Email March 10, 2014
Elder Kenneth Wm. Burton - Transfer madness!
Bunch of Burtons
Elder Hinrichs is gone and Im now with Elder
Johnson from Lehi Utah. He's only been here for maybe an hour, so I dont know
him to well yet but he seems to be a great guy and we're definatly going to
work well together. Its so weird being the one kind of in charge, showing where
everything is at, and leading everywhere. Its not a bad change though. Elder
Johnson has only been in the feild a few transfers longer than I have and he's
only served in one other area, so all this transfer madness is new to him too.
I would send a photo of him, and photos of the rest of the week, but
unfortunatly I forgot my camera on my desk back in the apartment, so photos
will have to wait until next week.
Its so warm today! Its the first day my mission
Ive been able to comfortably go outside without a jacket. And its warm enough
to make me wish I had brought more short sleave shirts, I think ill probably
survive though. Its getting sunnier too! The sun is up by seven now instead of
10.30 when I got here.
The next dag (day) Tirsdag (Tuesday) Elder
VanDenBergh and I stopped by a lessactive member and he let us in. He then
called his girlfriend and invited her over and we were able to teach her the
first lesson. Having her boyfreind there to bere his testimony was really good,
he has brought her to church the last few weeks and now she wants to continue
with the lessons.
That evening we gave English lessons to a guy
from Turkey. It made me realize how many English words there are that are hard
to give a definition to. One I can remember was "fixated", easy
enough for us to understand, but hard to explain to someone who has a very
small vocabulary in English. While we were there he brought out this drink that
he explained as very healthy and that he has had almost everyday of his life.
He takes a special kind of mushroom from somewhere like Russia I think and lets
them soak in milk for about three days in the fridge. It was pretty bad. The
flavor was bad enough but then it was super sour too so it made it really hard
to get down.
I just realized Elder Vandenbergh was just
transphered to Bornholm today. I wont be seing him for a while. He's probably
going to finnish off his mission there since he doesnt have much time left. Im
glad I was able to get to know him, he's pretty cool and its a fun conection
that Im friends with his cusin Haylie.
Thursday (Torsdag) was Zone Confrences. We're
trying to use family history a lot more in the mission, Its a big goal right
now to use family history to find more people to teach. Danes dont like talking
about religion at all. They would rather talk about anything other than
religion, but they love their families and their history. All Danes are very
proud of their viking heritage, and they love to talk about families and where
people come from. So we're trying to take that and use it in our work by
aproaching people with family history work and talking about the churches
strong stance in protecting and suporting the family. Im really excited to see
how the work will pick up as we use this more.
Well thats about all for now, I love you all,
thanks for everything!
Oh they have photos of zone conference on the
mission blog* if any one wants to look at that its We Love Cop- Den Mission.
Meget Kærlighed,
Elder Kenneth Burton**
*Click on the Danish flag in the sidebar of this blog page to go to the Copenhagen Denmark Mission Blog.
**Click on Elder Burton's photo to go to his "I'm a Mormon profile".
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