Hej familie!!!! So after five loooong hard working months in
Ballerup we got an investigator on baptismal date.... Actually times that by
two! We got two investigators on dåbsdato this week which doesn't happened so
all i can say is #blessed!!!
Investigators
SO like i said we got two investigators on baptisimal date! One is more
promising than the other. The first is Derek, the guy from Scotland who almost
got batized 40 years ago in Scotland before he joined the Unification Church.
Usually lessons with him go FOREVER because he talks on what he believes on and
his crazy adventures of his life which are pretty sweet! But I remember when he
was talking about his church's doctrine, the spirit was gone, and when Elder
Jensen and I started testifing on baptism and the Book of Mormon, the spirit was
soooooo strong! Then we gave him a goal and if he KNEW without a doubt that the
Book of Mormon was true, would he be baptized on April 16th and he said yes! The
only prob is is that he has been a strong member of his church for 40 years so
who knows if he is really willing to change. But Elder Jensen will be praying
and fasting and showing our faith that he can get an answer! DåbsDato #2- So
this is Hugo from Yugoslovia! He is our people mom! I guess.... I didn't know
that fact about there and Croatia but that is sweet! So we gave him the goal
also that if he found out all of this was true that he would be baptized on
APril 16th also! THe only problem with him is that he is not really social but
we are going to ease him in with getting him out on a church tour and get some
members to the lesson, and even more exciting, I think next time we are going to
teach his wife! SO that is pretty sweet! Other then those two, we couldn't meet
with any of our investigators really, they all had something going on and
couldn't meet, but we taught Harris, the guy who fixes missionaries bikes. Oh
and I toojk my bike to him the other day to fix my chain and look at my really
loose front tire and good thing i did because the part conecting the tire almost
snapped in half and i could have face planted when i was biking... BUT we got to
him in time, blessings :), and he got me a new tire, a new tube, and a new
chain, which he said would have costed about 900 krones, but he is charging me
400 so i need to pay him that this week. SO I am so thankful for him and we had
a fun talk about profets and God again with him! And while we were contacting
people in Herlev one day, we ran into my boy Ricardo! The Indian dude from
Mexico who speaks like four combined languages and thinks that he only needs
Jesus and no religion and that the 10 commandments are only for Jews... haha i
love this dude! Even though he is not all there, I am his best friend and his
American Brother! But anyways ;), we saw him and taught him about the
scrriptures helping us in our life and then i prayed for him, and haha, i opened
my eyes while saying the prayer and he was just nodding his head agreeing with
everything I was saying, and did his mother mary cross thing at the end! Haha it
was a you had to be there moment! And ELder Jensen and I found like four
potentials this week knocking and three of them come from Brazil, Serbia, and
Montenegro! We keep on finding foreineers! I love it!!!
Zone Confrence
So we had zone confrence which was great to see the boys from the MTC
group! It was great to catch up with Elder Fairbanks, and Elder Adams! THe focus
was was using all of our tools to become better missionaries, and by tools i
mean like improved finding, asking people who do they know for referals, and
working with family history with the members! So that was sweet! And our mission
is really improving in refrence to numbers, but President O'Bryant knows that we
can be baptizing more, and I guess we are tied with Poland for the lowest
baptizing mission in Europe... so we will get that changed! But they are
people, not numbers!! haha Then after zone confrence and a little contacting
sesh, we went to eat with the Bishop's brother which was a great time! We talked
a lot about his mission in Greek, and it makes me thankful to be here. Yes it is
hard and the people are not that accepting, but in Greek, they had a crazy hard
language, they would get things thrown at them and would be yelled at.... so
shout out to Denmark!!!
Æ Jensen's Voice....
So Elder Jensen got sick for one of the first times on his mission because
of me.... I have been kindof sick with this never ending cold for the past week
and a half.... but anyways, he lost his voice on friday, and guess what that
meant.... I got to contact by myself, he was standing by me, for two whole
hours! As much as i love talking to people, that was not an enjoyable part of my
mission, haha! Okay it wasn't that bad but i guess it was a way fun
experience!
Saturday=Balling
I love Saturdays! SO we planned on not going to soccer in the morning if
Weinan wouldnt come, and we couldnt get a hold of him on Friday night. So at 830
we get a call from him that said he was coming but he was going to be late, so
we changed clothes real quick and biked to the pitch! When we got there Weinan
said he actually couldn't come, but we still got to play soccer so that was fun!
Then in the middle we did some balling, missionary style. We gave out two
Mormons Bog on the street and talked with two people for thirty minutes which
really doesn't happen and so that was awesome! Then we huslted to a kebab shop,
ate a kebab, probably bad idea, and then balled with the district and a couple
investigators!!!
Sunday Funday!
Sundays are so great! So the highlight of church was me and Elder
HendrikSEN, Elder Jensen didn't have a voice, teaching the youth for Sunday
school! We started out asking them what their names were, the funnest thing they
did this week, and their favorite American thing ;) And a couple kids said,
''Ældste Reed!'' hahaha For meget kærlighed!!!! Then we got serious and talked
about the Atonement with them and it was great! Shout out to Elder Hendriksen
because we alsways have fun together, and he is a greaty missionary to teach
with!! Then we stayed inside after church to rest Elder Jensen's voice, and then
we went out to a member's house for an eating appoitment and they invited Roy
and Joana! Lets go! We had a great time just keeping it real and it was weird to
speak in English to these members! Then one thing Bishop Paulsen told us to do
is to treat Roy and Joana as new investigaotrs, so we taught them the first
vision and why the Book of MOrmon is so improtant, and good thing we did because
they didn't know that Joseph saw God and Jesus. Kind of a big thing, so we
taught them that and it was a great time!
Aye! Baby Webely is here! And i loved the pictures! And haha good work
keeping the blog updated, i know i can always count on you! And i have the SD
card reader, i just forgot it at the church last week. And that is good the ward
back at home is getting bigger! I was worried it would turn into a branch or
something! hahah and i dont know that sister, she could be new, and that is
sweet we got Harry Potter in the ward! hahaha And that stinks the girls lost, I
ont get why the top two teams in the state had to play each other in the first
round, Washington playoffs are wack... And that is great to hear that Big Bend
is in finals! And coach Poth is such a great coach, that is awesome thaey get to
be in the finals! Well, I love you all and have a great week!!!
Æ Reed
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