Monday, January 26, 2015
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January 26, 2015 – Elder Kenneth Wm. Burton
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We've
had a great week here in Randers. The Lord is continuing to hasten His work.
The amount we've been teaching has tripled in the last few weeks, and we
haven't even combined the areas yet. There are still two weeks left of the
transfer.
Our
lesson on Wednesday with Simon went great up in Langå. He doesn't believe in
God, but he would like to find out if there is one. He had some great questions
that we were able to answer for him, and in the process we recognized a way
that we can improve our teaching. At times I feel like we are to ready with all
the answers, and we give them two quickly. What we are wanting to change is to
start using the scriptures more in answering questions. For example, "What
is the atonement?" "Great question, lets look here in the Book of
Mormon in Mosiah 3, where King Benjamin....." I feel that this would help
those we teach to come to love the scriptures more and also to see that the
answers are not just coming from us. It also teaches them to study from the
scriptures to find answers rather than to just ask. In this way faith is a
stronger action.
Monday, January 19, 2015
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January 19, 2015 – Elder Kenneth Wm. Burton
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This
last week at our zone training we found out that Randers will be going down
from four elders to two. Most likely what will happen is I will stay here with
one of the other two elders because Elder Amos has been here for a while and
its most likely they will want to keep an elder from each companionship. Our
apartment is going to be sold because its the more expensive of the two, so
we'll be needing to clear it out the next few weeks and then spend a week
living with the other two elders before transfers.
Zone
training was great, this next year instead of studying a different chapter of
Preach My Gospel each month we will focus on using the Gospel of Jesus Christ
to help others come unto Him. We discussed our purpose witch is to invite
others to come unto Christ and receive the restored gospel through faith in
Jesus Christ and his atonement, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the
Holy Ghost and enduring to the end.
This
last week has been going great, the work has been slowly progressing for a
while but this week we have seen a lot of evidence of the hastening here in
Randers. The list of people we're working with is increasing and we've been
finding some success getting back into contact with a lot of them recently.
Monday, January 12, 2015
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January 12, 2015 – Elder Kenneth Wm. Burton
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We
were able to get back into contact with Peter Rasmussen, we're going to be
having a family home evening with them and Familien Nielsen next Sunday. The
last few weeks Peters parents have been staying with his family, and its been
the first time in years that he has had his parents together under one roof.
They are not fond of the church so we haven't been by to visit Peter and his
family for a few weeks. He's been wanting to learn a lot about our family
values in the church and we figured whats a better way to teach some of those
values than through a family home evening!
We
met with our friend Gert a few times this week and he's been reading from the
Book of Mormon. He wants to give up drinking and has been taking a few alcohol
recovery classes in which a lot of people mention God helping with their
problem. He wants to find out if its true, he's currently Buddhist. We had
found his name on an old record and decided to stop by, on the way we were
talking to some people along the street and the second person we run into was
Gert. It was a blessing that we decided to walk rather than bike.
Monday, January 5, 2015
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January 5, 2015 – Elder Kenneth Wm. Burton
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Hey
family! Well New years was exciting! Unlike last year we were right in the
middle of the city rather than looking in on it. I expect its slightly what a
war zone feels like. I had at least three fire works go off on the ground
within 15 feet, pretty scary, not something I would recommend. I was able to
get a few of the ground explosions on camera as well as one that flew sideways
and hit a building. After a few minutes we moved to another location because a
group of people next to us were pretty drunk and things were starting to get
dangerous. We saw a few illegal explosions go off, some people buy these fire
works from Germany that are more like a stick of dynamite that you throw, and
the explosions are always huge. Alcohol and fireworks are not a good combination.
And there is way to much of both here in December, being the only month
fireworks are legal.
This
week has been kind of crazy with New Years. On New Years Eve we weren't allowed
out after 6:00 unless we were with members who would be able to take us home
after. The next morning we spent the entire day deep cleaning our apartments,
one of two days a year. So it hasn't been the most productive week, I'm glad
things are starting to calm down and we're able to get back into a more normal
routine, nothing of course is ever totally normal as a missionary.
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