Monday, November 25, 2013

Happy Thanksgiving

Hello Everyone,
I hope everything is going fine and well back at home! HAPPY THANKSGIVING! If anybody asks, it doesn't exist here. Bummer.... Oh well we had a Zone Conference and the Senior missionaries made us an American Thanksgiving so that was fantastic. After Halloween was over they started setting up for Christmas! Even today we saw a huge truck bring a huge Christmas Tree to Birkerød.
I've had a few people ask about Danish Christmas's and to make it short they have a lot of traditions. Which I am sure I will be sharing with you in the coming weeks. I know one thing is that we eat A LOT! This will be interesting.... =) Can't wait for it to warm back up so I can go running again haha.

Well me and Elder King have busted out the Thermals. Man it makes such a difference. We have also converted to our winter socks. It's getting colder here. We stayed over night with the Hillerød Elders (Elder Ogden and Elder Earl). We came back to the train station and their was frost all over my Bike!!!! Yah it's winter. But the GRASS is still GREEN! What's up with that? But because we have the thermals and the winter socks we are having a hard time staying warm and being over heated! No doubt I am warm all the time now, but because we are on Bikes, it gets hot really fast inside our wind proof/ winter jackets. So when we get a moment we have to air ourselves out after riding hahaha. Elder King says this is about the coldest it gets. Which is not to bad I must say. So Mom don't worry! =)
Update for the week, we have been able to meet with Michael Williams and he is super positive. He believes everything that we have said and he has gotten an answer about our message. He told us that anything to do with Jesus Christ he likes and believes. We are still pushing with him to keep reading and prepare for December 21st.
Also we received a referral from Brother Jens Andersen (previous Mission President of Denmark and our ward mission leader). While we were doing service for Brother Andersen, a couple weeks ago, we were able to meet with his neighbors and help them out with planting hedges. We thought it was a fantastic opportunity to share the gospel with them. They were super positive when we left and they are potential investigators. But Brother Andersen's other neighbors were planting hedges as well and heard us Elders speaking English. They talked with Brother Andersen and they want us to teach their daughter and her friend English! We are met with them last night after Brother Andersen's open house. They are super positive and we made an appointment to go teach their 11 year old daughter.

It is just a miracle that we had the intention of going to try to find interest with Brother Andersen's 1st neighbors. But instead the Lord put his other neighbors in ear shot to hear us speak English. And now we have the opportunity to share the Gospel with them. They want to pay us, but Brother Andersen already explained the situation that we won't take money but we will take dinner! So we get dinner out of this and the opportunity for them to ask us questions and to learn our message. I am so excited because their are 3 potential investigators. Than Elder King told me this is a wonderful opportunity to have my Danish explode. I hope that to be the case.

I will admit that it has been a miracle and a blessing with how much I have learned and have in the Danish language. We met with Finn P. and I thought about it for a second... ''Man 2 months ago I didn't understand this man at all'' And here I am having a conversation with him. We also had in encounter with American Exchange students on the train. They have been taking Danish since August and not to judge, but their Danish wasn't great. haha. I know that I have been truly blessed with what I have now. I am so grateful that the Lord blesses his children with these gifts, so that we are able to communicate our message with everyone in their native lands.
Well I thank you all for all the support and love you have given me. I hope you have an amazing Thanksgiving and Black Friday haha. (Turns out our black friday/ monthly thing is in January. Side note. haha) I hope everyone gets the opportunity to take Elder Ballard's challenge and to help find one person that they can help bring to this Gospel. The clock is ticking.. I'm looking at my watch and we have one month left. I know as you truly look for opportunities to serve the Lord will give you his Spirit. The time is now. And even after Christmas we can continue to help others. This is something that has been asked of us. ''Every Member a Missionary.'' ''Hasten the Work of Salvation'' ''The time is NOW''. I am so grateful that I have the opportunity to share the Gospel this Christmas season with the people in Denmark. As President Sederholm has said, ''Let us focus our thoughts on the Savior this next month and what we can give'' I love you all!
-Elder Jantzen Richard Read
One of the best Flint finding moments I found by the Train Schedules. Love you FLINT!
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I didn't forget about you (Paisley) and Mandie. Unfortunately I am unable to see this on my mission. hahahah. Love you PAIS!!!Inline image 3Inline image 4
Frederiksborg Slot (Castle) Last preperation day.

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