Hi Everyone,

 

      Thanks for the email mom, and I'm glad to hear things are going well. I'm kinda jealous of the crazy tree to tree adventure park dad went too, and I hope you still enjoy giving people shots ha ha, I know you used to. And ha ha mom I'll be fine in the winter, I've talked to a lot of missionaries that have weathered furious winters and barely any of them have ever bought boots, and they all have normal scarfs. I actually must have read your mind the other day though, because I did buy boots ha ha. They were around 70 dollars (400 kroner) so they were a bit expensive, but they're really nice and warm and they were on a great sale, and I only spent 100 dollars on a jacket instead of 400 like my packet said I should, so I can justify it ha ha. Lucky I bought those boots too, because I'm heading to the northern tip of Denmark! None of the visas came when they were supposed to, so I'm still in Roskilde right now, but last Thursday we got a call from president Sederholm telling us that almost all the visas had come. We're going to have all 6 missionaries we need in Roskilde, but he's actually sending me off to Fredikshavn, in North Jutland to finish up training Ældste Call, who is actually from Oregon just like me. I'm sad to leave the Roskilde ward and all the friends I've made, but I'm also really excited to go somewhere new and have a fresh start. Church was kinda hard saying goodbye to everyone, but I really am way excited. Our ward mission leaders wife Marriane is from Fredikshaven also so I've heard a lot of great things about it. Skagen is in my area too, and that's where the two seas meet and you can see a line where the waves crash together, so that's way cool. OK now I'll answer your questions, and I already answered 1 and 2 so I'll start with 3.

 

3. Yeah I'm eating some, but definitely not as many as I should. And no I'm not taking vitamin D yet. It's actually been decently sunny, it's just quite windy and cold. Supposedly it's supposed to go below freezing soon if it hasn't already at night. And we've actually had a ton of eating appointments lately, so I'm eating well, especially since everyone who can't finish their food just scoops it onto my plate and I eat it all (that actually happened at an eating appointment the other day hahaha). And we get 1500 kroner a month which is almost 300 dollars. It's over twice as much as you get in the states. So as long as we budget (foods pretty expensive) we're fine. We actually have extra this month so we're going to endless sushi ha ha.

4. Church was the best part of my week, just being able to say goodbye and be with all my great friends.

5. I honestly am very grateful to be going to Fredikshavn on Thursday. I had actually been praying to go somewhere new and begin again kind of. I love Roskilde and all the people, but being in the Taåstrup area and apartment just reminds me of the first two months of my mission and my wonderful training experience... So I was really praying and hoping to go, and just when I had given up I got the call from president. It just really strengthened my testimony that God knows us personally and he knows our needs and wants.

6. Hmm, I think it was just bearing my testimony of the savior to Charlotte with the Anderson Family. It was really wonderful, and the spirit was really strong.

 

Sorry I don't have time to write a long email right now, for some reason the computers we're on only give us half the time to email and I have to email President. Have a great week though!

 

Ældste Redd

 

 

Hey Everyone,

 

      Thanks for the picture dad, and ha ha yeah we're definitely starting to see some weather changes here in Denmark. It's been getting a lot colder quite quickly. it's supposed to get down to 3 degrees Celsius this week, and most nights it gets down into the low 40s i feel like. So yeah we definitely have jacket weather now ha ha. It's come quite suddenly too. Oh and I also got my razor in the mail, and it works extremely well. way better then anything I've ever used before, so thank you so much for sending that, it really helps a lot, oh and I found an old camera cord in the Roskilde Apartment that Works with my camera, so you don't have to worry about sending me an sd Card reader now. That's way cool that Aunt Adele came down though. I feel like I haven't seen Adele or Alex or Herb in forever. I'm glad that you had fun with aunt Adele though. That's way cool about our ward though, it sounds like before long they might have to split the ward if it keeps growing as fast as it is now. And actually I gave Brother Ilskow a Blessing in English, almost all Danes speak English, and they said they'd rather have us say it in English and know how to say everything, but I'm sure I'll have the opportunity to give plenty of blessings in Danish too.

        Zone conference was really good this past week though. I really enjoy gathering as a zone and seeing all of my friends, and listening to president Sederholm. President Sederholm is an amazing man, and pretty much every time he speaks I feel the spirit. He had actually just had a European mission conference with Ældste Oaks and Ældste Ballard in France. President Sederholm kinda laid down the law a bit with some of the mission rules like music and reading unapproved books. He pretty much just said only listen to hymns and EFY music, so no obscure Christian bands and stuff like that. Not going to lie I'm not too happy about that, but I'm willing to do what he says, even if others aren't. I'm really glad to be in this mission though, because we're not overly strict on Things, and there aren't tons of random rules not in the White handbook for our mission. It's a great mission and we have a great man leading it. President Sederholm also talked a lot about having the faith to find though.One thing that he always says that really hits me, is we believe in Christ, but do we believe Christ. We all know from the prophets and apostles that the time for the gathering of Israel is now, and we have also been told of the second harvest in Scandinavia and that there are more people prepared for the gospel than we could ever teach. The hard part is really keeping that in your heart after having doors slammed in your face and numberless nej taks. He focused a lot on praying to know where to go, rather than just going and knocking some random doors or talking to people in a random place. He then sent us all out into Copenhagen contacting people, whether we knew the city or not. Ældste Metcalf and I had a great time doing that, and while we didn't have anything spectacular happen we had a great time doing it. We did talk to a drunk guy for a while and give him a book of Mormon. We made good friends with him and he took a picture with (the Mormons ha ha) us, and told us to go out and drink and party for a day just to experience life ha ha. We got completely lost on our way back though, but we made it back eventually. It was a really good conference though, and I learned a lot from it, now I just have to learn to apply it.

      This week was kinda crazy to be honest though. We only had two normal work days in our area, but they we're pretty good. We painted a lot in the Roskilde Apartment and helped that get ready for when new missionaries come. Unfortunately though, we found out only three visas came this transfer, so we won't have new missionaries in our area yet. So if there's one thing you could pray and fast for to help, I would say pray and fast for visas to come. We have 18 missionaries waiting to come to Denmark right now, and we need them. So for now Ældste Metcalf and I are still together, but if even one visa comes Elder Metcalf will be training them (unless there a sister missionary of course), and I'll either be with someone else in Taåstrup or I'll get sent off somewhere else. We've heard that visas will probably come in a week or two though, so it will probably be sometime soon. So yeah this week has been a bit crazy, and we didn't have a whole lot of lessons. We did meet with Charlotte again this week though, and she came to church. She really is gaining a testimony and its amazing to see. She's really worried about the word of wisdom though, because she's tried to quit smoking before and had a really hard time. So if you want to pray for her too you could.

     Actually this week we went to Newkobing (South of Sjæland) for store splits. We had 8 missionaries go down there with the Newkøbing elders and we all went on splits with the members. It was really fun ha ha, we had to go up the night before, so it was kinda like a giant missionary sleep over in the Newkøbing apartment. We all had a great time getting to know each other and played a hilarious game called beenboozled with jellybeans. There are around 8 different colors, and there are a couple of each color, and some of each color are good flavors, but some are terrible ha ha. I ended up eating one flavored centipede, and another flavored canned dog food ha ha, they were terrible. Our splits the next day with members went really well too though. We got to know some of the great members down there, and we also had some good conversations and gave out some Book of Mormons. I think it helped strengthen the testimonies of some of the members, on how important member missionary work is, because we didn't have all that much success with about 20 people going out and knocking on doors, and they realized that the people we know are generally a lot more open and willing to talk about things like the church. It was a great experience though, and a great week. I hope all of you have a wonderful week, and that all is well at home. Jeg elsker jere!

 

-Ælste Redd

Harry potter sized spiders, moving back to tåstrup, and a whole lot of lessons

Hi Mom and Dad and everyone else,

     That's great to hear, I'm glad the Von Scheels sent you that. I was actually on splits in the Zone leaders area when we met with them. They're a super nice family, and they've actually got two sons out on missions right now. Ha ha I remember when you used to bribe me to smile too. Believe it or not I'm not always all that happy here though, but luckily I do know how to smile haha. I haven't gotten it yet, but I'll be at the mission home tomorrow for zone conference so I should find out. Thanks a ton for sending it. And Mom don't worry, I won't burn our apartment down, I mean, what's the worst that could happen, there are only two pyromaniac 19 year old boys with lighters and candles in pretty much every apartment in the mission hahahaha. You really don't have to worry though mom, we'll be fine. That's sad that the Grasley's are gone, it seems crazy to me to think they won't always be the house behind us with the gate in between. That will be a little deprressing when I get home. I'm glad Nick is excited to go on his mission though and that he's doing well. I'll be sure to shoot him an email. I'm really sad to here about Brother Newton though. That would be really hard. I'm honestly not sure if I could survive having to pour liquified food through my teeth to eat. How long does his jaw have to be like that? I honestly didn't know Brandon was in a bug infested apartment though. I haven't really gotten any emails from him. I emailed him while I was in the MTC, but if I remember right I didn't get anything back and I wasn't sure if I had the right email or not. I'm glad he got out of there though, and that he's doing better now. I'm happy to here things are going well in church and everything too, and make sure to tell Nick Newton to get well soon for me. That sounds extremely hard. I'll definitely keep him in my prayers. 

Ok Now I'll try my best to Answer your questions.

1. I'm not really sure what kind of details you want about our investigators. Do you want stories about visits, or just details about them? I generally tell you most of the good stories as they come. To be honest a few of the people we've been working with have kind of fallen through a bit. It's really sad to see, especially after we become such good friends with people and then something happens and things just don't work out. We're teaching a lot and having s decent amount of success for Denmark, but to be honest it's pretty depressing at times. I'll try to share at least one good story or two with you towards the end of my email though.

2. No, I'm not writing in my Journal every day. I was towards the beginning, but all my journal entries were pretty much, it was another day of misisonary work today... So I stopped doing that and now I try to write once or twice a week. I know I probably should write more, but I don't see the point in writing every day if your entries are just going to be pretty much meaningless, because going back and reading my journal, most of it was pretty meaningless ha ha.

3. I'm doing fine with the weather, it's starting to get a little bit colder, but the sun still comes out on a lot of days. I honestly haven't been taking any vitamin D yet, because I've been getting plenty of sun. I've been taking the multivitamins still though. 

4. I actually found some warm gloves in the roskilde apartment that someone else left behind. I seem to be good at finding stuff other misisonaries left ha ha. I've already found two nice scarfs, and gotten a really nice pair of pants and a pair of ecco shoes from my old companion ha ha. I haven't found a suit yet though, but mine right now is lasting fine, but i'm keeping my eyes out for deals on suits.

Now to just tell you about my week as a whole. We've had a pretty insane week to be honest. We haven't had any time to knock on doors (except for half an hour while waiting for a member who was late to our appointment) because we've just had so many lessons. We've just been driving around a ton to and from appointments. I think one of my favorite appointments was with Familien Ilskov in our ward for FHE. We went over and had dinner and then had a family home evening lesson with them. We talked about what we're thankful for and read some great scriptures and watched the mormon message "in the spirit of thaksgiving." It went really well and the spirit was really strong. Afterward Brother Ilskov asked us for a blessing because he was feeling sick and was going through a really tough time at work. I had the chance to give the blessing, and it was just a really good experience for me and hopefully for everyone else too. 

     We also had a really good appointment with Naja yesterday. She's from Bhutan, and is around 26 I think. We actually met in the church after church was over and had a lesson in the room with the baptisimal font in it. We just talked about the restoration and the spirit was really strong there. Hopefully she'll decide to read the book of Mormon. But yeah those were the two most memorable lessons for me this week. Sorry I'm running out of time and I still have to email president, or I'd tell you more. But we also moved from Roskilde to tåstrup this week because they're repainting the roskilde apartment before the sister missionaries come. We also cleaned the Roskilde apartment, and considering there have been missionaries living there for 16 years or so, that was a bit frightening, but we found lots of cool stuff. There also happen to a whole lot of scary gigantic spiders in that apartment. I turned on a light on Saturday and there was a spider a bit bigger then a half dollar coin right next to the lightswitch on the wall ha ha ha. That's probably the 4th one we've found in the past three weeks, so the sister missionaries are going to love it there. Things are good here in Roskilde though, but i feel like I'm probably getting transfered on the 25th, so I hope I go somewhere good. have a great week everyone!

Ældste Redd

Pretty good week and Chocolate Muesli

Thanks for the email Mom and Dad, and hi to anyone else who reads this ha ha,

 

      Thanks for telling me things about your mission too, I really like hearing things like that, that worked well for you. Oh and tell mom thank you for getting my driving record from the DMV. Oh and about the electric razor, yes I would really like one. I know the brand Philips Norelco works fine, but I don't care too much about the brand I mainly just want a basic razor with three blades just like yours dad ha ha. My old one broke somehow, and I bought a cheap one here but it kinda tears up my neck and irritates my face and doesn't do that great of a job of actually shaving my face ha ha. So I just want a basic one that will work. I think the best way to get one to me would be on amazon UK though. I think I told mom about it though. I'm glad everything's going well at home and that your getting massive amounts of fruit from our trees ha ha. Oh and I had to do a double take when I saw you had bought a brand new car! I didn't think you two would ever buy a brand new car ha ha. I'm glad things are good though. I'll answer all your questions now ha ha.

 

1. My week has been really good actually. We didn't have any transfers or changes yet and I'm starting to think that won't happen until the end of September (when actual transfers are) so that's a little strange because I feel a little bit like I'm in Limbo or something working in one area that was two before and that I know will split into three next transfer ha ha. So at the end of this transfer well have two sets of Elders in our ward and a set of sisters. So that will be really cool and we'll have a lot of missionaries to work here.

 

2. I think I'm eating pretty well. I've definitely lost some weight since getting to Denmark, but that's just because I'm not eating massive amounts of food at the MTC still. We were actually getting more eating appointments when there were four elders in our ward ha ha, this week we only had one person sign up, but we randomly had someone invite us over last night and someone else invited us for tonight, so that's really nice. I love eating appointments so much. Every one always tries to get us to eat tons too, so I do... ha ha. We don't exactly eat very healthy though, because when were cooking for ourselves we don't have time to make anything very healthy, and when we're at eating appointments, people tend to just give us massive amounts of meat ha ha. At home we always have Muesli for breakfast though (kinda like oatmeal but not cooked and extremely tasty. I bet mom would love the Dark chocolate Muesli). For lunch we generally make sandwiches or something like pasta or pølser (kinda like hotdogs but way better) or fried rice. And for dinner we generally make the same type of stuff as we do for lunch.

 

3. Yeah I payed 600 Kroners for a parking ticket and my companion gave me half of that back in cash. I also bought a bike for 1000 Kroners as well though (a bit less than 200 dollars) so that's why a lot of money has been used lately. The bike I bought is extremely nice for the price I got it for though (by Danish standards). It has nice street tires (ones actually a racing tire ha ha) and fenders and a good frame and it also has all the lights and things that you need for it to be legal to ride in the dark in Denmark. So that's pretty cool, and I'll be able to use that bike my whole mission. I don't use it now because I'm in a car area, but most areas in the mission are starting to use bikes, so it should be put to good use.

 

4. I actually haven't gotten anything from him unfortunately. How's he doing though, I haven't heard anything for awhile. Is he finished with his medical school?

 

Overall this week was really good though, we had a whole ton of appointments and taught some great lessons. I feel like we have two or three people in the Taåstrup area that should be baptized within the next six months or so. It's pretty amazing to see how the work is progressing. I think the hardest thing for us right now though is just getting people to come to church. We always think we'll have a bunch of people, but we generally have one or two at most if we have anyone. So that's the toughest thing for us I think. Hmm... I 'm trying to think of a good story to tell from this week, but I don't have anything too special. It was just a good week of missionary work and I feel like we did a lot of good things. We did catch a random toad while knocking on doors though. We kept him as a pet and named it Roger ha ha. We had a little habitat place for him in the window well, but somehow he escaped one day or maybe a bird came down and ate him or something :( ha ha it was fun though. The things missionaries do to stay entertained...  Things are good here though and I'm doing much better and starting to get accustomed with being a missionary now. I think the hardest part for me has just been that I feel alone a lot of the time. I have a good companion now that I'm friends with, but it's still hard. When you're so far away from home it's hard to feel like anyone cares about you at times, I know people do, but there are times like last night where you just think what am I doing here, and is there really a point to all this. I think the important thing is to develop a relationship with Heavenly father and Christ so that you don't feel alone though. The problem for me is I don't feel I have developed that relationship enough yet to not feel alone. I have a strong testimony of important things like the book of Mormon and I'm starting to learn to follow the spirit, but I just feel alone at times. I think part of that is probably Satan's doing all he can to make me feel that way and like I shouldn't be out here, but at times I really feel that way. But more of the time I'm happy and know why I'm here. So yeah, I'm not really sure what happened in that last bit of email, but things are great, and I'm looking forward to another great week in Denmark. Jeg elsker jere.

 

Ældste Redd

A Parking Mishap and more

Hey Mom and Dad and everyone else,

 

Thanks for the letter and everything. I really like hearing all the stories and just how everything's going. It's kinda strange, I thought I'd be homesick and thinking of home a lot, but when I'm out as a missionary everyday I don't even have time to be homesick and miss everyone, but every P-day its really good to here how Things are and know that home will still be there in two years. I had a pretty good week this week. It started out pretty badly to be honest, but then it ended pretty well. I don't remember when it was, I think it might have been Wednesday, but we got a parking ticket for 600 Kroners (almost 100 dollars) just because we forgot to set a time thingy on the front of our window called a P-skiv. So we we're both pretty mad about that and then one of our really positive investigators that we thought could be baptized within the couple months stopped answering our texts and calls. And then we had no appointments because some other people couldn't meet. So we were a bit discouraged at the beginning of the week. But we actually ended up doing some really effective planning this week and we have more scheduled appointments this´coming week than I think I've ever had on my mission. So that's really exciting, and we're going to have an amazing week. We did have some good experiences this past week though. We had lots of time, so we ended up spending a lot of time contacting on the streets, knocking, and stopping by members that are less active. I think it was on Thursday, we we're out knocking on doors and having no success, and honestly pretty much no one seemed to be home. Then I saw a random apartment and thought, (or heard ha ha) we should try that one. So we went and knocked, and the third door we knocked on, before we had even said much the man invited us in. He and his friend that were there were both from Iran and one of them was Christian and the other said he was Humanist (Which is kind of Ironic because his name is Human ha ha). But One of them spoke a little bit of English and the other spoke a little bit of Danish, but neither of them spoke too well, but they told us there language was Persian, but that they'd both come to church 100%. Neither of them did unfortunately, but we were able to get them both Persian books of Mormon and went and visited one of them on Sunday after Church. We just talked to him and tried to communicate and be his friend. While we were there he opened up his new book of Mormon straight to 2nd Nephi 29 where it talks about there being more Words that God gives to his children than just in the Bible. I'm not sure if he understood a lot of what we said to him, but he just kept saying "this is a good book" in his nice broken Danish (it reminds me of when I first got here). So that was a really cool oplevulse and I was really glad that we were able to find them. We also met a really nice girl named Sophia while contacting this week, and I think if she reads Mormons bog she could really become an extremely positive investigator for us. So that was exciting too. Hmm... oh also we decided to try a new way of contacting this week. We just went to parks with lots of people and brought an American football and tried to look extremely American and passed the football a bit (ha ha people think Americans are really cool for some reason). We actually ended up playing catch with a bunch of immigrant kids for about 20 minutes and we just had a good time with them and getting to know them a little bit. It actually reminded me a lot of Africa for a little while. Next time we do that though we're going to have to try to find some older people to play though ha ha. I do think one thing that's really important to do as a missionary though is to just be nice and friendly to all the people we walk by and talk to. If we just act like robots that can only do missionary Work and talk about the gospel I feel like no one would ever want to talk to us. It's actually kind of crazy, here in Denmark there are a Whole lot of Jehovah's witnesses, but pretty much everyone hates them because they're rude when they talk to people and just don't act like they're there to be friends. Unfortunately we get mistaken for Jehovah's Witnesses a lot here, but when we tell them we're not, lots of people will get super relieved and be happy to talk to us for a little while. I feel like if you're not careful though, you could easily end up being the same way as them, and not realize that one of the most important Things about being a missionary is being a friend.

       I think that's about it for today, but I just want to say thank you for all the prayers and support and for everything you have all done for me. It means a lot, and now that I'm out here I regret not showing and expressing my thanks more often. I already feel like the person I am is changing a ton. I just feel happy almost all the time (sometimes not so much though ha ha, missionary work can be a bit depressing at times), and I feel like I'm beginning to be able to recognize the spirit more and realize that in life we really can't do everything. We have to trust in God and follow him, and if we do our best he will make up all the rest, and when you feel like you can't go on any longer he'll send you one of his tender mercies and you'll be able to carry on through the rough times.

     Haha I was going to try to end on that spiritual note, but I have to tell you a story ha ha. I remember when you were asking if I couldn't go into public parks or beaches because of topless women, and a few weeks ago we were on a train in the country and there was just a random farmer working in his field buck naked haha, so I think parks and beaches are the least of our worries haha. Denmark is a strange place. I'm having a great time though and I know that with God's help I'll always be fine, through the good and the bad, and anything that comes my way. Have a great week :)

 

Oh and no I didn't get transferred, I'm still in Roskilde with Ældste Metcalf having a great time. And the weather has been pretty good lately. It's starting to get a little chilly sometimes, and believe it or not a few trees are starting to have their leaves change colors already ha ha. I've heard from all the missionarys here that the winters are miserable though ha ha, but I'm kind of excited for winter. It'll be something new, a fun adventure in a country halfway across the world.

 

-Ældste Redd

A New Companion and New Apartment in Roskilde

Hi Mom and Dad and everyone else,

 

     I know he's a good person, just... yeah. Ha ha I'm doing great now though. I guess first I'll answer all your questions.

 

1. I actually only have one companion. I'm not sure how you thought I had two because I went back and read my email and I think it was pretty clearly said, but I only have one companion Ældste Metcalf and we're covering both of our areas. In two or three weeks we're going to get new companions though when the new missionaries get there visas. So once that happens Ældste Metcalf and I won't be together anymore and I'll be back in my old apartment in Tåstrup. Right now we live in the Roskilde apartment but we go to Taastrup every once in a while so I can check my mail then. I got the letters and pictures from the family reunion though and I really enjoyed them, so thanks a ton for that.

 

2. My companion Ældste Metcalf is from Salt Lake City Utah. Actually neither of us are senior companions though, because we've both been out for exactly the same time ha ha. Ældste Metcalf is really awesome though, he's a really hard worker and super funny. He's super spontaneous too which makes thing fun all the time. I'm a little worried I'm going to die in a car accident driving with him though, so you might want to send that driving record of mine sooner than later ha ha.

 

3. I'm still in the same area, it's just combined with one other area that is much larger so I have a lot more than what I had before. I'm going back to just my small area when more missionaries get to the mission though. I think after that I'll stay for another 4 to 10 Weeks, or possibly more, but I think it's going to become a zone leader area eventually so I doubt I'll be there for too long.

 

4. I didn't have any especially spiritual experiences this past week, but I've felt like I've had the spirit helping me a lot with Danish. I've been able to understand a lot more than I thought I could (it's still not all that much ha ha) this week and I've also been able to speak better than I thought I could as well. I actually gave a talk in church on Sunday (in Danish ha ha) and I was able to speak much better during the actual talk than I had when I practiced, and I think everyone understood me and I got lot's of compliments on my Danish and my talk afterwards. So that's been pretty cool to see. Hmm... I've had lots of funny experiences this week. Lets see, one funny one is while we were knocking in an area, some kids walked by and asked hvad lave i? (what are you doing), and we said we're missionaries and we talk to people about God, and a seven-ish year old girl just yelled well then F... you and they all took off running ha ha. Then when we were walking back to the car we saw them playing in a playground and when they saw us they ran away again, and we pretended to chase them for a little bit ha ha. I don't think a lot of people understand what American swear words mean though because little kids seem to use them a lot ha ha.

 

5. Well technically I'm not allowed to read that book because its not in the missionary library... but I read it ha ha. It was pretty good. There were some things that were really good in it but there were a few things that were a little ridiculous ha ha, but it was good.

 

6. Hmm... one thing that I think would be good to sent to me would be a pair of fairly good winter gloves that you can still do things in (not ski gloves, but leather or synthetic material would work). I've looked for gloves here and the only ones I've found weren't very good but they were over fifty dollars. how much does it cost you to send stuff though, because I guess it might be cheaper to buy them here even if they're expensive though. My feet are holding up fine though, and I really like the new socks you sent. My trainer actually left behind a pair of Ecco shoes that were too big for him, so I have two pairs of nice Ecco shoes now and they work great.

 

Thanks for everyone's letters and emails and support though. And tell Erik thanks for his as well in case I don't have time to reply. I'm doing way better now and I'm really having a blast with Ældste Metcalf. I feel like we're actually working hard now and we're having tons of fun and learning the language as well. So pretty much things are great. We've been teaching a lot of lessons to great people and helping out those that are less active. I'm going to send you some pictures now and figure some other things out too, so I hope I have time after to send more, but if not, have a great week.

 

-Ældste Redd

 

 

Short email- Changes coming

 I found out that for the time being I'm going to be serving with Ældste Metcalf and our two areas are combining. It's only for a few weeks though until the new missionaries visas get here and then Ældste Metcalf will train and I'll get an older companion from somewhere. I'm really excited to serve with Ældste Metcalf and I know well get along well. We're already good friends (we were in the MTC together) and he's a really fun person to be around. We both don't speak a ton of Danish Either, so that will be an adventure as well haha. I'm really excited for a change though. I've had a tough past two months, but I've done my best and I think better times are ahead. Now I'll finally try to answer all your questions.

1. Yes! I did get a package. I didn't think it was from the Young women though. I thought it had letters from a Sunday school class because some were from boys too. Haha, they were pretty much all the exact same and asked me if it was cold. They made me smile though. I also got two pairs of socks, some articles of faith cards, a little book called how to be an extraordinary missionary, and some candy. So that was great to get, and thanks for everything in it and say thanks to the other people that contributed to it for me.

2. Either a USB stick or CDs work fine I can play them both. Sorry though I actually have to go now, but I'll send you a better email next week.