This has
been a crazy week and therefore merits a longer email. However, reality often
takes what it wants and it will therefore be about the same length as normal if
not shorter.
Monday was
exciting! We headed down to Sønderborg where we did an Escape Room with the
Elders there! They have a friend who owns an Escape Room company and lets them
test the rooms out for free! The story was that we were wizarding students at a
school called Rubilee's School of Wizardry (Harry Potter theme), but one of the
two founders had disappeared a year earlier. Then some writing appeared on the
wall and we had to figure out what happened to him, etc. It was super fun!! We
also got the record for how fast we escaped, beating even their
"professional" team. So yea, we're pretty cool.
Tuesday was
splits down in Sønderborg, which was quite fun! I was with Ældste Kofford and
we basically contacted and knocked all day! It was pretty sweet! We talked to
quite a few fun people. We also had Coordination Meeting, which apparently
includes playing Uno. Except the member's house was super dark so we couldn't
see the difference between blue and green, so we had to use a flashlight if
there was any doubt (which there often was). We also started playing Munchkin
that evening, but we stopped because we had to get up early so we wanted to
sleep sooner.
Wednesday
was crazy! We woke up and headed out by 5:30 to drive all the way to Copenhagen
(basically) for Mission Conference!! We had Elder De Feo (who spoke in last
April's conference where his son called him "chief of the universe")
visiting. It was super hyggeligt! We got to take some fun pictures with
everyone in our group and talked with a ton of people!! It was super fun! We
then hopped in the car and drove to Fredericia where we got on the train until
we got home to Esbjerg at 10:20. It was a pretty long, fun day.
Thursday was
less crazy. We had basically just finding. That morning, we had Benjamin Grabe
out to contact with us! We had a couple lessons set up for him to come to, but
they all cancelled... But we had some good conversations on the street, and he
saw one of his good friends too! Later that day, we went to his house for an
eating appointment, but we had apparently come an hour early! So we quickly
biked off to knock where we met Junior, a Brazilian man who was excited to meet
us! He said he would come to church as well, so we're excited to work with him!
Dinner with the Bank Grabe family was pretty fun. It included a lot of teasing
because we had come early, but the Sisters had come two hours early too!! So
that was exciting!
Friday was
pretty much normal. We had finding and Weekly Planning. It's starting to get
dark at about 5-6, so it's pretty interesting knocking at night.
Saturday was
also pretty normal. Finding and such. Not too much to say there.
Sunday was
busy! I feel like Sundays are shorter. We had church and then took the
sacrament to Erik Houborg and then basically had a couple hours to knock! We
talked to some nice couple about his workshop, but they didn't want a Mormons
Bog.
My spiritual
thought comes partly from Elder De Feo. He talked a bit about how we are called
to serve with specific Mission Presidents, and how they can personally help us.
It was super good! In the same way, I believe we are "called" to
serve with specific Stake Presidents, or Bishops, or Class/Quorum Presidents!
There's always something we can learn from them who lead us. And in the same
way, we can always learn something from those we lead. It's a pretty cool
mutual relationship there!
Thanks for
the support and I hope you all have a wonderful Halloween!! Be safe and watch
out for spirits! (Except the Holy Spirit, try to find that more often. ;) )
--
Ældste
Bryant Jepsen
-Misison
Conference stuff! Tons of amazing missionaries!
- A picture
after we finished service
