November 10

 

So this week has been a lot of fun with our celebration of thanksgiving a reactivation, branch conference, and to end news about transfers.

 

Thanks giving, we traveled to Århus for a zone conference/training and it was great. This month was all about finding and talking to everyone that we can possible make contact with, including contacting on bikes and other crazy stuff. I we got some more ideas on how to contact but I mean life is every changing and to be good at contacting you just have to be ridiculously outgoing, talking to anyone and everyone that would listen. The best contactor I have seen is just a very easy going kid who is really good at cracking jokes and that is how he starts all of his contacts with a great joke and a complement or something like that. I will be trying the new stuff out in the next couple weeks and see how good I can get at connecting with people in a split second.

 

After the training we had lunch it was a great deal of turkey and mashed potatoes, I ate three servings of each because you don't see that every day here. Then came the talent show, the tripanionship put on a little reenactment of the night before Christmas with a mission transfers theme. There were lots of talents from guitar to violin and singing and skits, just missionaries that wanted to relax and have some fun. And like all great thanksgivings there was football, we had two zones and a lot of people to play so we split up in districts and had some fun with it, nothing to competitive but just a lot of running around which is just not possible as a missionary. On the way home we got on the train covered with mud and looking for some people to talk to on the train ride home, I plopped down next to the nearest college kid and started talking a little about his math book, the subject that he was studying and why (at this point he switched to English) and we started talking about differences in the culture of Danish and really every where else, some of the most important things that we are supposed to do in life and why we thing they are so. I started into the differences in religions and then to Joseph Smith but he soon lost interest. I then just asked him a lot of questions about how to say things in danish and he ended up just laughing at my attempts to pronounce them. Then I brought up Christmas and some of their traditions that they have in his family and the train ride was over. I was not the most successful contact I have ever had but it was the one where I was most like myself, I am almost to the point where I can be myself in danish but there is  a lot more work to be done before I am there.

 

Branch Conference- so a less active that we have been working to help come back to church has been coming on and off since my second transfer here and this last week she has been coming enough to be reclassified as active wowowoowowowowowo that is great for her, and we are working on setting a date for her to work towards the temple. At branch conference we meet the new stake President and enjoyed a great meal prepared by the ladies in the ward.

 

Today I learned that I am going to Fredricks Berg which is in down town Copenhagen and is a 4 man Apartment with the assistants so I will be able to ask some of the best danish speaking missionaries about questions I have every day.