So this is what Elder Burton's slogan was during weekly planning.
We actually fell quite short of our mark this week as far as numbers go. But then again we taught three lessons which is a lot more than other areas in the misison. We actually had a stellar week in general. Ten teaching appointments set up for next week!
It would be easy to think of my mission as a struggle because of the lack of numbers. But I'm on my mission to declare to these people the message of truth. It's not about the number of people that accept it as much as it is the amount of people who have the opportunity to hear it. Of course the fun part is when somebody gets to change they're life around but hey, I'm learning a TON and am where I'm supposed to be =)
We had Banana Splits again. I love visiting Tåstrup with my good friend Elder Christensen. He's basically the best person ever other than the fact that he's gonna go to BYU after the mission.
I also got spanked by a drunk guy because I was being obedient. Long story. So basically we have to drive less than 2200 kilometers each month in our car. Well we were getting really close to our limit... too close. I chanced a drive out to Viby for a lesson with a potential investigator which went great but when we got to the church in Roskilde to eat lunch we realized that we would end up about 9 kilometers short on the drive back. I called the office to see if we could just get it excused but they said it would involve the office in Salt Lake and yaddah yaddah tons of paper work and what not and so I said forget it we'll just stick to our limit. Well a little part of me just wanted to drive the distance anyway and report the extra kilometers on next months report. I thought about it a bit more and decided that although it really wouldn't hurt anybody and that nobody would ever even know... it was dishonest. If you had taken the Elder Durrant from any other time in my life I would have just said that it was stupid and that we were still following the spirit of the law and then I would have driven home and never thought about it again.
Well that's not what we did. We drove part way back, and found a parking spot in the woods about 10 or 11 kilometers outside of Holbæk and walked back.... a long ways back. I thought while we were walking that I wasn't following the rule to show off to anybody that I was obedient and that I also wasn't following the rule because I was scared of breaking it. That should be how it is, and we should be able to expect blessings because of it right? Well we saw nothing on the way home other than a lot of fields. Took almost two hours.
The blessing for holding the principal of obedience didn't show itself on the walk home. But I still didn't feel mad about our choice. It was the right one.
The next day for some weird reason I wanted to walk out to the car instead of bike there. We got the new set of kilometers, and we had a bike rack. But we walked instead. On the way there we remembered we had to buy a seed for an object lesson we were going to do later that day. Well in the grocery store we found in an area of town we never really walk through a worker asked us if we were mormons. We said yes and he told us that he'd met with some before and was actually texting some missionaries that lived in Holbæk. I was confused but he pulled out his iPhone and showed me a message from ''Ældste Burton og Ældste Durrant''... What the! This guy was Casper! A really awesome young guy that Elder Enniss had been working with that had been impossible to get a hold of! I'd been texting him for the last three months and never met him or gotten very many replies! We never would have found him if we hadn't been walking back to our car that day!
Well we set up a lesson with him this week, and because we were going to be on splits I decided to go show Elder Burton where he lived. On the way there we got stopped by a drunk guy. He told us this crazy story and kept referring to us as 'Jesus People'. In the middle of the conversation a girl our age we'd talked to on the street before and given a pamphlet to walked by and waved and I was torn in half by everything that was happening. I wanted to go see if she'd read the book but the drunk guy was telling me all about some monk in Guatamala that had apparently led him on and then not answered his calls... The girl turned the corner and was gone. Sad :( I turned back to the drunk guy and told him about the Book of Mormon but he'd just remembered he was on his way to ''That Island'' and pointed somewhere off shore and started to walk away. As he went by he spanked me............. and then smiled at me. *Shiver*
Well we found him again with his friend about ten minutes later still looking for the boat to take them to ''the island''. We talked to them for like 20 minutes and found out there names. My new drunk friend Lasse told me he was rich (all drunk people think they are rich) and I gave him a Book of Mormon. At first the other guy Henrik wasn't too keen on it all. But I bore testimony of the Book and all of a sudden Henriks eyes changed and we wanted to see the Book. Lasse got this huge grin on his face and held it out of reach and started taunting the other guy. Too funny. We got them both books and actually found Lasse's house yesterday. He actually is rich... it's a mansion! We were lucky I found the right street because all Lasse said was the ''Angel Road'' and pointed completely the wrong direction. He remembered us and is willing to meet in the future. He was a wife and a little girl! Just another testimony that we're lead out here. We never would have found this family or the other guy Casper if we had driven home. Also we wouldn't have seen the girl on the street again. Maybe that helped her? I don't know.
Ældste Durrant
Borups Alle 128 1.tv
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