Danish
word of the week: Dejligt (die-leet) It means whatever you want it to mean. They literally
use this word to describe everything good. It means, wonderful, nice, great,
lovely, delightful...it's one of those words where if you don't know what to
say you can just say “Dejligt!” and as long as they're talking about something
happy, they'll think you know exactly what's going on. It's great. It's one of
my favorite words.
Ok-training. As far as I know, I'm
not training. Yet. None of the Visas came through for the group that's leaving
the MTC, so they're all getting reassigned to Arizona for a little bit. BUT,
some of them could have their VISAS come in next week and then they would just
do transfers a week late and then I still might be a trainer...or not. Who
knows?! Not me, that's for darn sure. Basically I have no idea what's going on.
Neither does President. All I know is
that my companion is leaving me next Monday and I don't know what to do
with my life after that. She is my everything. I'll keep you posted
on that. I'm not panicking I'm fine; it's fine. I'm fine.
Also, no one is allowed to say that people don't get baptized in Denmark
anymore! Our mission had five
baptisms this weekend! It was fantastic. One of them was the man the
Sisters we live with have been teaching, and another was baptized into our
ward. It was a great day. The hastening
of the work is happening all over the world-even way over here in Denmark! J
We had a really fun service project
on Saturday. Our whole stake volunteered at a plejehjem (a nursing home) and it
was honestly one of the best service projects I've ever been a part of! It was
a blast. They had electric tandem bikes, a ton of crafts, baking, music (one of
the old men was a jazz pianist so he tore it up on the piano), and everyone was
just so happy that we were there. We had a great turn-out. Søster Handley and I
made friends with an old lady and her daughter who was visiting her for the
day. I made her a necklace and we ate lunch together. They were so fun. They
were impressed with the church and how many people had shown up to help.
They asked a lot of questions about missionary work and were very nice about my
Danish. I was just so proud of our Stake! Service is such a great way to
connect with people in the community and we really had a fun day with all
of them.
Funny
story though-one of the stations that
Søster Handley and I were assigned to work was called <stol
gymnastik> which means...apparently...chair exercise. But it
sounds a lot like gymnastics, doesn't it? We were very confused. We went
in to watch a class one morning to get an idea of what that meant, and the
physical therapist at the nursing home explained that it was basically children's games - just
anything to get them moving around a little bit and having fun. There were
about 15 of them sitting in a circle and they played “keep the balloon in
the air” and played with one of those parachute things that they bring
into elementary gym classes. Simple things like that. So that's what we
planned for. When we were at that station,
there was an old man there who was just not having it. We were
warming up-sitting down and stretching our arms and things like that, and he
just kept asking “what are we doing?”
... he was not
amused by the balloon game, it was just going really badly. And so
finally I asked him if he had a favorite sport, and he told us he was a gymnast. Like in the Olympics. stol GYMNASTIK. He
thought that we would be doing gymnastics, and he just could not understand why
he was sitting in a chair bouncing a balloon back and forth with a bunch of
American kids. So. That was hilarious.
We went to Vor Frue Kirke (Our Lady's Church) last
P-Day. That's the church that has the original
Kristus statue in it, along with statues
of all of the original 12 apostles. It was SO beautiful! The man who
created those statues all of those years ago was way more in tune than I think
any of us realize. Right above the Kristus statue were the words, “Denne
er min søn, den elskelige, hør ham” (This is my son, the beloved, hear Him!)
Almost the exact same words as were spoken in the first vision. Coincidence? I
think not. I got chills when I saw that! It was a powerful experience
to be in that room. The statue of the Apostle Peter shows him
holding a set of keys, a symbol for the keys to the church or the Priesthood
keys. Elder Bednar went to Vor Frue Kirke before he had that meeting with
us last month and he testified to us that Thomas S. Monson holds
those same Priesthood keys today.
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Original Christus Statue
I'm so grateful to be on a mission in
Denmark. So many miracles are happening every day. Most of them are small, many
of them I will never see the full results of, but I know that they happen. We
all have a much greater influence on the people around us than we can fully
realize. I know that this is where I'm supposed to be right now.
It sounds like everything is going
well at home! I
love you all so much and think of you often. I'm so grateful to have such a
fabulous family. Keep being your wonderful, hilarious selves.
Have a great week! Talk to you soon!
Love, Søster VO
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