Hej fra Danmark!
Hello Family!
I am in here in Denmark, can
you believe it, I cant figure out how to get the question mark to work on this
keyboard.
Anyways, I was so happy to hear
Christina's happy news. It made my day.
It's been kind of a crazy week.
I didn't sleep very well on the flight from Texas to London, and I was super
bummed that I couldn't get the calling card to work. I tried what you said to
do Dad, and it still wouldn't work. It was something with the pay phones in
London. But I will get to skype from a Members house in December, so that will
be fun.
I actually sat by a man on the
flight from London to Copenhagen who is an inactive member. He is from London
and he said that it was sister missionaries that taught him. He said something
happened that shook his faith and now he is agnostic, but if he had to choose
between which churches were true it would be the LDS church. It was an
interesting conversation, and kind of sad. He told me to just be myself, and
don't be pushy with people. He also said to hand out a lot of copies of
the Liahona magazine because it has touching stories in it. He was very kind
and said that he thought it was very interesting that his seat was next to a
missionaries seat. I hope he figures everything out.
When we landed in Copenhagen
the assistants and President and Sister Sederholm were there to pick us up. It
was very exciting! We went straight to the mission home and unloaded our
luggage. Dinner was prepared for us by some members in the ward. It was
delicious. I can understand why sister missionaries gain weight here in
Denmark. After Dinner I can't remember what happened. Im getting the days mixed
up. The next day is when we went to see Christus statue. Holy Cow. It was
amazing. Above the statue it says this is my beloved son, here him. and below
it says come to me. It was so cool. You have to see it someday. After going to
see the Christus statue we went to the mission office and had some training,
and we were able to contact on the street! it was very exciting. Then I had my
interview with President Sederholm, It went really well, I really like him and
his wife. They have two children living with them in the mission home. K,
I really can't remember what order we did everything. I wrote it down in my
journal so it's all good. We went and saw a castle and it was super mega fedt!
I will send pictures. We also had our first kabobs. They were delicious. One of
my teachers in the MTC was obsessed with kabobs. I really enjoyed my time in
the mission home, It was so fun. We also had a testimony meeting, and president
sederholms testimony was so powerful. One of the nights Sister Sederholm told
us the story of how they were called, and was very neat. The spirit was
so strong, and it testified to me that they have been called of God. 
My companion is Sister Nuttal
from Shelly Idaho. She is 24. She is very kind. Funny story. We were riding our bikes yesterday, oh yeah, we ride bikes
all the time. One of the members in the ward is letting me borrow one. Anyways,
we were riding our bikes yesterday and she rides soooooo fast! Holy Cow! I have
had to tell her to slow down, because I haven't been doing this for 8 months
like she has. So at one point she got way far ahead of me and then I lost her.
Yeah, she was no where to be seen. So there I was, In Denmark, with no
companion, no phone, and I didn't know the address to our apartment. So the
first thing I did was pray. I immediately felt calm about the whole situation.
The spirit guided me step by step the things which I should do. At first I just
stopped and waited a while for her. I thought she would realize I wasn't behind
her, but she never came back. So then I was like should I go look for her or
try and find my way back to the apartment. I decided to try and find the
apartment. Before I knew it, I found the apartment! Luckily I had the keys so i
went in and prayed some more. Finally I found a phone number in the apartment
and I went outside asking strangers if I could borrow their phones. It took
like 4 tries before I found someone who would let me make a quick phone call.
The phone number was the sister training leaders number and I asked her to call
sister Nuttal to tell her I was back at the apartment. So yeah, finally sister
Nuttal shows up and she was just in tears. I felt so bad. But all is well. I should
have kept up with her
So i'm serving in Odensa. It is
a city on the island of fyn. It's beautiful and so fun! I do not know my way
around very well, and neither does sister Nuttal. she has only been here for 3
weeks. So we're trying to figure that all out.
Guess what. there are 8
missionaries here in Odensa. That's unheard of. there are two sets of
missionaries in the two wards. a sister companionship, and an elder
companionship. When sister Nuttal and I were walking one day we actually ran
into the elders. It was so cool! The Lord is hastening his work! I am in the
2nd ward, but sunday I went to both sacrament meetings and had to bear my
testimony in danish. Kind of scarry, but it went well. I loved church here, but
it was really hard to stay awake because I could barely understand what they
were saying.
Cool story. So Friday we met
with one of our investigators. her name is Aisha and she is muslim. We talked
about a lot of things, and at the end I asked If when she found the things we
were talking about to be true If she would be baptized! I was so nervous to ask
her, especially in Danish, but it was a really cool experience.
Another funny story. So our
apartment has four sisters in it. Sister Briscoe has lived in Denmark before,
so her danish is pretty good. Well before Sister Ripplinger and I got here
Sister Briscoe and Sister Nuttal were companions. One time when they were in a
government building renewing sister Nuttals visa Sister Briscoe started talking
to this family who spoke very little danish. She scheduled an apointment with
them to come and talk about the gospel though. So sister Nuttal and I went to
go see them. So we get there and it turns out that they thought we worked for
the government and could help them get their visas faster or something. Yeah
they weren't interested at all in the gospel and it was a really funny/ awkward
situation.
Oh yeah! I almost forgot to
tell you. we had to take the train to get from copenhagen to odensa. There were
11 missionaries on the train and we all had a ton of luggage. It was the most
stressful thing of my life. But It was also way cool because I was able to talk
to some people about what I'm doing as a missionary. I gave two of them copies
of the Liahona, just like that guy said.
Im sorry my email is so
scattered. So much has happened! I love it here. It's so hard, but I love it.
I'm looking forward to the day that I can understand Danish. Have fun in
Yosemite!
Love Katherine
