We taught a decent amount this week. The problem here seems to be that we can't fit everything into our schedule which is a nice change from my last area where we worried about what we could do all day. The interesting stories always come while we're busy. For example this week we taught a man who has been meeting with missionaries for a while. He lets a lot of people stay at his home as a kind of service and there was one lady who had been staying at his house for the last several months. Well in the middle of our discussion with this man she packed up all her stuff and told him she was moving on because she didn't feel safe at his house and then stormed out carrying everything she owned. Definitely interrupted the talk haha! Apparetnly she had escaped from a psych ward in Holland and had somehow found her way to a random corner of Denmark. The people we meet here...... Anywho lesson crashed because he got way distracted and upset. So we kind of just left.
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Also talk a wicked smart man named Jacob, for the first time in a long time I felt like somebodies arguments stood up to my own. He's crazy learned on all science and religion and is a stalwart atheist at the moment. I learned I can't really go at it with him from a science standpoint because his arguments kind of punched mine in the face. He's way nice though and it helped me remember I just have to stick to the basics a lot of the time and that spiritual matters are a bit different than everything else we learn about on this earth. Lesson learned :)
Then just a few days ago a really hard storm hit Northern Jylland where I'm serving. We got news about it and advice to stay inside or close to where we could be safe while we were on a bus to a far corner of our area. Oops! Well we decided just to do it anyway and ended up battling our way through sheets of rain blowing sideways and showed up at some mans door looking like drowned rats. He let us in though and we taught a great first lesson which ended in him saying he'd come to church! Unfortunately he didn't... but oh well. I was just glad the bus system kept running through the storm or else we would have been in big trouble.
Another story I've gotta tell - we met with Abdi again, the man with skitzo. He's doing so well! He has a great understanding of his situation telling us about how he's in the facility because he knows there is something wrong with his mind and that he knows it's because of all the horrible things that happened in his youth. He made his own plan of how to overcome it and part of it involved stopping smoking! We talked about the word of wisdom and he took out his last pack of ciggarettes and handed them to me and told me to throw them out on my way home. I did, but I kept the box for a memory of it.
Hopefully he'll see some progress soon and move back to his normal low security place so he can have a bit more freedom. He really likes our visits and say they help him a lot. Love the guy.
Anywho, we're working with a lot of great people and we play basketball every Wednesday which was my birthday! I'm twenty years old now! :( That's so weird! Thanks to all of you who sent me birthday wishes! I'm really starting to realize that the time for everything I've ever thought about doing on my mission is now cause the clocks ticking times up over pow and I'll snap back to reality.
Love you all, gotta run! Til next time :)
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