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| Cool international market right outside our Apartment! Tons of people and had people and food from all across Europe! |
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| MTC Group at Copenhagen Temple for a "Specialized Training" |
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| Getting pizza at the specialized training |
After the meeting we got to go to the temple and see the
newest temple video in English! Everything about it was so beautiful. I just
haven't been able to stop thinking about it.
We went on splits with the Svendborg Elders this week.
Ældste Jewkes was up here in Odense with me. It was a great experience and we
learned a lot about being bold and loving in our teaching.
While on splits we taught F******, the man from the Faroe
Islands who came to Thomas's baptism. It was a pretty good lesson. We focused
on the Restoration/Gospel of Jesus Christ. He really liked all the things we
told him. The biggest problem for him is testimony. He likes everything he
hears but he says he doesn't know yet that it's true. So we'll definitely be
talking more about testimony in our next appointment with him.
Ældste Jewkes and I visited J*** J****** as well. Because
of his age and an accident he was in, he has a hard time remembering all the
Things that we taught him, so we decided to go through the Restoration Again.
He remembered a fair amount, but there were definitely some key points that
need reviewing and re-explaining. He said he believed that Joseph Smith saw God
the Father and Jesus Christ. So that's great! He also said that if he finds out
that the church is true that he will be baptized. So, again, we'll focus on
receiving that answer with him!
So we met with Martin [a recently reactivated member] this week. We first met with him
after CUV to talk about going on a mission again and the lesson went really
well. He then expressed that he felt like he needed to go back to Slovakia soon
to help build up the church in his homeland. We gave him a Blessing of guidance
to help him in his decision of what he should do.
A couple days later I saw him for about a minute where he
told me he might be leaving sooner than he thought. I told him to make sure to
call us when he found out when he was going.
On Friday we got a call from Martin. He told us he decided to leave the
next day, Saturday, so he wanted to see us before he left. We talked for a little
bit, talked about his plans, and then said goodbye. I also gave him one of my
ties and told him I expected him to wear it the day he enters the MTC to begin
his full-time mission. I really hope he gets out on a mission. I'm a little
worried for him but we have his email, so we'll stay in contact with him.
S**** is an interesting man. We met him for our first
time a couple weeks ago. He invited us over to eat that week with some of his
friends and he prepared a really fancy meal for all of us and we were able to
hygge [translation: have fun] a little
bit and get to know all of them. Unfortunately, we didn't have too much time to
really discuss the doctrine of the church. It was more of us answering
questions about what we did as missionaries and why we decided to be
missionaries.
But, this week, we got another appointment with him. He
fed us Again. It was actually pretty funny, because when we got there the door
was open but the house was completely empty. We kept calling for him to see if
he was around, but there was no answer. We waited for around 20 minutes. We
started getting worried that he died and he was just lying dead in his house.
Right when we were thinking about going in to investigate, S**** showed up.
Turns out, he went to pick us up from the bus stop, but we took a shortcut so
we didn't meet on the way back!
Anyway, we met with him personally this time and it was a
great appointment. He isn't really religious but he respects everybody. By the
end of the lesson he agreed to go with us to church. He came, but it was a little
weird. Because it was Ward Conference this week the classes were first and
sacrament meeting was last. So we were in Priesthood and S**** was sitting with
us for the first 10 minutes. But right when we split off to go to our separate
classes he just got up and left! Apparently he just wanted a taste of it and he
thought that was enough...a little disappointing, but it happens.
We introduced The Doctrine and Covenants because he had
some questions about it. He has a copy of it now so we read the introduction
and some of our favorite sections with him. He loves D&C 4. He wants us to
print it out so he can put it on his wall. He's doing great!
We had a great Ward picnic this week. It was just like
being back at the states. We went to this beautiful location in Nyborg right
next to the beach. It was so much fun. We played a lot of games. We did the egg
on the spoon race: Me vs. Ældste Mogensen and the Bishop. Way fun!
I also played piano for both musical numbers in both wards
here on Sunday. So much piano! I'm probably going to have to start telling some
people no because we have other things to do than play in Sacrament Meetings.
But I do love playing.
Oh, speaking of that, the lady that is in charge of the
Primary told me that she's going to find me a beautiful Danish girl to marry so
that I can move here to Odense and continue to play piano for the Primary. So,
just thought I'd give your some forewarning about that. ;)
Thanks for everything you do! I love you all! Have a
great week!
MKH,
-Ældste Wawro
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