
other! ;) Not actually, it was just like a normal P-day. We went knocking and
talked with some fun people down on Provst Dreslers Vej. We're almost finished
knocking that area, so that's exciting. I also got the chance to practice piano
a little bit!! It was super fun!
Tuesday kind of got wrecked. We had
planned on District Meeting on Wednesday, but it was changed to Tuesday at the
last minute. So we did some contacting in the morning, met some really cool
people that we're following up with, and then basically left for Aalborg. We
had the Zone Leaders (Ældste Saviano and Ældste Arnold) introduce a Zone focus
of Diligence (Flid) and then discussed the application of the Gospel of Jesus
Christ to us as missionaries. It was a pretty good District Meeting! Afterwards,
Ældste Moulton and I tried getting home. All the trains stopped in Hjørring, so
we had to take a bus from there, which took the rest of the evening and we got
home late. So that was fun!
Wednesday was almost a repeat! We
went contacting in the morning and had some interesting contacts. We saw a less
active member on the street and got to talk with him, which was really good!
And then we saw Jan (a previous member that comes to church occasionally) and
Naja as well!! It was really fun! Then, after lunch, we hopped on a train and
headed to Fredericia! We sat with Ældste Newton and Ældste Danielsen-Jensen, so
it was pretty fun! We played Exploding Kittens on the way down too. That
evening, we stayed in the Fredericia apartment with Ældste Gottfredson, Ældste
Harding (trainee in Fredericia), Ældste Evans, and Ældste Jensen (new trainee
in Esbjerg). It was super fun! We made a ton of pizzas and ate almost all of
them!
Thursday kind of blended with
Friday. Thursday was the first day of the Culture Course, which was taught in
the Fredericia church building. Everyone from my MTC group (except Ældste
Bailey) were there!!! It was super fun! The teacher was a Danish man named Emil
(A-meal). He basically knew that we didn't need to learn any of the material
and so it was just kind of a fun time for him to talk and make jokes with us!
We discussed Democracy and Government on the first day, which is quite similar
to the American government (from what we learned). We also had a ton of breaks!
So between playing paper box games and drawing, we got to play some American
football. And of course we were still in white shirts and ties! It was pretty
hilarious! That evening, we were treated to an Asian buffet, where there were a
ton of preteen kids as well. They thought we were pretty awesome because Ældste
Angerhofer began to Russian dance, Ældste Haruch did the splits, Ældste Maready
had a dance off, etc. We're pretty cool.
Friday was a about Family Law in
Danmark, which included marriage, divorce, wills, etc. It was decently
interesting. Emil kept making jokes about falling asleep, so that was
entertaining. We played some more football and took some awesome pictures.
Basically it was completely a party with all the missionaries there. Hence
"Fest" (party) is now spelled "Kultur" (Culture). But it
came to an end and we all got back on the trains to go home. We rode with the
the other Elders and Sisters back to Aalborg (Ældste Newton, Ældste
Danielsen-Jensen, Søster Matheson, and Søster Andrizzi) and then had to take a
bus back to Frederikshavn. It was a super long travel day.
Saturday was the only normal day of
the week!! We went to a lesson with a previous investigator who randomly texted
us, who is named Zibar. He's super cool! He's been to church before and likes
learning about Christ! He committed to read the Book of Mormon (in Arabic)
daily too! We also had a stop by lesson with René! We were pretty bold teaching
and he said he'd start reading Mormons Bog (again), so that'll be good! And
then we also tried teaching Ezekiel, (from the Congo but only speaks Swahili,
French, and some Danish) He loves the missionaries, so that was pretty fun!
Sunday came super quickly!! Church
was great, as usual! Sadly, none of the people who said they'd come actually
came... But we practiced a song after church that we're going to sing in
Sacrament Meeting in two weeks. Then we ate with Else Jensen, who is Kurt's
sister. She's super cool!! We wanted to go finding afterwards, but our bikes
had a couple problems. So we ended up walking home in the rain after both bikes
had the chain come off three times and Ældste Moulton's back tire just went
flat all of a sudden. So the day went by a little faster than necessary. But it
was a fun week!
My spiritual thought this week is
from Alma 46:12 which is the Title of Liberty. Moroni takes a stand in that
chapter and defines exactly what he is standing for. We discussed a little this
past week why the things written on the Title of Liberty are truly important to
us. I'd encourage everyone to read what it is Moroni writes and then also think
about what you'd personally write on your own Title of Liberty! I really like
that Moroni puts God first! It's amazing how everything else just seems to fall
into place once the most important is our first priority. God truly does care
about us and will bless us if we follow him!
Have a great week!
--
Ældste Bryant Jepsen
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Bus photos
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We found a Cheese Dragon in Netto!
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Cykel Selfie
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The Beautiful Dansk clouds
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#TheSquad (almost all of My MTC Group)
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