Well hello everyone! It has been a very first interesting week in
Sønderborg. So of course I practically come on the trasfer when all the Danish
people go on vacation for a couple weeks (in the summer). Me and Elder
Willardson have been spending the week finding more people to share the Gospel
with. It's amazing even though practically everyone is on vacation, there are
still a few ´who would like us to come back. It's been quite the journey. Let me
tell you about the crazy week!
This Whole entire week I have been fighting with the cities in
Sønderborg, Taastrup, and Birkerød. For some reason the city of Taastrup never
accepted me to live in there city (wow after 4 months of living there haha). So
evidently I have been living in Birkerød for the last 9 months of my mission
haha. We luckily had the miracle of getting the Whole problem resoloved. It took
practically the entire week to do it. haha.
On the day for district meeting Elder Willardson got confused for what
time the trains came and we missed our train by minuttes. So Elder Willardson
drive like crazy (while abiding by the law =) and drove us to Rødkro because
the next' train wasn't going to come for another 2 hours. We amazingly made our
train and got there luckily 15 minutes early.
We were able to teach a new convert named Adrea Pedersen. She is so
awsome! She has been a member for just under a year and is preparing to go to
the temple in October!!!!!! She is so excited and we are so excited for her.
Let me put this in perspective of how many people are on vacation.
Sunday we came to church and the
entire Branch Presidency was gone on vacation. So because there were 10
people present (1/2 came from Germany for a visit and the other from Sjælland =)
the branch President told the NeXT in charge to have a testimony meeting. It was
a pretty neat expeirience!
Later that evening me and Elder Willardson were knocking. I saw a
couple from inside there window, trying to flag us to get off their street. We
ignored them and pretended like we didn't see them. So we continued on and tried
knocking a families door. Danish doors sometimes are hard to find. And in this
case we walked around 1/2 of the house than walked back. We heard some voices
from inside and a slam of a door. So we picked the closest door and knocked on
it. The owner/father came running out. Luckily he calmed Down after seeing there
was no robbery. Than the neighbors started yelling at us from across the street
haah. We talked with the father and he went back inside, not interested and with
a smile on his face =) We went over to their neighbors, because they were still
yelling at us. So we walked over. The man told me to get my hands out of my
pocket haha. And told us (in the edited version and nice way) to please get off
the street and we had no buisness being here. So we walked away, he went inside
his home than we went to his other neighbor, he came back out and said ''Didn't
you understand what I said'' ''Get off our street!'''. I couldn't help but yell
ou ''So how do you know that they are not interested'' Than he told us to beat
it and watched us all the way Down to the end of the street. The second time on
my mission that I have been kicked out of a neighborhood haha. It was really
fun-
Well one lesson learned is that there is always some people that will
be closed off and sometimes aggrivated about us sharing the truth. But that's
okay. We are here to help everyone and give everyone the chance to accept the
Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. We have to respect everyones Agency in the long
run. But one thing to remember is that there are stil many WHO are looking for
the truth because they know not where to find it. Sometimes they don't even know
that they were looking. I hope you all have a wonderful week! Watch out for
angry neighbors =) Love you all!!
-Ældste Jantzen Richard Read
P.S. We found this shirt in our Apartment. It's so legendary it has a few
of my companions on it =) Love you Elder Lindstrom!
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