Some good things just cannot be avoided,
like the chance to ride a metallic pink, woman's bike with a basket attached! (Granted, the lights
on it are wonderful!) Ældste Bailey's bike has been having some weird problems
lately, so we had to take it in to the shop and now he's gotten to use the pink
bike for a couple days!! That's just kind of a side note from the week, but
it's pretty funny either way.
Monday, we
decided to get stuck on another island! Just kidding, we didn't get stuck this
time. We all four went to Fanø though! That was fun! We spent most the time out
on the beach, and found a wild starfish in its natural habitat! He was pretty
cool. (He wouldn't take a Mormons Bog though. Said it was too big, or
something.) We had two appointments that evening, but neither went through.
So we just knocked for several hours.
Tuesday was
pretty fun! We had some normal contacting that morning, then met with Marco!!
Marco is a man from Holland but has lived in Denmark almost all his life. He is
super nice and really cool! We met with him in the church and he was very happy
to learn and be there! He wants to come to church as well, but it'll take some
time. He got a major concussion a year ago and still gets migraines from
basically everything. But we keep in contact with him. We also had Coordination
Meeting at the church, which was fun. Ældste Bailey and I were trying to leave
after, but all the youth kept talking with us. (Life is just so hard when so
many people love you.) We were also told by Martin that he got a tv station
interested in filming us as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints. So we're going to be interviewed on Tuesday by TV2 Echo and their going
to make a video centered around Martin.
Wednesday was
exciting too! First, we had District Council which was good! We did a ton
of different role plays and the Zone Leaders discussed some goals with us. We
then had splits with Ældste Iversen and Ældste Kofford. Ældste Iversen and I
did some contacting where we ran into some cool German members who were coming
to church, and then we met this guy named Martin Hansen while knocking. He was
raised in Australia, but his mum was Danish. He joined the military at age 16
and has been deployed 9 times. He's a super nice, hyggeligt guy and was open to
talk about faith and Christ, so we took the opportunity. One thing led to
another, and held a ton of different guns! It's insane how many kinds of
weapons he has!
Thursday was
interesting. We first had interviews with President Olsen, which were extremely
short and then he had to leave right after. He introduced the "9 to
9" policy which is now that we just speak Danish. Then we finished off
splits with more contacting. And to end the day, Ældste Bailey and I knocked
out in Ådalshaven again. We found quite a few people who would make
appointments with us and taught quite a bit! It was super cool!!
Friday was
fairly busy. We taught a lady that Ældste Bailey and Ældste Kofford found, but
she dropped us by the end of the lesson. So then we turned in Ældste Bailey's
bike and got the Pink bike! Then we contacted for a while, and we talked to two
teenagers who gave us their phone numbers and said they thought religion is
exciting! We met at Lasse's TV studio for some media training to prepare us for
our interviews on Tuesday. I'm not sure how intense it'll actually be, but it
was a helpful training. But Martin is sick!! So we're all praying that he'll be
feeling better by the time we film. After training, we biked out to a lesson
with Sofie (the woman we taught last Saturday with her two sons). But she
wasn't home. We then met the Sisters at the church to practice singing for
church, which went well.
Saturday was
normal. We did Weekly Planning, but Martin Hansen called and talked with Ældste
Bailey for 40 minutes, so it got cut short. Then we had another appointment who
wasn't home. Then we taught Martin, and he showed us all his guns again. Ældste
Bailey was super stoked! Basically a kid in a candy shop. Martin eventually accepted
to read a Joseph Smith pamphlet and meet next week, but he's interesting and
slow to work with.
Sunday went
well. We had Christmas Choir again that morning, then sang in Sacrament
meeting. It was pretty good! But then we had to scramble to get translation for
some German members because Martin gone (he's still sick). That was a bit
stressful. After that, we met with Erik Houborg again. It's just always fun
talking with him! He's such a strong member! Then we went contacting until the
end of the night.
In our
interviews with President Olsen, he explained that the reason we're
implementing a 9 to 9 Danish is to better qualify us as worthy to receive the
Gift of Tongues. I really resonate with the idea that we have to do something
in order to receive blessings. As we are willing to work to see God's hand in
our lives, He will be better able to show us. However, Heavenly Father loves us
and knows that we are not capable to doing everything. We are going to mess up
even as we try our best, that's how life works. Thus, we cannot be completely
worthy to receive everything He will give us. Sometimes we have to accept that
God can bless us without us deserving to be blessed. That's something I've
thought a lot about recently. He really can do anything as we put our faith and
trust in Him. Trust that God knows you and will bless you, and you will see His
grace in your life!
Have a
wonderful Thanksgiving!! Be thankful for all of the truly incredible things you
have been given, for example dry air weather, multiple socks, a working nose,
etc. There's a lot to be thankful for.
--
Ældste
Bryant Jepsen
-Fantastic Beasts is here
- Martin
Hansen and Ældste Bailey (most of the guns are fake, just so you know)
- Fanø
harbor
- The
Starfish bro! (one of his legs partially fell off while we held him, so that
was exciting...)
- Ældste
Bailey's sweet ride
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