Hello everyone, This week has been very interesting! We began this week off by having a bunch of lessons on Tuesday as everyone wanted to say goodbye to Elder Webecke! We ended with a lot of good lessons and some hopeful contacts. As the first part of the title has explained, we went to Copenhagen and back this week. Sadly, we weren't there long and I had to say goodbye to Elder Webecke. We had a really good time together and I will miss him! The good thing was that I received another companion! With no further adieu, I would like to introduce you to Elder Jensen. He was born in California and lived there until we was 8 years old then moved to Utah where he has been ever since. He is 19 and also likes to swim. We spent a good amount of time talking during the trip back to the island. (We almost missed our bus back to the ferry when we got on a train going the wrong direction with his big suitcases!!!) All in all, I am looking forward to a new transfer with him. After we arrived back in our area, we began to get to work right away. We ended up teaching two lessons randomly when we went to a city a bit further from our apartment. We talked with them for a while and planned a time to be able to meet with them again! It all made for a good day! It's fun when things go better than we expect and we see these small miracles. The rest of the week was just planning as a companionship and as a distrikt! We got the chance to get everything worked out for our schedules and now we really are ready to get to work. Always good to get organized at the beginning of a transfer. There was however one experience this week when we were contacting on the streets of Rønne. We were walking around when we met a person that came from Elder Jensens last area who had talked with missionaries there. We talked with him and then he said that it was lovely seeing us and that he would love to meet again! It really goes again to show that we really are in the right places at the right time. Not a coincidence I think. This week as a part of my study I have been focusing on humility! It was a big thing that Christ exemplified and can honestly help a lot when it comes to missionary life! A lot of problems between missionaries and just people in the world comes from pride, which is the opposite of humility! Christ showed humility! He is the one that will lift us up and show us true grace and bring us true peace! Just like one of the talks in General Conference says and I quote,"We all need to be lifted up by the Lord with peace, with comfort, and most of all with personal revelation to counter the fear, darkness, and contention encompassing the world." (Elder Ronald A. Rasband, 2024 October General Konference)" As the other part of this email's title I would like to try my best to explain what I believe I heard about a folktale here on Bornholm about another race of people that lives on Bornholm under the ground. They have yet to have a picture taken but I have been convinced by the people that they exist! They are notoriously called the "Under-Jørdiske" or the under people. They have a massive folktale where some of them were thrown out of the ground in order to see the world but they ended up exploring and being seen by people. The notorious one is called Krølle Bølle. I have no true explanation other than that which was told to me in a very weird and complicated story in a dialect that I only half understood! Folklores are funny and creative. Well that's it folks! Thank you for reading today. Thank you everyone for your prayers and for the support! Love, Elder Lines

Hello everyone, 

This week has been very interesting! We began this week off by having a bunch of lessons on Tuesday as everyone wanted to say goodbye to Elder Webecke! We ended with a lot of good lessons and some hopeful contacts. As the first part of the title has explained, we went to Copenhagen and back this week. Sadly, we weren't there long and I had to say goodbye to Elder Webecke. We had a really good time together and I will miss him! 

The good thing was that I received another companion! With no further adieu, I would like to introduce you to Elder Jensen. He was born in California and lived there until we was 8 years old then moved to Utah where he has been ever since. He is 19 and also likes to swim. We spent a good amount of time talking during the trip back to the island. (We almost missed our bus back to the ferry when we got on a train going the wrong direction with his big suitcases!!!) All in all, I am looking forward to a new transfer with him.

After we arrived back in our area, we began to get to work right away. We ended up teaching two lessons randomly when we went to a city a bit further from our apartment. We talked with them for a while and planned a time to be able to meet with them again! It all made for a good day!  It's fun when things go better than we expect and we see these small miracles. 

The rest of the week was just planning as a companionship and as a distrikt! We got the chance to get everything worked out for our schedules and now we really are ready to get to work. Always good to get organized at the beginning of a transfer. There was however one experience  this week when we were contacting on the streets of Rønne.   We were walking around when we met a person that came from Elder Jensens last area who had talked with missionaries there. We talked with him and then he said that it was lovely seeing us and that he would love to meet again! It really goes again to show that we really are in the right places at the right time. Not a coincidence I think.

This week as a part of my study I have been focusing on humility! It was a big thing that Christ exemplified and can honestly help a lot when it comes to missionary life! A lot of problems between missionaries and just people in the world comes from pride, which is the opposite of humility! Christ showed humility! He is the one that will lift us up and show us true grace and bring us true peace! Just like one of the talks in General Conference says and I quote,"We all need to be lifted up by the Lord with peace, with comfort, and most of all with personal revelation to counter the fear, darkness, and contention encompassing the world." (Elder Ronald A. Rasband, 2024 October General Konference)"

As the other part of this email's title I would like to try my best to explain what I believe I heard about a folktale here on Bornholm about another race of people that lives on Bornholm under the ground. They have yet to have a picture taken but I have been convinced by the people that they exist! They are notoriously called the "Under-Jørdiske" or the under people. They have a massive folktale where some of them were thrown out of the ground in order to see the world but they ended up exploring and being seen by people. The notorious one is called Krølle Bølle. I have no true explanation other than that which was told to me in a very weird and complicated story in a dialect that I only half understood! Folklores are funny and creative. 

 

Well that's it folks! Thank you for reading today. Thank you everyone for your prayers and for the support! 

Love,

Elder Lines