Hello everyone! God jul!
It was a great week, I got to talk with my family, stuff my stomach and then keep stuffing it and then somehow finding more room in it to fit mroe food and then eat one more plate and then... well let's just say I ate a lot. The members here in Silkeborg, although few (we had four old ladies that made up the whole congregation when church started this week) love us to death and in my opinion really are trying to kill us by over feeding us. Somehow I still have yet to put on a single pound, putting on weight is impossible. My life is so hard right? Anyway Danish Christmas is a bit different, they eat and open up gifts on the 24th of December in the evening.
We spent the 24th here and did the whole shebang with julemad (christmas food) and singing while dancing around the Christmas tree and a bunch of other stuff that Danes do... twas fun :) Also they decorate their trees with candles that have real fire! It kind of scares me and I almost set my clothes on fire while I had my back to the tree... I just wonder how many trees and or houses have been lost because of this tradition. But on the bright side I felt cool while lighting the candles
But yeah, that was Christmas. Loved talking to the family, got to pretend I speak Danish for them :)
So I haven't told you guys about any of the people we've been teaching here. We have a baptisimal date with some guy named Kim but I haven't met him cause he's never home... we'll see how that one works out. Also we're teaching this lady who is very interested and has had us over to help with service and even fed us a Christmas dinner! It's interesting because her girlfriend was over to. We aren't sure exactly how to precede because well... she has a girlfriend. But she has a lot of questions about how the church handles homosexuality and it's going to take a bit but we hope we can help her gain a testimony and from there wor to see what she feels like she feels comfortable in doing.
We also taught a great first lesson the other day to a guy named Michael. It was a fun one as well because his apartment is two rooms so his bedroom is his living room. His girlfriend was in the bed ''asleep'' the whole time we were talking to him and she may or may not have but definitely wasn't wearing very many items of clothing. We just kind of let her pretend she was asleep under the blanket the whole time but it was still odd. Regardless Michael told us he was very skeptical of prayer and religion in general but he agreed to read a chapter in the book of mormon and to try praying about it. It was cool to finally just have a normal lesson with someone we knocked into. Normally the let in lessons are with people who are lonely or are very odd socially. Michael was nice enough to just listen for ten minutes and to tell us his honest thoughts about it. Literally that's all we ask but Danes seem to have discovered this neat little trick they really like where they just say ''Jeg er ikke intereseret'' (I'm not interested) whenever a religious person talks to them and it magically makes them go away. It's impressive how many times those exact words are used when we knock. I was tired of it and wanted to have a real conversation but these people just have this preconception that we're useless and just want to annoy them. I finally got around it but asking them why they didn't have any interest before they closed the doors. It led to people describing their own faith with gave me an opportunity to give a comparison to our and at the very least get them a card with our number on it. No big miracles came from that small inspiration but it certainly turned a lot of bad door slams into decent conversations so it's a step forward in the right direction!
Funny story of the week has got to be from Saturday. We walked out of the apartment and at the first intersection we got to this old guy on a bike rode by us goign super slow and starign at us. Would have been totally normal but he was only wearing a huge winter coat and whitie tightie underwear. It was super cold too. Elder Ludlow thought it was too good to pass up trying to sneak a picture so we turned our backs for like five seconds and when we turned around he had literally vanished. We looked down the street each way and he was nowhere. We're still arguing over whether he was even a real person or not.
But everything is going good here. Me and Elder Ludlow decided to keep a count in the apartment of ''Oh Wells'' vs ''What Ifs'' because it's better to live a life of oh wells than what ifs right? Basically whenver we come to something we aren't sure we have the nerve to do or if we get a small prompting that seems weird and we aren't sure we really want to do it we have committed ourselves to just doing it on faith because the worst outcome is us saying Oh Well. It's lead to some pretty fun adventures so far. I'll keep you posted.
Thanks for the Christmas packages family! They were perfect! I'm looking forward to having hidden valley ranch again haha :)
Love you all! Congrats to Cole Murdock on his call to Houston! That's awesome! Hope you guys all have a great new year, I know I have a pretty good one planned :D
Vi ses venner :)
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