Hey Everyone!
The weather is pretty good in Denmark, I'm pretty sure its a bit
colder than Oregon, considering I think it gets down to about 50 or 60
degrees most days at times. There also seems to be a random torrential
downpour of rain at least once a day haha. It's pretty beautiful though,
there are lots of trees and its really green kind of like Oregon. Haha I
know they do burn a bunch of big bonfires, but I think here its on the
22nd. I unfortunately didn't get to see any though because I was at an
appointment. I did help some people in our ward help clean out a
forested area for service and we built a giant bonfire that I think they
were planning on burning then. I'm glad to hear you had a good week
though, and that things are a bit more relaxed now. I must admit I'm
pretty jealous of all the fruit you're harvesting from the garden
though. I actually haven't seen the broadcast for all the missionaries
yet either. It wasn't at a good time for us here in Denmark, so they
recorded it and we're watching it next Sunday night. I'm pretty excited
for it though. I can't believe Trevor is leaving already too. It seems
crazy how fast everyone is leaving to me. It sounds like the farewell
went great though, and I'm pretty excited for him. That's awesome that
you got a letter from Elder Kawamura too. He was a pretty great
companion. He's been keeping me updated on how things are going in my
old area too. There have already been two baptisms since I left. I got
one picture that you attached to this email, so if you sent more I
didn't get them. I'm glad Rebecca and Erik are all moved in now, but
that air conditioning doesn't sound to fun. I'm actually going to have
to send them an email today, because someone in my ward was on his
mission at the same time as Erik in Finland and actually knows him a
bit. I figure with the Memory card reader you can just send that at the
same time as when you send anything for Christmas if you still want to
send anything after hearing the prices haha. I can use my camera cord
stuff for now, just a memory card reader would be better because that
way I don't have to download all my pictures onto a computer every time,
and I don't think I could find one here very easily. But just remember,
if you do want to send anything for Christmas the office said to send
it by September or October because the postage system gets really backed
up at that time of year. and Don't send like beef Jerky or Soda,
because they hate high fructose corn syrup here and they hate jerky and
make you pay a huge tax to get your package if it has that stuff in it
haha. over all I would just say don't send me anything besides for like Christmas though, because postage is really expensive. And I actually
really love handwritten letters from people. I just hate writing
handwritten letters myself haha. OK I think I've answered all the
questions now so now I'll tell you about my week.
First I got sick this week haha, so one of my days I
literally slept all day long. I guess a lot of new missionaries get sick
when they first get here, and they wont rest and then get really sick
and can't work for a week, so my companion made me stay in and sleep and
after a day I was pretty much fine again. I'm not sure if the
thermometer I have works very well though because it said my temperature
was 96.5 which I thought was odd haha. But other than that my week was
awesome. We had a good experience with a man from the Philippines named
Gilbert Gallo, or Sunshine as he prefers haha. He's pretty much explored
all religions and has his own belief system. He's been meeting with the
missionaries and still been searching for other religions for probably
30 years or so, and he has a lot of strange questions. At first when we
met him he seemed kind of hostile and was telling us weird things like
something Joseph Smith said about people living in the moon haha, but
eventually we just told him, we can't answer every question, you just
have to read and pray to find the truth of our church. The spirit ended
up being really strong though and we have high hopes for him now.
This week we also had three dinner appointments with the
Anderson Family. They have a 23 year old son named Joakim and a 19 year
old daughter Cecilia. Joakim is a return missionary and has been a huge
help to us already, and is always willing to help us out when we need
someone to go to appointments with us. It was great to have dinner with
all of them though, and we've made great friends with them, not to
mention the dinner was amazing. The third dinner appointment with them we
actually brought our next door neighbor with us. We met her while we
were doing our laundry, and shes really interested in doing family
history, and it so happens that the Andersons are really good at family
history. So we invited her along and had a great time with her and the
Andersons. Because of how kind and awesome they are I honestly wouldn't
be surprised if she becomes interested in the church too.
Oh and I think I told you a little bit about it last week, but
every Saturday we play soccer. This week we had some awesome members
invite their friends and we had a great time with them. I actually
scored another goal too haha. I'm definitely going to have to buy soccer
cleats hear though because I was sliding everywhere. Soccer cleats are
one of the few things that are cheaper here though because soccer is so
popular haha. But while we were waiting for a bus on our way to soccer
there was a crazy drunk guy by us. He yelled a lot of incoherent stuff
and punched a metal pole hard enough to dent it. I'm guessing his hand
doesn't feel too great now though haha.
I admit Sundays here are really hard though. Three hours of
trying to understand a language that you can't understand is pretty exhausting. I felt like I was going to pass out be the end, but after
church we had a great dinner with famielien Thyssel. I ended up eating
two shish kabobs, 5 pølser (kinda like hotdogs but better), and a bunch
of other stuff including Marzipan Ice cream. It was so good, and we had
some great conversations with them. Actually Eric Thyssel is from
Sweden, and he served his mission in Finland with min Bror Erik Wiglama.
He said he never served with him, but he was companions with someone in
Erik's MTC group and definitely met Erik a few times. Small world right
haha, I thought that was pretty cool though, and he remembered Erik
being pretty funny. Hopefully the fact that their both named Eric/Erik
didn't confuse you too much.
Overall I'm just having a wonderful time here though. The
missionary work is really progressing, the members are great, and
Denmark is flipping amazing. I'm having a great time and believe it or
not I'm starting to understand a little more Danish and I'm starting to
speak it better too, even if I can't necessarily pronounce it right
haha. Have a wonderful week everyone. Jeg Elsker jere.
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