Second Week in Denmark

Kære familie,

 

Week 2 in the bag.  I think I'm going to have to start nixing the week count cause that will get old and depressing after a while.  So yeah this week went by way fast.  Probably because we were only home for about half of it.  On Tuesday we went up to Roskilde and stayed with the Borries's cousin Æ. Larkin so that we'd have an easy ride into Copenhagen for Zone Conference the next day.  After Zone Conference we went to Nykøbing for splits and had a dinner appt at 5.  We were so tired by the time we got back we went to bed at aroung 830.  We reported our numbers for last week yesterday and they were quite pitiful.  We also started baking cookies to take to all the member families for Christmas.  They are just plain old American chocolate chip cookies and several people have asked for the recipe.  Yeah, somebody needs to get out more!  This week we have to deliver to the rest of the members, but there are so many left and so little time that I don't think we are going to get to all of them.  We've got the Zone Leader's coming for splits on Thurday to Friday so we can double our work load for a while.  We have the coolest zl's, Æ. Meyer and Steed.  Yeah they're awesome. 

 

This week we challenged three people to baptism and they all accepted!!!!  This upcoming week we could get two or three more so things are going great on one end!  Two of the three are a couple.  The mom is from Greenland and the dad is from Uganda and they have two kids.  It would be awesome if we could get all of them to join the church.  When we went, the mom Malina, said that she'd only read 13 chapters in 1 Nephi!!!  We were like that's AWESOME!!!!!  Mauler on the way out was like, well she's read more than me in the past few days.  So yeah they look really promising.  The other one has a husband that is really against it so we are not as optimistic.  Apparently, she already had a baptism planned and her husband found out and canceled the whole thing.  I think that has been one of my biggest shocks coming here.  You here stories of people who are against the church but when you actually see it, its totally different than you expected.  One lady last night made us talk in the kitchen with the door closed because she was afraid her husband would hear and come and beat her.  Ok that was a little intense. 

 

This week I dunno what happened but everything just seemed to come a lot easier with the language.  Not so much speaking it but I felt like I was able to understand alot more when people were talking.  I still have a hard time but I feel like the Lord is blessing me a little bit so that I can communicate better with them.  Also food is amazing here!!!!  I think I already said that, but it is so true.  Yesterday we had Ris og Grød and it  tasted like one of the best things ever!!!!  Yeah we still haven't gone to a bakery yet but when we do that is going to be amazing. 

 

Well thats it for this week.  Hope all is going well.  All the snow is almost gone so thats nice.  Love you all and miss you too.  Almost Christmas!!!

 

Æ. William Veach