It's been one of those weeks =)
This week was Chirstmas week in the Sønderborg branch. We had a party after church with a ton of food and it was great! We all sang Danish Christmas songs and the kids danced around the Christmas tree with Santa Claus. There were quite a few peope that showed up including the stake president. The kids put on a manger scene for us.
We've been doing our best to take advantage of the Christmas spirit. We've finally found something that the Danish people enjoy us doing after we knock on their door - Singing! We've been caroling all week with pretty good results. A guitar verse of Silent Night has helped us give out quite a lot of material to people and gotten us in contact with a few people that are normally hard to find. It's also way easier than a normal door approach again and again. Christmas is great :)
The Christmas initiative the church is putting on though is really great. We have ''He Is The Gift'' cards we're handing out (if you haven't seen the video go change that) and they work way well! We've come across a couple people knocking doors that became interested in the cards when I don't think they would have been interested if we offered our normal stuff.
Oh, and while caroling we saw a big windmill in the distance. This just had to happen.
And in case you were wondering this isn't even that late at night. It just is constantly dark here.
I got a little letter in the mail this week from my Mission President. I don't know if it's a big deal in other missions but here we call it the ''Death Letter''. Every missionary gets it when they have six months left and it has our exact release date on it. I have six months left starting tomorrow... I'll be released June 16th! Very odd. I've finished my sister mission haha =) It's gone by so fast! Only six months left to enjoy this wonderful country. I've seen a ton of changes in myself, and hope to polish it off by helping as many others as I can in this next little bit.
I'm making a list of things to accomplish these last six months and setting some goals as to what I want to do with the last bit of my mission. Any suggestions? I think I can say one of the biggest differences I've seen in myself is that I truly believe now that we are more happy when we are doing what we're supposed to. I used to think the rules in the mission were petty and that a lot of the time they were just there to control the idiots that had broken the normal rules in the past. Well I've been changing my mind about that a lot, in particular the mission rule about music. I've obeyed it my whole mission for the most part, but recently the songs I've listened to have been getting slightly more and more oriented towards the world and not on the work. Nothing extreme mind you :) But what I've noticed now is that those songs draw my mind more towards home. Now that might now be the worst thing in the world, but after a while it starts to get me down and makes me sad about everything I'm missing. The last week or so I've actually desired to listen to the most uplifting music I could and actually didn't like songs that even though they were approved just didn't set my mind the right way. It's definitely a stark change to my normal self =) But I know I'm supposed to be here for the next six months so why drag my mood down by listening to stuff that makes me want to be somewhere else doing something different? Conclusion: Humans are short-minded, God is not. Once again though, those dang desires are hard to change! Makes me wonder what other little changes I could make in myself that would make my life a lot better.
Anywho wish me luck as I start the fourth lap in my mission mile, it's usually the fastest and most important one of them all! Love you all and I'm looking forward to Skype here in a bit!
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