Email January 27, 2014
Elder Kenneth Wm. Burton –Another week
Bunch of Burtons
Monday again, the days are all starting to just fly by. Its scary
and exciting at the same time.
So this morning we spent the before noon, as Danes say, shoveling
snow. It was actually a lot of fun, brought back memories thats for sure. The
main differences were first of all i was using a wooden snow shovel. I was
going to take a picture, but forgot. It made it pretty hard because the whole
time I was woried I was going to shatter the entire thing. The other big
difference is the cobble stone. You know when your shoveling snow and you run
into the crack between the sections of sidewalk and you shovel stops dead and
you run into the handle. And its really anoying. Well imagine that evey few
inches. With a wooden shovel that could brake at any moment. We finaly found
brooms worked much better, so we just used small push brooms for the rest of
the job. Anyway thats why we're a little late emailing, we had to move our
whole squedual back. It snowed though so its ok!
This week we took a District activity to a Viking ship burial and
musium. We coordinated it with the Odense 2 District so it was a lot of fun having
all twelve missionaries there. The viking ship is the most intact viking ship
found in the world. It was filled with the bones of four dogs and eleven
horses, the property of the viking who was buried with his ship. I dont know
why, but I had always imagined viking ships to have been at least a little
bigger. There was a hand built replica that was about half way compleated that
was pretty cool. When its finnished it should be sea worthy.
After we went to an American styled restoraunt called Bones. It was
crazy the cheepest thing on the menu other than starters was 135 danish kr. I
usually spend about 200 each week on food. At least the food was good though.
And its not often you are fed steak in Denmark.
So Danes are very particular when it comes to eating. A few examples
from eating apointments: when using a fork you always use your left hand and
have a knife in the right to scoop food onto the fork, no stabbing with the
fork. No one takes the last piece of whatever the food is unless the host offers
it to someone. With open faced sandwitches meat and cheese can never go
together, but jelly on cheese is really common. One of my favorites... butter
is used in thick amounts on sandwitches instead of mayo. Drinks are always
offered to guests/ visitors, although I've only been given watter by someone
mabey twice sence I've been here. Its always soda or saft which is a syrupy
liquid that you mix with water, a lot like cool aid except not a powder.
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I'm starting to understand Danish when I read it. Everyday at the
begining of companioship study we read a few pages out of the White Hand Book
på Dansk. We each read a paragraph then I go back through and translate each
paragraph into English. Im getting to be able to understand probably 80% ish,
it kind of vairies on what we are reading about, but its exciting. And Im
getting a lot better at pronouncing as well. Then we go outside and of cource
its a compleatly different story. Ah well at least I can see its progressing in
some ways.
We were out knocking doors the other day and we knocked into this
old lady named Birthe Mari. She took a Mormons Bog (Book of Mormon) and we set
up an lesson with her for this next Thursday to come teach her about it. Then
we asked if it would be okay if we could bring a member with us. If we are
visiting a single women, or with the sisters a single man we have to have
someone else with us. But she backed off and said she had a fear of strangers
and new people so she didnt want anyone else to show up, and she canceled the
lesson we had just made. Kind of disapointing, but we're going to set up a time
with the sister missionaries so we can introduce them to her and mabey let them
take over teaching her. It would make it a lot easier for them because they dont
have to worry about having a member/ stranger there for every lesson.
Well, Im running low on time, Thanks for all the love and suport! I
love you all! Have a fantastic week!
Mange Kærlighed
-Ældste Ken Burton
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