There was also a family here in the ward that invited us out for the evening to a traditional witch burning on the grounds of an old castle! The mission president gave us special permission to stay out with them until around 11 o'clock at night because we have a way good...... ah crap I can only think of ''forhold'.... it means relationship but I don't feel like that's right. Anyway a good relationship with their son that's less active. It was so much fun to see with them, the son is in a rock band so we hit it off with music and watched the Danes sing and light a massive bonfire to burn a witch. She weighed the same as a duck so I'm pretty sure that it was legit ;)
Also their daughter Mathilde is five and she captured my heart.
She told me all about her fifth birthday on the car ride home and then gave me flowers. I saved them in my journal. No judging. Basically they're the funnest family ever and I had a great time and me and Elder Enniss made some great progress getting the son involved in the spiritual thought and just getting him to be open to missionaries in general. He's a way awesome guy.
Here's a picture with the castle in the distant background.... I failed to get a better picture.
We've also been able to do a TON of service this week. I haven't done so much service my entire mission.... we've been two heldige kartofler. A family in the ward has had some problems, the father is very sick and the grandma just passed away and now they're having problems with the government here trying to take their kids for some reason I don't understand. Anyway we got to help them fix up a ton of things around their house including removing a jungle out of their backyard and building a fence and tons of other things. Also a man in the ward sent us over to his friends house who isn't a member to help her out as well. Me and Elder Read my faithful old MTC companion sawed a zillion branches off an apple tree and bundled them up to be burned. She was super happy for the help and way interested in how we'd learned Danish and stuff. She gave us some amazing smørrebrød and sent us on our way! We're gonna go back in a little bit to do some more stuff in her yard later. Her husband passed away so she needs the help when she can get it. On top of that we did some yard work for the lady next door to the family in the ward we helped out cause she was curious why we were helping them and then accepted our offer to her. So lot of lots of yardwork. Yaaaaay.
We also had a lot of appointments all over the place these last two days so we brought the other two elders that serve in our ward over to our area to help us. We taught a muslim couple that is way interested in what we believe and what we think happen to people when they die so we're excited to see them learn about the Plan of Salvation! There was also a man who referred himself to us after meeting the missionaries at a thing called Folkemødet. If you wanna know what it is then google it... Anyway I talked to him on the phone and invited him to come to church, and he did! I sat with him for all three meetings and he is way super nice. He wants to discover his own personal believes! Finally someone who is actually looking for something! You have no idea how rare that is here. Everyone just wants to do exactly what they have been doing for the last 182843 years. But yeah it was fun to be with the other two elders for the last two days, Elder Read is in my ward and we figured this was the closest to our year mark that we'd be together so we celebrated by going to a restaurant right on the ocean! It's a Jensens which is the only nice restaurant that missionaries can afford haha.
I took you up mom on buying me and my comp lunch and saved it for this day with a little bit of my personal money cause I figured you didn't expect me to get this kind of a lunch. But Elder Enniss says thanks!
Anyway, I'm really enjoying my time here. So much happened this week I feel like I've only reported the random side adventures but we've been doing some good old fashion work at the same time as the fun service projects and castle trips with less actives. My good friend Jonas (I don't remember if I've told you about him.... but he's Athiest.) Agreed to try a prayer for the first time in his life! He had to cancel our appointment last saturday but hey I can wait a few days to see how it went! We've also had a few people respond positively while knocking doors and I've realized I don't even have to worry about or doubt my Danish before I open my mouth, regardless of the situation or idea I can get through it just as I talk instead of thinking ahead which has been fun to really feel fluent. Some Danes still change to English just cause they like to... but hey you can't win them all.
Anyway, I better wrap up. But I have more stories like getting lost on the way to an appointment way in the middle of nowhere cause the other missionaries took our car keys by accident... or Ed Sheeran being on the cover of the most popular Danish magazine which drove me crazy all week, or the naked guy we gave a book too still being naked when we went back again and accusing us of trying to deceive him, or all the thoughts and ideas and discoveries I've made in studies and the awesome members here and finding a Danish twin and contacting a lady who looked a lot like my mom and then finding out that she's good friends with another lady we're in contact with... haha that one is actually kind of neat. I need to explain further. We talked to her by the ocean and I kept thinking that she just looked like you mom! She took a joseph smith pamphlet and actually highlighted it with a pen the same way you do a lot of papers and wants to talk about specific parts of it. We're meeting with her this week hopefully. It just kind of blew my mind because she was your doppelganger but she was speaking Danish...
Point being, I feel like I'll never be able to convey all the stories I have in a week in just one email, but I hope this gives you a glimpse of the week I've had. Love you all and I hope everything is going great at home. If you love me send me music ;)
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