So I realized that I didn't take very many pictures this week. Sorry! But here's one from two weeks ago. Me and Elder Lawless were at the local Kvickly doing some shopping for the week and we came across Zebra Steaks. So we feasted on the flesh of Zebras for the first time in either of our lives and it was great.
This week has been full of random stuff. We had to take a trip out to a city called Gjern and then go even farther into the middle of nowhere to get to one of our friends houses here so we could teach him about the Plan of Salvation. This man lives is isolation but he's a genius, he invented his own three dimensional alphabet so that you can spell words out in pillars of different shapes. Way neat. He got into egyptian history when he was young and some obscure research he did lead him to the Book of Mormon. He read the whole thing and now a bunch of years later he remembered us when some strange coincidences lead us to his door. Unfortunately he doesn't really do religion the way a lot of people do. He has his own belief which is kind of close to hinduism but isn't. Basically he believes the Plan of Salvation the way we do, life is a test to help us in our eternal progression, but in his mind we go through the whole process time and again until we finally get it and then we progress farther somewhere else. We both layed out our beliefs to the other, and I'll be honest his plan made a ton of sense and he kept going on about how ours just didn't compare because a one and done type of deal isn't fair to everyone. I didn't quite know how to respond, but I just turned inward to myself for a second and asked, is the Plan of Salvation as I know it true? I got a rush of a warm feeling that backed me up and it kind of clicked in my head - I just told our friend that this was God's plan. That we have one life here on earth because it is supposed to be important and not just a one in a million thing, and that although I don't understand the Spirit World or how it works that I know that everyone who didn't get their fair chance here will certainly have that made up to them later because this plan is perfect and because of that we need to use this great gift of living on this earth in the best way possible. It was just a normal lesson, I don't think this man will ever want to be baptized, but I just enjoyed the teaching moment I had to feel the spirit work through me. So that was fun. To show you where he lived I took a picture while we were walking out there, literally this was all I could see all around me:
We also got to do some good service for a lady named Vita who lives also in the middle of nowhere on a big farm. She loves having us over to move rocks and dig holes and then make us some of the best food I have ever tasted in my life! And then we teach her about the Book of Mormon, it's basically the best trade off in the entire world. I love being able to serve Vita. Hopefully she'll be able to come to church this week because she would get along very well with all of the members in our branch.
We've had a good week and were able to teach a lesson each day except our PDay so that was way good. From Danes to Kenyans to Swedes to Arabs, we've talked to them all! A man tried to convert me to Islaam this week... He wouldn't let us get two words in for all the muslim doctrine he was throwing at us. He told us that he could see in our eyes that we weren't a hundred percent certain about what we were saying and I finally just lost it and interrupted him and told him that the only thing I wasn't certain about was where to find references to answer all his different questions but that I knew that I had felt the spirit testify the truth of the message we have and that I knew this church could help him as well. It was the only five seconds of the whole lesson I felt good about.
Anyway, we're still here trecking around random apartment complexes and far away fields. Here's a pic of my comp to prove it :)
Love you all and I'm way stoked for everyone who is out serving as well! I went through the list of emails I send this letter to and realized that half of the emails needed to be changed because the people had left on missions and had a new mail address. Awesome! Good job serving wherever you're called. I know Denmark is the place for me.
MKH
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