3.1.15 3 Weeks to Go!

Hej!

Sorry I have failed the last couple of weeks at sending a good email out... But I made a goal to write a good one today! Get some good stories in :) 

It was a good week to set that goal too, because we did something way new this week! We taught a lesson over skype! Ha, Skype chat!! 

Not that it was a new program or on i pads or anything... We have an investigator (well, i guess not an investigator. We found out after our little skype chat that he was actually baptized when he was 8 :), that  he lives super far away and we can't get to him very often, so we got permission to skype him instead. He said that was ok... but what he didn't tell us was that he didn't have a webcam or anyway to talk, and that he just wanted to chat haha. So we did! It was actually pretty sweet... It was nice because when we asked questions he had to answer. And we could us lds.orgat the same time to get quotes and stuff to use in the 'lesson'. It was pretty fun and went well! We are probably going to do it again :) I can see why the church is switching to more of that kind of missionary work!

The work is still going super well here. We have been busy and running around all over the city. Especially this week. We were in Copenhagen for a meeting and we had stake conference, which was pretty sweet. They rented out a huge theater (because the stake center here in Århus isn't big enough) in the city. It was pretty fun, definitely the fanciest stake conference I have ever been to! The seats were all soft and comfortable and they even took our jackets and hung them up for us :) I got to see all of the people from Silkeborg again, which is always fun too. 

We also found out how much gum we could fit in our mouths at once... 6 packs (with 10 pieces each) and a whole pack of bubble tape! It was quite a bit...

It was a good week :) This area is a ton of fun. All is going great! I wouldn't have it any other way for the last little bit of my mission. Hope you all are doing well! Love you and miss you! 

-Conner
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2.23.15 Really!?!?!

sorry for the lack of another weekly... don't hate me! I promise I love you all and miss you all and I'll make it up to you somehow!

2.09.15 6 weeks to go!

Hej!

I'm staying in Århus! With Elder Zenger :) We are stoked. Friday was a great day. So... yeah! This will be my last area, and Elder Zenger will be my last companion. Crazy. It will be a really fun transfer. We are excited. We were kinda expecting one of us to transfer, but we both wanted to stay, so we were way happy when we found out that we would get our wish! 

The week was really good. We finally got to work in our area for a whole week which was a relief! We had a zone training so we took a little bit of time to get that all set up but we were able to work the rest of the time here. 

haha dangit! I'm only like 8 sentences in to my email and I'm already choking... I'm sorry my emails have been lacking so much info lately! I guess I am just getting really bad at writing emails. I promise, Things really are going great here. We are having a ton of success and it has been a blast. What everyone says about how the last little bit of your mission you get in a little rhythm and it blows by is 100% true. I love it. 

Hope you all are having a great life! I love you and miss you!

-Conner

Denmark. Its great. 

Zone training 2.5.15

                                     

1.26.15

Hej!

Sorry for missing last week. We kinda had a crazy P-day and didn't get a ton of emailing time. 

Things are still going great! The work is rolling and we are having a really good time. Funny story of the week: We taught a lady with short term memory loss. Ha. She was way nice, but didn't get a word of what we said. We would teach something, and then after we taught it she would be like 'wait, what church do you come from?' and then we would tell her who we were. And then she would be like 'oh. And what did you want to talk about?' Ha she did that like 4 times... So we just gave her a Book of Mormon. We went to go and leave and she tried to give the book back, and we were like  'its a gift for you' and then she smiled and said 'mange tak!' many thanks. Then she asked a question about the book and we answered it, and then went to leave again, and she tried to give the book back. We again told her that it was a gift. She responded in the same way. "Mange Tak." Also with the same question about the book hahaha, And that cycle continued for a bit. It was pretty funny, and eventually we were able to wrap it up and leave. Super nice lady though. 

We'll find out in a week if I will stay in Århus for my last transfer. I have my fingers crossed :) It is a pretty fun place. I really have enjoyed it here. The ward isn't super big even though it is Denmark's second biggest city, and I have gotten to know them pretty well. Ha, there is this one old lady, Eva (she is like Yoda in woman form), who invited all four of us elders over for dinner the other night. It was a great dinner, we had a great time. But for desert she made a grød (I don't know what that is in English) out of prunes............... It destroyed us. Our poor toilet that night... haha made for a great story though :) I love it here. 

Hope you all have a great week! Love you and miss you! 

-Conner

On splits with Æ. Mogensen, one of the other elders we live with here in Århus

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1.12.15

Hej!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PRESTON!! Its my brother's b-day so everyone be sure to give him a call and congratulate him on reaching double digits :) Love you Preston! 

So, last week I mentioned how I still write 2014 in my journal entries... well, I went to go write in my journal last night and discovered that hasn't changed haha. Still writing 2014. fail.

We made a road trip this week! An elder in our zone has a bad knee and so the mission was going to give him a car while he waits for it to get better, but the car was in Copenhagen. Luckily, we were in Copenhagen for a meeting, so instead of taking the train back we got to drive the car all the way back to him! 4 hours! It was great :) Ha, except for when we started driving and realized that the car didn't have a map or GPS and we were in the middle of Copenhagen... I just drove west until eventually we hit a freeway and then it was smooth sailing from there. We were pretty proud though. That was definitely the highlight of the week. 

We had a good week. Things are going well with our investigators and we are staying busy. It has been really warm lately, just SUPER windy. But I won't complain. Its not freezing so all is well :) 

Hope all is going well for you all! Love you and miss you!

-Conner 

1.05.15

Hej allesammen! 

So uhhh.... how is 2015? It's always crazy when you realize that a year has gone by. I still write 2014 on all my journal entries on accident. I guess my brain is just having an extra hard time this year figuring out that its 2015. 

Last year I talked about how crazy new years was in Silkeborg... But man, Århus was nuts. Like, I have never seen anything like it in my whole life (even with Silkeborg last year). I tried to take pictures... But it really doesn't do it justice.

Luckily I took a ton of video :) so when I get home I will have to it to all of you. There were fireworks like this for 40 minutes though... crazy. 

Things are going good with Æ. Zenger. It was a really fun week. We work pretty similar and have same goals so it is clicking really well! I really like Århus and wouldn't mind if this was my last area. Ha, we'll see :) 

Sorry, I don't really have a ton of good stories this week. Ældste Zenger got hugged by a SUPER drunk guy haha, that was funny. 

Hope that you all came good into the new year (I know that sounds horrible... its the translation of what all the danes say about new years) Have a great week! Elsker jer! 

-Conner