September 10, 2012

Hej! Godt dag! Jeg har ikke tid denne ude til skrive jer. Unskue mig!

No time to write this week, so I have to make it short.

This week was seriously weird. The week was busy with lots of work in big

towns. Per warning, don't eat a TON of food before going out to work. It

makes you tired and your companion grumpy.

But anyway, we had splits this week! Cool! We did it back to back with

District meeting so I basically spent the past two days in Randers area.

Kinda crazy, but you learn a lot from splits. Oh, and I also at some of the

best Kebabs and pizza I've ever eaten before.

 We played some American Football with the District after the meeting. That

was super fun, but it proved that no matter how much you walk, you can

still be very out of shape. Working out in the morning is still very

important. My body ached for the next few days, but it was great.

So me and Elder Berry, went to go street contacting on the Gågade (shopping

street) and we forgot it was a Lørdag (Saturday) so NOBODY was there. Oops.

The few people we did contact were... well... Elder Berry has talked to

them before. He accidentally contacted this one old lady, that he referred

to as the devil lady. We sorta started talking to her, but there she just

started criticizing us about how bad our Danish is. We're barely 3 and 5

months out! We finally ended the conversation. Elder Berry said that she

was still a child of God, but he emphasized that she was a MEAN child of

god. So I thought that was pretty funny. I can just play the ignorant card

when talking to such people.

Oh and lately I've begun the develop a bad habit of not closing doors. I

either forget to or just don't. I find I forget the fridge a lot, the front

door, cabinets, etc. But the lesson that makes the day came while we were

on splits. We'd returned to the Randers apartment, our day pretty much

done, our body's still very sore from football. I was the last one in the

door and I THOUGHT I closed it but I guess I didn't. It's a weird door and

didn't shut all the way. So we Elders are just sitting there chilling,

waiting for the train, and suddenly we hear something at the door. I

thought, no big deal, it is the wind, which was blowing though and making

noise earlier. But suddenly Elder Arts jumps up and goes for the door, and

suddenly we hear a voice that is not familiar to us. So we all jump us and

this random guy is in the apartment. Not cool. So he starts talking to us,

and we are friendly back but not moving to let him in at all. Very

surprisingly he invites us all next door to come visit. So we all agree and

go out, shutting the door firmly behind us. We went over and hygge and end

up telling him and his friend to whom he was staying at, who we are and

what we do. We proceeded to teach him a strong lesson, with powerful

testimonies bared, and the presence to the Sprit very strong behind us. His

friend & friend's girlfriend were listening too. It was super cool and a

very random. We as missionaries are in the Lords work. We need to be

prepared to teach whenever the opportunity presents itself. And it's all the

Lords work. In the many opportunities that present themselves its all the

Lords hand. We still have to work for it, but the Lord will make up the

difference. When it really comes down to it, we are nothing and the Lord is

everything in this work. We ended on a good note with him and he wants to

hear more. So that's really happy. Too bad it wasn't in our area. So that's

how forgetting to close doors opens new ones. Just remember to close the

fridge door.

That's the story for this week.

Trust in the Lord with all thy strength!

Bestest wishes to the world!

Ældste Tyler Christensen