Monday! We
started off a busy week with two lessons on Monday! Sadly, they both turned
into drop lessons! We already knew we would drop Sarya, just because he wanted
to convert us to Islam and we couldn't really communicate and therefore have a
good chance to help him. But their family still likes us and we say hello if we
see them! We also had a first lesson with a man named Mickey in the church
building. But he left saying that he felt surrounded by people with super-human
faith and he couldn't reach that himself. So that was pretty sad. But we tried
visiting Cloos-tårnet that day, which was pretty fun! It was sadly closed, but
we walked around and visited a little church (which comprises all of my
pictures from this week).
Tuesday was
District Council (new name, basically the same... as of now at least) and
interviews and splits! Needless to say, it was a big day! We discussed helping
people with Baptismal Dates to actually be baptized! It was helpful! Then we
had some lunch and reminisced about a year ago in the MTC (at least Søster
Andrizzi, Ældste Newton, and I did). President Olsen then came to the church
and we had interviews! Yes, they were in Danish and yes, they went well! Then
Ældste Ellis and I had a bunch of stop by's which took the rest of the evening.
It included a lesson though, so that was really fun!
Wednesday
was part in Aalborg. Ældste Ellis and I had a couple lessons. One was with a 25
year old man named Nikolaj, and he committed to read the Book of Mormon daily!
We also taught the Restoration to 4 Eritreans, but they weren't interested
after that. After our day in Aalborg, Ældste Moulton and I came home and
knocked a while. It was a good day!
Thursday was
surreal and super normal at the same time. It was officially a year ago that I
became a missionary and yet we did the exact same things we usually do! We had
a lesson with a man named Ib. He's pretty funny, and surprisingly open to
religion! He's a strong Christian and a school teacher. We taught part of the
Restoration and he added some thoughts against Technology controlling our lives
and people getting lazy. We also had a lesson with René, which was kind of
rough. We had Erik Toft (our Branch Mission Leader) along with us, but René was
just having a hard time accepting the Book of Mormon. He has some concerns with
things that don't fit well into the Bible's timeline. But afterwards we went
knocking!
Friday
happened along with the rest of the week. We contacted some Australian
teenagers on the gågade (pedestrian walking street). It's been really weird
contacting this week, barely anyone is from Denmark! We also got two referrals,
which were the same family and different people. A lady who was driving by on a
scooter and told us to stop by her mom who is a member (apparently). And then
Ældste and Søster Ravn gave us a referral for the mom's daughter, who turned
out to be the lady on the scooter driving by! So we had a really weird stop by
at the mom's house where they were both there and they didn't say anything
about anyone wanting to be taught, so we just read in the Book of Mormon with
them and then left. It was kind of awkward. We had a lesson with Micael Thomsen
though. He was a previous investigator who contacted us a couple times on the
street to say he would call for an appointment. It was mostly just to see what
he already knew and what he believed. He could come along though! We're excited
to work with him!
Saturday was
our weird planned day. We had three lessons, but none of them happened. Then we
were called by Ældste Ravn to assist with a blessing. A member named Susanna,
was in the Hjørring hospital, so we went out there and gave her a blessing.
Søster Ravn was standing in front of the door during the blessing so people
wouldn't walk in, but the hospital got really worried and almost called
security on us because she wouldn't move. So that was a first!
Sunday was
really fun! We had church, which was great! We had a meeting with our Branch
President (Kim Hvistendahl) and we talked about things we could do to encourage
finding people to teach. I'm excited to work more closely with him in the
future! Then we had an eating appointment with Kim and Marlene Reidel. They're
a young family with three kids, but only one was home at the time. They're
awesome though!! And then we met with Zibar again! He had read Mosiah 18 and
asked if there was more he could read about baptism! So we basically just
talked and read anything we could think of. He said he could come to church the
next two Sundays, so we're excited to have him there!! (He also gave us some
really good pomegranate Turkish Delight.)
My spiritual
thought this week is basically Alma 57:21 and 26. It's about the 2000 Stripling
Warriors. I was reading it earlier this week and I was very interested to see
the focus on faith between the two verses. I'd definitely invite you to look at
them, it's really cool!
Have a wonderful
week!! Thanks for tuning in again!
--
Ældste
Bryant Jepsen
And from a short note he sent home: Also, Ældste Moulton and I have
become really bad at English. Literally I was spending almost 5 minutes trying
to think of the word "amputation" last night and then he just barely
couldn't remember how to spell "berry." This is truly a problem!!
;) 😂
- Cloos-tårnet (a 60m high observation tower located in the waterworks forest at Pikkerbakkerne, immediately southwest of Frederickshavn)
- Flade Kirkegård (Flat Church is Frederikshavn's oldest)
- We also
saw this bike as we were knocking. It's literally unlocked and the sign
explains that the bike is for sale and how to send money by MobilePay to the
owner and then just take the bike. Welcome to the security of Denmark. ;)
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