Monday, May 26, 2014
Dear Family and Friends:
This week we went to Denmark! We were just there Saturday to go to the temple with Mats, who was baptized recently. He is really great. He is currently preparing for his second 100-mile race this year! He completed the first one in 33 hours! We also walked past an Aldi, and an amusement park called Tivoli! We got to go on a detour as well to the cathedral with the original Christus statue! It was so cool!
We went on exchanges this week, so I was with Elder Lambson in Malmö. Äldste Lambson's uncle and aunt are the mission president couple (President and Sister Pace) in the Barcelona mission! So I let him know that Weston was a missionary there and that Grandpa was President Pace's doctor. And it was a really good day in Malmö! We taught a couple from Serbia and got Turkish delight, and then we went on a walk with a Danish member who had a lot of Danish spunk, including the heftiest handshake from a girl I've ever shaken hands with.
On Friday, we met with Eskil, who is one of my favorite members I've met. He recently started coming back to church, and it has made all the difference for him. He has been able to quit alcohol, cigarettes, and on Friday he gave us his last canisters of tobacco! It was a bit frustrating at the beginning because we spent almost an hour trying to recover the password to his new computer, and it didn't work out until we fixed it today, but then we got to talking about the scriptures, and he told us that he's been reading them daily and feels so much better since doing so. We also found out that he's got fluent English then, so that was cool!
We met a person from Johannesburg, South Africa on the street this week and are friends now (were you in Johannesburg ever, mom?). His name is Leo, and he is really funny. We are about to start teaching him. We also met someone from Minorca, Spain (Weston, you served there, right?) whose name is Raffeal (just kidding, I don't remember his name, so I just put down one of the other Ninja Turtles).
I hope the best for you all, and I love you and miss you. The weather and work here is great!!
Love,
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Äldste Daniel Schindler
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