Singing in the Rain

Hey everyone! Yet another week in Denmark. It rained incredibly hard this morning... like more than I've seen in Denmark so far which is impressive considering I've been here during the two biggest hurricanes in Denmarks history. So of course for exercise me and Elder Burton grabbed some shorts and went running in our sandals out onto the fjord. I had kind of an interesting realization moment standing on the docks of Holbæk.

It was early in the morning, raining, cold, wet, the whole sky was gray with clouds... I hadn't seen my family, or listened to the music I like, gone to a single movie, seen any of my friends, had a good nights sleep uninterrupted by an alarm, or even been in my home country for more than a year... And I was happy. I don't know, it was just kind of interesting to realize that as long as I had the knowledge that I have now and my attitude the rest of everything couldn't really have power over me to get me down. If you asked me a while ago how I'd feel about being in the rain in probably the most Godless country in the world early in the morning on a mission I probably would have told you that it would be miserable. But I really enjoyed it :)  

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Speaking of being happy what makes people more happy than parrots? 

Not much. The couple we ate dinner with this week had a pet parrot that was tons of fun. ​Then they fed us lamb t-bone steak. That was exciting. After the dinner was over the wife asked us to give her a priesthood blessing. She's from Portugal and is working for some large bank business or something and has just gotten a very interesting job offer from some other something... I don't remember exactly. Anyway point being she wanted council and asked us for a blessing. Now let me tell you exactly what happens when somebody mentions a priesthood blessing. My heart skips a beat, and then every single thought or action I've ever had or done that was bad runs through my mind at a million miles an hour. Well this time I told myself that that's just stupid because I'm living the way I should and those thoughts were garbage. She asked me specifically to give the blessing and so I did. Right after I said amen she told me that in the blessing I'd actually answered a specific prayer she's had for years that had nothing to do with the job problem she's experienced or anything she'd mentioned to me... She didn't tell me exactly what prayer that was or what answer I gave to her but she seemed super grateful for whatever it was that I said. Great experience :) 

The work has been going alright here. A lot of people on vacation and others being lame and not talking with us but the work goes forward! It's incredible that with the success rate we have while street contacting that we can still manage to be fairly busy throughout the week. I can only imagine the craziness of putting the petal to the metal in an area where people actually enjoy talking about God. That would be lovely :) Maybe this rain will hold up and Denmark will realize they have to repent or be flooded? I can only hope! Haha just kidding. 

Love you all. Stay sharp! I'm out of time :) 

Ældste Durrant                        

Borups Alle 128 1.tv                  

2000 Frederiksberg

Denmark