Hello Everyone,
As the title of this email states we had a very busy week! I really can see why people say the mission can be one of the hardest experiences of your life! I can also see why people say that it impacted them so positively! This week although one of the harder weeks was very very good. We got to see the work progress in a new way and learned a lot of things about how we can be better missionaries!
This week began with a lot of lessons and activities where we contacted quite a few people and scheduled some lessons for other times! The biggest success was getting to have two lessons with our friend Klaus and showing him the church building. It's been so fun to teach and talk with him.
We ended up having a really good time and just learned that the light of the Gospel can really help people! For example, this week, when we were sitting on a bench outside of our apartment, we saw one of our friends that was walking down the street late at night. We stopped him and asked him how he was doing. He said that after coming to Bornholm he was a bit lonely and wanted to find some friends. And, he found us. We ended up having a good discussion about how the Book of Mormon has impacted our lives. We are so happy for the personal experiences that we get to share!
Another good thing that happened was that we got to give not one, not two, but three tours of the church building! Two of them were our friends and one of them was for a school project for some kids on the Island. We loved getting to show the building and share how our services work normally and how they work on the island due to it being a branch.
Overall, this week kept us on our toes and we ended the week with an eating appointment and interviews with President! The eating appointment is the title of email as we figured out that it is possible to buy land in England and claim the title of Lord through that. Which is what the Mogensen's did. The Father of the members family we were visiting for an eating appointment was gifted a piece of land by his daughter. This land legally gives him the right to change his name to Lord Knud. Its safe to say that I want this so badly. We took a picture of the token that represents his new Lordship and got a picture that I will share below! My message this week is that it definetely is cool that you can be called Lord (Insert Name) by buying land but it is even cooler that you can have such an impact on missionaries for so many years. The Mogenson family is legendary here on Bornholm and means so much to the branch and us missionaries. I would love to empasize how much a single family can make a mission so fun and memorable!
I had the opportunity this week to zoom in and watch the funeral of my step-grandpa, Tony Knudsen. I have lived near him for most of my life (like 90% of my life). Even though I knew him well, I learned so much from watching the funeral. It was so good to see and hear from family. I will really miss my grandpa and know that he is really proud of me and my mission. He is such a great example of goodness, hard work and faith. Faith and Family are really important to me and I feel very blessed.
Thank you everyone for reading! I hope you enjoyed and I will write you all next week!. Thank you for all of your prayers!
Love,
Elder Lines
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