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| The famous Little Mermaid statue |
Your favorite Danish representative of Christ is back again on the email train. Honestly, it feels like I hit send and then suddenly it is Monday again. Mission time is wild.
This week was not as exciting as some others but very funny. I would try to explain all of the jokes made in an eating appointment with four American missionaries and four Danes, but I don't think the English translations will make anyone laugh. I was laughing so hard I was crying during the whole eating appointment.... So was everyone else.
We had another eating appointment with our good friend and mission leader. Eventually I asked the question what his favorite book was and he said blue.....at first, I wondered if he meant a blue book---en blå bog. That was my utterly confused response. Maybe the Book of Mormon? He then just said he always puts blue in his paintings.... I had to laugh. I must have really messed up my Danish question. Just for the record, the word for book and color are not even similar in the slightest.... I'm still not sure where this conversation was going. Either way, it was tough to keep the laughter down.
We went on splits with the office elders and the Roskilde elders. Overall it was a good experience knocking doors and contacting with them. We met a lot of interesting people with the new missionary serving in Roskilde. It was probably was a good thing he couldn't understand everything they said to us, if you know what I mean. Small blessings, amiright??
We had a good lesson with Mette. She dove into some deep doctrinal topics with us.... oh boy. But luckily we could answer pretty much everything. We found a fire scripture to help solidify that Jesus created the earth under the direction of the Father. Hebrews 1:1-3 for all my missionary friends out there. Let's be real here, y'all probably teach more than me so you probably already knew that one. But it was a great testimony solidifier for me! :)
We got to tune into Iceland Zone Conference and give a training there. I really hope to go there in person some time. Fingers crossed!
I also got a haircut from one of my favorite members here in Slagelse today. I will never forget getting lined up and a nice trim from my 80ish-year-old good friend Anny. Whatta legend.
Facts of the week:
- There are statues and monuments all around Denmark that are dedicated to or based off of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales. Kinda sick. He wrote a ton like The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, Thumbelina, Princess and the Pea, etc. etc. etc.
- There are no mountains here at all. The highest point is 550 feet above sea level.
- Denmark on average gets 171 days of rain or snow a year.
Anyways, this is long. Have a good week!
Love from den lille havfrue, (the little mermaid)
Ældste Modersitzki
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| Haircut day! |
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