7/1/2013

Hello everyone!

We had quite the crazy week this week! We were all over the place since Søster Christensen is Sister Training Leader for the area. We went on splits, which was fun, and we did lots of service this week.

So, cool splits story. I was in Horsens with Søster Swett and Bartholomew. Søster Bartholomew was in my MTC group, so our Danish is on about the same level, shich means it's basically non-existent haha. We couldn't understand much of what anybody said all day and we were having a difficult time saying anything in Danish. That's just like every day here. Well, we were walking towards home on one of the mai streets of Horsens, when Søster Swett stopped this older couple on the street. She started talking to the wife which left Søs. Bartholomew and i to talk to the husband. This is quite a bit of a problem since our Danish is quite a bit lacking. As he was talking to us, i suddenly realized that i was understanding what he was saying! It was kind of strange to know what he meant by all of the strange words he was saying. I didn't quite understand every little word he said, but i understood what his questions were and what his concerns were. He wasn't sure if God loved him or why he would alow bad things to happen to innocent people. Søs Bartholomew and i were able to assure him that God does love him, and that even though bad things happen to good people, God has a plan for us and loves us because we are His children. He seemed to really like that answer, and i guess we made a good impression because he wanted to make sure we were taken care of and had food and a place to live. He was very relieved to know that the church took care of all that for us.  We left he and his wife with a Book of Mormon and a pass along card, then went on our way. I could not understand a word the next person we talked to said. To me, that was Heavenly Father's way of letting me know that He is aware of my needs, and the needs of everyone around me. He knows exactly what we need at exactly what time. That man needed to hear what we had to say, and i needed to understand it, so that's what happened. It was a really neat experience.

Yesterday, we went around to visit less actives to let them know that the ward is still aware of them and that they are missed. We stopped by one lady's house, and she opened the door, pants-less. Kind of awkward, but whatever. The next less-active we went to visit, same thing! haha It's just normal here, i guess. Kind of funny. At least the second guy was curtious enough to answer the door with his dyna wrapped around him... haha

This week we went to help the bishop out with his yard. He has been so busy that he has not had any time at all to take care of his garden. Søster Bishop and i took a whole section and weeded it all. It looked really nice :) the Elders trimmed the bushes and did more weeding, and Søster Christensen made the cobblestones look nice. We got a lot of work done for him, and his garden is starting to look real nice. We have another appointment with him for next week. Once we were all done with the garden, the bishop said that he had lunch ready for us. In my mind, lunch is sandwiches, salad, something light. Well, in Denmark, that is not the case when you have guests. He had made two big pans of lasagna for the seven of us to eat, with salad and fruit on the side. He wanted us to finish all of it. haha So, we took the challenge to finish the whole thing. We did! It was great! The only problem, was that we had a dinner appointment for 4 hours later... So, we took our bikes out and biked around, then went to our appointments, and then to dinner. We were still stuffed, but these people had the same expectation of us. Gah! They also made a ton of really yummy food. This time it was potaoes and chicken with whiskey sauce. Yum! We ate it all and were stuffed to the piont we could no longer eat anymore. But, this family had dessert for us too. Oh no! haha So, we all had to stuff dessert into our over-stuffed bellies. luckily this time their kids ate the majority of it, and it was a light dessert of fruit and cream. I don't think i've ever been so full in my life!

The ward mission leader in my ward loves peanut butter. So, this week we had a baking contest with the elders and HC was the judge. Of course we made peanut butter cookies with homemade reese's on top :) They were absolutely delicious! We gave some out to some of the less actives and they were all skeptical of my peanut butter at first, but they loved the cookies and wanted the recipe. I am slowly converting the Danes to love peanut butter. That's the first step to getting them to come to church/get baptized I decided. :) So far, it's working! haha

Well, this week was great. I'm learnign a lot and having tons of great experiences. Hope you all have a great week this week! Love you!

Kærlighed,

Søster Handley

P.S. They have 7/11's everywhere here, and, i found this week, THEY SELL REESE'S! :D

This is me and a fleskasteg sandwich, which is pork with the skin left on. The skin is fried and it is delicious, even though it doesn't sound like it.

There are cute streets like that all over and i love taking pictures of them :)