Week #65 Herning

Fam!!! It is December! The time is flying, the weather is cold, and I am loving life! Also, transfers are on Friday and we find out on Wednesday and rumor is that I am out of Herning but we will see! 

Friends

Well another great week here in Herning as expected! We found five new friends, have almost ten progressing friends, had three people in church and have another friend on dåbs dato!!! So Monday we knocked on an investigator referal and found B. He let us right in and B is some organist for the free church. He loves the Bible and we gave him a short Joseph Smith lesson. The Elders taught him when I was in Fredericia for a leadership meeting and i guess he wont read the Book of Mormon at all... 2 Nefi 29 people!!! Then we had friends from Tuesday which I will talk about during splits with ELders Pihl and McDougall. Then Wednesday after FHE we stopped by our Hungarian friends and shared them the Christmas initiatve and agreed with V the boyfriend to start teaching him Enlgish and the lessons so we have an appointment on Wednesday which will be sick! ANd he came to church on Sunday! Then we taught A which was way FIRE as usually! We talked about the Word of Wisdom and she already knew she had to live it and she read 1 NEfi 8 and she understood everything! SHe came to church on Sunday and loved it!!!! All the members love her and she participated in class which was awesome!!! Then we taught P from Poland who is such a BRO! Haha he has like traveled the world and loves music! He read a couple pages from The Book of Mormon and is willing to learn more so that is sweet! 

Splits with Hammerum

So I went with Elder Pihl who has only been out like three transfers! He is a stud! We started the day watching the Joseph Smith movie with S! The spirit was so flipping strong no one could deny it. He knows it is all true he just doesnt want to repent and change... SO befalinger means commandments and anbefalinger means recommendations and he said that commandments are recommendations from God and i told him it isnt a reccomendation that we shouldnt kill other people... and then he like switched the topic to sports and i was like well what if there wasnt any rules in sports.. and he was like it would be caos! And i was like exactly! We need commandments bro! haha so that was good. Then we found E who is an old investigator.. to be honest, it was a way awkward lesson but she said the Book of Mormon is true! So there is a good start to work from. Then we knocked on Hs door and he let us in and we talked and got to know him. He has read the bible like 30 times, he has witnessed miracles, and just has a way solid faith in Christ. We talked about the Restoration and he said Jesus said that no other prophets are coming after him in the Bible and i am like show me..he couldnt... #bythefruitsweshallknowthem The other Elders found two new friends. M which is a young girl from the middle east and K who was an old investigator who the knocked into and then i taught him on Thursday. He has had a rough past but has found Christ and has an amazing faith in him. At first he said he wouldnt read the Book of Mormon again but after we taught him and bore testimony he opened up started crying and he said he will give it on last attempt! Lets go!! Then they taught family Burma and family COngo and via google translate they got the mom on baptismal date! December 17th is the date! I think we have to push it back a little though because Prez is in the works of getting us an interpreter. FIRE!! 

Being alone for 4 hours......

So we had leadership meeting in Fredericia so i had to travel there and back which took was like 4 hours there and back. It was a way good meeting and we learned that the future of the mission is going to need to rely on the leaders. So that was fun to see all the other missionaries also! And then i got to chill with Elder Olson who is a homie for like two hours because we were travling by ourselves to our areas after so that was chill too! 

Blitz Splits in Randers

So we had splits with the Zone Lords Elder Bennet and Dibble and they had a Blitz splits in Randers with their district so we went and helped! Randers is a city FULL of hills which would definately be a stuggle haha! I knocked for the first part with the main Elder Bennet! The only thing that came out of that was talking to a Greenlandic lady for like 25 minutes and she was just a question mark... haha! Then I went with the homie Elder Perkins and knocked houses for a little and gave out of Mormons Bog. So yea it was cool to be with a whole bunch of missionaries again! Then after the splits we went back to Århus and me and Elder Bennet finished splits! It is crazy to think about because we were on splits together on a Blitz in Seden on Fyn like 6 months ago and it felt like last transfer!! Time just flys! But anyways we had 90 minutes to knock and i was like we only got time for two doors and guess what... we only knocked two doors lol! The first was a younger lady who we taught the Restoration and gave a Mormons Bog. And then the next door was way cool, so i said God Aften and then coughed, then next thing you know i am speaking English adn this young girl speaks perfect English back and i guess she was from the Czech Republic! We taught her the Restoration and she became a new friends as well! WORK! haha! I love being a missionary! :)

Oh man there are so many transfer skeems i dont know what to rely on.. all i know is that office elders accidentally leaked that i was going to transfer so that was pretty interesting... We think 3 Zone Leaders are going down and a whole lot more guesses! So the light the world inititive is ight but I am mainly sticking with the Restoration so yea ;) And mom can just talk about all of my friends how i love life, and how we are going to baptize a lady from the Congo! Maybe that I am teaching people from the Middle East, Albaian, Poland, Romania, Burma, Congo, Hungary, Scotland, Australia, and Tamil ;) 

Shoot i will be skyping soon! That will be crazy! I am way pumped! And we were in pretty much all day yesterday with weekly planning and church and dinner at the Forslunds so I didnt get to see it.. And no we didn't get to watch the Christmas devo yet.. it was on at like 2 in the morning here and i am not apostate ;) Lets goo! Washington better take it! 

Well I might be starting chapter 4 of this mission on Friday... We will see but I have learned from Herning, wherever I get sent there will be people ready to hear the GOOD NEWS!! Love you guys!!!! 

                                                     Alex's trainer is going home!

Week #64-Herning

Glædelig Thanksgiving!!! Danish doesnt really have a word for Thanksgiving so we just use English! ;) But this week was yet another FIRE week here in Herning!!! 

Friends

So we found five more friends this week!!! It is just nice that we got to be able to find and knock on some doors again! Some friends that we have!! Lars.. we knocked on his door and tought him a door step Restoration lesson which was way fire and we made an appoitment for Friday. He has read like the Koran and the Bible and a lot of religous books. By Friday he read a fourth of the Book of Mormon, and then he dropped us all of a sudden... I was totally not ready for that moment because i never really have gotten dropped on the spot like that so something to learn there for sure. So we had a breakthrough with a couple investigators. So with our lesson with A we were reading Mosiah 18 and we asked her what she needs to do after reading it. She is like, I need to be baptized... There was just a sweet moment of silence in the room and we are all smiling and the spirit was so strong. The only thing holding her back is the Word of Wisdom. She knows everything is true and loves the spirit and so she will be baptized if she can stop smoking and drinking coffee!! Another awesome moment with another friend was with R. HE is the type that needs proof and evidence before he belives in God but he said his first every prayer in his life last week. After he said the prayer, Elder Halling and I know he felt something because the spirit was definately there and he started opening up to us telling us his family problems and his problems with his dad and he prayed to God for help with his family problems with his dad. It was wonderful! Our families from Burma and the Congo are still progressing but we still need a translator if we are going to make further progress. Another cool story was that we stopped by a potential friend and she said she was busy again and I was like, Oh come on, it will just take like 5 minutes to share our message and she let us right in! Haha I was pretty stunned but it was awesome and her and her husband became new investigators and they are from Romania so we are just teaching so many people from different lands here it is awesome! :) We taught I again on Saturday and she showed us a scripture in Exodus 32 that God cant appear to a living man. We showed her that Stephen and Jacob have seen God as well and wrecked that worry ;) Man i just love knocking doors so much haha! The Lord has definatly blessed me over my mission to use personality and know how to teach people real quick it is awesome!!!!

Splits

SO i probs had one of the funnest splits I have ever had on my mission with Elders Beck and Jeppson!! So me and Elder Beck, who was also trained in Ballerup ;), were together and we wrecked shop! So we knocked in the morning because i skeemed that if people are home in the morning then we can teach them in the morning and make those hours productive!! Our first door we knocked on became two new friends!! At first the lady said she knew who we were and started going off how we all get married to each other in our temple in Utah... haha i honestly never heard that one before and then we got let in and taught her and her 25 year old son the Restoration!! Then we raked leaves for a couple of hours for a member, got stuck in a hygge pit, or a lady who is inactive who just talked for hours and then we got out of there and had like thirty minutes to knock. So the one door that opened called us the nicest religous people he has ever met and took a Book of Mormon and said we could come back in a couple weeks! Then because of our crazy schedule, we took lunch and dinner at 7 and 8 so we just played this board game called Munchkin like the whole night it was so fun!  

Thanksgiving 

So on Thursday we went up to Århus for a ZOne Training on the new Christmas initiative and how we are going to wreck winter! SO that was sweet to see the squad too then we taught family Burma and then had Thanksgiving dinner at the FOrslunds which was sooo fun!!! They are awesome!! The food was way clutch too ;) ANd mom get this, i washed the dishes after so be jealous haha!! 

So i am not sick anymore but Elder Halling got the sickness so we are just going off from being sick to not being sick which is not fun... And V from Hungary came to church this week!! So i have no ideas what will go down for transfers... No idea which is pretty scary.. I totally want to stay in Herning though! And Goddie is going to Utah State! That is awesome you guys got to eat with the fam in Utah! Sounds so fun! And i am sooo jealous! I want to see the temple square christmas lights but Herning is better lets be honest ;).. The whole city was to the gå gade for the first advent day, every sunday til Christmas for the next month, and like held hands and danced and sung around the Christmas tree. We were biking home and i saw it and i was like Elder Halling we got to check it out! It was so sick to see the Danes and how much they love Christmas!! It was so hyggeligt!! And that is awesome Nick got to baptize you guys!  Man so much college talk! Oh you guys should look up some college info for me and see if it is time soon to apply :) 

Start the Christmas initiative and Light up the World!! I love you guys!!!!

Week #63-Herning

Shout out to our American fam in the branch for hooking it up with a Thanksgiving dinner so dont worry fam, I will get a legit Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday! But in any case, this week was pretty crazy with being sick to getting kidnapped by our African Fam!! Just Wait!! 

Light Work!!

So we ended the week with 11 progressing friends which is fire!! Sad news though.. our friend La has been dropped. So on Wednesday after FHE, he texts us and says he has no desire to see us again... And we were like what did we do... So we text the ward mission leader who was tight with La, and asked him if we offended him and then he just raged lol!! It was bad... La has been getting money from the branch for food and he bought an i phone with it and he wanted us to buy him a tablet, he would call members all hours in the day including at 12 at night just so they can talk with him.. And I guess he got pepper sprayed for inviting someone for coffee. The wards mission leader says no normal person gets pepper sprayed for inviting someone for coffee... And his door had PERVERT sprayed on to it when we stopped by last... So yea it wasnt good... Then he told the mission leader that he would never pay tithing to the church that he would pay tithing to himself and that he doesnt need one church.... SO yea, oh and it gets better. He texts us if we could visit him again and called us his dear friends and then we found out he wanted help moving.... SO kort sagte, DROPPED. But in brighter news the work is still fire! So we have our family from the Congo who came to church again and the branch absolute swarmed them! It was great! ALso our family from Burma is progressing too. THey read the Plan of Salvation pamphlet in Burmese and had a whole bunch of questions and they are loving what they are hearing and so we invited them to pray over what we have talked about because we dont have a Book of MOrmon in their language for them to read. THen we have A who is probably going to be on date this week! She is so postive she has been holding commitments and prayed for us last time! :) R and L are progressing also! They finally read and the next step is to get them to pray so i am excited to see how that goes. We also have S who said to us that MOrmons Bog is true and that Joseph Smith is a true prophet so a dåbs dato could be coming soon! And haha i cant remember everyone else we have but we have a Polish family we found who are soooo down to have us over again and a lady from India who read the POS pamphlet we gave her and wants to hear more! So the work is still fire her in Herning!!!!

 Sick

So i dont know what i am sick with but this week i have been SOOO tired! I slept in and took a lot of naps but i am soo tired i dont know what is up... I stayed in all Saturday and stayed with Elder Pihl on Sunday because he was sick too so the plague has come back.....

Random Story which is funny to missionaries

So we always talk as missionaries that we are hear to affect peoples lives... Well haha the neighbor of the polish fam in the opgang who we knocked like two weeks ago and they said no put up a sign that said the if you come from a faith or denomination that you are highly unwelcome! Haha it was so funny that they put that up after we knocked on their door so i took a pic of it ;) 

District Meeting was way chill this week we talked about commitments and how we can get more friends progressing. And the darkness has come again!! And haha i started eating cereal after La said we were pressing too hard with trying to cut him on smoking... Åh! I miss Reid Dog and Jace!!!! And NIck and Katelynn went on a double date lets go that is so clutch lol! Lets be honest though, they are just waiting until i get back so i can be there for their weddings! ;) And Thanksgiving dinner at Grandmas and Grandpas sounds so hyggeligt!!!! And lets gooo! Nick working in the temple is awesome! Tell that goon to email me ;) That is lit that Zach is captain and that they are going to Arizona! Still cant beat Alsaka though ;) 

I love you family! Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!

Week #62-Herning

Miracles baby!!!! That would definatley be the theme of this week and maybe even a little soccer golf.... Stay tuned!!!!

Venner

Well first off we have nine friends who are progressing which is nuts!!!! And we had a party at church today with five friends coming to church!! So lets start with La. So we finally met with him again and we moved his date back til January 7th as well because he needs a little more time to stop smoking so we will see what will happenes. He said we were being a little pressy so we just foucesed on his love which is Jesus and read 3 nefi 11 with him and watched a whole bunch of Bible vidoes. We taught J who has been investigating for a long time. He is from Colubia and has abused missionaries time with service and they pretty much have built his house. WE taught him the Restoration with the old mission leader who is inactive and it went way well. We gave him another Mormons Bog because he gave his last one to a second hand store and asked the classic baptism question and he said yes if he found out it was true! Then we have the best family ever Ra and Li!! They are so sick! We ate ribs and pulled pork with them and had a family night with them. We taught them the Plan of Salvation and they asked way fire questions like how many spirits are there in total and if they died right now what kingdom would they go to. The good news is is that Ra said that our church is his favorite and makes the most sense out of all the other ones so that is way sick! And then after that hahaha we watched a lot of the Book of Mormon Musical sangs with them because Ra LOVES them and listens to them all the time and we explained to him the controversial statements they said and then showed them the Hello missionary version which is way weird to watch that with an investigator but so sick at the same time how tight we are with them. Then we met with them again on Saturday and and had scones and watched a mormon message and taught about prayer and commited them to read the Book of Mormon together! A!! SO we had a way good lesson on 3 nefi 11 with her on Wednesday! She loved it all and said our religion made the most sense as well and she asked great questions. THen i tried setting her on date and she is just like that is a big question i need some time to think about it... That would mean i would have to change my life right... She is getting it and so that is way good news! Then we taught the Burma fam and they finally held a commitment!! SHe was like i think my church is the right one and so we talk about authority and priesthood and the great apastasy. They invited us to their church which is the same time as out church but there is like 200 plus burmese people that go and it would be so dope to see and try to get more investigators!! And PRez is working on finding us a translator right now! On Sunday we taught C who is the Dansk FOlke Kirke organist at the library. And I am about to rage right here. He didnt like 2 nefi 2 at all! He called Jesus Christs life a fiasco and he hated the plan of salvation and asked why would i pray to know if the Book of Mormon is true because i dont want it to be.... Haha We dropped him like its hot!

Miracle Time!!!

Well Elder Halling and I experienced an awesome miracle over the weekend. So on Friday we stopped by like 15 potentials who all live in the same apartment complex and none of them were home. Then as we walked to our bikes the mother of the family from the Congo yelled down from the 3 sal and told us to come. We were way confused because our appointment with them was on Saturday. But we went up anyways and we did a little service project for them and the mom told us, through the kids, that she wanted to come to church even though she couldnt speak Danish or English. THen that night at correlation meeting we were talking about them and Elder McDougal was like wait, we have an inactive member who can speak Swahili, the same language the family can speak!!!!!!! We pretty much all just freaked out and then we called her and she was like we will see maybe.... Then on Saturday we told the family that a member in the branch speaks Swahili and so the two kids decide to come to. Then Saturday night we call the inactive member and she agreed to come and take this into account that she hasnt been to church in like 6 years! And they all came on Sunday and they loved each other and had a great time!!!! Reactivation and family baptism at the same time... :) And we got a new investigator, M. He is Swedish and met his wife at a Bible camp so you could say he is a little religious! Haha and I was sick this week so we didnt get to meet with her but we will this week! I talked with the main ELder Bennet last night and we were talking how i love Herning so much and that is because we are doing straight real missionary work all the time and it is so satisfying and the time is just flying by soooo fast!

Miracles and Soccer Golf

So district meeting was way fire on Thursday! We talked all about Miracles and first we watched a couple of Christs miracles he performed in the scriptures. Then we all went one round and shared a miracle we have experienced on our missions. The spirit was so strong it was awesome! Then we talked about how miracles wont happen unless we have the faith to make it happen. Then we went another round of miracle stories and it was so awesome! Look of Ether 12 12 through 22. It is some bars from Moroni! After that we had a District Activity! First we ate some way fire burgers then we played soccer golf!! It was so sick! At first we were way skeptical because it was in the middle of no where and we were way confused because there was no worker and there was just a box that said to drop 100 krones in it.... SO we did and played and it was so fun! I got a hole in one on my first kick which was way clutch! haha! Then we played some three on three to end it! The stud Elder Jeppson won the whole thing by one kick, i got second, and elder McDougal got third! It was a way fire District Activity! 

Snow has officially hit Denmark!!! Hood go crazy!! I dont think i know that family but that is legit that they got ceiled together! Haha a Halloween themed wedding would be so sick!! Haha i dont know what you talking about.... Just Kidding! TRUMP! hahahahhahaha! So Elder HAlling was sick on Wednesday and was sleeping in and i looked through the neighbors window and i saw that Trump won and i was like what...... Haha then i texted and called a whole bunch of missionaries i was tight with and we all freaked out! It was crazy! And i felt cool because i told everyone that trump won before the aps texted it out. But with the work, only a couple investigators talked about it, it wasnt too big of a distraction. Well i want to end this thing with a quote i shared in District Meeting. You can live the impossible dream or you can live the excuse. It is all up to you.

Make some miracles happen this week. I love you guys! 

Week #61-Herning

It is officially cold here in Denmark!!! I think fall lasted like two weeks and now it is time to embrace winter! Shout out to being in a bike area haha but all of our investigators will help me survive!

Venner

La is well i just tell you our week with him. On Monday we had to cut our p day 3 hours short and not eat lunch or dinner to help him buy furniture with a member for his apartment. Then we have been teaching him the commandments and everything was going perfect. we went through the baptismal interview questions and he passed everything except he still smoked. ON Wednesday we bought him 4 liters of grape fruit juice so whenever he drank and then smoke it would taste horrible. Then the plan was to cut him on cigarette on Saturday but on Friday he freaked out and said he couldn't do it and said we have been to pressing and that he doesn't want to meet till Sunday... We haven't been in contact with him since but we are going to stop by him today and give him a blessing and hope for a miracle!! S is doing way well. We got there to his house on Monday and he wanted to bowl with us on his x box because missionaries in the past have done it with him... lol but the Forslunds were with us and the whole idea got shot and burned down lol! We threw down about Joseph smith and that Jesus Christ only had one church when he performed his earthly ministry.  The kicker is Elder Halling had a hole in his sock and S darned his sock lol! He tried to have me do it and i was like down with that! Haha!  Then he gave us all yellow ugly socks haha! SO clutch! And i decided we are all wearing them to District Meeting and i have a good pic to go with it lol! BREAKING NEWS! La just called and we are meeting with him today at 3 so i am way pumped!!!!!! LETS GO!!! Haha! Anyways R og L are doing way well. We stopped by them on Tuesday right when they were about to eat and invited us right in to dinner. WE had great conversations about missionary life and how they saw the Book of Mormon Musical... lol! We are eating with them at 1800 tonight and they are making us ribs and it will be sick! We are going to throw down the plan of salvation so i am pumped! A is doing way well. We taught her with the Forslunds and had a little all over the place plan of salvation lesson but she said is she finds out it is true she will be dunked! Dåbs dato next time! We stopped by the Hungarian squad and gave them a quick spiritual thought and the skeem is to start teaching them the restoration soon! The Burma family is doing great as always. WE read 1 nefi 1 with them because they cant read by themselves and understand it. We had to explain abomination and a pillar of fire to them in Danish which was way fun haha! Congo family loves us! THey made us food yesterday and clapped after Elder Halling prayed for them! I is the Scottish lady who has investigated forever. And she is on Bastipimal date!!!! We read 3 nefi 11 with her and she was saying how beautiful it was and then i asked the classic if you find out it is true would you be baptized... She starts ranting how we always ask her this question and i was like you know what in two months is the 7th of january and you have two months to find out if it is true and when you do you will be baptized on that day and she was like fine that sounds good!!! LETS GO!! And after that a little miracle story. SO we left the banke bog so at home so we decided to knock a new complex. Me and Elder Halling say a prayer and he gets 7 and i get 19 in our heads. So we knock 7 and get a potential. Then we knock 19 and the first door is a man from Poland who lost his faith and doesn't like these corrupted churches and BAMB apostasy and Restoration taught and our message is perfect for him!!! I love missionary work! 

District Meeting

SO District Meeting was way chill! Me Elder Halling and the Forslunds rocked our yellow socks and we had a fire meeting about overcoming our fears and being prepared. And one thing i think needs to be a BIGGER focus in the mission is baptismal invites because we dropped that key indicator 6 months ago and the mission has been way low on dåbs datoer. So we made a goal of every sit down lesson we have we will invite them to be baptized! 

Århus

On Saturday we went up to Århus to have a leadership meeting with Elders Bennet and Dibble and the other District Leaders. We made a goal to get 10 people on date by the end of the transfer as a zone.... Herning is planning on getting four on date by the end of next week ;) Then we had some extra p day time so we went to the mall and explored and played foseball with the ZLs and the mall is already decked out with Christmas decos!! 

So the new converts in ODense are doing okay i heard it is a battle for all of them but i know they can hold on for sure! They all want to go on missions still so i am pumped for that. DANES DONT EAT FISH!!! Haha that is the biggest myth ever told here! And i would love to get a book that i can just look through with pics! ANd DOWN with the man bun!! It is all about the Euro cut ;) Haha I love you guys!!!!

Week #60-Herning

Jamen... menja...! Hvad så familie og venner! So i am still chilling in the promised land of Herning no worries! And our District is stacked!! We got ELder McDoughall who was the AP and ELder Jeppsen who was ZL in the District so we are going to go make miracles happen for sure here in Vest Jylland! Oh and not to brag but i reached the highest point of Denmark on Friday so be jealous ;)

Friends

Well we found 5 more new friends this week so that puts at almost 30 for the whole transfer #downwiththehaters ;) Ill go way quick with the update... L is doing great! He is at 10 cigarettes and i gave up cereal so i can support him through his addiction #itwillbesoooohard The ward is taking him right up so he is doing great! S is doing ight. We asked him if he found out if Mormons Bog is true would he be dunked and he said no because he wants to party at church and so i had to explain the reason why we go to church #nadveren A is doing way solid. Read 2 nefi 2 with her talked about agency and not judging others. She told me i was going to get married way young so that was cool lol. We got Lo who is a way funny story lol! SO we knocked on her door like two weeks ago and taught her the restoration which was way well but a little awkward because we thought she was 20 or 19. She wouldn't take a Mormons Bog but said we could come back. Last week we talked to Elder Peel and Nielsen for like 45 minutes how we should approach her door because it was so awkward last time haha and so we went for it and she wasn't home!! haha so then on Wednesday i think, we just got teach A with the Forslunds and we were standing outside and Lo walks past us and we just awkwardly smiled and waved haha. (Side note Porsvænget is just like æbleparken we have like 10 investigators out there) SO we stop by and teach her the whole restoration and she still wouldn't take a Mormons Bog but said we could come back!!! But we found out she is like 26 ish so we are safe! We taught Li on her doorstep while we were soaked from the rain while we could feel the heat coming from her house... #thirdmanrule the struggle is so real. But she loved the restoration and our thoughts on families and she has been to temple square before! We taught J og I L which was ight. We haven't taught them for a month but we got in and talked about baptism and the word of wisdom. We taught another friend from the middle east who says that our religions are way close. We taught the Burmese fam and they are loving it. The dad busted out a scripture and i thought he was going to bash from the bible but it was about the mustard seed and growing your faith and we were like that is exactly what our faith is going to do for you guys. We also had Ungarsk Aften or Hungarian Night where our Hungarian friends gave the branch some info on Hungary and we learned a little Hungarian. It is way hard! Shout out to Danish! That is a short explanation of our friends

Zone Conference 

Elder Paul V Johnson came and gave us fire! HE had a way good NFL analogy that he wanted to play in the NFL but he wasn't willing to do anything to get there just like our investigators who aren't willing to hold commitments. Changed my mission. I am going to go way hard at making sure these friends hold commitments. 

Ward Conference.... 

We had ward conference and like 60 people showed up all over the stake! I got to see a member from Odense which was way sweet! We had a potluck after and i sat with our Hungarian friends and got an appoitment with them because our cookies were soo good last time! Lets go! And I talked a lot with my American friends too! 

Himmelbjerg

I went on splits with Elder Nielsen on Friday and then we drove to Silkeborg to go to the highest point of Denmark! It is so sick! Just enjoy the pics! 

Halloween isn't really big here but some investigators said we could come trick or treat! Down with fruits and veggies! That takes away the meaning of Halloween! Oh and speaking of primary program i got their letters finally and they were awesome! And for Christmas if you could send me some more pics like last time that would be awesome! And idk i will think about it. And we make the cookies together and they got compared to Subways chips! 

Quick last story! Me and Elder Halling were weekly planning when Elder Peel and Nielson come in because their aftale burned them so they wanted to say hi and use the bathroom. Well our naboers where blasting music so elder peel waves to them through the window and they yell Father Peel!! Where is Brotha Andrew and Elder Nielsen sticks his head out! They started freaking out and i guess they balled with this bro once or something. Then me and elder halling stick our heads out the window and we talk to our neighbors just smoking and drinking a beer about the creation to Mormons having a bunch of wives to the spaghetti monster to Joseph smith. haha it was way sick and they asked us if we don't drink, have sex, or smoke how could we have fun in life and while they were saying that, this girl who was wasted and shaking comes and looks at us and just looks awful. How could that be fun... Alma said it best, Wickedness was never happiness!

Week # 59 Herning

Herning has taken off! I repeat Herning has taken off!!! This area is completely on fire and it is insane!! And we got a baptism coming up in a month!!!! Lets go!!! And all the insanity happened on the year in the land mark!!! 

Work

Well this is all i need to talk about this week because that is all that has happened!!! Well our friend L is on dåbs dato for the 19th of November!! We taught him a bunch of times this week which includes reading alma 7 with him, anden nefi 31 and then we invited him to baptism and he accepted! So he has been baptized in the Pinse Kirke about a year ago and me and ELder Halling had the best build up ever of authority and Joseph Smith receiving it and explaining that only our church has it! And it wasn't too pushy and didn't offend him and was definitely guided by God :) The only prob is he is addicted to smoking tobacco but after teaching the W of W he knew he needed to stop or else he would die and has been making progress everyday!!! HE also wants to meet everyday so we can encourage him and be there so he doesn't smoke! We also watched the Joseph Smith Prophet of the Restoration with him last night which went way well even though he fell asleep at the end ;) We also found four new friends this week which bumps the total to 23 for the transfer #blessed We taught our friend S last Monday on the Restoration and are meeting with him today and the plan is to put him on dåbs dato too!! We taught J who is a 72 year old average believing Danish lady! We brought a member to her and read 3 Nephi 11 and she loved it but she is going to Thailand so we wont see her until December. We taught a man from the middle east, don't know his name yet, on the book of Mormon. We brought a copy in Arabic and taught him through that because he speaks little Danish but he is down to meet again and talk about it! We taught I with the Forslunds for an awesome throw down lesson on Joseph smith! She has had the same problem with the church for 40 years and that has been Joseph smith! She was like Joseph smith cant have seen God because no one has... Jamen i was prepared and showed her like 5 scriptures which say that they saw God and Christ or they walked with God or saw him face to face. Totally destroyed that prob and then she was like the typically revelation you cant add words and right as she said revelation i opened up to the fifth book of Moses. ;) #scriptureknowlegeforthewin So she will read and pray and the skeem is to get her on baptismal date the next lesson. The Burma fam is doing way fire! We taught all six of them on Thursday!! They loved the plan of Salvation and said it was like their churches! #progress And then we chilled and got to know them.WE taught R og L yesterday on the fam proclamation to the world and they loved it and then we talked about temples and they were amazed how beautiful they were! L is from Australia so we showed her the five temples there. We then had the usual discussion on our stand with homosexual relationships and handle it pretty well. We also taught our boy C who is the 25 year old organ player for the Free Church! We had a way good discussion about the Book of Mormon and he told us how he has found his faith. He was the bro who said he would convert us when we stopped by because his faith was better and he said that all he has to do is believe in Christ and that is enough #Jakobsbreve317 But he is way down to read and has felt the warm feeling of the spirit before so something could happen there! We got in contact with the most positive investigators for Elder Howe and Shuppy and could get them both on date this week too! 

Well that is a little bit about the FIRE here in Herning! The work is seriously better then Odense..... wow! #odenseisstillmyfavoritecityindenmark We taught 17 lessons this week and 8 of them were with a member present ;) And we are planning on getting over ten progressing friends next week! 

New Testimony.......

Okay i just wanted to give a shout out to all the sister missionaries out there because making cookies for people works miracles!!! We got like three appointments from cookie stop bys! I got a testimony in cookies!!!!!

Et år i landet

Jamen one year in the land everyone! SKive happened to be there so me Elder Halling and Jensen got to take dinner together and celebrate our year in the land mark! 

Well i guess they didn't need us for the primary program after all..... Oh well i got attacked after it by three little American kids after it so no complaints! Oh and there are more English speakers then danish speakers in the branch!!!!!! HAHA i realized that yesterday! We have 15 ish people from Austailia or USA! Crazy! And nooooo... we cant find anyone to play sports with but i will survive ;) Health wise i am good! Haha i love the choir directory! Haha yes! Nd i haven't seen that statue in Denmark.... Oh well i will look for it if i ever get banished to Sjælland again ;) Bo isn't that common... we have a 25 year old friend named Bo though... Lets go! Washington and Sea-hawks represent! And my bike is good now! Haha that was the worst! The back tire kept on getting flat and we kept on fixing the whole but then on Tuesday the back tire completely exploded! haha it was nuts and my tire ripped so i got a new one! But it is good for now! And the Forslunds were talking about these clowns!! Crazy! And funny story about McDonald... me and elder halling were there for dinner on Saturday and the worker asked where my parents were and we were like..... ehm..... they are not with this time haha they thought the Forslunds were our parents! Søster Forlslund was way flattered because she would be our grandmas age! haha good stuff! Well transfers this week and i heard pres is skeeming up crazy things so we will see what happens! And Elder Paul V Johnson is coming on Thursday so it should be good!!! Love ya!