Okay so for those of you who do not know danish Jo tak (pronounced like "yo talk") means yes please and is a very common danish expression. I love it. I probably overuse it but oh well.
This week has just been a "jo tak" kind of week.
More and more members are opening their homes up and getting excited about the missionary work that they see happening here. For example, we brought Ashley to this older member's home. Her name is Eva and she loves LOVES the gospel. She was so excited to open her home up to us and Ashley and she enjoyed herself so much that she offered her home again for us to come over there and teach him and so we taught him over at her house twice and she invited him over for dinner with us and the elders tonight. Seeing Ashley's growth and change is a modern day miracle.
Things are going well with David too. We had a really good lesson with him at a member's house about the Atonement. The spirit was definitely present but he says it is very hard for him to understand or relate to the things we tell him. He's making more friends in the church so that is good. He comes to CUV every tuesday and I think he's getting to the point where he would feel comfortable going without us there which would be really great. He's awesome.
We had a good meeting with two young men.We met them on the street 3 or 4 weeks ago and then we finally were able to set up an appointment with them. They came with a lot of questions and kept asking us one after the other so that unfortunately we didn't have time to teach them a whole lot. But we set things straight and told them we would love to answer all of their questions about Joseph smith and the three different worlds after we die, but we would want to answer them another time. And then they also told us "Hey, we were talking together and we would really love to come see a church service at your church if we can. is that possible?" I said "jo tak!" that would definitely possible. So they will be coming this sunday.
Also, yesterday our friend Joakim came to church. He is from Sweden and is a professional ballroom dancer. Yes, pretty legit. He came to church and we played sharades in our guest class and he got way into it.
Another fun thing about this week is that we were invited over twice by our good friend Duyen (from vietnman) for a vietnamese bbq and then a taste of a vietnamese dessert. I love Duyen. She doesn't speak danish or very much english but she is so loving and open. her husband speaks some danish and no english so meeting with them is lots of fun. Most of the time they talk to each other in vietnamese while Søster Ripa and I sit there and smile. And then we point out scriptures in a vietnamese book of mormon for them to read.
Hmmm, I feel like some other stuff happened this week....lots of it...but I can't remember/I'm too lazy to write it all. I'll try to see if I can get some pictures sent again.
I love you all! Jeg elsker jer!
Love Diana
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