Week #58-Herning

Jamen Hvad så familie og venner! Okay I just want to give a shout out the Lord because the work here is FIRE!!! I have no idea what is happening but we got five MORE new friends this week which is crazy!! 

Friends

Well like I said we got 5 new friends last week! So lets start with the most positive one! So i was chilling with Elder Halling one morning making cookies and we got a call from Horsens where the mains Elder HAger and Poff are. They tell us that their most positive investigator has just moved to Herning and that he wants to be visited! So go and meet out friend L! L is about 50 and has INSANE faith in Christ and loves feeling the Holy Ghost! He has been to church for a total of 5 times combined with us and Horsens so a dåbs dato is coming up!! We taught him on the POS the first time because that is what Elders Poff and Hager told us to do and the second time we brought the Forslunds with and taught him again the Restoration! He said if he finds out the BOM is true that he will døbes!! After that lesson the Forslunds took us to McDonald and bought us burgers and then we went to our second lesson of the day with A who is also a new friend! She is about 50 and loves God and Christ but doesn't think there needs to be one true church. Sister and Elder FOrslunds testimonies were so fire they were tearing up and so was A! Good stuff! Then after the lesson we reviewed it and the Forslunds were so grateful that we took them out with us because they have been having a hard time working with the inactive members because they dont want anything to do with the church and it was a special moment for us in the car because the Lord has put six missionaries in this branch for a reason! After our appointment with A we stopped by our friend who lives right next to A, F. She let us right in and we taught her son the Restoration and her husband! It was the first time i have ever taught a fam all at once on my mission. A little background they are from Burma and only the mom and the son can speak good Danish. WE are teaching the POS next so we will see how that goes! WE got S who was a previous investigator and almost got baptized but didn't want to quit smoking and we are meeting with him tonight! HE is a way chill bro and loves sports! WE also got V on a cookie stop by who is living with a member and her sister and we asked V what he likes about our church and he said he likes his girlfriend.... so i guess that is why he goes now but flirt to convert right.... HAHA! And our organist bro couldn't meet last week and when he stopped by he said that he has looked in Mormons Bog but he will convert us to the Protestant church #goodluck haha! And i have really been trying to implement personality into finding people and it is working miracles!!! 

SKIVE

SO skive is north of herning and it is the banished area in the mission. Well they needed some help because the work has been way slow for them so the district went down there for district meeting. The Zone Lords Elder Jeppsen and my boy Bennet were there too! After a fire DM about the Book of Mormon and eating a huge kebab, we split up and me and ELder Nielsen went together! Elder Logan Jensen, my MTC comp, drove us to this neighborhood and told us to knock here and i was like is there any apartments close by and he was like no... Well Elder Reed wandered and found some! SO me and Elder Nielsen knocked and had such good success!!! We are both going way hard on personality finding and we ended up getting like three potential friends who were about to close the door on us after they saw us. We also got let in by the nicest and most humblest man i have ever met. He has gone through cancer like three times and was abused for like 13 years and he was like i dont deserve this how can there be a God... THen we went straight into the POS and he loved it and is going to meet the Skive Elders again! After that i went with Elder Jensen to knock doors! And crazy thing is it was our 400th day on our missions!! Way cool and it was way cool to see how we have changed. I was like to him, why didnt we like each other in the MTC.... haha! Way good times! Then we finished the night with a bonfire and roasted hot dogs! 

Søndag

Well i had a talk on Sunday which was way fire!! I hope lol! It was on moments of conversion and how they wanted to share the gospel after they felt that they became converted! I shared stories from me, an old investigator, and Alma the Younger. And i compared it to the first time i ate a pastry it was so good i had to tell my friends in USA about it and compared that to the gospel! then a return missionary shared some mission stories and i LOVED his personality with everything! The branch loved the energy we have towards the work! 

So i dont translate for the Americans they are trying to learn danish and they moved her because of work... And we are helping their kids with the primary program on Sunday so it should be way good! And dont worry i didnt get lost at all this week! And it isn't as cold as Copenhagen you just dont want to be stuck in these crazy rain storms! And i am good on thermals i havnt used them yet so yea! ANd so my toe is completely better thank goodness! And i am still fighting a bug right now... i did by vitamins so lets hope they work! But my investigator is like on legit quarantine so we cant talk with her.... Hahaha i LOVE those pics and of course the big man Jace is a Superhero!  And that is nuts that remnants of the typhoon hit Washington!Haha that is funny dad talked to the sister from New Mexico! I remember sister h said she had a friend in Moses Lake and so i like freaked out and said whats up haha! And i am still amazed the Washington is number 4! Give me an NFL update please!! And i am doing great! Realizing how fast this next half of my mission will go is a little crazy! Time is flying i actually know how to be a missionary and i am trying to turn this branch into a ward so lets keep the fire burning!! 

Week #57 Herning

Jamen Hvad så familie og venner!! Well the dynasty of Elder Howe and Elder Reed is over..... Dont worry parents I didnt do anything too crazy, a missionary went home for family problems so Elder Howe had to take his spot and I got my man Elder Halling!!! He is from my MTC group and comes from the great land of Michigan and is way sweet! It is way good to catch up with him because I havnt seen him since like 9 months ago! But anyways.... Herning is FIRE! I repeat Herning is fire! We just cant stop finding people wanting to hear the restored gospel and it is nuts!!!!!!

P Day

So quick update of last p day i got a hair cut from the home boy Elder Nielsen and then ate with the senior couple missionary!! We finished watching conference #timezoneprobs and they made me a birthday cake!!! #clutch

Health....

Well the health probs will never stop!!! Last week I got a narly toe infection and i like couldnt walk for like a couple days... But thanks to my previous comp Elder Howe, who had a way serious toe infection like a month ago, he doctored me up and told me how to treat it and so now my toe is almost better! And i have also caught this narly sickness that has been going around like everyone who we talk to in Herning so i slept like two extra hours today but i am still wrecked so I am hoping that I dont get worse!!! 

Wednesday Madness

So it was wednesday and we were knocking some opgangs and we get a call from the ZOne Lords and next thing you know they are singing a goodbye sang to Elder Howe and me and Elder Howe were just so confused.... THey were like Elder Howe arent you going to Svenborg and we were like no.... you guys are crazy and they were like Elder Thurman told us... and we were like well he is messing with you guys! Then it comes to eight oclock and we get a call from President and he tells us how he called us in the morning but couldnt get a hold of us and forgot to call us back and then told us that Elder Howe is going to Svenborg and I am getting Elder Halling.... #takingoveranareaaftertwoweeks 

Kirke

 

Well after a year of straight ward goodness, I am now in the branch life and it is way different!!! It is so small! We have a church building and there area bout 30 who come. HErning and SIlkborg branches got combined to make the Midt Jylland Branch! I bore my testimony yesterday and told them that i have been  on Sjælland, on Fyn, and now on Jylland and i told them that Jylland is definatley the promised land! Haha! We have two American families in the branch who really dont speak Danish and it was so weird to talk to their kids in English... I am still mind boggled over that.... And I got asked to give a talk next week on missionary work so I am going to get the branch pumped! 

Friends

So the work is going so well right now it is crazy! And i only got us lost one time since Wednesday so everything is all good! Haha! Anyways, we found four new friends this week as well! And a whole bunch of potentials! I learned on my mission that if you have the faith to find and the mentality that you will find people you will definately find people! So the peeps we worked with this week were F a girl who we see roaming the streets and we always end up running in to her so we taught her about Christ and faith. Then we taught I who is from Scotland and has been investigating the church for the past 40 years!! She has questions about Joseph SMith, which i think is just an excuse, so we talked about him and the Book of Mormon and we had Elder and Sister Forslund with. She has amazing faith in Christ and she is like 80 years old. We also taught F again the rest of the restoration. She is the lady from the Burmahs and she told us that we can teach her family and her teenage boys! Jo tak!! The only problem with her is the language barrier because she has only been here for 5 years and doesnt speak the best danish.... But the language of the spirit touches everyones hearts!!! We found B who is a 25 year old baker. He is actually the first door me and Elder Halling knocked. He is a typical believing dane, baptized and confiremed but doesnt go to church and then we just went hard at he can find out that God eksists if he reads the BOM! HE was going to shut the door on us but our experience and the spirit of course let the conversation going! The next door we knock we introduce us as Americans and the guy is like stop speak english to me so we do and he ends up letting us in and we teach him the restoration while he washes the dishes and we give him a Mormons Bog. This bro is like 25 and hates social media #blessed and is some kind of spiritualist... He said we could stop by in January so he can read the book and be done with exams! Then we have L who was found on splits by some missionaries last transfer and we finally got in contact with her and she is so postive! SHe is so believing and said that the first vision totally makes sense!!! Lets go!!! Then we got V who is from Hungaria and is dating a Hungarian member and he has been going to church for the past while now so he could be dunked sooooon! Problem is that he cant really speak english or danish so we will see how that goes.... Then we have L and R who was taught by Elder Howe and Shuppy and me and Elder Halling picked them back up! L is from Australia and R is the nicest man you will ever meet! He was talking how he is scared of dieing and then we talked a little about the POS! We are meeting with them again on Saturday and are going to eat a whole bunch of pastries!! Last bro we got is C who is an organist in some church here. He is pretty young and when we stopped by him on Saturday his girl was with and she freaks out when she sees us and just starts going off in English and she says how she stayed with a mormon fam when she was in Wyoming and said the missionaries were way sick! SO we got a lot going for us here in Herning! 

So i didnt get the shoes yet! And Danish 9 to 9 is going alright! It makes me go crazy sometimes though haha! And no one eats fish in Denmark lolzzz biggest mith ever told! And it is starting to get pretty cold... The winter jacket has come on! And i am good with pants and shirts!! And i LOVE that pic with dad and the two studs! Reid dog has gotten way big!! WHAT!! That is crazy Washington is ranked so high! And i probs need to get new gloves sometime... we will see what we can find. Well fam! Another week has gone and by in the promised land! Hopefully no more unpredicatble things will happen this week! Vi snakkes!! Jeg elsker jer!

Week #56 Herning

I am 20 now say what!!!! I am short on time so I will make this email quick but this week was definately a crazy one!!! 

ZONE TRAINING

So zone training was pretty fire... FIrst we learned that there will be a new mission rule that is we will speak Danish from nine in the morning to nine at night! SO that will be interesting and take some time to get used to to ALWAYS speak danish! I hope i dont go crazy! Then we learned about the Book of Mormon and how there was no way that Joseph Smith could have gotten all of the facts and stories about the books! We even watched a short anti mormon clip to see what our investigators could run across and to be honest it all is junk lol! The anti stuff is so stupid and when it comes down to it, it is about asking God for yourself to get that spiritual testimony! 

SERVICE GRIND

On Wednesday we set out to this far country side house where this member lives and he has been way sick so they needed help vaccumming. Their house was the coolest house i have ever been too! It was like a hobit house on steriords and it was sooooo big it was crazy!!! I felt like i was on an adventure while i was there and probs got lost like 10 times lol! Then the members came in clutch and fed us duck and root beer floats to make life even better!!! 

FRIENDS

So the work is still coming here in Herning! We found 5 more new friends this week and so that is 10 total for the transfer! We are teaching an 80 year old Scottish women tomorrow! We are teaching these two people tomorrow also. SO on Friday after weekly planning wwe went to knock by a member so if we got any friends we could take them out to help us teach! We knocked for about two hours with nothing and so you know those stories with the last houses.... well the last person we talk to was chilling outside her door with her dog and her friend and his dog and we taught them the restoration, joked around, played with the dog, and set a return appointment which equals the sickest contact i have ever done! Haha! Then we found this women from Burma and has been in Denmark for 5 years with a Christian background and has read the Bible! Jo tak! Then tthe last one lol is a J Dub..... So that should be interresting! Lol! We met with J Dubs on Saturday with our ward mission leader who was baptized about a year ago and it was so funny! They were throwing the stupidest scriptures at us and our ward mission leader was just throwing down! It was way fun and awesome to see how we have a spiritual testimony of the book of mormon and they just have a bunch of knowlegde from their janke bible. And the other Elders in the branch have been finding a whole bunch of new friends as well and when we told the ward mission leader he just went nuts to see how many people we are working with!!!! Lets get this branch into a ward!!!!

G CONFRENCE PLUS B DAY!

So General Conference was way fire as usual!!! I loved a lot of the talks and i forgot my notes but i loved President U. talk about the POS of do we take time to think how blessed we are that we have the plan of salvation in our life and that we have that knowlegde!! And i also loved the talk from Elder Cornish... i think his name was... Anyways it was way fire! And we are going to watch the Sunday afternoon session tonight at the senior missionaries place! #timezoneprobs And my birthday was yesterday too! It was pretty much general conference all day and a little bit of knocking! Cant really celebrate too crazy when you are serving the Lord! But me and Elder Howe had a little party at night lol! And i got a lot of calls from all of my good mission friends! 

And YES! I got my package that you guys sent thank you soooo much!!!!!  I loved the flaming hot cheetos and party decorations! I would say the Vertigo is pretty much gone!! And i have no idea what i want in my christmas package.... haha! And i was thinking about buying some European shoes for my birthday.... i bought pants from H and M because i needed new pants pretty bad.... lol! But i am going to a mall today and i am looking for some good sales and it would be perf. if i could find something between 400 krones!! Anyways! I love you so much family thanks for the birthday wishes and have a good week! Get that member missionary work going!!! :) 

Week #55-Hello Herning

Family!!!! This is my last week as a teenager!! What in the world happened!! Cool thought.. I spent my whole 19th year of my life servinng the Lord! No better way to use it i gås!!!! Anyways! I love Herning so much and Elder Howe!!! And I had to say goodbye to all of my good friends from Odense again this week! 

HERNING

Well I am starting a whole new mission! Everyone in Herning believes in God and is strong in their faith! So when we go contacting and knocking, which we do a lot of here ;), we have to bring our Bible and show them how it talks about apostasy, Restoration, and Mormons Bog. I never had to do that before so it is taking time to getting used to. Herning is so chill though. Everyone is so laid back and life is just way slower down here and i love it with missionary work! I guess there is 30 members in the branch because it just got combined with Silkeborg which is north of here so we got some work to do.

WORK

So the work is not at all like Odense! Elder Howe and Shuppy opened the area a couple months ago and the work is pretty slow. They were used to teaching single digit lessons in a week, which is way different then 20 plus in Odense. So last Monday i was determined to change that. And we ended up teaching 15 lessons and found 5 new investigators this week, and take in a count that we were out of our area for three days! I was sick for two...... I had a bad headache because i was not used to working so hard and we had Stake Conference in Århus on Sunday. So we will be teaching 20 plus lessons weekly soon! And by the way, I LOVE working with Elder Howe. He is such a stud, and SO insanely good at Danish! We are just a power companionship! And i love to see how we both have changed so much as well! Well back to the work! So ever since i got here i felt this buzzing in the air that Herning is about to explode with investigators! Now lets fast forward to Friday night and our correlation meeting with our mission leader. He by the way is way sick and got baptized a year ago, but he told me that Herning is different than Odense. You don't teach as many people, not as many lessons..... and I was about to go crazy lol! good thing i didn't! I am going to change is attitude by finding people and working like crazy! It will be awesome! And we talked about how to get members involved and pumped for missionary work and i told him we should get members out knocking with us and creating miracles and having the members share that at church on Sunday! So the future definitely looks bright! Our friends include J who is a way sick Dane who was adopted from Columbia! HE has been taught forever and has abused missionaries time of service for his house so we only teach him now I guess. Anyways, we had family home evening with him last Monday and his little girls and read stories from the little Mormons Bog story book and played a game which was way fun! We have Jø and I-L who are our most positive friends! We had a member out with us and taught them about the atonement and Jø said he felt pressed aka Holly Ghost so we are skeeming a baptismal date soon! We had a Family Home Evening or a cookie night at the church on Wednesday which was cool to meet some of the members. Then we found for the rest of our time and i never thought i would come to love finding people so much! We will get to that latter ;) But we found 5 new friends this week! F who is way relgios and a little crazy and said god told her not to read MB but we told her to pray one more time and ask him. Our smoking bros! Lol! We were in a park talking about our contacting sesh and these bros were smoking pretty young and I was like are you guys down for a talk about God??? And thery were like Yea Bro! Haha so at first they said they were athiest and that lead to them saying they believe in God and they were really interested in the plan of Salvation! Then we found these J Dub bros who were the coolest j dubs i have ever met! They were like 25ish and way swaggin and we were contacting and looked at their sign thingy and started talking to them and in was such a chill conversation it blew my mind! We shared believes for like 45 minutes and then agreed to meet and continue so we could tell them about Mormons Bog! #sosick! 

Goodbyes ROund 2 

Well we had stake conference and that was way good! The area seventy spoke which was nuts! Because it was in Norwegian! I could understand like 60 percent of it maybe..... Lol! Anyways i had to say Goodbye to the Odense squad again after it which was way hard but we were skeeming about meeting up again in the future so it should be way good! Miss them though..... 

Change.....

Well we had another round of interviews with the main President O'Bryant and these ones were about how we have changed on our missions and how we want to change and for the change I said that i have fallen in love with missionary work! I realized that when i was sick all i wanted to do was knock on doors and talk with people and when i was sick last week, i was so mad because i just wanted to go knock on doors! haha it is so crazy! And with that i was reading in the Bible today and Jesus had a way fire scripture that said he that findeth his life shall lose it, he that loseth his life for my sakes shall find it. And I just love this gospel so much and spreading the good vibes and happiness and love with others!!!!!!

So i will probs get my package tomorrow at zone training! Thank you for it!! And that sounds like a legendary pizza night lol!! And if i was home i would break the missionaries ;) In all good purposes of course ;) And that is sweet that girl is going to Finland! RIP with the language though... so hard but the gift of tongues is real! And sister Feller!! Haha that is awesome that she went to the same school has dad! I totally forgot about the Fellers! AND I WOULD LOVE to coach Zachs AAU team next fall! That would be so sick! And getting a concussion playing ping pong and spiltting open my head is such a great story! Dang that sucks with BYU football..... Well fam! I love you guys so much and I am so excited for General Conference for my birthday present!! Haha remeber how we went on my birthday and i was sooo mad! All i can say now is that i am so excited for it!!! #change! Love you guys!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                              

                                                           Elders Reed and Howe

                                                                  Old Friends

Week #54 Goodbye Odense

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I want to start out quoting my favorite song by Wiz! '' Its been a long day, without you my friend, but I will tell you all about when I see you again....'' I just left Odense and it was probs one of the hardest things I have ever done. It was probably harder to leave that area then to leave home... Just standing there at the train station and having C, Na, Ni there to say goodbye and all the missionaries that were my family for the last 6 months. I just felt like I wanted to throw up.... It is way sad that I had to leave and say goodbye to life long friends, but welcome to missionary life. You get pretty good at saying goodbye. Anyways, on Saturday we waited for transfer calls when Elder Bennet and Smith came over so they could bike over to soccer with us, and they might have spilled the beans before the assistants called... But I am currently in the promised land of Juland!!! I am serving in Herning with is like the middle of Juland in the Midt Juland Gren and my companion is my friend from the MTC...... ELDER HOWE!!!! It will be a little weird to not be in a ward but I will try my best to get the members out with me teaching and finding! And I am so excited to work with Elder Howe! I am already tight with him and we will definately work way hard!!!! 

Wednesday Split- Last District Møde

Well my thoughts are pretty mixed right now but last wednesday was our last district meeting of the power house Fyn district. So our district was pretty much leading the mission and the last district meeting was pretty much a testimony meeting and it was way sad. We had a goal to teach 100 lessons last week and we beat it teaching 101!!! I am going to miss the District so much! They were all my brothers and sisters... The only one who i will see is my home boy Elder Bennet who is my Zone Lord now! So that will be fun! And to celebrate or i dont even know, just celebrate the success we had we had one last dinner at this Mexican restaurant on Saturday. Then back to Wednesday we had splits with odense 2 and Svenborg in our area and me and Elder Smith taught my man Ra. It was way sad that it was the last time! We also got two more friends and it was way weird that that was the last time i would be in Æbleparken to teach! Time is a crazy thing.  

Veritgo

So on Thursday, the man Elder yates drove me back to the specialist in Århus for my check up and he said the Vertigo was gone and that I would be back to normal in a month so i was way pumped to hear that! I worked pretty well without probs last week just in the morning kills me with dizziness a little bit but totally managable! 

Til Vi Ses til vi ses....

On Saturday I texted R that i was leaving and asked if i could come say goodbye and he was like of course. So i go over there and he makes an on the spot dinner for me and Elder Keller and we just talk with this wonderful inspiring man for an hour and just have a way open talk. It was way hard to leave him especially after he started reading Mormons Bog på spansk and said that he wanted to come to church! Then comes Sunday with a load of goodbyes! I had to bear my testimony in sacrement and the whole time C and Elder Keller were crying... I guess they were talking about all the memories we had and wow... I took pics with all the members of the ward that i was tight with... It was also said to say by to Ni and his bro S! That was so hard to say goodbye to them. I spendt so much time with them and got so close to them. And it was hard to say goodbye to VL! And all the CUV friends!!! And then last night at about 2000 we said goodbye to Se and St which was SO sad tooooooo! Then this morning like i said C, Na, and Ni were at the train station at 7 30 in the morning to say bye to me! #squadgoals I think we will have to pay Odense a visit in the future parents!!! BUT, there is stake confrence in Århus next Sunday so i will get to see everyone again then! So it is not the last goodbye!!! 

Chapter 3- Herning

And here is the third part of my mission. So Herning is a branch and just got combined with another branch called Silkeborg. The pace here is more chill unlike Copenhagen and a little slower than Odense. So that will be cool to experience. My apartment is WAY nice! I will have to take pics of it! I am just getting spoiled with nice apartments I guess! And my new district is Elder Neilsen, Pill, Howe, Beck, Jensen (my MTC comp) and a senior couple! 

So all the new converts and investigators are doing way well! And Elder Magleby is coming to be Elder Keller's comp and he will be DL. They are splitting up Fyn again to two districts because they brought sisters to the first ward. The Svenborg Elders told me that the package was there and so I will get it at Zone Training in two weeks! And that is awesome that dad went out to teach with the missionaries. I have a feeling when i get home i will be doing a lot of that! And shout out to Elder Holden!! My boy! And happy anniversary!! And you know i cant tolerate that chocolate cake at Magionos!!! Too much! Haha I loved your stripling warriors analogy!! It was way fire! Lets gooo! Washington is ranked ninth!! Represent! 

Well fam! I love you guys so much! Thanks for everything you do and have done for me! There is no way I could have made it this far without you guys and your prayers! I love you guys! And I love Elder Howe! Next Step Love Herning! And I love Odense! A piece of my heart is at that city forever! Well have a good week and a good time with the missionaries on Friday!!! 

Ældste Reed

Week #53 Odense

ONE YEAR DOWN!!!! Where did the time go! What a journey it has been! I am so thankful for this full year that i have had to serve the Lord and wouldn't trade it for anything! I have learned so much and became such a better person and am loving everyday of this journey!! 

V go!

So i went to work this week which was a little crazy! I got dizzy a couple times from biking far distances and the mornings have been the worst dizzy wise! But things are going better! We are on a come up! And haha i don't know that song but i home holding on i guess! The exercises are helping a little but i don't know! I hope my appointment on Thursday in Århus will be good and find out more what i can do! 

The Work

The work is going alright! We had almost ten member presents again this week which was could because we haven't been in our area for so long. We worked with R again and he is cruising through El Lebro de Mormon or however you spell it in Spanish! We read 1 Nephi 8 with him and explained it to him and he is just taking it all. I truly think this man will get baptized it will just take a lot of time. And we are planning a fiesta for this pregnant lady in the second ward and invited him and there are a couple more Spanish speakers in the wards here so that should be fire! We had N with us to help us teach and N is less active but always goes to our missionary activities! We finally asked well eLDER Keller asked why he is inactive and i guess he never got a testimony of the church and so we are going to help him read Mormons Bog. And the new converts are doing fire as usual. My boy F gave a short talk in sacrament meeting which was way sweet to see!  And we finally taught S the restoration. We had to teach her twice because the first time on Tuesday C helped us teach then we had a CUV activity and then we finished it on Thursday and N helped us teach! Haha! Funniest story of my mission. We were about to start and this ridiculously drunk bro who was a little older like sat with us in our circle, we taught in the park #thirdmanrule, and just joined and started talking about everything possible! Then i was like if this bro is talking to us, we are going to talk about Jesus so i asked him if he has ever read MB and then he goes off about how do we think we can come to Denmark and tell people about our american church and he was like no one will listen to you and then i was like, N just got baptized! And he was quiet real quick! Haha it was so classic! Also, me and Elder Keller found so more fire places to knock and i don't want to leave Odense because i feel like there is so much more work to be done here especially because i have been sick!  

Other Activities

Other notable activities of this week included eating legit Ghanaian food with a girl from Ghana! Taking a road trip with S and S to Kertiminde to get ice cream on p day! And trying to play soccer again even though i was wrecked after it! 

1 YEAR MARK!!!!

Man who would have thought i would have made it a year on my mission! So it was a pretty chill day! We weekly planned, had a lesson with N and then went with N, S, and S and ate out at this place called the burger which is this way fire burger place! Then we went to the church and i burned a shirt in the parking lot! I wanted to make it more epic but it was pretty cool to say the least! It is just so weird that i will be home in less than a year! 

That is awesome the homie Jace participated in the primary program that stud! And that is awesome that Jim is on the radio making it big time! And that is so awesome John Redford is the new patriarch! I know he will do such a good job. Oh man! I could feel the intensity when you guys described the byu game!! That sounds crazy! Down with Utah! And for transfers i have no idea what is going to happen. I have a feeling i am going up to Aalborg! On juland but who knows!!! And I showed that pic of me dancing to all the missionaries and they all died lol!!! So legendary! Well fam i love you guys so much!!!!!

Week #52 Odense

Hej familie!! Wow does time fly! I feel like it was a couple months ago that i was getting on that plane with Elder Osborne peacing out Moses Lake... #mindblown Time goes by when you are having fun aka doing the Lord's work ;) ANd i loved your camel pics you sent! So classic! 

Vertigo

So after my epic road trip with Elder Yates and just being serenade by his nuggets of knowledge, I got to Århus where i found out that i have Vertigo! #familygentics So I have been feeling better and i feel like i have more energy but i still get hit with these dizzy spells and get these headaches... So i got a call from Prez this morning and he asked how i was doing and he told me that i could go home home and get better or i could just tough it out so that is what i am going to do!! I still get dizzy and get headaches but going home is not an option so I am just going to stay and grind it out. So i am doing the exercises and sleeping with my head up  and they are helping a little.... so i am just going to grind this out! 

The Work 

So i wasn't feeling that hot on Saturday and the ward said we had to take the train and we decided it wasn't worth it to pay all that money to watch but N and F went so that was awesome!! And i am about go so hard this week to get this area rolling again because it hasn't been worked for three weeks. But we have like ten referrals to contact and so many investigators that we haven't visited in the past while to start to get teaching again. We are way close with S too! Her and her boyfriend came to church again which was so awesome to see! It was during sacrament Se's mom bore her testimony of eternal families which was absolutely perfect! And we contacted a referral, elder keller did on splits, and they are a family and have like eight boys and they all play soccer and the dad used to be a professional soccer player! #mygoldenfamily

That is awesome you guys are going to the temple so often! I still need all the prayers i can get but it was crazy yesterday i could really feel an extra push and more energy and i know it is from all your prayers!  And that makes me so happy that mom has a good class this year! The 7th ward is the best! Tell them all thanks for the extra prayers and shout out to the primary for the cards!

And to answer your question i would say this experience has taught me how much i miss missionary work! It is kind of like what Lehi says in the BOM with we have opposition in all things, we have the bad struggles in life so we can know the good and i can just appreciate the missionary work even more when i haven't been doing it because i can see how happy bearing my testimony makes me feel and how much i miss the grind even if it is way hard! I love you so much family and everyone praying for me! This week will be a grind week so it should be good!