I had the honor and priviledge to go on splits with Elder Durrant (on Tuesday) and Elder Hardy-Hansen & Elder Hawkes (on Wednesday). It was wonderful to get to know these Elders even more and to actually pick out things that could help me better. All of which I noticed showed a deep interest of working hard. On Wednesday, we spent some time finding in the morning and we actually contacted a man who is friends with Familie Hansen! He didn't show much interest in what we had to share, but he asked us if we all came from the USA. He told us that Robert and Gitte Hansen have told him much about us. We also had the opportunity to teach a middle aged woman named Gitte. She is interested about the church because her eight year old son is asking questions about the church. Missionaries have knocked on her door in the past and they gave her a Book of Mormon. She has told us that she reads from it all the time (little sections/ versus) and she even can see that it applies to life and she just loves it! We gave her Ether 12 last time and she reported back to us that she read it with her children! Elder Hardy-Hansen and Elder Hawkes gave us some good ideas on how we can help her progress even faster. It was also great because those 45 minutes went really fast and it was a really quick spiritual message with her.
On Friday we were able to meet Familie Hansen again. We invited the Bishop to come with us, but unfortunately he completely forgot. So we had to go in solo with the spirit. We were actually really baffeled on what to share with them. All that we had planned on was to talk and check with them on keeping the Word of Wisdom. They had a few more concerns on the Word of Wisdom. So we read it through with them. The miricale of the story is that Gitte told us that she has been smoking and drinking coffee since she was 12 years old. The reported to us that, when they started on Monday, they went from 15 cigarettes to 5 cigarettes a day! The 45 minutes came close to an end, we were closing up. But we had the impression to help them out even more and give them Priesthood blessings! We gave Gitte, Robert and Danni blessings. It was a very spiritual expierence for them. We could notice a difference with them when we went inside. They asked more friendly casual questions, instead of Why this? and why that? We went a little over time, but by the end Danni, the son, gave the closing prayer for the 1st time! He gave a wonderful prayer, very spiritual. He knew that he need to do it and he followed the promptings of the spirit. It helps out a ton, because we have been trying to get Gitte and Robert to pray out loud and they just have felt uncomfortable doing it. Now that Danni has done it, we feel that gives the parents more of an incentive to do it, because their kids are doing it! They all seem to take one small step at a time, but they are slowly working their way there. Unfortunately they weren't able to come to church this week but we have another appointment for next Thursday.
On Saturday was a very humbling day. Everyone seemed not to be home or they would not be there for appointments. It seemed like a day of finding for sure. We actually found out that we can save tons of time if we biked to Ishøj, Greve and Hundige (all take about 30 minutes from Taastrup, about the same if not faster than the bus routes) work the area with our bikes, than jump on the S-tog and use our bikes down in Solrød Strand and Jersie. It provided us with more working and finding time in the other areas, that seem like a huge chunk of time out of our days. We were able to find more people, find other people that have been hard to get contact, and make appointments for the up coming week!
Well I hope everyone can see and feel of the Hastening of the Work
around them! I truly can see it everyday! The Harvest is here, let's get
Reaping! Have a wonderful week everyone! Love you all!
-Ældste Jantzen Richard Read
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