Monday started off with playing
basketball again! We were able to play earlier and we started with a cool
spiritual moment with simple scriptures and testimonies. Therefore, we played
basket with the power of the Spirit! Highly recommended! We then rushed home,
as usual, and taught Henrik! We wanted to give him something else to act on, so
we taught the Word of Wisdom. I expected him to be more skeptical, but he
understood and supported it! He also committed very easily! After that, we
headed up to visit Frederiksborg Slot (Castle) in Hillerød! It's the one with
all the famous Carl Bloch paintings. It was super pretty! I was just amazed by
all the intricate ceiling work! It's insane! It makes you want to look up more
in life, y'know what I mean. ;) We also knocked a bit in Allerød, which was
good too.
On Tuesday, I was on splits with
Ældste Haruch! It was super weird! He's just a week from going home now, and he
was my third companion; the one who was just one transfer older than me. So it
was quite surreal. Sadly, Ældste Walton's bike also decided that its mission
was over. So we've been walking ever since (på gåben, you could say!*) We
also ate with Mei and the Sisters again. It was pretty fun! Mei was really
excited to meet a new missionary, so she made really big bowls of chinese
noodles! It was good, but a lot!
Wednesday was a pretty boring day.
We cruised down to Ballerup to switch companions, swung by a doctor's
appointment for Ældste Walton, and then came back up to try and fix the bikes,
with no avail. My bike is also having a slow leak problem, so I have to pump it
up every morning. Luckily, we had Coordination Meeting to spice it up! We went
out to David and Lise Jansen! They're super cool!! Daniel, David's brother,
also came along, kind of. He just had leg surgery, so he was just crashing at
their place. It was super fun! And they found out that Søster Allen is vegan
while we were eating an amazing pork sauce and potatoes! That was actually
really funny.
Thursday was incredible!! We started
with District Council, where President Olsen decided he wanted to come as well.
So that was cool! We discussed commitments and had a role play, which Ældste
Walton and I simply nailed! Towards the end of our meeting, Ældste Haruch asked
if President wanted to say anything, so he did! He announced that we all know
there will only be one set of missionaries in the Allerød ward, and he has
decided that it will be the Elders who will stay! I was honestly quite
surprised! That means we'll move up to Hillerød and live in the basement of
some members. It's certainly not the easy choice, so we'd better make it the
best one! Then he then took us out to McDonalds for lunch, which was very nice
for us because it is in Birkerød! So we just got dropped off! We walked out
quite a ways to do some stop by's of the people Ældste Campbell and I found on
splits, which went pretty well!! Then we were picked up while walking back into
town by President Eilif Rosenkilde (counselor in the Mission Presidency, and in
our ward), to go out to eat! And it was a Chinese buffet, of course! But not
only that, he invited someone who wants to be taught! His name is Rasmus.
Rasmus has dated Eilif's daughter for the past five years, come to church
occasionally, seen how the Rosenkilde family lives, and has all in all come to
the point where he has to decide if the gospel and the Church is really
something for him. He is 23, and is basically the coolest! He's super chill and
easy to talk with, super open and honest, and will simply put 100% effort into
everything! He's a stud! We were super excited to start working with him.
Friday was interesting. I found out
that Frosties (Frosted Flakes, just the European version) are too much for
dental work! In the morning, I was eating breakfast and my top retainer popped
off! But only off two of the four teeth, so it was hanging down and poking my
tongue. (Not nearly as recommend-worthy as starting sport with a spiritual
thought) We went out knocking and I still did my best, but it was super
irritating and hard to pronounce words correctly with a metal pole sticking
into my tongue. But Members are Miracles! There's a member in Ballerup, Lars,
who is a dentist. I texted him for any tips on how I could simply take it out
so it wouldn't bother me. But, after some frantic scheduling, Christian Ravn
(former Ældste Ravn) came and drove us to Lars' practice and he fixed it within
15 minutes for me! And it was the cheapest dental work I've ever had in my
life! He did it simply for free, and Christian Ravn said he's always willing to
help if he can another time! It was amazing!! They are awesome examples of
consecrating all the gifts, talents, and monotary means to the Lord (and
luckily His servants)! After that, we did a good Weekly Planning and knocked a
bit.
Saturday was long. We had an open
schedule, so we just knocked all day! We got kind of bored. Luckily, there was
a couple little soccer goals and a partially flat ball, so we took a quick
break (Shout out to the Zone Leaders who encouraged 10 minute breaks if they
are started and ended with a prayer!) After getting out of the long slump, we
knocked a couple more doors and found Zandra! She's a single mom of two super
nice kids, Tobias and Nova! They also own three chinchillas, which is pretty
cool! We were able to teach about who God really is, and her relationship to
Him. It was really powerful! She listened and had some really good questions!
She also took a Mormons Bog and said she'd take a look, to see how it could
benefit her and her kids. After that awesome tender mercy, we headed up to
Hillerød to eat with Lasse, and the Sisters. Lasse is a member who was baptized
about a year ago. He's super relaxed and really funny!
Sunday, We had church! And guess who
translated! I'm happy to be of such service, and Fast and Testimony Meeting is
a pretty easy meeting to translate for. And Rasmus and Wern both came! Wern is
a man who Ældste Walton has taught once, and is interested in help quiting
coffee. After church, we taught Rasmus. We started with Plan of Salvation, but
he asked a ton of questions as well, which we answered. He brought up that if
we burned all the religious texts in the world and asked if in 1000 years, they
would be the same. He then said that if we did the same with science, it would
be the same. (Tune in to my spiritual thought for my answer there.) He closed
our meeting with a prayer, and it was honestly just promising God that he would
do everything he could to find out about the church and about God! It was the
coolest thing ever! We also knocked into a guy that Ældste Haruch and I
contacted and have since seen three other times. He asked, quite concerned, if
we were stalking him, but we assured him that we weren't trying to. (Even
though it's quite convenient that we've seen him 4 times in the past week!)
Spiritual thought: Burn all the
Religious and Scientific texts/books/findings, and in 1000 years, will they be
the same? Answer: No. Neither would be exactly the same, yet both would have
the same conclusions. Science is a study of how the world works. It starts as
theories and is tested until we decide that it is a fact. Faith is a theory,
which we test; which ultimately, we must decide if it is a fact or not! In the
Bible Dictionary it says that faith is the convincing of the mind when we can't
rationally see how things work. Religion is simply the way we discover spiritual
truths, just as Science is the way we discover nature's truths. You are able to
trust in other's findings for a time, until you experience gravity or the Holy
Ghost for your self. But over all, it is a pathway! You have to try something
before you know it is true! That's how faith works, and
"conveniently" that's how science is as well.
Have a great week! Have a wonderful
Mothers' Day!! Make sure they feel loved and special! My mom has been an
incredible strength and example for me! She's amazing! Love you Mom! :)
*Google translate makes this saying
really boring. På means on, and gåben translates directly to walking legs. So
that means we were "on walking legs" this week. Don't listen to
boring Google translate, because "on the walk" isn't nearly as funny.
--
Ældste Jepsen
- Us and Lasse!
- There were a ton of yellow bikers on Sunday, so I took a picture. We saw them multiple times in different cities!
- Basketball, Basketball, It's the
game we play every (P) day! (If you can tell me what that quote is from, I'll
be impressed. Also cut me slack if my humor is old, I've been gone for a
while.)- There were a ton of yellow bikers on Sunday, so I took a picture. We saw them multiple times in different cities!
- Some of Frederiksborg Slot
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