You know what blows? Wind.

In case you didn't believe Silkeborg is beautiful.

So there has been a ton of wind here lately, it's way annoying. This year has been record breaking for storms in Denmark... my first transfer was their very first Hurricane! 

Anyway, this week has been one for the books. We found out that one of our investigators has Schizophrenia. We talked to another guy on the street who wanted us to come back. On our way to his apartment he rolled up in his car with one of his friends and yelled for us to get in. After introducing us as his ''Christian brothers'' they both proceeded to pull out some very self destructive substances which are not usually sold to the public... After a long conversation in his car on the shore of a lake we agreed to disagree about Islaam and Christianity because he hadn't even read the Quran. We left the car a little light headed and went immediately to a less active lady who had called us to ask for a blessing. Her boyfriend was there too who has investigated the church before. It was so neat to be able to give her a blessing in Danish not only to help her gain her strength and hearing, but to give her boyfriend the chance to feel the spirit. Unfortunately despite my invitation for him to pay attention to how he felt during the blessing he said he didn't feel anything special when it was over. Denied :( He wants to investigate further though so that's always a plus! I testified that it takes a looooot of work to gain a testimony a lot of the time. I know it did for me. 

We also got to go into the belly of the beast for Elder Lawless' langauge test in Copenhagen. It was a fun trip, that's the benefit of serving way for out in the boonies, we get vacations to Copenhagen sometimes! It was about a five hour train ride and so Elder Lawless put his sunglasses on me and took some indie pics. 

After we got back we had a little miracle happen with the drunk people I told you about last week. Instead of typing it again I'll jsut paste what I wrote to my president this week.

      We had an unexpected outcome the other day from knocking. We were on the last floor that we were going to knock and we skipped a door because there was incredibly loud party music playing behind it. As we were about to leave though Elder Lawless reminded me of a quote that I love. ''It's better to say oh well that what if''. We decided to ring the doorbell, and a very drunk man invited us in immediately. He turned off the music and soon him and his two friends were bombarding us with a zillion questions and rambling on in slurred Danish about their own individual opinions about God. We offered them a free book which just seemed like the coolest thing in the world to them, and got out of there after leaving a note that we would come back to talk about the book. We didn't expect anything to come out of it, but when we went back the same man recognized us and invited us in immediately again. He had read a chapter every day from the Book of Mormon with a girl that had been there the first night and had specific questions! They both have Book of Mormons now and expressed a desire to come to church. The man said the reason he likes us is that he feels a good energy about us and wants to learn more. I can't believe we almost skipped that door because of a little bit of music! Now instead of going home disappointed we were able to find people ready to listen to our message. 

Yup. That's my week. I still haven't really gotten over being sick, but hey... I'm alive :) I really love each and every one of you. The old me was kind of dumb for not appreciating what he had. Being out here helps to realize that trials really do strengthen us. If something is hard, appreciate it.

Till next week!

Ældste Durrant

Borups Alle 128 1.tv 

2000 Frederiksberg

Denmark