Greetings from Århus!
I am extremely depressed to tell you that this will be the last time you here
those words...for I will be transferring this week. And the lucky place I'll be
traveling to is...*drum roll please*...
RANDERS!!
Good ole' Randers.
Funny enough, I was on splits with the District Leader in Randers the day
before I found out! Lucky for me I get transferred to the closest area possible
to Århus. It's even in the same district!
I really have mixed
feelings about this, and unfortunately most of them are sad. I have come to
really love the people here. I've loved the missionaries I've lived with. I'm
also leaving right before the big ward baptismal date where three investigators
are getting baptized! I really wanted to be there till the end to help our two
investigators be ready for their baptismal date, but at least I'll be able to
go to the baptism! I'm also very sad because one of the zone leaders I've been
living with, Ældste Whitlock, is moving to Copenhagen because he's being made
the new assistant! So we won't really see him at all anymore, he's on the
opposite side of Denmark.
I am excited for Randers though. It's a great city and I've loved being there the few times I've
gone. Actually, last time I was there I contacted a man and placed a Book of
Mormon with him. Turns out he actually came to church this last Sunday! So now
I'll be able to start teaching him too. I thought that was pretty cool. Also,
my new companion, Ældste Petersen, came to Denmark the same day I did, so we
are going to need a lot of help from Heavenly Father with our teaching and
communicating in Danish! It's a little nerve-racking, but I suppose it all
comes down to hard work and faith and He will take care of the rest!
This last week was pretty fun. We did a whole bunch of random activities. We played tennis with an investigator on Monday, went bowling for a Zone Activity on Thursday, and did some other random things! It was a way fun week.
As for our
investigators, we had a great experience with that new investigator we picked
up from Ms. Greenland. He was so excited to hear the Joseph Smith story.
Honestly, I am so glad that that lesson is first because it is the lesson we
get to teach the most and I love it even more every time we teach. We really
are so blessed to be some of the few people who get to live in this last
dispensation with the knowledge of the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. Anyway,
we invited him to baptism and he said if he prays and finds out it's true he
will be definitely be baptized!! Also, it's also a little bit more of a miracle
how open he is because he's actually Muslim. We teach and talk to a lot of
people who are Muslim here.
We also had a little
bit of a miracle today. We were at an IKEA store and out of nowhere a random
lady ran up to us and introduced herself. Turns out she is an inactive member
who loves the missionaries and have been looking out for them since she moved
to Denmark. She's lived all around the world but originally comes from Utah.
She even served a mission in Argentina! So she invited us to her house and the
missionaries here in Århus will be able to meet with her in the future! It was
amazing how the Lord made us take the wrong bus so we had to walk a long ways
to get to IKEA, made my missionary fund debit card not work so we needed to be
held up in line while we received assistance, and then placed us exactly where
we needed to be when we needed to be there so we could run into her. Being on a
mission is awesome.
It's so great to about
all of your experiences! I'm glad you had a good time at Girls Camp Casey. It is
way cool Nathan gets to be a counselor [at the Utah Muscular Dystrophy Camp],
and it sounds like Haley had an amazing time in New York! Oh, also thanks for
all the songs Dad! I seriously love the Joseph Smith Musical and listen to it
every day in the morning and evening! Last P-Day I actually created a playlist
titled "The Life of Joseph Smith" and combined Rob Gardner’s Joseph
Smith Musical and Brett Raymond’s The First Light. I also use Dave Tinney's
version of A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief because I love his version. It is
amazing how good Rob Gardner really is! Every time I hear his version of The
Spirit of God, it's just amazing! Mom, you will have to tell Ethan Evans hi
back for me! Oh, and tell me where Ben is going! I still don't know!! I'm glad
you're watching the District. I had to watch different clips from it every day
for training. I love it.
Sorry about not
sending pictures last time, but I didn't really have any pictures to
send...that's ok because I definitely am making it up this week! Remember that
I love you all and am keeping you in my prayers!
Med Kærlighed,
Ældste Christian
Patrick Wawro
I am excited for Randers though. It's a great city and I've loved being there the few times I've gone. Actually, last time I was there I contacted a man and placed a Book of Mormon with him. Turns out he actually came to church this last Sunday! So now I'll be able to start teaching him too. I thought that was pretty cool. Also, my new companion, Ældste Petersen, came to Denmark the same day I did, so we are going to need a lot of help from Heavenly Father with our teaching and communicating in Danish! It's a little nerve-racking, but I suppose it all comes down to hard work and faith and He will take care of the rest!
This last week was pretty fun. We did a whole bunch of random activities. We played tennis with an investigator on Monday, went bowling for a Zone Activity on Thursday, and did some other random things! It was a way fun week.
No comments:
Post a Comment