Hello Hello Hello!
It's still great to be on the Island! All the snow has
melted, but we've got that nasty wind back. Luckily, it's not too bad and Elder
Redd and I just keep trudging along!
Hey, I'm also supposed to tell you not to worry, all the
missionaries are safe. I don't know if you've heard about the shooting that
happened in Copenhagen this weekend, but the church has taken good procedures
to make sure that no missionaries are around the vicinity where it happened.
And really, with us two being on Bornholm, it really makes us not have to
worry. So don't worry! :)
I'm glad to hear Casey had a great birthday! She's grown
up so fast! And congratulations to Nathan on making it into the MDT Program!!!
That's amazing! Sounds like things are going well with the family.
It actually has been quite a miraculous week. The
miracles started on Monday with a random potential investigator. There actually
was written a random address on our whiteboard with no name on it. I'd always
wondered what it was, but the address was in village called Arnager so I just
never thought much about it. Well, Elder Redd and I decided that we might as
well give it a shot, so we decided to bike out to Arnager. It was pitch black
and the only light we had was a light I've attached to the front of the bike.
Because so much of Bornholm is rural, you need a light or else you can't even
see the path that you're on. Little did we know that this path would bring us
through the middle of a forest! Ha, we had to bike so slowly to make sure we
didn't run into anything!
But don't worry, we arrived in safety to Arnager. The
interesting thing about Arnager is that when the missionaries came for the
first time in the beginning of this dispensation, it was Arnager that the
entire town was converted and moved to America. They even had to defend the
missionaries from a mob at one point in time! The city used to be a big city,
but now there's hardly anyone there because they all moved to Utah to build up
Zion! So it's a pretty special place.
Well, we arrived and found the house. A man answered the
door, and he told us he believes in all religions. He was way nice though and
willing to listen. His wife came out and she was way nice to us, and they both
said that we were always welcome to come back. Then their cat came out of the
house and started walking around us and wanting to be petted by us. They were
dumbfounded, because apparently the cat hates strangers and NEVER goes around
them. So they kept commenting about how there must be something special about
us, some special energy. Then we started to leave and the cat kept on following
us! Ha, they were so surprised! But they are excited to see us again, we'll see
if we can baptize the rest of Arnager!
We had a great experience with [the newly baptized member] Jessica Dalberg. So she was still over
until Thursday this last week, so she took us out to lunch and we were able to
teach her daughter a little to help her get ready for her baptism over in
Copenhagen. We had a great time, but the best part was when we had to meet up
with Jessica's sister, K*. The missionaries actually have met with K* before I
got to the island, but she dropped us when I tried to set up an appointment.
Her husband is really against the church. Anyway, we got to talk to her and we
were able to set up service at her farm. They have been really busy because
they own the only shoe repair shop on the island and have a ton of property to
take care of. Hopefully service can open their hearts so they can be more open
to the message in the future.
Saturday was a pretty crazy day. We bought a day-pass for
the bus so that we could visit all of the investigators that we normally cannot
get to because we generally have to bike everywhere. We began our morning by
going to a town named Olsker. Now, I thought Olsker was a lot bigger than it
actually was! It's really in the middle of nowhere and hardly anyone lives
there. We had 3 stop-bys, one was in at a Rehab Center and the other 2 lived
way far out in the country. Because we took the bus, we didn't have our bikes
so we had to walk. We walked a ton! One lady was actually way nice and we'll
try to stop by her again. The other one turned out to be a complete hippie! He
owns this farm where he tries to save all the animals on the Island so he has
like 30 horses and donkies, sheep, mules, all sorts of animals. Way nice guy,
but a pretty crazy experience! The rest of the time was spent up in Allinge,
Sandvige, and Hasle and that all went pretty well.
We've continued to be really blessed with teaching lots
of lessons. We've had a few member presents, going out to Gudhjem with Frants
to visit L* and S*, we've found a couple more investigators, and things just
seem to be going great. Our investigators are progressing! It's just getting
people to make that next step of accepting a baptismal date. We've been
inviting lots, hopefully it will really hit home with one of them soon. But we
actually have a few investigators that are getting close.
On Sunday we had 2 investigators come to church. One of
them was T* again! We never would have guessed that out of all of our
investigators he would have been the one to come two weeks in a row!
The second person was J*. She has been doing so well. She
has been reading in the Book of Mormon almost every day, and now she's come to
church. She seemed to really like it and the members did a great job at
reaching out to her. She especially has been getting along with the Mogensens,
and Patrice invited her over to dinner on Thursday! Hopefully that would work
out, because with the combination of her reading and her getting friends in the
church, that could give her the desire she needs to take the next step. We
invited her to baptism, and she definitely has a few hesitations, but if she
continues as she has been doing she will be baptized.
Well, I love you all! Hope you enjoy these pictures of
the sunset, it was pretty amazing! Have a great week!
-Ældste Wawro
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