Hey hey hey!
So I left Silkeborg like I said, and was Lucky enough to go to another awesome location in Holbæk. We live across the street from the Fjord (Not sure what it is in English... it's a part of the ocean that goes far into the land... sorry dad I fail at Geography haha).
Check it out
We go walking along a path by the fjord to contact people that are out, it's great!
I've been here in Holbæk for about a week now and I'm loving it. I went to the Roskilde Ward for the first time yesterday and it blew my mind. For the last 4 or 5 months I've been going to a tiny building with less than ten people each week and just struggled to have a normal church meeting. It was a huge contrast to see rows of pews filled with Danish families and hundreds of people listening to several different people baring their testimonies. It was actually a lot of fun! I remembered what normal church is like back home... people were coming in a little late to a seat in the back or else taking a crying baby outside and a young girl got advanced out of primary. In short? Awesome awesome awesome :)
So I have a car in this area, becasue it's so big. It's great to jsut drive through tons of open fields and Danish countryside. I drove for the first time in 10 months cause for some reason they accept American drivers licenses here! Elder Enniss my new companion has been in a car area for all 7 months that he's been here in Denmark so he helped me with the weird traffic Laws and keeping a look out for all the pesky bikes that I have to avoid.
The Ward here is in the middle of a 100 day fast where each day one person is fasting for missionary Work. We've seen the help! We stopped by a less active member who lived pretty far away and were able to talk to her about church. Turns out she misses church a lot and wants to come back! She loved the new Book of Mormon we gave her and she was way excited to look up the General Conference talk we gave her. The only problem is that she has no way to church. But guess what? The member we brought with us lives close to her and offered her a ride! Perfect situation and perfect time. Little miracle right there. Another great experience we've had was after we had been stopping by a lot of different people in Apartment complexes and weren't sure what to do with the rest of our time. We walked to a private Little spot and said a prayer and ended up deciding to try one last person who lived in an Apartment that we couldn't find... well we took off wakling towards where we thought it was and on the way I stopped a girl walking her dog with her headphones in. I told her we were out to talk to people about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and asked her if she'd heard about it. She said yes! I asked her how and I guess she'd been taught by missionaries before and has her own Book of Mormon. We got her number and will hopefully be in contact with her soon. Great! The Work here in Holbæk is really picking up, Elder Enniss contacted a lot of people and knocked a lot of doors the few weeks before I got here and now we have a huge list of people to stop by and meet with so I'm way thankful for that and super excited to see Things move forward here. Elder Enniss is way great! He comes from Bluffdale and we're having a blast. At this second while I'm writing this email he's over on a couch talking to a guy who was looking a little Down and from what I can hear he's really interested in the Book of Mormon and really wants to talk with us! Jo tak! I really do feel like I'm doing some of the best Work I ever have and being the sort of missionary I've been trying to be for a while now. The sickness doesn't bother me any more as long as I eat regularly throughout the day and don't overdo it so we've been able to hit the pavement and talk to everybody. I love it <3
Elder Enniss is done being a stud missioanry now. Here's a pictuer of him. I've been bad at Pictures this week so this one will have to do.
We're having a blast. I feel like I'm back home cause we have a little tiny enviornmentally friendly car that feels like my Honda Fitt haha. We were at an appointment with a family in the ward after church eating dinner and they were going off about how the other four missionaries at the table were all from America and how we all come from Utah and stuff and so me and Elder Enniss looked at each other and invented a story of how we could only communicate in Danish because neither of us were American. They asked us where we were from and I told them France. They all believed me straight up and were way impressed haha but when Elder Enniss tried to tell them he was from Latvia they didn't believe it for a second. Good times.
All in all I'm excited, excited to be in a big ward with a lot of youth and families and people that can come to lessons and relate to the investigators we have, excited to be able to get out and do what I haven't been able to do as well the last few months, excited to Skype home on Sunday, excited to have a bigger apartment, excited to meet the people of Holbæk and excited to be a missionary!
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