Week #80 Slagelse

Jamen Davs familie! This was a pretty dang good week here in Slagelse! Way busy with Zone Training, splits, and chilling in a lotus!! Stay tuned! ;)

Friends

So the work here is on FIRE!! We put I on baptismal date on Tuesday for the 15th of April! SO we are way stoked for that. She knows the Book of Mormon is true and that Jospeh Smith is a prophet of God and that the Plan of Salvation is true! The only thing holding her back is that she has been baptized, confirmed, married and has worked in the Danish People Church for 80 years and she doesn't want to switch churches even though she knows that our church is true.. SO we got to be pretty bold and ask her her priorities.. if it is either her pride or salvation! We will see what goes down. We taught I and L at the church on Tuesday. They were the ladies that invited Elder Erickson and I over to Christmas dinner out of now where a couple months back.. Anywho we finally got to meet up with them and we taught them the Restoration and it went ight. The spirit was definatley there but they just wanted to be taught for a social reason if that makes any sense. Anyways they didn't take a Book of Mormon but they did say that they will come to church this Sunday and we agreed that we would go to their church as well. SO we are going to the Holy Ghost church and seeing some woman priest do something... It should be interesting haha! Then we found a couple friends knocking in Næstved so that was pretty dope! Using the Book of Mormon and the Joseph Smith story is so easy haha! Everytime ELder Dibble and I have gone out finding we have always found someone! We taught S and N who are from Iraq and they are Christain. They looked up some jank anti Mormon stuff and said our churches were complety different and then we explained that Jospeh smith is not Jesus Christ to us and we don't worship the devil... lol the anti stuff people tell us is a joke! And they gave the Book of Mormon to a priest of theirs and they want us to talk about it with him and see what goes down! So that should be interresting! Thursday was pretty nuts because I had to make like 5 pizzas for a little party this inactive couple was throwing so we went hard and made pizzas! Elder Reed's hidden talent!! And we taught K who has a girlfriend in Thailand.. I always leave his house laughing haha it is just a big question mark every time we teach him but he does believe in Christ and God so that is a start! We had splits on Friday with Elders Thurman and Jeppson in Holbæk and it was so chill. Elder Thurman goes home this transfer and is sooo funny haha! I had the funnest knocking sesh ever with the bro. Just to paint a pic for you guys a pic we knocked on a door and a 90 year old Danish lady answered and then he says hello how are you doing in japanese! haha! But we ended up getting a new friend named S who is pretty chill and has a bunch of tats! Then we ate at Frank M an American in the ward who is way dope! HE invited us over for sandwhiches with the sisters and had a great American time! Then Frank showed us his lotus car which is way nice and we had a little pic sesh! We played soccer on Saturday which was way fun! And then Elder Bennet called me and told me that a bro that we know from Herning is in a Epilepsy hosptial in Dianalund and he wants visits from missionaries so we go to visit him and i felt like i was in an insane asylum! There was no workers to be seen and there was so many doors that kept on shutting and when we got to M's room his name wasnt on the white board so we went through a maze trying to find a doctor to ask where our bro is and it turns out he dipped! So what ever that means?? We had M in church who lives with adopted parents and he is 14. He isnt baptized and in Priesthood he was like we can show faith in Christ if we get baptized! And then he was talking to me a lot and he never has so we are going to stop by him this week and see what is up with him!! So the work is going great here in Slagelse!!!!!

Zone Training

So on Wednesday we had zone training in Roskilde! We brought our home boy Will I Am! We taught on how we can use the new key indicators to achieve our zone goal! SO we gave a training on how we can give out Book of Mormons to get new friends, how to set bros on date, and focused on church and what to do with our friends after they said yes to baptism! Then the second half of it was conversion stories and we had William bare his testimony which was way FIRE!!! Then we taught how we can share our conversion story with people on the street and with our investigators! It was pretty good to say the least!! 

And my health has been good! I was just way tired because of all the things going on but i am doing good now!! And I never took extra time to sleep! SO yea we are going to the tempel on Friday and it is Elder Ericksons b day so he is taking us out to pizza after which will be way fun!! And all the Danish children just have technoligy and are just around their parents who smoke and drink all the time so I think it is pretty sad how the kids are raised.... And that bro on the train was definatley on drugs haha! And the laugh is spreading in the mission!! lolzz!That would sick to face time mom all the time when I am at school! ;) I am in!! And that was an awesome power point! IT is cool to see the cultural differences between Denmark and Tahitti! And no way Nick is serious with a girl! SHow me pics please!!! No way Duke is out they always lose... Gonzaga for the win!! Love you guys!! You are the best!!!! 

Week #79 Slagelse

AYE FAM!!! Happy Monday!! Well first week down in Slagelse with Elder Dibble and it has been the most happy and busy week ever!! Stay tuned!! 

Friends

Elder Dibble and I are so busy we could only manage to squeeze in one hour of knocking this week but in that one our we found 2 WAY positive families that I will dive into in a little bit! K ate with us again last Monday. It was pretty chill. She is progressing way slow and not really wanting to give up smoking so yea.. Then Tuesday was a crazy day! We taught A in Korsør who hasn't been too positive but we taught her the gospel of Jesus Christ and she actually wanted to change so we commited her to pray to God for help and to see if he loves her! Then we taught I and tried inviting her to baptism and she kept brushing it off so we recommited to have her pray if she should be baptized. Then that same day we went down to Næstved with J who just got his mission call to the Alpine German speaking mission and taught three lessons. One was to a lady from the Ivory Coast and we were going to teach her about the Plan of Salvation but she ended up teaching us about opposition in all things and happiness and it was way good and we are getting her to read Mormons Bog. Then we taught K and in the middle of us talking about how our baptism is different then any other baptism her three teenage daughters came smoking and sat around us and it was way jank haha! But no worries I gooned them way hard and taught them the word clutch in english. Then Wednesday we found the most postive family ever!! They moved to Denmark from Iraq like 20 plus years ago and they drive to church every Sunday to Copenhagen from Næstved so Slagelse is way easier and closer ;) Then on Thursday we were about to put our old bro named P on dåbs dato but as we knocked on his door some doctor told us he has gone further... SO P died and then I texted Elder Erickson that he died and at that moment he was in District meeting up North and the question was what are some disappointing times or depressing times on a mission and he said when your investigator dies.... what timing!! Anyways we finally got to see W again!! He is doing was solid! We went to get kebabs with him on Saturday and we are going to the tempel with him in two Fridays so we are way stoked for that!!! We also found a bro who is half brasilien and half Danish and he has a big family! We have an appoitment with him next Saturday so we are way stoked for that! And S a less active member is hooking it up with the referrals and I am making pizza for like 6 of her friends on Thursday! #prayforelderreed haha It will be dope! Good things are happening here in Slagelse! 

KBH

Well it is that time of the transfer for MLC and leadership training! So we went to Copenhagen on Thursday! Oh and on the train some bro starts talking to us and he was the craziest bro I have ever seen! haha he comes up to us and tells us how ties make us look snobby and how Elder Dibble and I looked like strippers lol!! Haha and then he told me I look like a sales man! Then he was like ok we got a train ride convince me to join your church and then he continues to tell us his life story. When he gets off we give him a book of Mormon and then he yells in English I love you guys!! hahaha! It was so funny! And then on the plantform he looks through the window sees Elder Dibble and I and points at the book of Mormon and gives us a thumbs up... haha! He said when he needs God he will stab the book with a knife and read where the knife got to! Probs in the middle of 2 Nephi #isaihchapters... haha he was nuts!! Anyways we had a meeting with all the leadership in the mission and then we ate pizza and went to MLC at President's home! It was way fun! We have a way solid group of leadership! And MLC was all about Focusing on the Four. So the four key indicators and we will be training on that on Wednesday so it will be good! And we are going to focus on our conversion story! It will be way good! 

And no I wasn't sick at MLC!! We had to role play so Elder Dibble and I hit the beds! And I havn't been sick at all this last week!! Elder Dibble is great! We are always soooo happy and we both have the same laaugh so just imagine what our investigators think ;) haha! This transfer will definatly fly by! Jace is already five!!! What!!!! Reid dog is straight gooning!!! haha! He is getting so big! And no way sister Howell is going home!!! What!! We were in the MTC together! Crazy! I did complete my sister mission last week which is cra cra!!! And I don't think I look like Nick.... And how is the soccer team looking this year?? And I got my package!! Thank you so much!! I love The Infinite Atonement book! Oh and btws i gave a talk on the atonement yesterday and it was way fire I hope! ;) I based it off the talk that they always remember him 2015 October conference! Take a peek at it, you won't regret it;) Jeg elsker jer så højt!!! 

Week #78 Slagelse

TRANSFERS!!! So I guess Elder Erickson and I were just too fire together so they had to split us up to spread the fire ;) And my new comp is Elder Dibble!!! He is so awesome!! He is from Draper Utah and he is a pro dancer! Haha Elder Bennet told me that we will be the happiest companionship ever so it will be good I am way pumped to work with him!!! 

Splits

So we had two sets of splits this week in Copenhagen and we were actually only in our area for two days which was a struggle this week but no worries!! So on Monday we went up to Copenhagen on P day and cruised around up there on Støjet the big walking street with Elder Cody Jensen while Elder Shuppy played a card game. And then Elder Jensen came in way clutch and bought us sushi and this way fire place and Elder Erickson, Elder Jensen and I had such a bro time haha! It was great! And then Elder Jensen and I went to an eating appoitment where I spoke Americansk with a Danish member in Copenhagen which made me lose my mind haha! And I guess there is a HUGE rivalry between Slagelse and Frederiksberg in reference to missionary work and her husband was the was mission leader or ward missionary so he had a hay day when he heard I am serving in Slagelse haha! I have never been trolled so much in my life! It was fun and then we went and contacted for an hour. We stopped two people and gave out two book of Mormons like candy! Finding is too easy now ;) Then the next day was an adventure!! So JP who got baptized in Nykøbing last week, his mom came from Italy to pick him up and Elder Jensen and I had to meet her at the airport and put her on a train to Nykøbing and the struggle was that she can't speak English or Danish... Only Italian and Spanish... And we cant speak either of those languages... It was way interesting and all i learned was no comprendo! haha! Then we played indoor soccer with this young danish bros which is a great finding tool and i played against the best bro ever! he was insane good! I talked to one bro and went off how i am from America and stuff trying to ask me why I am here and all i got was invited to the biggest bar street in all of Denmark in Aalborg.... haha good stuff! The next splits was with the APs on Thursday! So after District meeting I drove with Elders Bennet, McBride, and tank Erickson to interview C who got dunked in Taastrup last Saturday! It was an awesome expierence to interview her and it was the first one I have ever done! It was sweet! Way spiritual and it is awesome to see people truely repent and see that light from their eyes!! Then we taught the Aps investigator with a member. It was pretty dope! She kept on swithching back to English from Danish. So i guess they usually teach her in English but we had a Danish member with so we tried speaking Danish but it ended up being Danglish and then straight English. Haha and then when she prayed she spoke half english and half danish. #onlyincopenhagen Then we stopped by Andrea Barlow's friend J and we rang her buzz box because it is copenhagen and she said we could come back another day so we will see where that goes! Then we got all the scheemes from the Aps and I guess the next focus in the mission is to do exactly what Elder Erickson and I did last transfer and MLC this Thursday will be all about how the mission can be like our zone haha so that is sick I guess!! 

Mobbing Around West Sjælland

So Elder Erickson and I got to give a district meeting to the two districts in the zones. The first one for our regualar district was at møns Klint and we did on the beach which was sick!! We trained on President Hinckly's book chapter three on optimism and lead that into faith and miracles! It was pretty fire! Then after on Wednesday we had a little picnic and then took pics and walked around Møns Klint which is the most mountain agtig thing in denmark! So that was way cool to see!! And we got some good pics! 

Venner

So we were only in our area for two days so not to much happened here with all the bros we are teaching. We did get to teach A the older women and she said the book of Mormon is true and we tried getting her on date but she said is it enough just to have faith?? So we got some work to do with her. We have a lot set up this week so it should be a pretty fire week and we got member splits in Næstved tomorrow so it should be good!! 

And William got the Priesthood last Sunday as well! And dont worry I got a haircut!! And Elder Erickson got transferred to Ordrup which is North Sjælland so the scheeme is that he will build up that zone because it is struggling! And health wise I am 100 percent!!! The excersises are the key so don't worry about me! We had one friend in church! And William has been in Norway the last couple days on a ski trip but he is doing good. No way Lauren is one years old!!! And I have never met here crazy how time works!! And I know a bro in the mission that got in to BYU as a transfer student with a way lower GPA than me so it shouldn't be a problem!! And I am scheeming about rooming with Elder Nielsen at BYU but we will see and I look forward to eating those ribs ;) Oh please send me a bracket so I can fill it out and see if I do better then when I follow all the games haha;) I love you guys so much!!!!

Week #77 Slagelse

Familie!!! WILLIAM was baptized on Saturday and confirmed yesterday!! It was so sick to be apart of! And no worries with the health! The excersises are working magic so no worries there!! 

Williams Dåb

So William got baptized on Saturday and it was a great experience! Almost the whole ward was there and there was a lot of missionaries there and it was a way spiritual service! William asked Elder Erickson to baptize him because he is probs transfering next week and I gave him the gift of the Holy Ghost yesterday. After he got baptized he raised his hands in the air and shoutouted to joy to everyone there!! He is such a stud and I am so blessed to help him on the strait and narrow path back to our Heavenly Father!! We snatched a whole lot of pics so no worries there. ;) After that we had a lunch and then waited for the Nykøbing Elders baptism where JP from Peru and Kristine got baptized! That was the first baptism in that little branch in a while and TWO got baptized! So that was sick to see. Then after we celebrated by playing soccer with some missionaries and some members in the rain which was so fun!! Then it got too dark so we played some ping pong! Then on Sunday I got the privilege to give William the Holy Ghost! It was way cool I Never have done it before and I felt like i was in this spiritual bubble. We have a little squad going in Slagelse with a couple young adults and Will I Am!!!! We taught William the Restoration again on Friday before his baptism and it was a pretty dang spiritual lesson! This guy was so prepared. He is literary the definition of those who are looking for the truth but did not know where to find it! He was so prepared and is such a stud! He is definatly going to be a life long friend!! 

Other Friends

So I know the hype is all around William's baptism but we still taught some other bros this week as well! So on Tuesday we went on splits with the Tåstrup Elders and I went on splits with Elder Tank Erickson. We taught I in Korsør and it went way well! We talked about baptism and the Holy Ghost, a little about the apatasy, and child baptism. I asked if believed the Book of Mormon to be true and she said yes and I asked if Joseph Smith is a prophet of God and she said yes just like Abraham, Adam, and Moses! So I invited her to pray to see if Jesu Kristi Kirke af Sidste Dages Hellige is the same church Jesus Christ had when he was on the earth and a baptismal date will be coming this week! ;) And the other Elders taught and dropped M so I guess that is that for him... He did invite us for breakfast this Saturday to say bye to Elder Erickson because the scheme is he is peacing out but who knows! Then we took some pics in the ocean which was SO cold but Elder McBride who is going home in a week made us do it and act like it is summer so you are welcome for the pics mom! ;) We taught some other bros this week but I am too lazy to write about all of them haha BUT we ate at a member from Tahitti last Friday! Shout out to Jonathan! He made us some Tahittian street food and it was way clutch! I just asked him all about Tahitti and about missionary work there because he served there to get a little scoop in Jonathans mission. It sounds sweet haha and if you are wondering he met his Danish wife at BYU Hawaii! 

ZONE FIRE

So we had FOUR baptisms in the zone this last weekend and that has never happened before! And we still have 10 friends on date in the zone which is so incredible! We had zone training last Wednesday in Roskilde which was pretty fire! It was on less active work and newly baptized work and we delegated a lot and it was way spiritual. Elder Erickson and I talked about the parables in Luke 15 of the lost sheep and the prodigal son and we had a couple missonaries share their testimonies of miracle reactivation stories! Then we gave the rest of our time to our dope mission leader to train us on the new key indicators and how to get someone on date! And it worked because two days later three people where put on date in the zone!! We are leading the mission by far and everyone around the mission is noticing. Elder Bennet told us that our schemes are working haha!! I hope Elder Erickson and I go another just because of the insane success we have seen together but who knows!!!! 

Yea that was the Gavnø castle in Næstved! And like i said my health is 100 percent! Didn't have to sleep extra once this week! And that is crazy another high school will be built! Do you know when it will be finished?? That is so SICK BYU beat Gonzaga!!! Haha now i can talk crap to Matthew!!! haha! ;) And it was a good run for sure for ML basketball and Zach attack! I bet they make it next year for sure! And that is peferfectly fine with the samler Infinite Atonement Book!! LOVE you guys so much!!!! 

Week #76 Slagelse

Faktisk Rimelig Nemlig....  That would be the three words for the week because that is all we say with Bishop and his family haha. Bishop told me that I should teach this American Danish to the new missionaries in the MTC so we will see ;) 

Slagelse Mobbing

So our homie W is getting baptized on Saturday and we are way pumped!! He is way pumped and the ward is way pumped so it is way good stuff!! We taught William this week on temples, family history and the priesthood and he is just taking it all in it is so awesome to be apart of his journey!! We played basketball with him on Wednesday and soccer with him on Saturday so he is doing great! I will definately take a bunch of pics at the baptism so it will be good! Other good stuff is we taught M and it went good. He has been reading a lot of the Book of Mormon and is at the end of 2 Nephi and is finding a lot of great scriptures so he is doing great! T is doing good he is coming to W baptism! We taught A again and she said her heart is too locked to pray to ask God if he is there... and she said she will never come to church and she said if she starts coming to church every week her friends would make fun of her... #danishculture We taught K and O finally and they are doing fine. They wont quit smoking because it helps them lose weight... And we took our boy F to Carls Jr. because he wa having problems with the girlfriend so we came in clutch there! 

So the Book of Mormon challenge is going alright I think... our zone is just teaching people so we dont have all the time in the world to find new people which is a good thing.That is crazy Gonzaga is still killing it! And that is dope we made it to state again! Well that is all i got this week love you guys!! 

Week #75 Slagelse

Hej familie!! So Elder Erickson and I got hit with the plague or something this week because we were literrary sick for the WHOLE week... haha we had the flu and we went crazy but no worries we are alive again!! But i dont have too much to write about today ;)

The Struggle

Well shout out to having Vertigo for many moons ago so I know how to entertain myself just being in a missionary apartment for a long stretch of time! Our week consisted of sleeping, ranting on the strangest topics, eating kebabs and all other sorts of unhealthy food and sleeping some more. But on the positive side Elder Erickson and I had some pretty deep deep doctrine talks haha! Oh and we did against all odds manage to teach the home boy W!! He is doing fire as always!! We got kebabs with him on Wednesday because we needed to get out of our apartment! Then we taught him the Gospel of Jesus Christ and then he told us he found some anti doctrine but we destroyed that concern way quick! ;) It was just about the Book of Mormon and then I gave him the talk by Tad R. Callister the Book of Mormon Man made or God given which helped him even more!! And after District Meeting and more kebabs :) on Thursday he passed his baptisimal interview and then because we were sick and he was kind of sick we just went to his flat and watched Mormon messages for days! Oh and W went to Sweeden this last weekend for a YSA Valentines day festival! So we would say that is a pretty genious way of getting him tight with the members ;) And hopefully a mormon girlfriend out of it too... wait what!! haha! Oh and we also managed to eat home made pizza with another bro in the ward and got a lot of questionable marriage advice from the member, Elder Erickson and the sisters comnbined lol!! Oh and we had three friends in church inspite of being dead zombie fools all week!! YEET!!

Haha i probs wont be a ballroom dancer sorry to kill your dreams mom.... Oh and i forgot the zone has 11 bros on date which is nuts and more then half in the mission and at least half of them are getting dunked this transfer!! So sick everyone is way hyped and we promised the zone pastries if they can get five more on date by next zone training which is in 10 days! And the elders in Nykøbing have a bro who is getting baptized in two weeks and he grew up in Peru and then moved to Germany and we get to interview him for baptism on Saturday so shout out to you guys and your missions!! And of course i haven't got in trouble haha no worries about Elder Reed! I am an angel ;) The snow is almost gone and i am eating healthy so no worries! I love you guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!