Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. - Steve JobsElder Stoffey and me

Hey guys,

 

How was your week?  Things were ok here.  As far as work goes, it was down right terrible.  So on Tuesday, we went to Copenhagen around noonish.  The other two took the car with the Despains.  They called 10 minutes after I left to say that my box was there, but of course!!!  The ride down was pretty good.  I hung out with Elder Wright and Sister Moore the whole way, so that was fun.  We stayed in the Assisstant's apartment that night.  There were 8 of us in that tiny apartment and another 10 in the office.  We were driven to the conference early the next morning.  Something that I had forgotten until we got there was that it was President and Sister Andersen's last Zone Conference.  It was really emotional and Elder Jensen being there kind of got drowned out by that.  But Elder Jensen was pretty good.  He talked alot about teaching and how to help investigators hold commitments.  There was one thing that was really interesting that he talked about, about learning the context of the sections in the Doctrine and Covenants.  He used D&C 4 as an example.  How it was sent to Joseph Sr. during one of the hardest times of Joseph's life.  The translation of the Book of Mormon had stopped because of the loss of the 116 pages and he had just lost his first son.  So it gave a whole new meaning when you looked at like that. 

 

On Tuesday, I woke up with a really bad sore throat and runny nose.  Then on Wednesday, I had a pretty big fever.  It lasted until Friday, so that made the week also pretty slow.  On Saturday, Elder Pierson and I went and played soccer with the ward.  Man, I suck at soccer!  Oh well, it was a fun and it's nice getting to know the ward. 

 

Hope ya'll are doing good.  Talk to you later.

 

MKH, William

 

PS - William said that "Sick Grabs" are Bailey's invention of jumping and taking pics! - SV

 

Elder Stoffey and me

Sept. 2010 group doing "sick grabs"

Team Søborg doing some sick grabs

Elder Tolman and I

 

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. - Nelson Mandela

Hej med jer,

 

Ya'll's week sounds exciting!  My week was actually pretty good for a change.  We had some good success.  There's a new convert that I've told you about, A., who has this big crush on Elder Harms.  Well, when she found out that he was leaving, she told us that she had decided to leave the church because he was leaving.  Great.  Well she has a movie night every Friday and invites her non member friends over.  So we got two new investigators from that.  It's weird because she still wants to read the scriptures and have her friends come to church but she's going to stop coming herself.  I don't get it. 

 

We also got another investigator, she's a really sweet older lady, who had a ton of good questions and was really glad to get a Book of Mormon.  So hopefully things will go good with her.

 

We have to go to Copenhagen tomorrow.  I'm going early so I can hopefully meet up with Nicolai.  That'll be good to see him.  Then we have the conference early in the next morning.  Then we have to head back after that.  Its an almost 5 hour train ride to Aalborg from Copenhagen so that oughta be interesting. 

 

Yesterday, A. also took us to an air show.  That was way cool.  Luckily, it was free.  It was cool to see F-16's flying about 20 feet off the ground and just the sound of it was awesome.  Then they had different planes and helicopters from different nations.  They had some C-130s from the US Air Force.  I wonder what those Air Force dudes were thinking being in Denmark for an air show. 

 

Poulsen is home.  That is weird!

 

But hope you guys have a good week!  Love ya!

 

MKH

William

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. - Nelson Mandela

Hej med jer,

 

Ya'll's week sounds exciting!  My week was actually pretty good for a change.  We had some good success.  There's a new convert that I've told you about, A., who has this big crush on Elder Harms.  Well, when she found out that he was leaving, she told us that she had decided to leave the church because he was leaving.  Great.  Well she has a movie night every Friday and invites her non-member friends over.  So we got two new investigators from that.  It's weird because she still wants to read the scriptures and have her friends come to church, but she's going to stop coming herself.  I don't get it. 

 

We also got another investigator, she's a really sweet older lady, who had a ton of good questions and was really glad to get a Book of Mormon.  So hopefully things will go well with her.

 

We have to go to Copenhagen tomorrow.  I'm going early so I can hopefully meet up with Nicolai.  That'll be good to see him.  Then we have the conference early in the next morning.  Then we have to head back after that.  Its an almost 5 hour train ride to Aalborg from Copenhagen so that oughta be interesting. 

 

Yesterday, A. also took us to an air show.  That was way cool.  Luckily, it was free.  It was cool to see F-16's flying about 20 feet off the ground and just the sound of it was awesome.  Then they had different planes and helicopters from different nations.  They had some C-130s from the US Air Force.  I wonder what those Air Force dudes were thinking being in podunk Denmark for an air show. 

 

Poulsen is home.  That is weird!

 

But hope you guys have a good week!  Love ya!

 

MKH

William

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back. - Babe Ruth

Hej med jer,

How are you guys doing?  I've finally gotten on a computer!  This week was pretty good.  Nothing exciting really happened so I thought I'd tell a couple of stories that make me giggle.  So we play basketball with the ward every Wednesday right?  Well, it's ridiculous sometimes because they try and tell me how to play and the rules of the game.  Not only do I know almost all of them, they are dumb whimpy European rules!  Like if you pretend to rush at a player going for a shot apparently that's a technical or if you say something to distract them or anything of that sort it's a technical.  I'm just like, "Are you kidding me?"  And then this past week this one guy slaps my wrist hard as I'm going up for a shot and keeps yelling at me that it was all ball.  I was like, maybe if it was on my fingertips, but you hit my flipping wrist.  Of course, I'm still just as competitive as ever while playing sports and that definitely doesn't help!  So yeah that's alot of fun!

On Monday, we went up to Skagen, the very top of Denmark where the two seas meet.  It looks pretty cool to see two sets of waves colliding into each other.  We did it for a district activity and played football and had a bbq.  So it was a lot of fun.  (I am adding a youtube link so you can see the meeting of the two seas - very cool!!! - SV  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGBAc3OOYPU)

Yesterday we had interviews.  It was our last interview with President Andersen.  It was kind of sad, but I found out some transfer news.  I'm going to be staying here in Aalborg with Elder Pitts, while Elder Pierson is going AP with Bailey and Harms is going to Allerød.  I'm really glad I don't have to move, especially since the original plan was to have me move, but Harms has a new convert that has been hitting on him a little too much so I get to stay.  Hopefully, this means for good, since next transfer I'll only have two months left.  

Pics from Skagen, me in the water and our district.

Have a great week!

MKH

William

 

William at the meeting of the North and Baltic Seas

William said the water is "Freaking cold!!!"

William's district in Aalborg