Oh my word. Oh mit ord. Haha Sister Hale and I have an awesome friend here in Aarhus and him and I joke about danglish all the time and we say "oh mit ord" lots. He also calls us mangsters because we are mormon gangsters. I apparently come off as a gangster sometimes when talking to people on the street.
Anyways, you want to know something terrible about missions? (Rolig Rolig, it's not really terrible). But SO much happens in one week and every time something remotely interesting happens you think "Oh! I have to tell my family about this!" and then you reach monday and you sit down in front of a computer and you think "uhhh...." and your mind goes blank and you remember one or two of the less-than-exciting experiences you've had and those are the ones you share with everyone. At least, this is a problem I've experienced throughout my whole mission.
So what did I do this week? Wait...I seriously cannot remember, let me grab my planner. Seriously, my planner is my brain. If i don't have it, it's like I forgot my brain. Let's see, I'll just go through the highlights of my week day by day in a list.
Monday
Sister Hale and I went to a beach because we had a few hours free and it was awesome. No one was at the beach, they were all in the city and we had it all to ourselves to just sit and play guitar and take naps. One of the best Pday activities ever. And then we met David there and taught him about gratitude and appreciating life. We gave him a little notebook so he could write down all the things he's grateful for. Also, when we took the bus together, he dared me to contact like everyone on the bus, which I normally don't do. But I can't resist a dare, especially when it comes to missionary work.
Tuesday
Not much happened tuesday. We met with an 87 year old danish woman who lives just down the street from us. She is sweet.
We also saw this English guy we met last week again. He's in a band and also has his own solo albums. Check him out for me and see if he's any good. Go tobandcamp.com and look for "Jimmy Biggs".
Wednesday
Oh Wednesday was kinda crazy. I made a rookie mistake. We had planned on traveling out to a few surrounding towns and meet with some people and contact a referral. But when we arrived in the first town, I realized we had forgotten the addresses of the people we had planned to stop by and the map...and also because of the trouble with our phone, we had nobody's numbers so yes...that was fun. Luckily, thanks to the help of the wonderful Sisters at the mission office and also thanks to some helpful, danish window washers, we were able to find our way and make all of our appointments. I think that no matter how long I'm on my mission, I'll still always make silly mistakes and forget things like that. Sådanne er livet bare.
But later that night we went to our friend Nina's house and she threw us a late surprise birthday party. We ate McDonalds and she gave us the best gifts. I got an apron and oven mits, which I was super happy for.
Thursday
We helped Maria move some stuff in her house (because she can't really move after her surgery). Then we saw our good friend Ashley and read Ether 12 with him in the library. That was nice. Then we went to the hospital to visit a member. I have visited a hospital and a nursing home I think once a week if not more since I've come to Aarhus. Oh and then Thursday night we met with a really cool guy from Estonia.
Friday
....okay, I'm getting tired of this...haha, nothing cool happened on friday. Oh, except for we taught a Jewish lady and she laughed in our faces when we told her the book of mormon was written specifically for her. But she's willing to read it despite her sarastic laughter in Sister Hale's face.
Saturday
Saturday was awesome. We got up early and went to see a baptism in Randers with David. Also, David's grandparents live in Randers and he wanted us to meet them. So we had the chance to go and quickly stop by and eat some strawberry cake with them and gave them a book of mormon.
Later that night, we were able to see our good friend Isaac from Ghana. He is awesome. He understands the Bible so well and just gets it when it comes to being a follower of Christ. Now all we have to do is get him to really put some effort into reading the Book of Mormon.
Sunday
Ah, Sunday, what a great day. We went to church and had three visitors come as well. Well, David isn't really a visitor anymore because he's come so many times now. It's all old news to him. But we had this amazing lady named Mahtab come. She is from afghanistan and is seriously one of the most amazing people I know. She met the elders in Sønderborg and went to church with them once and then the Elders gave us her number and we called and she asked if we could pick her up and go to church together with her. We said of course! And she came and loved it.
After church, we went over to a Vietnamese couple that live right above a Japanese restaurant. They made us homemade sushi for lunch. it was delicious.
Then that night we saw Nina again and taught about fasting. She's great. She just is so patient with us when we struggle to explain a principle or doctrine and she just understands the gospel so well.
Okay, So that was my week. Hopefully that wasn't too boring for you. I love you all so much and hope you have a wonderful week!
MKH Søster Briscoe
