Hello everyone! I hope you all have had an exciting
week like I have. Transfers went decently. I eventually made it to
Virum, which is the North part of Copenhagen, where all the rich suburbs
are. So I guess I will start of talking about my companion then I will
go through my week.
My companion is Elder Gudnerson, from Iceland. He is
coming up on 19 soon. He played a lot of video games. (Skyrim) He has
always been a member, he has actually lived in Denmark for 4 years of
his life. So he knows about half of the members that we see, and almost
everyone knows his dad. He is a quiet kid, that enjoyed that sanctuary
of his computer. He was born in Germany, then moved to Denmark when he
was 11 or so, then moved to iceland. He is really smart, and really
funny. (In a European way)
But anyways, onto the week:
Monday,
it was my last p-day in Sønderborg, so we bought some stuff, and
stopped by some people to say bye to them. Then we closed the day off
with an eating appointment with Familien Eriksen. That was a lot of fun.
We took the last Picture of "The LDS assassination squad" which is a
little sad, but that's okay. After that it was my last time stopping by
Tai, my lovely nerdy friend in Sønderborg. I will miss all of them, such
a great area down there.
Tuesday rolls around, and this is train ride day. We
stop by Andrea, the girl that was baptized to say goodbye and give her
some of the death brownies I made. That was sad, but we will definitely
stay in contact. Then we saw our mission leader one last time. We ate
some rolls with Tom, and said goodbye and talked about the future, and
coming back to visit and all of that. Then we were off, and a 4 hour
train ride. When we got into Copenhagen we ended up eating at Hardrock
café,which was awesome. AMERICA!!! Then we spent the night with some
other elders in Copenhagen.
Wednesday, I say goodbye to my son, Elder Holbrook
leaves me to go and get my grandson. Then I head up to Virum which took 2
hours because we got lost driving up there. I meet my new companion,
say goodbye to his companion because he was going home. Then we had a
missionary meeting with the ward, so we saw some of the priesthood
leadership, and got to meet them.
Thursday was an alright day, because we were literally
left with nothing to work with when I got here, we spent all day trying
to find some less actives. Sadly none of them answered. But our day was
still fun because I had an awkward encounter with a girl on a bike, who
ended up laughing at me :( and elder Gudnerson got the bus doors closed
on him.
Friday, was the same as Thursday, tried finding less
actives, and they were all sick, busy, or not home. We knocked a little
just because I started to realize that we have nothing to work with...
nothing too exciting, although I saw the nerd shop here! It has all the
comics and card games you could ever want, I am excited to go there.
Saturday we had something different!!! We woke up and
played some soccer with the ward in a gym. That was a lot of fun.
Although I was wearing these super wimpy shoes that just felt like
cardboard and gave no support, so right now my shins feel like jelly
because of shin splints. After playing soccer with the 3 sisters and the
ward we went home, I tried to fix up the terrible blister on my toe.
Ate some lunch and showered, then went to the church for choir practice.
We practiced, then got some dinner, then Elder Gudnerson was supposed
to play piano for the bishop and his family. (Accompany) So he wanted to
practice a little bit. So after the practice and everything we went
into stake conference. Elder Gudnerson said that he had a really bad
headache, and I kept asking if I could do something, he finally stands
up and goes out side and he says it's hard to breath, and he ended up
hyperventilating. So I went back into the chapel where the bishop and
his family was sitting at the microphone, and I just told them that my
companion was sick. Then I got the mission president and we went to the
hospital, because my companion wasn't doing well at all... So we get to
the hospital, this super nice nurse calms him down, puts the back on his
face and everything. Then we sat there for a long time while he got
over the feeling of shock, and after getting home at 11:30, I made him take some ibuprofen and then we slept.
Sunday, he was feeling a lot better, but we still had a
chill day just to not risk him dying or anything. It was still stake
conference, so we went to that, and sung in the choir, which was a lot
of fun. After stake conference we got to see a ton of people. I got to
see lot's of missionaries that I haven't seen since the MTC which was
cool. After that we had studies\me taking control of this area and
trying to figure it out. Then we had the fun choir practice. They were
singing in English :D and it was just our ward. So we had a way good
time with that, then for refreshments for it, they brought some brownies
and things, but the kicker was a box of 45 chocolate turtles. I ate at
least 4 of them, and I was very happy. :) We also ate dinner with the
sisters, and they pointed out that elder Gudnerson kept using the word
hyperventilate, and joking about that. (sisters -.-)
But now I am here. Still alive, still going strong.
Looking forward to Christmas, and livening Virum up, because it is dead.
Thank you for your prayers and everything. I miss you all and hope you
have a great week!
Love,
Ældste Swan
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