Sucks for the Broncos and everyone else watching the Superbowl! Good thing it's not a problem to me :)
So I got my new companion. Literally it was the craziest transfer ever, and it all happened this morning. Me and the trusty trio woke up and started the day off right by missing our bus! That led to us missing our train. That wasn't too bad, we jsut called their new areas and told them they'd be an hour late. We took a train to Skanderborg with a bike, 6 suitcases, a giant blue plastic bag, a backpack and a guitar. We had to switch trains but the lady that got on before us with her stroller took so long that we only managed to get half of Elder Nelsons stuff onto the train before the doors locked and the train took off leaving his two biggest suitcases sitting on the side of the tracks... Not fun -_- After calming him down we both went back, got his stuff, shipped him out alone on his new train which left me stranded alone in a city that wasn't the city my new companion Elder Lawless was supposed to meet me at... he had to get off the train just to be told by some other missionaries that helped us out to keep going on the train and hopefully we'd find each other. We did. But after we did we didn't have enough time to cash his ticket before our train came so we hide to ride the whole way in fear that we'd get a fine for not having the right ticket, but we talked our way out of it. Great start to our new companionship.
I've only known Elder Lawless for like an hour or two, but he's from California and once broke a guys arm that was trying to mug him because Elder Lawless is 6'4'' and has had 12 years of martial arts. Guess you don't have to worry about my safety mom cause our companionship will win any fight ever. Anyways other than this crazy day today it's been a pretty good week. We managed to set a baptisimal date with one of our investigators! Her name is Else and we knocked into her. She said she was looking for a church and we said we had one. The rest is history! Haha she's way open, maybe a little too open... We need to explain that not EVERYTHING is true, I mean her Bible has the books from the Apografa (spelling?) in it. That was way fun to look at. But yeah she asked how someone becomes LDS and we said Dåb. After talking about it Elder Ludlow asked if that's something she's like to do. We agreed that after we meet with her some more and she learns more she'd set March 8th as a date for baptism! I'm way pumped to get her to church this next Sundayto meet all the members and to solidify it but I have high hopes for her. The only hard part is going to be teaching her now that we don't have a trio.
Losing the trio is going to be way hard.
Our area is way isolated in the middle of Jylland and so we have a difficult time getting an extra male to lessons with single women (we can't go in the house if it's just us 2 missionaries) and EVERYONE we teach is a single woman. Holy cow I didn't really realize it until I started planning for the week. It'll be a big challenge, but I think for the 3-4 investigators we have the highest hopes for (all women) we can get one of our members to come with. Wish us luck!
A couple days ago we did have a pretty good lesson with a man named Jens. Apparently he's died before O_O but he lives in a really sketchy place and I'll admit I kind of had really low hopes for the lesson. He let us in though after Elder Ludlow met him on the gågade caroling and his house was kind of humbling. I know it has nothing on the houses people visit in like the Phillipines of South America or Mozambique, but literally the whole thing was one small room, a bed, a small folding chair, and a fridge. Oh and some porn and ciggarettes, that part was unfortunate. But we started teaching him and he seemed open to the idea of prophets! After we gave him a Mormons Bog he said he couldn't cause he was in a bad financial spot. We explained that it was free and he still asked which one of us was paying for it. We told him our church printed the books and they gave them to us to give out for free. He seemed really impressed by that and told us that it meant a lot and he'd love to read it. My hopes are high! It was great to finally see somebody appreciate us giving them a Book of Mormon instead of looking disappointed they'd have to carry the book around before they could get rid of it. It's a life changing book people! But on the brightside our area is actually going really well right now other than the fact that nobody will come to church! Hellige ko! We have 3-4 people who have told us they'd like to come see our church and a couple others who said they'd see if they had time and all these crazy things keep coming up and stopping them! Blah!
But yeah, new transfer starts today, I think it will be a fun companionship and a successful one too.
Oh! I got to go to København (Copenhagen) this week. It was way fun, we stayed in a HOUSE that the Ballerup elders (all four of them) live in.
It was way cool cause our apartment is a three room little bit of nothing that has the bathroom split in two so that one has the toilet and the other room has the shower... Don't ask me why. Denmark is weird.
To end on a positive note, I should hopefully be taking another trip back to my hometown of Odense where even the stoplights show their obsession with HC Andersen. Thomas is gonna get baptized down there on the last day of this month on the day I helped him decide! Fingers crossed he has the strength to keep his commitments and the will power to use those 8 hours of freedom he has a month to enter into the covenant of baptism!
Love you all, keep writing!
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