Literally Probaby the Best Week I'll Have On My Mission

So miracles happened in Silkeborg this week.

But in all honesty this week was incredible. Our companionship found 18 new investigators! Normally the highest area each week in the mission finds about 6. But it has been such a neat experience, our area is exploding! We taught two families this week and they were some of the greatest experiences and lessons that I've had so far. People have been home, accepting, and willing to meet! We knocked into a man named Christian and he let us come back. We had a lesson with his wife/girlfriend and their little baby and it was really really cool. He says he's been looking for something to have faith in because he has seen how faith has helped others but that he's never been able to really get there. After the lesson was dyign down I started to ask if we could say a prayer but the words just kind of choked in my mouth... I felt like we needed to say more. Nothing was being said though and it was important we pray with them so I just forced them out. He thought for a second and said ''ikke lige nu, jeg er ik' færdig med jer'' which means not yet, I'm not finished with you. He asked about our experiences with getting faith and our conversion stories. I bore what I felt was the most sincere testimony I've shared on my misson so far about all the different blessings I've seen come to my family because of what we believe in and the strength we've recieved from having the gospel in our lifes and the difference I see between those that hold these standards and have this core belief and those that don't. He said what I described was exactly what he's seen and after he listened to Elder Ludlow's testimony of how he found out for himself that the Book of Mormon was true he asked us for a few chapters in it that he could read from.
Pretty much the greatest thing ever.

Also we had new years here. America has nothing on Denmark when it comes to New years. There were so many fireworks it sounded like a warzone. Probably the only time Denmark ever has dangerous things happen. They were all private fireworks too so there were a bunch of drunk Danes launching tons of fireworks into the sky. 76 people were hospitalized this year, apparently that wasn't too bad. The fireworks seriously went off for an hour after midnight and they were coming from everywhere. A couple in the apartment complex we were at went off on the ground... hopefully they were alright. It's weird that 2014 is going to be my year completely as a missionary. Feels like just yesterday I was talking about how quick my cousin in Brazil had reached his 6 month mark. Now that's me. And I'm turning 19. What the heck?!?! I can't be 19. I should still be thinking that 10 seems super old. Life is weird. But now I'm in Denmark biking all over det hele.

Speaking of biking, here's my bike, it's named Sparky. Sparky breaks a lot but it's ok because as soon as I have an hour of free time I can tighten the tire and the chain will work better.

But I've just been doing good out here in the middle of Jylland. There aren't as many people as there were in Odense but it seems like we're finding more that will listen to us, and we find a lot of other funny things as well. We were on a bus out to help an investigator with some service and we say a 15 foot tall motorcycle just chilling in a field. Also the grafiti here is funny as well.

But I hope you all had a very merry start to 2014, I know I did. Keep me posted, and keep on being awesome! Congrats to everyone starting their mission papers back at PHS, that's crazy I got my call almost a year ago. GET CALLED TO DENMARK!

love you all, vi ses