Hey guys!
Good to hear from ya. Hope everything is going ok! Had a pretty good week this past week. Nothing too exciting. We had splits with Roskilde and interviews. Splits were fun as usual and interviews were ok. We went to a baptism in Roskilde on Saturday. It was the first baptism I've been to on my mission. We brought an investigator from Iceland. Before we went in we just told him we were going to ask him what he thought, and he gets all defensive saying that he's not going to get baptized. I was like did we say that. That is all this guy has done. Every time we ask him to do something like read in the Book of Mormon or pray he's like I'll do it but I'm not participating in any of your services. Whatever. So I saw Kirsten and Per at the baptism. They are getting baptized the 30th of July or 6th of August. Mauler and I will probably baptize one each. I had my first opportunity to apply a concept that I learned in Divine Signatures about contacting the first person who I meet after getting burned. We had an appointment the other day and the guy wasn't there. Turned out he was just late from getting back from Copenhagen, but the first lady I saw I talked to and she said that she wanted a Book of Mormon. Not as miraculous as in the book, but I was grateful because it was our first successful contact in about 3 weeks. (William and I have been reading Gerald Lund's new book Divine Signatures and he talks about this toward the end of the book.)
Today for PDay we're playing basketball in Søborg. It's rained for weeks and weeks and weeks. We've seriously only seen the sun about 4 times this month. When there is no sun its kinda chilly. I can honestly say this is the first time I've gone outside in July without a jacket on! Transfers are in two weeks.
Sorry for another short letter. Love and miss ya tons. Hope you have a great week.
William
25 July 2011
18 July 2011
July 18, 2011
Hej fam!
How was your guys' week? Here it was really quiet....again. It rained almost the entire week and the entire country seems to be on vacation because there was like nobody home when we were just out knocking on doors. So yeah, there really hasn't been that much that happened or to report by way of stories. Kirsten and Per, are ok I think. I don't get to talk to the sisters as much so I don't really know. Transfers are on August 10. I really hope that one of us moves. He has driven me completely up the wall crazy. There are only 2 Elders and a Sister coming in this next transfer, but in the next one there are 14 missionaries coming!!!! So I am almost guaranteed a greenie. We ate with our bishop yesterday. He is way cool. He is from Finland. I actually haven't had a bishop from Denmark yet. The one in Slagelse was from the Netherlands.
I'm trying to think of some interesting culture things to tell you guys since it was such a quiet week. There is a big problem here with Turkish immigrants. And the reason is in the 70s they let the Turks in as laborers in these factories. Well, Denmark is a much better place to live then in than Turkey so they would marry and live here or marry Danes. So now there is a large percentage of immigrants some are Danish, but look and say they are Turkish. And now there families from Turkey have moved and now you have large areas of the country som er Turkish.
But yeah sorry for the short letter. This week we have splits and interviews. Transfer Madness is back up after a pause last transfers! :) Love and miss ya tons!!!
MKH, William
How was your guys' week? Here it was really quiet....again. It rained almost the entire week and the entire country seems to be on vacation because there was like nobody home when we were just out knocking on doors. So yeah, there really hasn't been that much that happened or to report by way of stories. Kirsten and Per, are ok I think. I don't get to talk to the sisters as much so I don't really know. Transfers are on August 10. I really hope that one of us moves. He has driven me completely up the wall crazy. There are only 2 Elders and a Sister coming in this next transfer, but in the next one there are 14 missionaries coming!!!! So I am almost guaranteed a greenie. We ate with our bishop yesterday. He is way cool. He is from Finland. I actually haven't had a bishop from Denmark yet. The one in Slagelse was from the Netherlands.
I'm trying to think of some interesting culture things to tell you guys since it was such a quiet week. There is a big problem here with Turkish immigrants. And the reason is in the 70s they let the Turks in as laborers in these factories. Well, Denmark is a much better place to live then in than Turkey so they would marry and live here or marry Danes. So now there is a large percentage of immigrants some are Danish, but look and say they are Turkish. And now there families from Turkey have moved and now you have large areas of the country som er Turkish.
But yeah sorry for the short letter. This week we have splits and interviews. Transfer Madness is back up after a pause last transfers! :) Love and miss ya tons!!!
MKH, William
14 July 2011
July 11, 2011
Kære famile,
How are you guys doing? Sounds like you guys had fun at champs. Congrats on how awesome you guys did. I really wish I could have been there. Our week here was ok. We were gone for two days in Copenhagen for a two day zone conference. We started with the normal conference shmeel and then went to the temple! Again!!! Woot!!! The next day we did a culture day thing that was ok. We had this guy come and he was supposed to talk to us about Danish culture but instead talked about something completely different. Then went to this museum and saw what Denmark would have looked like in the 1850's when the church first got here. That was interesting and then we went to Presidents house to eat lunch/dinner. Eight of us went and played basketball in his driveway in shirts and ties and that was probably the most "fun" part.
Well hope you guys have a good week. Matthew good luck at EFY. When are you guys going to Utah? Love and miss ya'll tons!!
MKH
William
How are you guys doing? Sounds like you guys had fun at champs. Congrats on how awesome you guys did. I really wish I could have been there. Our week here was ok. We were gone for two days in Copenhagen for a two day zone conference. We started with the normal conference shmeel and then went to the temple! Again!!! Woot!!! The next day we did a culture day thing that was ok. We had this guy come and he was supposed to talk to us about Danish culture but instead talked about something completely different. Then went to this museum and saw what Denmark would have looked like in the 1850's when the church first got here. That was interesting and then we went to Presidents house to eat lunch/dinner. Eight of us went and played basketball in his driveway in shirts and ties and that was probably the most "fun" part.
Well hope you guys have a good week. Matthew good luck at EFY. When are you guys going to Utah? Love and miss ya'll tons!!
MKH
William
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| William with Elder Peterson eating ice cream in Ballerup and yes he ate the whole thing!!!! |
05 July 2011
July 3, 2011
Hi guys,
So kinda slow week last week with a couple of stories. It was really hard to go out and work for some reason. We were just in a funk for two days. One really cool thing to talk about is that Jack and Malene, our investigators from Slagelse have moved to Copenhagen. To give you a sense of how cool this story is let me just preface by saying that there are 6 areas that consist of Copenhagen and the surrounding area. They moved into Brønshøj which is in Søborg's area. Right now there are Sisters and Elders in Søborg. They moved to the Elders area. The Elders in Søborg are Elder Mauler and his companion. I think its so amazing that he gets the opportunity to probably baptize them in his last two months. Really of all the areas they could have moved to they moved to the area that the missionary who found them is serving in, and if they moved about 5 miles to the west, they'd be in my area.
So we thought that Kirsten and Per would maybe get baptized this coming Saturday. They came to President Andersens fireside last night and apparently her cancer is way bad again. President Andersen then offered to give them a blessing. He asked Mauler and I to come with him and help. We all went down to Presidents basement and President gave the blessing. Weird, I can't really remember what he said in it I just remember there being a way special spirit that I could feel. When he finished, Per stood up as if to shake our hands, but instead burst into tears and walked into a corner to compose himself. Kirsten also started crying. It was a very special experience. They won't be getting baptized this week, but they are still way positive and have an incredible amount of faith.
Well hope you guys have a good Fourth of July. We're having a district plus a couple others bbq at our house and since fireworks are illegal here in the summer, no fireworks:(( Love and miss you tons.
MKH
William
So kinda slow week last week with a couple of stories. It was really hard to go out and work for some reason. We were just in a funk for two days. One really cool thing to talk about is that Jack and Malene, our investigators from Slagelse have moved to Copenhagen. To give you a sense of how cool this story is let me just preface by saying that there are 6 areas that consist of Copenhagen and the surrounding area. They moved into Brønshøj which is in Søborg's area. Right now there are Sisters and Elders in Søborg. They moved to the Elders area. The Elders in Søborg are Elder Mauler and his companion. I think its so amazing that he gets the opportunity to probably baptize them in his last two months. Really of all the areas they could have moved to they moved to the area that the missionary who found them is serving in, and if they moved about 5 miles to the west, they'd be in my area.
So we thought that Kirsten and Per would maybe get baptized this coming Saturday. They came to President Andersens fireside last night and apparently her cancer is way bad again. President Andersen then offered to give them a blessing. He asked Mauler and I to come with him and help. We all went down to Presidents basement and President gave the blessing. Weird, I can't really remember what he said in it I just remember there being a way special spirit that I could feel. When he finished, Per stood up as if to shake our hands, but instead burst into tears and walked into a corner to compose himself. Kirsten also started crying. It was a very special experience. They won't be getting baptized this week, but they are still way positive and have an incredible amount of faith.
Well hope you guys have a good Fourth of July. We're having a district plus a couple others bbq at our house and since fireworks are illegal here in the summer, no fireworks:(( Love and miss you tons.
MKH
William
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| 1030 at night and still light outside |
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| Nyhavn in Copenhagen |
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| Me at Nyhavn |
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| Me at the Roskilde Fjord |
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| Giant rainstorm a couple of days ago. It was so huge-wind, lighting, thunder and rain soooo hard it nearly flooded our house. This is the walkway up to the house. |
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| William didn't send a caption for this one so I will try to update it at a later point. |
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