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
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