September 17, 2012

 Hello! Hej! Godt dag!

Busy week with the many people we meet. Many miles we walk.

This week we had a branch movie night. That was really great to build up

the ward. They watched 'The other side of heaven' but me and my companion

couldn't stay because no less active or investigator had come. Rats. We

were able to go afterwards to the snacking time, where we ate fløeboller,

(chocolate covered marshmallow cream things. DELICOUS) and hung out with the

members. It was a great!

The work progresses slowly in Skive. Our investigators are hard to meet

with and our less actives even more. We did have a fantastic Zone Training

this week. I love those meetings so much, because they refocus your work

for the week. It's a great blessing and if you take the right notes, a

powerful learning experience. And my mission president grows in my eyes. He

is an incredible man of god. He has a astounding testimony of the Atonement

and of The Son. As he bore his testimony of it, the Sprit in the room was

incredibly powerful and there was nothing you could say that could deny it.

It spoke absolute truth.

Random story for the week. Me and my companion were walking down a small

walkway, and right to my left was this black cat. As my companion walked by

him, I looked at the cat and said ''I dare you to cross my path cat.'' No

sooner had I said that then right in front of me, this black cat walked

right across my path. oops. Good thing I'm not superstitious.

Oh. And the bus system is super cool lately. I feel cool just riding them.

The picture says why.

Study for the week was the will of the Lord. All things according to his

will. We need to sync our will with His. How do we do that? Several ways.

Start at 3rd Nephi 5:13-14. Exercises greater faith in Christ. All things

according to the will of God. All things asked in the Spirit are the will of

God. (D&C46:30)  There is great faith required in doing these things. They

can be also formed through scripture study, frequent prayer and fasting, and

also priesthood blessings. And do all these actions in the name of Jesus

Christ, the Son of God, who has Atoned for our sins, so we can be free

from them and our weaknesses. Obedience is the Key to bringing your will to

Gods.

That's my tidbit for the week! Yes I am still alive. And just so you all

know, it rains a LOT here. It's sunny and it still rains. Go figure.

;-) Ældste Tyler Christensen

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

September 3, 2012

Hej!

...

Kinda a bland greeting, isn't it?

But no problem! It's the thought that counts right? Mmm... Nope not when

work is involved. Like taking out the trash. If you just use a though, then

nothing really is accomplished. But ya know whatever. Sometimes the thought

does count. I'm rambling in circles.

Where to begin? This week was pretty slow in regards to work. It just was

an off week. We tried knocking some towns in the middle of nowhere and they

were super negative. Like we weren't even able to teach them lessons on the

doorstep.

Most of our investigators were either sick, or couldn't meet. The ones we

did meet up with, we had sorta... unfocused lessons. One of the people we

taught asked if we wanted some pizzas to eat while we were there. uh... no

need to go out of your way to do that... But anyway, cool. Where does to

line come where being a jerk by turning somebody down becomes necessary?

There was this kinda funny event. We were buying some food, and the server

guy started talking to us. He identified us as religious, and asked us what

we were. Christian? Protestant? I told him were Mormon. His response was

curious. ''Oh yeah, we're Mormon too.'' Um... Yea, sure, I don't know if

you quite understand what I mean... but sure we both believe in Christ.

Maybe next time, we can talk about it.

Danish is improving! Yay! I can follow most conversations if I focus, but

it's still lots of hard work. More language study!

We knocked a middle of nowhere town again. Two this time actually. Knocking

in small towns = super less effective. The most non positive I've seen on my

mission. They weren't exactly negative, but nobody listened to us at all.

Rats. Lots of farmland out there. Oh and I saw the BIGGEST DOG EVER. Easily

up to my chest in size. The bark freaked us out bad. Domesticated dogs are

ok, but those farm ones.... uhugglie.

Not a whole lot this week. Or time either. But that ok. Work goes forward.

Read about the Nephite wars this week. There is some aspects of Spiritual

gold in there. Alma 57:21? Fantastic. I'll let you look it up. About the

stripling warriors. Yes. I hope I remembered that scripture right.

Ældste Christensen

At the local theme park called "Somerland".