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| 2013 Christmas in July Card with Elders Elsbury, Whitlock and Wawro |
Glædelig Jul i Juli!! [Translation: Merry Christmas in July] We were happy enough to
celebrate Christmas in July once again here in the Danish Copenhagen Mission!
Do you remember the pictures from last year? If not, I'll send it again! Ældste
Whitlock, Ældste Elsbury, and I decided to start this holiday called Jul i
Juli, and despite the sinister plots of Ældste Lindstrom, we prevailed in
celebrating that great national holiday we started! And you know what? This
year everybody remembered our picture because it got sent throughout the
mission, and this year missionaries from all different places in Denmark have
been celebrating Jul i Juli! There has been music in the air, Christmas trees
and decorations set up in the apartments, and great pictures taken. Who knew
that everybody would remember that random event from last year? Pretty awesome.
First things first. That is awesome that you saw Ældste
Huffaker this week! He told me recently that he works at Brick Oven. We still
email each other quite often, I miss that guy. I hope he is doing well!
Random Question: Hey mom, I would really like to make so
Mexican beans. Do you have a good recipe that I could get? And any other recipes
I would definitely love to get as well!
Now, a little about the work:
We met with ******* a couple times this week. She is
really doing great. She came to church again! Unfortunately, she told us that
she is going to be moving to Birkerød around the end of this week, so we won't
be able to continue teaching her. We've been helping her with the move, though,
and the ward has really been rallying up to help her as she prepares to leave
this next week. She will be missed, but I'm sure the missionaries in Birkerød
will do a great job fellowshipping her.
I also had the opportunity to go out on splits with
Ældste Wright in Ballerup [Elder Wright
is from Elder Wawro’s home stake in Orem, Utah]. I'll begin by saying that
Ældste Wright is a very impressive missionary. You can see his desire to do his
best and he is very diligent in almost every aspect of the work. Besides it
being fun because we come from the same Stake and High School, I was able to
learn a lot from him. I really look forward to continue working with him in the
future and to learn from his example!
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Me and Elder Wright wearing one Giant Suitcoat!!
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The missionaries in Ballerup live in a house! There are
four missionaries there: Ældste Jewkes (Yes, the very same), Ældste Wilsher
(From England), Ældste Eisert (From my MTC Group), and Ældste Wright. It's a
way nice area and, again, tons of fun.
While on splits, Ældste Wright and I went knocking and were
able to find somebody who seems pretty positive. She is from Africa but speaks
Danish. Of course, she has a strong belief in God and Christ, but she didn't
really feel like she needed to hear anything more from us. Luckily, we were
able to introduce the Book of Mormon with her and that instantly changed her
attitude. So she invited us to come back another day and talk more about the chapter
we gave her to read.
We had a HUGE service project with some of the other
missionaries out in the middle of nowhere. Ældste Wright and I had to bike way
out in the country to get to it. I didn't even know they had country on
Sjælland! But it was so worth it. We had to remove all the leaves from this
large lawn, dig up all the rocks, and flatten the land again. It was extremely
hot and hard work, but it was so much fun. The best part was seeing how
grateful this man was. He wants to move to the States so he can be with his
family that has already moved over there, but he needs to be here until he can
sell the house which he is renovating. He has been doing everything himself,
until we got there. You could see he was touched, and that made it all worth it.
Afterwards, Ældste Wright and I went to visit some people
who ended up not being able to meet, but some kids came up to us and started
asking us a lot of questions! Kids always love talking to us for some reason,
it's great! They were way excited to hear we were from America and thought we
were way cool. The best part, though, was that one of their older brothers was
watching them kind of from afar and because we made such a good impression on
them we were able to give him a Book of Mormon! I really hope that's turns out
to help them.
Here's a funny story:
Here in Denmark it gets really humid, right? So when it
gets relatively hot it feels like you're going to die. They also don't have air
conditioning here so it can get pretty bad sometimes. Well, we were in church
yesterday and everybody looked like they were going to die. So it got to 88
degrees Fahrenheit and everyone looked like they were going to die. Well, at
the end of the Sacrament Meeting the 1st Councilor announced that they would be
cancelling Sunday School because it was too hot! Good thing we don’t live in
Africa or South America!
Yeah, that's everything that I can think of that was
exciting. I love you all and can't wait to hear from you next week!
MKH,
-Ældste Wawro
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