Another Week in Ballerup

Kære familie,

Way boring week in Denmark.  Not much happened.  We had a quiet P-day just us two so we walked around Copenhagen.  We did a ton of service at this one family Kjeld and Britta Rasmussen's house.  One night we were building a gutter and chopping down trees and came back the next day to finish the gutter and I was put back to work on another tree.  The next day we were at this investigator's house helping her install her new LCD TV.  This lady is the widow of a member.  Anyway, we get this lady's old TV out of the way and set up the new one, have it plugged in and everything.  She then has us set all of her favorite channels to different channels that she'll remember.  Like News to 1 sports to 2, etc.  Anyway, after spending a good thirty minutes trying to figure out how to do that we finally figured it out.

Yeah, so that was the most exciting part of the week.  Oh, one more exasperating thing that happened, Præsident Andersen not ripped, but almost ripped my head off a couple weeks ago because I haven't been inviting a lot of people to baptism.  First, my reason is that it is almost all new people I'm working with because the only two investigators that would get baptized just did get baptized.  So I invited one of investigators whose name is Pernille.  Her boyfriend is cool and a less active.  She's been taught for a long time now.  So I figured ok President, I'll invite her to baptism (That's not the only reason I did it, I also did it to see now if she no longer has a problem with the WoW and if she would maybe be willing to consider baptism).  So I give the challenge.  She says that she doesn't think that'll she'll ever be baptized.  I'm like ok, why?  I don't want to go under water......Are you serious?  She thinks it's true and everything, but she doesn't want to get wet.  I'm just like whatever!  Ugh! 

So yeah, Dad I hope you start feeling better.  Hope you guys have a good week.  Love and miss you guys tons.

MKH
William

PS - William did not send captions to go with these pics so I added what I knew - The Mom

William's first temple trip in Denmark!!

Copenhagen Denmark Temple

I believe this is the harbor in Copenhagen

First entry as a 20 year old!!!!

Hey guys.  Thanks for the birthday wishes.  My birthday was pretty good.  We had Stake Conference yesterday so it was cool to see people from Slagelse.  It was a broadcast to all of Scandenavia.  Elder Per G. Malm, Sister Beck, Elder Bednar, President Eyring all spoke.  It was really good.  Then we went to a way cool family to eat.  They gave me a giant slab of chocolate.  It was a good day overall.  Of course, it was no where near as good as what it would be at home, but since I'm on a mission it could have been worse. 

On Wednesday, we had Specialized Training.  Those things are always boring, because they are the same thing over and over.  Although this time, they yelled at us for not cleaning our apartments good enough.  That was a nice change of pace.  Then the next day I had a bad runny nose so most of it was spent inside away from other people.  Then on Friday we had our district meeting and temple activity.  It was amazing to be back in the temple for the first time in almost 7months.  I did it in Danish, but it was still amazing to feel the spirit of the temple.  It is a beautiful temple and I am very grateful for the spiritual recharge I was able to get. 

But yeah because of those two things that took up the whole day not alot of work got done.  Oh well, we'll work extra hard this week.  One kind of interesting thing is that since it's summer, there's alot of members from the US coming on vacation.  I've seen about 5 in the past week.  Not to mention all the ones that were just like hi elders in Copenhagen on Monday.  On our way to the temple, this guy from across the street yells, "Elders!  Do you know where the temple is?"  We're like yeah its about 500 ft ahead of you, but of course they had to walk with us there.  I know my attitude is terrible.  But It's just exasperating to be around them. 

So yeah, really missed you guys.  Pretty good week.  I love and miss you guys a ton. 

MKH
William

June 14, 2011

Kære familie,

How you guys doing?  Sorry about yesterday.  Every single month there is some Danish holiday that is just an excuse to get off work and get drunk as a skunk.  (It was Constitution Day in Denmark on the 13th)  And then the whole country shuts down.  So here we are emailing today.  It was a pretty good week.  We had splits on Saturday.  Æ. Koop and I took their car and visited this old investigator out in the middle of nowhere (I didn't know that it was in the middle of nowhere so I'm glad we had a car for the day).  This guy was way cool.  He had read the Book of Mormon several times and loved it!  But the problem is that his wife doesn't like religion so asked him not to join.  So he just follows everything about the Mormons.  He reads the Liahona every month online!  This guy was way awesome.  He asked if we had heard anything about the Mitt Romney campaign, I'm like no I'm on a mission!  He's all like I hope he wins!  And then he's talking about how one of his biggest desires was to see Temple Square.  This guy was way cool and hopefully we can meet with him again.   The even better part (ok not really) was that for the first time in nearly 9 months I drove a car!!!!!  It felt soooooooo good!!!!!

Thanks for the box.  I've already made Chicken and Pasta and Chicken Veloute on splits!!!  I plan on doing alot more cooking now that I have some legit recipes.  I did if you already didn't  notice open the box, but I am going to save the candy for my birthday.  I have already worn my Jimmer shirt quite proudly!!!  :)   Thanks so much you guys are the best family anybody could ask for. 

This week we've got Specialized Training tomorrow and the most exciting part of the week is Friday.  District Meeting and then a session in the temple.  You have no idea how excited I am about that!!!!! 

Yesterday, our ward mission leader invited us over for crepe breakfast and just to chill at his house.  He is way cool.  I gave him some of my American Mike and Ikes and he wasn't the biggest fan.  Oh well.  More to me!!!  We then played basketball at the gym in Søborg.  Yeah, so those are the highlights of the week.  Love and miss you tons!!!  Have a great week!

William

June 6, 2011 - Ballerup

 Hej guys

So pretty good week overall.  We worked alot.  We went down from 7 eating appointments to 2, but it's all good.  The ward is still way awesome.  Our bishop is from Finland, that's pretty cool.  I don't know if you remember Kasper Hansen from D2.  I never met him, but everybody told me to talk to him when I got my mission call but he moved right when I got home from school.  Anyway, he's from this ward.  When I was eating at I think it was our ward mission leaders, I can't remember, but he said that he had a friend who lived in NC.  I then had a hunch and asked further and he talked about how he was going to Duke, so I asked his name and I was like yeah that's my ward!  I also found out that there was a Gundersen family that lived in Slagelse about 10-15 years ago and then moved to Iceland.  I don't know if its that same one in South Boston, but it might be a relation. 

Last night, we had our monthly open house at the mission home.  I invited Kirsten and Per from Slagelse and had a great talk with them.  (P.S. found out that sisters are going to Slagelse!!!!!)  I introduced them to Søs. Williamson who's going to be training there starting this week.  I think they like her.  They kept telling me that if I ever wanted to visit that I should call and they'll pick me up at the train station.  They also told me to keep texting and keep in touch with them even though there were other missionaries in Slagelse now.  I love those guys, I'm sad that I can't keep teaching them.  Præsident Andersen came up to me at the end of it and told me that he thinks that Kirsten and Per will definitely get baptized.  He then said that he thought that I should do it.  I got super excited and nervous at the same time.  I'm excited because I could see them get sealed in the temple in a year.  Oh, this is the awesome part of missionary work!!!!

Have a great week.  I'm praying for Samuel.  Say hi to everybody from me.  I'm probably going to grab my box from the office this week.  I hope it's ok if I open it when I get home.  Or I might just save some of the stuff for the 19th.  I don't know.  Love and miss ya'll

William

Hans and Ulle Larson - Slaglese

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Me and Birthe Roskilde, Allerød

 

Ballerup P day bowling in København

 Enjoy the pics!!!