Danish Word of the Week: Julekoncert (YOO-luh-kon-SAIRT) Christmas
Concert
Hey family!
So this week we finally got our
training on how to start incorporating family history service into missionary
work! We are so excited. We got these fancy new pass-along cards and
everything-which is probably not a big deal to you but it is a big deal to us
because the old family history cards literally put people to sleep. It's a big
improvement. :)
Danes already keep really detailed
records-a lot of families have a family history book with all kinds of
pictures, stories, and birth certificates.
So we're going to tell them about this great website called Family Search
(maybe you've heard of it :) and we have like four lessons to help them get
started with it. We don't try to teach them about the church unless they ask.
(which they always do). It's a great idea
because it's just pure service. We help people with something that's
important to them with no strings attached, and then after they start getting
to know us, asking questions, and finding out that we're not weirdos, we
can teach more.
Sister Ferguson and I have
discovered that this is the key to success with knocking houses! Usually
knocking houses is a rough time because people won't even hold the door open
long enough to hear where we're from, but with family history we have had good
conversations like every other door! It's crazy! We found a handful of
people this week that we're going to start helping! I really like pretending to be a family history expert. It's fun.
But seriously, did you know that the
church stores their family history records in a high security vault in the side
of a mountain? You could drop a nuclear bomb on that place and the family
records wouldn't be damaged. PRESERVE THE GENERATION CHARTS AT ALL COSTS!
It's way intense.
What else...umm....Christmas concert in two weeks!
We have all of the music sent out, now we're just getting all the details into
place and we should be ready! I just really want this to be a meaningful
experience for everyone. I hope that people will come
away with the feeling that the birth of the Savior isn't just a cute story we
tell once a year, it's something that can help them in their lives today-even
though it happened over 2,000 years ago. I want people to be able to feel that
there is hope for the world. A lot of people are really scared
about the things that are happening in France and elsewhere-there is a lot of
tension and fear. We're not supposed to
live our lives in fear. We're supposed to have hope and to love each other.
Sometimes it's hard to have hope in society, but we can always have hope in the
Savior and his ability to heal and comfort us. He overcame sin and death, and
because he did that for us, what do we have to fear? I just want people to feel
uplifted and be happy. So. Hopefully we can do that. :)
In other news-Sister Ferguson's back
tire now has 6 patches on it, and my bike tire decided that it was done with
life so it literally cracked in half the other day. We have spent so
much time fixing bikes this week. Every time the district leader calls to see
how we're doing we're like 'Well...we got another flat...' I think we've set a
mission record! We finally just caved and replaced Sister Ferguson's tube so hopefully
that'll hold for a little while.
I got the package with the Spooky
Pops! They were all in one piece and tasted so good! Thank you!
I think that's about it. Life is good. I
love you all so much! Have a great
week!
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