Hey Everyone,
This week has been much better. I didn't even get sick haha. I
don't feel like I've really done anything amazing, but I've at least
just helped some people and been a friend to them. I've also eaten a
bunch of random wild cherries that were randomly growing next to the
path we were walking on. They were quite delicious haha. My companion
and I have been able to talk a lot too and he shared with me how he felt
at the beginning of his mission, and it was very similar to how I feel
sometimes and I think most missionaries go through the same thing like
Dad told me about in his email. I guess I'll just start from the beginning of my week now though.
On Tuesday we met with a man from India named Vikas, and he
and his friends actually made us some super good Indian food (haha are
you jealous Katherine). We had a really good time with Vikas and his
friends and gave them some Hindi Mormons boger. I don't think Vikas is
actually super interested in the church, but he really needs friends and
wanted to meet with us, but you never know, maybe some day he really
will become interested. We had an awesome dinner with them though and
even though we couldn't understand everything they said (their not super
skilled in English or Danish) we had a great time with them. We may
have accidentally drunk some obscure type of Indian tea though haha...
oops and afterwards my stomach was killing me and I felt like I might
explode haha. That was pretty great though, and actually last night we
went back to Vikas's house and helped him write an appeal to some
Immigration office in good English, because I guess his visa renewal was
denied so he has to go back to India soon. Haha it was pretty
interesting though and I think he might be working illegally here, but
at least hes aloud to be in Denmark right now haha. But I'm glad we were
able to help edit it for him, because there's no way the Immigration
office would have understood that letter if we hadn't helped him.
Then on Wednesday we had our quarterly interviews with
president Sederholm. That was a good experience and he mainly focused
for us on having the faith to find people. We had great talks with him
and I can tell he really cares about us and was inspired to put us in
this area together, even if we don't really know why ourselves yet. He
actually promised us though that we would be able to find someone to
teach that day after our interviews. So we were both pretty excited and
went out expecting to find someone and we were super positive. We went
to Hedehusene and went by and tried contacting a bunch of old potentials
the missionaries had met in March. All of them either weren't home or
just said nej tak and shut the door, or someone else that didn't
recognize us answered. So that was disappointing, but then to make
matters worse, my companion realized his wallet wasn't in his pocket. So
we spent the next three hours or so retracing our steps and searching
for his wallet, because his wallet had all his MSF (missionary support
fund for food and stuff) in it and it also had our Rejsekort (our
transportation card thing for getting off and on buses and trains) with a
bunch of our travel money on it. We actually never found it, and by the
time we finished looking it was time to go home. So not going to lie,
that was pretty much the worst day ever. We were super positive and
president promised us that we'd find someone, but then we pretty much
just ended up searching for a wallet that we never found.
On Thursday, we went and helped an old British handicapped guy
in our ward clean up his dog poop (we do it every week) and bought him
some butter. He has two giant German shepherds one of which is
completely insane because it never sees people and when we come its tail
starts wagging and it thinks its tail is a demon or something and just
tries to attack it the whole time. We helped him though and then we went
to try to meet an 80 year old lady on our ward list, but after walking a
really long way we just found that Mohammed lived there now. Not going
to lie they're terrible at home teaching in Denmark, so to be honest no
one ever visited or knew that old lady. It's really kinda sad. But then
we decided to make cookies for our neighbor because she hurt her knee
and couldn't leave her apartment for a few days, so we went and did that
and did some weekly planning as well.
On Friday we decided we were kinda out of options and until we
thought of some other creative way to find we needed to knock. So we
decided to go knock what we call Gettoville Tåstrup. It's pretty much
the most getto place in our area, and if there were ever to be shootings
in Denmark, that would probably be one of the top places. I think I
heard there were something like over 100 languages spoken in those apartments haha. But we went and knocked for awhile, but after maybe an
hour or two, we had literally only talked to maybe four people, one of
which had slammed the door on her face because she thought we were the
immigration police (her daughter opened the door and apologized haha). A
lot of little kids and immigrants think we're the police for some
reason. So eventually we figured knocking on Friday night wasn't going
to work. So we went back and gave the cookies we made to our neighbor
and we actually ended up talking to her for about an hour and a half,
and She's reading the Book of Mormon now, and we're eating dinner with
her and her son on Wednesday. So that's honestly really awesome and I'm
super excited for that.
Saturday we played soccer in the morning with a bunch of
youth in the ward and had a great time (although I now have two huge
blisters on my feet haha (don't worry I'll survive). We went and set up
an appointment with a less active in our ward and tried to contact other
people too and we also found a bunch of cherry and plum trees and had a
feast. On our way home we bought a super good pastry too. And on Sunday
we actually found out we have eating appointments this week, and they
finally told everyone that we're allowed to be invited to anyones home in
our ward, because we're there to help and get to know everyone not just
the few people that live in our area. So I'm excited for this week and I
had a pretty good week too. Thanks for all the nice emails and
everything you've sent me too. Have a wonderful week.
Ældste Redd
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