Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. - Winston Churchill

Hej med jer! (Sorry to be late getting this posted.  We had a death in the ward this week and we are learning all new things and that slowed me down a bit.  Hope you all had a good week. - SV)

 

How was your guys' week?  Thanks for the pictures!  EJ looks way cute!  Looks like ya'll had a fun time.  Well the big news today.  I talked to President about what to expect for a release date.  He wasn't too happy, but gave me a tentative day to expect, which will be confirmed in a couple months.  October 18.  So that's the day to expect right now.  I also got the ecclesiastical endorsement for BYU and BYU-I done as well.  So it was a productive day.  We had interviews and that went well.  The zone is really starting to pick it up so that is something that both we and President are excited about! 

 

This week was pretty good.  On Monday, we played football.  It was sooo fun.  I played quarterback and Elder Swenson (my other roommate who is 6'6') was the main guy.  We ended up winning and yeah it was just a blast!  Hopefully, we'll be playing next week!  Then on Tuesday and Wednesday, we were on splits with Nykøbing.  That was fun.  I figured it out.  With Slagelse and now being ZL, I've been on splits down there 13 times!!!  So yeah, I know that city pretty well! 

 

Then on Thursday we had a Zone Conference.  It was funny, because we had a training like normal, but Jones and I found a way to incorporate Jimmer into the training.  So we have to make a power point for our trainings and we had a little blurb on Jimmer just as a good sports analogy.  President's face was priceless when that slide came on the screen.  Just like confusion, disapproval, and who the heck is Jimmer Fredette??  Haha.  That was good.  We then went to a Chinese resturaunt with this Asian lady that we do service for all the time and she brought three friends.  Well they're all old, but two of them just kept smiling and stuff at me and everything and so now there is this joke that they are only coming to church (they came to church Sunday) between Jones and the sisters that they're only coming because of me......ugh. 

 

Then it was a pretty normal week, the rest of the time!  Hope you all are doing great!!!!  Sorry there isn't so much to write about.  We don't get a Pday today because we're going to Randers for a baptism for Jones.  So it'll be my first time on Jylland.  That'll be fun and then we've got conference on Saturday and Sunday.  That oughta be fun!!!  Love and miss ya'll tons!!!

 

MKH

William

Confidence is contagious. So is a lack of confidence. - Vince Lombardi

Hej med jer.

 

How was ya'll's week?  It was pretty good over here, can't complain at least.  We had a better week teaching and getting appointments, so that was nice!  I've also started something, by sending cool quotes I found during the week in the subject, so I hope you can enjoy those.  But it was relatively quiet.  We had splits with the Allerød Elders which was pretty fun.  I was with Elder Larsen here in Søborg and I was laughing almost the whole time, he's just a hilarious kid.  So that was a lot of fun.  We also had a district work day in Slagelse.  It's always really trippy being back there.  It brought some unwelcome memories because I just thought of all the not success I had last year contacting.  We didn't give out a single Book of Mormon.  The sisters are having a way hard time finding new people and holding onto them.  I think their main problem is they have basically ignored all of the old investigators.  I mean when you're contacting and knocking day after day, you gotta realize that you need to do something else, so you could just go to the people who have already showed an interest once.

 

Elder Jones and I are getting along great.  He is starting to be my favorite companion.  He's just a way cool guy.  I'm really glad that we got put together.  This ward might be one of my favorites.  It has soooo many cool cool families in it and they love the missionaries.  Now we just need them to give us referrals!

 

Let's see what else did we do this week.  We got back in contact with Louise.  I don't know if you can remember her back from when I first got here.  She was a nonmember wife of a less active that we accidently knocked into.  We met with them again on Thursday and they had a ton of excuses why they couldn't come to church.  Because our church is at 2pm, their daughter is sleeping, so they don't want to interrupt her nap.  But miracle of miracles, she came to church yesterday.  It was way awesome!!!  Other than that it was a pretty quiet week.  This week, we've got splits in Nykøbing, Zone Conference and  that's it.  :)  Sorry this email isn't that good.  I've gotta have a list of things I wan to write otherwise I forget.  But love and miss ya'll tons.  Have a great week! 

 

MKH

William

March 11, 2012

Hej med jer,

 

Well I've  got a new companion now.  Elder Jones is way cool.  He's very  quiet, but I'll take it over the alternative.  It's really weird not having Elder Bailey anymore.  Everytime you take over the area, it just feels weird.  But I'm glad that we get the extra boost of responsibilty.   So last week was a lot of the same stuff, but it just felt a lot more productive than usual.  We did get a bunch more potentials this week than usual and we had alot of contact with all of our investigators so that we have alot of potential appointments next week!  Finally!  

 

It was weird saying good-bye to Elder Nielsen on Tuesday, but alot of fun eating at President's house.  It made me really sad that I wasn't going to be able to eat with him when I leave, but it was cool to be able to be there.  I also got to meet Elder Nielsen's dad so that was way weird, and that was my last dinner with Elder Bailey as well.  The next day was transfers and I spent the whole morning with Elder Sandstrom as we waited for our companions to come in.  Then we went and visited a referral Elder Nielsen had given me of a lady that had taken her name off the records.  That was an experience.  She just yelled and bashed the church the whole time and there's nothing you can do besides bear your testimony and apoligize for the way that she was treated. 

 

That was about it for this week really.  Oh, we did have an awesome appointment with an American family in the Ward, the Hedquists.  They are sooooo awesome.  I love this ward so much.  I would say they're my favorite family in the ward, but there are so many people that I could choose it's really hard to pick just one!  But it was a lot of fun being at their house.  They lived right next to GG Veach's house a few years ago and when I told them where they lived, they're pretty sure that they were in the same ward as them.  So that would be cool.  But yeah so now that's my week!  Thanks for ya'll support!  Miss ya and love ya tons!!!!

 

MKH

William

March 5, 2012

Hej med jer,

 

How was your guys' week?  Things are going pretty good here.  We got some transfer news!  I'm getting a new companion Elder Jones.  Elder Bailey got called as assistant last week and moves up on Wednesday.  Elder Jones is a cool guy, way hard worker but hasn't even hit his year mark yet.  I feel so old!  In the ward the sisters are  9 months and 7 months old and then Jones is like 11 and then I'm almost 18!  Little bit of a gap.  But it should be fun.  To answer a bunch of those concerns with the letter getting sent back.  From what GG Veach described it made it to the mission office, but something went wrong when it got forwarded to my house.  I'll try and figure it out and get back to ya'll.  And sorry I did get my box thank you so much for it!!!!  

 

This week was just like every other one.  We did have a bunch more appointments which was nice.  But hopefully things willll start turning around when Jones gets here.  We also had Zone Leader Council this week which takes almost a full day of prep and then another full day of the actual meeting.  It was a rough council though.  The zone is really really struggling right now.  We had only two baptismal dates (now only one because the other one got baptized).  And the zone's numbers are just overall getting lower.  President just really wants things to go really well before he leaves and we want to give it to him.  I'm trying to plan a program that will get the zone fired up!  So hopefully we can get the zone to raise its commitment level and efforts and send President out with a giant bang! 

 

Otherwise, this week was pretty quiet.  We have an exciting Pday today because Elder Nielsen is back and going home tomorrow.  I love that guy to death, gonna miss him when he leaves.  So we're going to the castle where the queen lives and then we're going to play some football!  Hope you guys have a great week.  Love and miss ya tons!!!

 

MKH

Elder Veach 

 

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