So let's see.... what a week. Well we did a lot of stuff and I had some great pictures but unfortunately I left my card reader back in the apartment so you don't get those today. What did happen though was a lot of work involving people who weren't home. Seriously Danes are never at their houses. I feel like that is the reason the work here moves slower than it should sometimes, because we spend forever getting to peoples houses and then they are just never there so we can never set appointments with them, and then missionaries get transferred and we lose contact. I was on splits in Taastrup this week with my MTC companion Elder Read on the one day that we got a few lessons in Holbæk this week so I had a week of travel. But we did get one of our friends to come to church! She has been meeting with us for the past little while and really likes what we say and really enjoyed church. Also she plans on coming next week as well! Score :)
Other than that I got to have a lot of real Danish Smørrebrød with some members in the ward. Basically you take rye bread and butter, and then add a bunch of weird sandwhich ingredients. I had pictures of the fancy open faced sandwhiches I made but, like I said, you guys don't get those this week. We also stopped by a way old graveyard while we were up in the northernmost part of our massive area. Fun stuff. It was really close to an insane asylum so that was interesting.
As far as work goes though, I've really loved seeing how much the church helps members here. We talk to a lot of people on the street, and half the time the people won't even stop walking long enough to let us say more than 'excuse me' before they blow us off or just say no no no no repeatedly. The ones that do stop to listen usually tell us that they believe in something but they aren't sure if it's God or something else... so I ask them how their faith has helped them in their life. NOBODY CAN EVER ANSWER IT. Holy cow... this one Danish man seriously stood there for like two minutes thinking and was like, ''I don't know how you want me to answer that, I've never thought about it'' so I asked him just to think of one thing that is better because he said he had faith in God. After thirty more seconds he just said ''I don't think I have an answer to that question'' and then excused himself. Seriously?!?!
The single most important question you could ever pose yourself in your entire life, what every other person in the world would die to finally have a sure knowledge one way or the other about, what wars have been fought over, lifes lost, and others changed forever - and you can't name a single thing the answer you believe to have found to the ever standing question of ''Findes der en Gud?'' has changed for you? I was admittedly a bit mad after that contact and way surprised.
Take the flip side for example. During a dinner with some of the members here me and Elder Enniss shared the scripture 2 Nephi 8:12 and asked the members what they had seen the ''Fruit'' in Lehi's vision do for them in thier lives. Their answer was completely flipped around, night and day compared to the man on the street. They asked if we had to be home anytime soon because if they were gonna list blessings the church had brought them than we were going to be there all afternoon. ''The easiest answer is everything'' they told us. But to be specific it they said it helped overcome conflicts, provide comfort in challenging situations, give friends with similar beliefs, a way to learn more, a place to express the feelings they had discovered and felt with their own personal experiences and had kept them from falling into countless bad situations, addictions, and provided their family with a tighter bond than anything else they had ever seen do.
That's what your answer to the question of ''Does God exist'' should do for you. That gave me hope that the fruit I have to share with other people on the street trully is the ''most desireable fruit'' and that I should have a huge desire to share it with my family around me in the world. This has happened repeatedly as we ask different members how their faith has helped them.
So ask yourself! What blessing have you seen or what blessings do you hope to get from your faith? I know I want it to strengthen my future family the way it does the members here in Denmark. Speaking of future families - holy cow everyone at home just needs to take two breaths and stop getting married! I'm going to have no friends left when I get home because they're all going to be married or still on missions. Good thing I still have a year before that happens though :)
Love you all! Write me big long letters and if you send any packages I would appreciate it if you included a few investigators in said package. Tak.
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