September 15

So This week consisted of Zone Training, Splits, and a Cold

     So the first two or three days of the week we had a normal amount of work, we were able to talk to some new individuals and place one Book of Mormom then came out zone training. Let’s just say our mission just took a giant stride in the right direction. So real quick the past few years have been a little different in the Denmark Mission but this year is the year of change. President Sederholm has set expectations for us to step up and some of them include having a higher plane of thought through changing the media that we listen to, having shorter lessons so instead of the traditional Danish Hukke 2 hour chat they are 15-20 minutes and we challenge everyone to baptism and help them work toward baptism every day. So we were given this counsel by the two general authorities that have come to visit in the past month but many missionaries were... stuck in the rut of the same things. At Zone training President Sederholm laid out the counsel we have been given, the blessings that will come, and then we turned around and started immediately. There were over 500 lessons in this past week, that is like triple from before.

     So splits, right after the conference I went to Horsens with the District Leader and we had splits, it was a ton on fun. We went to a new investigator class and had a discussion with three atheists. The points they made were all about things that I learned in Biology at BYU and so I knew the Church’s stand and I was able to shed a lot of light in the areas that they had questions. I was so glad for that class otherwise I would have been clueless but we didn't have much time to get into anything to deep. We then went to the single ward activity and helped this investigator meet some other people his age who believe in God and let them talk to him for a while. The next morning we studied and headed out to return to Silkeborg.

     A Cold: So Saturday night the members cooked a feast, and I mean it was a Christmas feast with this huge roast and all the traditional Danish sides well it ended with ice cream and American Pancakes (not at all Pancakes) but we left there and went back to the apartment to drop off the left overs and I did not feel good, still not used to the super dense food. The next day was church and I woke up with a slight fever and headache and today it is not any better, it is a bummer but the work will go on. We have had a lot of success following the counsel of president Sederholm and I hope to report more on it next week.

Love ya'll GV