Hello Everyone,
This week has been a mix of things and a lot of fun. We have been busy with the first week of the transfer trying to arrange our lives and get ourselves out on the streets to talk and invite others to come unto Christ. A big thing I realized is that the name of Christ is a scare for some Danish people as they have been basically Atheist most of their lives. Often we start out with questions about what their beliefs are on the purpose in life and what their ideas of life after death are. This usually strikes up good conversations but I know there are a lot of things to try and attempt before we rule them out. I am just happy to be in a place where I get to increase my skills and love the people with all my heart and all my mind. It really is a blessing to not worry about yourself as much and just try and worry about others. On top of that I have felt my Danish increasing in strength over the last couple of weeks which has been a huge blessing as I can now hold conversations on a few different topics!
So this week started out with a bit of rain. By a bit I mean a whole lot as we were soaked biking to the Church Building one day this week. We had to spend some of our studies drying off and since I have remembered to keep my rain pants and jacket in my bag so that does not happen again. This week has been a very good time for eating as we have been eating members everyday of the week. We have some very good and classic Danish meals and hope to be able to eat some more. Along the lines of food, one of our friends Janik is a professional chef that cooks vegetarian food and I will say it has got to be some of the best food and by those means the best vegetarian food I have ever tasted. (My parents once tricked me with a veggie burger that I swore was real meat...funny to think now I appreciate a bit of vegetarian food). We made some apple sauce with him and now I can say that I know how to make it! This has also been good as we have been able to connect with the members and have had them help us out with all of our lessons. I'm grateful.
The ending of this week was quite a bit more sad as on Saturday morning I woke up and noted to my companion that I kinda felt sick. Later on that day I had a 101 fever and a massive headache. This led to us staying inside all day Saturday and Sunday. Luckily, today I feel much better and have been able to get everything done that we need on this P Day. Part of me being sick meant that we became very bored so I turned to sleep on Saturday to recover but then on Sunday decided to watch some of the Book of Mormon videos to help time pass. In the end, it was a good time and since I am feeling better we have been able to cut back on our restrictions of going outside. This week will take a bit more energy as I did not sleep for the last two days though. I will say I am happy to feel the energy coming back! Sleep and health....both blessings.
One challenge this week that I will share on this email that kinda opened my eyes a bit is the shortness of the time I have to do this work. Two years seems like it is going by in the blink of an eye. I have seen almost 5 months pass me by and more to come in this work. This time goes by so fast and part of the joy is that we get to cherish the things we learn for the rest of our lives. Something that happened when I was sick was that motivation for me to work and do anything seemed to just disappear but something that brought me back to it was to hear the good experience one of our friends had with the members of this amazing ward! He responded to our text and said that the Church was amazing and that a member had been invited to help out with the ward. There are so many small things to be thankful for and I just wanna learn to see them all!
I hope you all have had amazing weeks and I wish the best to all that read this email!
Love from Denmark,
Elder Lines
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