Hey everyone!
First week in Denmark has gone by. It went by super fast. The
language is coming along... slowly. Trying to understand right now is my
biggest problem, but I can see improvement almost everyday that I am
here. Just so you all know my address is:
Ældste Andrew Swan
Ringgade 161,st TH
6400 Sønderborg, Denmark
That is that (6400 is the zip code)
We have been keeping really busy with teaching. We have spent very
little time into finding which is awesome. (That means we have
apointments almost all the time) One of my favorite people, a member
named Yaseen, commited to quit smoking on Thursday! We will be praying
and working with him a lot, because he wants to go to the temple and to
progress in the church more.
We had a dinner apointment which was exciting. We brought along
Amelie, an investigator we have. It went really well. We had dinner, I
was trying to understand everything that was being said, and for the
most part I felt included in it. (Except I have this problem that
everyone offers us water or saft at apointments so I drink 2-3 cups) so
that was distracting. But I learned how to ask for the bathroom! After
dinner we had a really good lesson with the parents of the family we ate
with and Amelie. We just answered some of the questions she had and
went around and bore testimony. She is at the point where she will
either commit to living the gospel or not.
We also met with Kimito Juarez. This kid is super smart. He can
speak Danish, Spanish, and English fluently. But his english sounds like
a British person mixed with Stewie from family guy, which is quite
entertaining. He is a really funny kid, and quite Christian. Although I
feel that he isn't progressing to join our church, it is nice to talk
about Christ and just have nice discussions that way.
I made some awesome Chowmein... there is your random fact of the day.
So, crazy thing happened last week. I went on splits with my
neighbor! Elder Francis and I spent the day working together. The crazy
thing is that we are both fairly new. (He has been here 4 months) so it
was exciting but a lot of fun. We knocked doors for the most part, but
didn't get any luck with that. (Members are how to find people!) Danish
radio stations are really strange... it has every genre of music and
every time period of music. On the bus back to the apartment, we heard a
pop song, then the next song was the makerina. (fail at spelling)
So... one of our district goals is to be the most fit district.
Lauren and Phill will never guess how we are doing it! P90X! It's not
too bad,Tony is a funny man, and teaches me to be dedicated to my
workout.
We have these two investigators, Phillip and Prenilla. They both
play in the orchestra here in Denmark, and we had a really good lesson
with them this week. After this apointment we went to see a less active
and taught a really good lesson with them. But they offered us dinner so
we ate as well. The next apointment we had was with Shiraz, a guy from
Syria. When we first got there, the room was filled with smoke, and his
giant hookah was in the middle of the room. But he aired it out for us
and put up his hookah (thank goodness) BUT THEN he gave us dinner... so
we ate 2 dinners, which were both fantastic, but I felt like exploding.
Yesterday we taught Anders Steen again. We taught him about the
word of wisdom. After explaining it and answering questions, he
committed to it! No more coffee and smoking! It was very great to hear! I
love that man.
Well... I'm losing weight which is fantastic with how much I put
on. The food is really good here, but really bad for me. I don't really
understand how everyone here is skinny... but none the less.
I love you all!
Ældste Swan'
P.s. I got news that Phill isn't forwarding my emails very well... I
hope I can pass on the baton to Lauren because I don't trust Phylis.
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