Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with. - J. K. Rowling

Hej med jer,

We've had a pretty good week!  We have this investigator from Vietnam, and well she doesn't speak that much Danish.  She's 78 and has lived in Denmark the past 20 years, but she is nearly impossible to understand.  She comes to church every week and we meet with her every week.  It's borderline hilarious how funny it is when we try to teach.  Anyway she believes that we believe in a different Jesus because we don't have any sign of him being crucified and she also believes that Jesus helped the Vietnamese beat the Americans......

Elder Pitts has had a hard week medically.  He needs new glasses so we went to get an eye exam and glasses will cost around 300 dollars and then he has an in grown toe nail so we went to the Doctor and all she did was give him medicine for the infection.  So he's frustrated with that, but otherwise he's doing solid.  

On Wednesday night we had one of our African investigators who played for the Ghana national team come to basketball.  He smoked us even though he hasn't played in 7 years, but he wants to come again so that's good.  Let's just hope he doesn't get  his game back otherwise we'll be triply embarrassed.

On Friday we went to the really nice couple's house to do service.  I clipped the hedge for 2 hours, while Sister Despain tried to talk my ear off about a bunch of stuff.  

On Saturday, we really had an adventure.  We went up to Brønderslev.  It's a city way north of Aalborg.  Anyway we were trying to visit a bunch of people that had gotten baptized in the past 3 years, old investigators and this lady that we contacted.  Anyway we had to walk everywhere, and while we were there it started deluging!!!!  It rained so hard for the next three hours while we walked around.  We were so wet that it literally looked and felt like we had jumped into the fjord.  It was miserable.  And, of course, when we got on the bus to come back, it stopped raining.  Anyway, all of the Book of Mormons in our bags got ruined and some other stuff got really wet, luckily nothing that important.

Well that was the week.  Love and miss ya'll tons!  

MKH

Williams 

Don't find fault, find a remedy. - Henry Ford (July 9, 2012)

Hej med jer,

I had a much better week this week.  We had a lot of success with dropping by to visit people.  Everyone seemed to be at home and willing to talk.  There is one guy who is a Christian from Lebanon.  He immigrated here when he married a Dane.  He was home with his very sweet elderly neighbor.  Anyway, we were talking about the Trinity and how we don't believe in it like the Catholics do and we told him that we were all children of our Heavenly Father.  He screamed at us that we were blasphemers!  I almost started laughing just because it was something that you would expect in the Bible belt, but no here we were being accused in Denmark by a Middle Easterner.  He then claimed that all people who didn't believe in God were bad people.  He said this right next to his agnostic neighbor.  If she isn't a good person then nobody is!  Anyway it was just a little funny.  

Zone Conference was really good.  President Sederholm is a really good guy!  His family is also really solid.  They were all a little shell shocked, but after only 3 days that is understandable.  But he was just.....American.  Its hard to explain, but there was a clear difference between him and President Andersen.  Don't get me wrong, President Andersen is a fabulous man and was a wonderful mission president, but often I felt like I was just being preached at and treated like a robot.  President Sederholm taught by letting us teach ourselves.  There were a lot more comments than normal.  I don't think he intimidated everyone as much as President Andersen did.  

4th of July was good.  We were supposed to go to Rebild, but do to circumstances that will only make me upset we couldn't go.  There is a giant Danish-American Festival 20km south of Aalborg every 4 th of July.  The queen comes along with the prime minister.  President Bush and Regan have both spoken there before as well as Elder Russell M. Nelson.  Anyway I really wanted to go, but instead we did a bbq with A.  It was good, but not Rebild.  

The best part of the week was going out by 2 hr bus to a new convert.  She wasn't there, but we got to chill with her way cool son, who is 13.  He has like 20 airsoft guns and so we just went out and shot stuff for an hour until the return bus came back.  It was so fun!  

Yesterday, we drove to Randers with the Despains and O. (a new convert from Peru) to give one of the Despains friends their camera that they left while visiting.  Anyway on the way back we went to some Viking ruins and there are pictures below.  

 

That was the week!  Hope ya'll have a good one!

MKH

William

 

William, Elder Pitts and O. at Viking Ruins

William at Viking Ruins

William with Elder Pitts

 

The education of a man is never completed until he dies. - Robert E. Lee

Kære familie,

How was your week?  Things were...interesting this week.  To be honest, with the combination of the two areas, I've never had so many investigators in my whole mission its weird.  But we had a bunch of appointments this week and in true Danish fashion, they all canceled.  Shocker.  It was especially bad on Thursday.  We had six appointments and all of them except one burned us!  The only one that went through was a ridiculously frustrating one with a less active.  She has us come every other week and never comes to church and says that if we stop coming she'll go anti.  Then that night one of our investigators that is always home and keeps his appointments, burned us when we brought a member.  

A way funny story from Friday night.  We were contacting on our way home and we run into this completely drunk lady who asks us if we are Jehovah's Witnesses.  We start explaining who we are and she starts telling us that we need to stop being missionaries and get out and live a little.  That her kids were our age and having a hundred times more fun than us.  I was thinking that they would be thinking different if they were in our shoes at that moment.  We than start "arguing" with her about whether there is a God or not.  Finally she concludes that she has to go buy flowers for her friend (@9pm?) and that she had to go, but I was luckily able to slip a pass along card and told her to look it up if she ever was curious ;).  She then proceeded to give us a hug and a kiss on the cheek.  Pitts and I couldn't help but laugh our heads off as soon as she was out of ear shot.  

Anyways, this week is Zone conference, so we'll meet the new mission President!  That should be exciting.  Hope ya'll have a good week!  Love and miss ya tons!  

MKH

William

A man growing old becomes a child again. - Sophocles

Hej med jer.

How is it going?  I actually had a really good week.  We had some good appointments and we've got some really good ones coming up this week.  We had transfers and the zone leaders forgot to get our bus passes renewed until Saturday so we had to walk all over the place.  My legs and joints are so sore, but it was ok.  Elder Wright came down on splits on Thursday.  That was fun being with him again.  He's having a really hard time and just needed somebody to talk to so, walking around everywhere actually helped him.  Then on Saturday we had a musical that the youth put on at the church.  It was Saturday's Warrior in Danish.  It was hilarious watching it in a different language.  

We played soccer with the ward and I played squash with Elder Despain this morning.  This appears to be lets play sports that Veach isn't good at week.  Oh well, basketball Wednesday baby!!!  The Despains are discouraged (welcome to my life) because the young adult center isn't doing well.  Nobody is coming and they're having trouble getting it to work.  So we're trying to help them get people out.  

 

I had a pretty good birthday.  I'm now 21!!!!  Elder Harms took me to Subway (one of like 2 in the whole country).  Anitta made me a really good birthday cake and we chilled at the Despains that night.  So it was good.  

I just sent president his last email.  It's weird that at the end of the week we're going to have a new mission president.  Hopefully it will be good, but to be honest I'm only going to see him like 5 times before I leave so yeah....But they will be missed.  Sorry there isn't much of an update this week.  It'll be better next time!  Love ya!  Talk to you later!  

Love William