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Monday, June 30, 2014
June 30, 2014
Email June 30, 2014 –
Elder Kenneth Wm. Burton
Bunch of Burtons
Julia's baptismal
date has been dropped because her grandparents didn't think she would be ready
on time so they planned a three week vacation for Julia to go stay with her
mom, I believe she left today, so there's no way she can make it to her own
baptism on the 12th. What I understand is that Kurt believes Julia has to have
a strong spiritual experience before she is baptized. As if baptism is a test
that she has to know all the answers to. Baptism is more of her entering school
though rather than taking a test. The knowledge will be built as she acts on
her faith, and she does believe the church is true.
Monday, June 23, 2014
June 23, 2014
Email June 23, 2014 – Elder Kenneth Wm. Burton
"What more can I do?"..."I can Try."
Bunch of Burtons
Crazy morning already. We spent an hour after studies
helping a members son move, and then went shopping. As we were about to make
the purchase the phone rang and it was Liselotte. She was needing a ride from
someone down to Aarhus and was asking us for a members number. The government
is putting the family in a family center down in Aarhus for a month or two to
help Simon quite drinking and also to get some therapy for the baby Anakin, the
nurse thinks he might have a small mental problem. Simon has been put on a
medicine that will make him get super sick each time he drinks to drive out the
desire to drink. After figuring out a ride from her mom Liselotte called and
asked if we could stop by and offer her a blessing to help her get through
everything that's going on right now. Elder Hawkes gave an amazing blessing
guided by the spirit, and you could see it helped almost immediately. Liselotte
still has a strong desire to be baptized, she's going to try to figure out a
way to get to church every Sunday in Aarhus. We'll need to let the Elders down
there know so they can be on watch for her and help out in any way that they
can.
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Monday, June 16, 2014
Email June 16, 2014
Email June 16, 2014 – Elder Kenneth Wm. Burton
"I can do hard things"
Bunch of Burtons
"I can do hard
things", at Zone conference this week they asked us to post that quote
somewhere in our apartments. We're going to try and make a huge sign, with one
letter on a separate piece of paper.
The Lord
works in mysterious ways. Maybe not mysterious always, but defiantly not what
you expect. After an appointment with Jan he drove us to the train station in
Tolne with only a few minutes to spare before the train arrived, although it
never came. There was some announcement over the speaker that we could barely
hear, but the next train that came went right on past the station. We decided
to use the next hour we had until the next train to knock a few of the streets
near by. As we went up the street a bus on its way to Frederikshavn passed us.
Somehow we had miss read the bus scheduled or we would have taken that bus
home. We started knocking on this one street and two girls were out front of a
house having a grass war, they were 10 and 11. They asked us who we were and
then started following us around as we knocked. Each time we would go up to the
door of a house they would hide behind a bush so that they wouldn't be seen,
and then they would keep following us around their neighborhood. At one point we
didn't have too much time left before our train came so we started to leave.
One of the girls asked if we were going to visit any more houses on the road
down to the train station, and we said we might. They then got all excited and
said we should knock on their friends door, and they led us over to a house.
Before we could knock they opened the door and disappeared inside. Elder Hawkes
and I looked at each other and commented, "This is going to be
interesting". We were both expecting them to come back with a 10 year old
kid for us to talk to. Instead they came back out and said,"He's
coming". A guy in his twenties soon came to the door, Rene, and we had a
great conversation with him about God. He accepted a Mormons Bog and said he
would read it and call us if he had any questions. He seemed like a great guy
and really positive. The whole time the two girls were behind us kicking each
other. Not how I expected to find a potential investigator. For some reason we
had skipped that side of the street on the way up, but God helped us to be able
to get into contact with Rene anyway.
Monday, June 9, 2014
Email June 9, 2014
Email June 9, 2014 – Elder Kenneth Wm. Burton
Bunch of Burtons
Elder Hawkes is an awesome companion. We get
along really well and then teach together even better. I cant remember what I
said about him last time. He's from South Dakota, ran X-country and did power
lifting in Highschool. We've ran almost everyday this last week and its been
terrible but amazing at the same time. Its the most I've run in the last 6
months easy. It has taken me a few days to stop being so sore.
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Monday, June 2, 2014
Email June 2, 2014
Email June 2, 2014 – Elder Kenneth Wm. Burton
Bunch of Burtons
Hey Fam! My last week with Elder Horrocks is done, He's on
his way to Bornholm. My new companion Elder Hawkes is from South Dakota, I
think probably my first companion not from Utah. There aren't too many of
those. And there are only two missionaries in the mission right now from
Denmark. My chances of serving with a native Dane are pretty slim.
Im in charge of an area again. Its weird not being able to
ask "where do you think we should go?" And I've only been here for
five weeks so I still dont know the whole area super well. Most of my time here
we've spent in Frederikshavn itself, but most of the area is outside of that.
We're going to have to learn it on the go, which should be a lot of fun.
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