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Hey all!
Crazy week so far... We got our travel plans. My flight path will start in SLC at 11:30 on Monday and take me to Chicago, then ENGLAND, and finally into Copenhagen. It's pretty great.
One little catch.
Our Danish group has 14 missionaries, 1 sister and 13 elders. We have only had 8 visas confirmed by the mission home and are running out of time to get the rest of them approved. I was towards the end of the pack as far as consolate dates so there is a chance I get delayed or reassigned. So that was a roller coaster of a day. But I had read in Mormon chapter 9 that morning how if you pray in faith nothing waivering then anything will be given you. So I tried it. I don't know if I've gotten an answer yet, but to be honest I was talking to elder Ockey, one of my room mates, and we both agreed that it was probably a good thing that we were two of the people who were most likely to get a delay or transfer because we are much more comfortable with the language, and feel like others would be hurt a lot more than we would because of a delay. To be honest I would be perfectly fine with staying one more week here and meeting the new Dane missionaries and finishing getting ready for Denmark. A whole six week transfer on the other hand would be a bit rough for me. But whatever happens will be interesting, so we'll just have to wait til Friday to find out!
I said goodbye to Trevin a few nights ago. That was interesting. The first goodbye I had to say at the MTC... Me Conner and him all left our classes after planning and just took pictures in the hall and talked for a while. I know he's going to kill it in Africa. I'm jealous he's on his way out already, and I know Conner is too! It's funny to use Conner's old "I remember when I still had that many days before my mission" joke on him because I (hopefully) get to leave here before him. Russian must be pretty tough because the last few days I've seen him he refused to speak English to me which made for some interesting conversations... I love that I've gotten to spend my MTC stay with these two, it's been awesome.
Oh, we also got a new Danish missionary the other day. His mom is Danish so he can already understand Danish and speak it better than any of us... that was kind of sad. But it's cool to see him around because he goes with the English missionaries. Should be interesting to see how he can help some of us if we get to spend time with him or else end up as companions in the field.
Also, LINDSAY! Where are you going on your misson? You told me you should have gotten your call by now, I wanna know where :)
As far as funny Danish words this week I learned that the word for butterfly is Sommerfugl. You probably don't get it. It's funny cause the word for summer is Sommer and the word for bird is fugl. So in Denmark butterfly's are literally called "Summer Birds" I think that's itneresting haha. Also the word for dream is fabel and the word for garden is hav. With Danish grammar the word Fablehaven translates directly to the garden of dreams. That was also cool.
Not a lot of other new stuff to report today, except that we were making jokes about peer pressuring Elder Hooper to put milk on his cereal (who doesn't put milk on cereal???) My comp Elder Read always keeps things entertaining, he accidentally touched a sister in a crowd after one of the devotionals and it horrified him. He said he'd violated a rule and kept twitching his hand after. Our roomates didn't let him live it down haha. He's one of the hardest workers in our district though and he's really taught me a lot.
*Danish Lesson Time*
How to say your name - Jeg hedder ______
Jeg sounds like the word eye with a y in front of it. Hedder makes a soft "d" noise. If you don't know what that is just put your tongue in between your teeth when you pronounce the d sound. Also keep the r kind of soft.
Anyway, this is Elder Durrant signing off! Remember to pray for District 37's visas! Gud vaere med dig til vi ses i gen!
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