I inspired art!

Hellige Ko! It's been a really crazy week!

 

So basically,

 

-Went to Copenhagen to get Elder Merrils new greenie

-In a tripanionship right now with a fluent native Dane that Elder Merrill is gonna train

-Leaving Odense on Wednesday :(

-Going to a town called Silkaborg in a different Tripanionship

 

So we have to go to the doctor here soon so I may or may not be cutting this letter a tad short. My comp has been feeling sick all week and the senior couple here has finally asked, or rather commanded him to go to a doctor.

 

 

Story time.

 

On Monday last week I had to go see the Dentist, that's fine and everything but I was on splits with Elder DeMordaunt who is newer than me in the mission, then after arriving to the office I discovered none of the receptionists or Dentists there spoke English. Scary to have to navigate through giving information and discussing my dental Health completely in Danish but I did it, and I even understood everything. I hope. The best part was the way they spelled my name. The receptionist was from somewhere in the middle East and Danish was her second language... somewhere in the conversation Ridge Durrant changed to Waage Duaant... Close enough I guess.

 

 

We've been working with our three investigators who have baptisimal dates, and they're doing pretty good. I'm sad to leave them. Thomas Bøgelund, the one in a wheelchair is still on track to get baptized, Christina the painter who thought she was already a member is set to get baptized if she gave give up smoking other than the fact that she told us she believes in Reincarnation... We're working on explaining the plan of salvation to her. And Andreas is still eager... but he is so distracted he always misses our appointments and its hard to Work with him.

 

Anyway.

 

I

Inspired

Art

 

Crazy right? So we visit this man who is listed as inactive about once a week named Jens. He's my favorite. The only reason he doesn't come to church regularly is that whenever it rains (it rains a lot in Denmark) he gets crippling back pain cause hes missing some discs in his back. He takes morphine for it and it knocks him out... kind of sketchy. Especially because he always offers us some, I think as a joke... hopefully. Anyway he is super smart and super cool and best of all he's an ARTIST! He does some super weird but super cool paintings and has had several art exhibitions around denmark. His website is jup.dk if you wanna look at some interesting Pictures. So we were at his house a few days ago and I give a spiritual thought about a scripture I'd read in Helaman which tells us that we are less than the very dust of the earth because at least the dust will obey the will of god. Jens really really liked that image and he wrote Down the reference in his artist sketchbook. I had high hopes, and they were realized last time we visited him. He's gonna paint a huge Picture based on the thought I gave him! Haha it's going to be sweet! Jens always says that the hårdest part of his job is coming up with stories that he has a Desire to tell through art. He showed me the sketch of the painting and it's going to be a tiny older woman standing alone in a vast desert with sand and stones. The huge sky above her is going to start  orange but slowly get darker until its Black. I can't wait to see it when it's done! I might save up Money and buy it and hang it in my house when I'm old and stuff. Yup. I plan on coming back to Odense for Thomas's baptism, and I'll try and get a Picture of the finished product when that happens sometime around the begginning of March.

 

Also on Thursday we picked up Elder Mogensen. He's from an Island in Denmark called Bornholm. He speaks perfect English and Danish so I've been trying to talk to him as much in Danish as I can to help me. It's awesome, and really helpful. I feel bad because we've had to stay inside a Little more than usual cause Elder Merrill is sick. But I leave on Wednesday and Things should go back to normal.

 

Theres a festival going on in Odense for Christmas, they're giving horse rides and there are tons of international stands right outside our Apartment selling food. I got a German Bratwurst for lunch with some Italian chocolate that was absolutely divine. They're all run by actuall people from the countries. I plan on exploring more of them soon.

 

 

Also someone named Kim turned thirty and failed to get married Again... Kim got a cow statue this time. I think these things are funny

 

 

So about Silkerborg, it's a town of about 40,000 I believe in the middle of the main part of Denmark called Jylland. I will leave my beloved Island of Fyn and go to the part connected to Germany. They have a baptisimal date with some guy named Kim and around 20 people come every week to the branch there. I'm switching from probably the biggest or close to the biggest Ward in Denmark to one of the smallest branches in the country. Should be fun. You can keep sending letters to the same address which is the mission home, they'll get them to me quickly and safely.

 

Thanks for everything! Keep talking to me cause I like when that happens, and thanks to the Bradshaw Family for the Christmas package, that was really nice! Tell Jonathan Glædelig Jul for me!

 

Vi ses, og have en god jul!

 

Ældste Durrant