I'm sitting here in the Roskilde library very confused and with about an hour of my email time wasted after being baraged by a Canadian man lecturing me on the importance on D&C 89 and 90:5... Apparently he like has the Doctrine and Covenants memorized but isn't a member. He rebuked me for eating meat in the summer time as well as the Joseph Smith Building for selling meat. I told him I'd love to talk to him another time but he's headed back to Canada soon, I hope he gets get hit in the head with a hockey puck =)
In other news I LOVE THE WARD HERE. We just spent our P-Day with four or five of the Young adults in the Ward that are either just back from missions or getting ready to head out and ate a ton of pizza. We got to go through the temple a couple of weeks back with two of them, one just had his farewell and is off to Scotland! The other is getting ready to leave to South Africa. Crazy stuff. We're really going to miss the kid heading to Scotland, not just because he's way awesome but he is like the only member we can bring to lessons at a moments notice. Oh well...
We did a ton of service this week for a Family in the Ward. Their Mother/Grandmother just died and they needed some help clearing a jungle out of their backyard. We took it Down and have the stinging nettle burns to show for it. (Sidenote: for some reasons these computers capitalize random letters... I don't have time to fix it thanks to my new Canadian friend.) This is the baby of the Family we helped though, Danish people just seem to look better all around whether it's a teenager, old person, or a baby...
Also, my friend Wesley that I have already told you a Little bit about has decided to get baptized! So I think I better explain the Whole story with him. He is from Sri Lanka and has lived in Denmark for like 20 something years. He's in the hospital because of some problems in the past he's had with alchohol (we think... we're not sure how severe the damage was) but he's doing a ton better and has started turning his life around. He's really emphatic about doing religious Work actually, he regrets not serving God earlier in his life and now that's all that he wants to do. He's seen how stopping alchohol has really helped his Family and he actually wants to introduce us to his Family as well! He told us that he had now realized that before he brings other people come to Christ he needs to bring himself. Let me repeat that.
Before we can help bring people come to Christ we need to bring ourselves.
He had kind of been acting like he was already a member but when this realization hit he was much more ready to learn and asked us to help him build a Foundation and learn the basics of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. Perfect! We shared the first lesson in it's fullness and he told us he was ready to do what was required to follow God, all he needed was for us to tell him what to do. I read a verse in 2 Nephi 31 to him about taking Christs name upon us by baptism and invited him to do it. He said of course! He wants to get baptized on August 8th =) I'm way excited! Hopefully his Family will follow suit. My goal for my entire mission is to have the privilige to convert a Family to the gospel whether it be by bringing them back or baptizing them, and this could be the moment I've been waiting a year for! Gah me and Elder Enniss are killing it here, we have so many people to talk to and a lot of people we expect in church each week! The area was almost dead a few months ago but Elder Enniss has been doing some serious Work here and I got to come in during the middle of it to help him push it even farther. Wesley originally discovered the church because a nurse told him about it and he felt a prompting to pursue it later in his life. Like I've already told you, he knows ''The time is now''. Becuase he wants to help others he is helping himself. I've definitely seen that on my mission. When I learn the material myself and do the Things that I know I need to be doing I am put in more Places where I can help others.
So if you wanna share the gospel with somebody back at home, you can always share it with yourself. We already know what we're supposed to do, question is if we're actually doing it. Actually praying with real intent, aactually reading the scriptures to learn something instead of checking a box off for the day.
Also the Turkish man whose shower we fixed may or may not have lung cancer... we're not sure we understood him right though. Turkish and Danish mixed is næsten uforståelig. So pray for him maybe?
Lastly, at the farewell for the missionary headed to Scotland there were a ton of people from Odense that came! It was great I got to see a ton of old friends again. I could understand them waaaaay better this time than I ever could when I was a missionary in their ward. It was tons of fun =)
So remember: Check yourself and make sure you're ready to help those around you that stand in need of help! Just saying :)
Ældste Durrant
Borups Alle 128 1.tv
2000 Frederiksberg
Denmark
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