You guys! Christina got baptized! It was a way cool experience, I went back to Odense for it and got to see her again and be one of the witnesses for her baptism. She looked way happy and the talks were so amazing. Christina brought her two daughters who live in Sjælland, they mostly stuck to themselves but me and Eric Jepsen talked to them after they watched their mom get baptized and got them to ask a few questions. Hopefully they'll want to follow her example soon! Christina was the first person I've seen almost the whole way through. I wasn't there for teaching her the last couple lessons or for setting up the physical part of the baptism, but my last two comps Merrill and Mogensen did a fantastic job of it!
One thing that made me way happy was the way the ward recieved her. She walked out of there with a few new friends, a boquet of flowers, and a huge smile. That's something I think is important even for you guys back home! If you know of a convert baptism happening in your area don't be afraid to show up and make friends with them, these people need friends and guides during this new and confusing transition, it's frustrating to see some of them not get the support they need.
It took pretty much a whole day going to Odense and checking out all the things I'd never done there after the Dåb. We went into some pretty massive churches around the gågade, went by HC Andersens house, and then hopped on a train back. We had to catch a connecting train in Skanderborg, but we were debating which way would be fastest and the train was getting ready to pull out. We just agreed to get off but I was the only one that made it out of the train in time. I stepped off the train and turned around and my comps were both looking at me through the glass door trying to open it back up... but we could only stare at each other as the train took off without me. I was alone! It was really weird. I decided to make the most of it while I waited for them to find their way back and so I bought a Cocio (chocolate milk) and went on a walk up a hill. It was fun. No worries though we all made it back home safe.
So for Silkeborg news things went alright this week. We were able to meet with a lot of people and they have, for the most part, been keeping commitments! It was kind of disappointing though because not one of them were able to make it to church. One had to take an emergency trip to Randers, one got really sick, one had commited to make food for her handicapped relative that day, one got called into work, one got depressed cause of a family fight and wasn't willing to leave the house... it was just incredible all the random things that came up to prevent these people from making it this week to church! Maybe it was just a coincidence and maybe some of them weren't really committed to coming but to me it felt like something was fighting back because it didn't want these people to make that step towards finding the truth! We'll be revisiting everyone and trying to get them to come take the sacrament, and we're really close with a lot of people to setting a baptisimal date. We have our appointments with the families we're teaching this week finally! They are much much harder to schedule things with. Danes always want to plan things like nine years in advance.
Well in other news this week was budget week. We only spent 80 kroner (19 bucks) each for groceries in order to save some money, and we survived. We ate a lot of pasta, but we survived.
Also we had a pretty intense lesson with a lady from Mongolia named Zula. She's way interested in the church and super positive. Her husband? Not so much. We were about five minutes into our second lesson with her, she had her Mormons Bog out and ready and was expecting us with drinks and stuff and was super happy to see us. Then her husband came home. The guy was a huge Dane and wouldn't even look at us. He asked her who we were, and when Elder Ludlow stood up and tried to shake his hand he just pointed at the door with his thumb and said ''Ud!'' (Out). Still without looking at us he just whistled and pointed like we were naughty animals or something despite his wifes arguments. We decided it was best to avoid a fight but we came back later that night and talked to Zula alone. She apologized and said she would love to come to church and was excited we had a Mongolian Book of Mormon for her. She was the one that got called into work though so unfortunately she was unable to make it.... Sometimes it's sad to see people taking others agency away. It's going to make it 1000 times harder to help Zula progress if her husband acts like that every time. He looked pretty drunk or hung over, so maybe it was just a one time thing.
All in all? Way fun week. Have fun watching the super bowl, although if the Broncos win I'm pretty sure Elder Ludlow will just kill himself cause he wasn't there to watch it haha! Thanks for all the birthday wishes, and good luck to everyone that just entered the MTC!
Hej hej!
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