Yes, yes, I very much love the area. I too am tempted to be a bit touristy sometimes. It's nice though, because I get to see a lot of it just while running around doing missionary things. I'll definitely stop on occasion to look around. Hopefully that's not a sin. After all, Brigham Young did say, "If you don't go on your mission to see sights, then you'll've come and gone in vain." Or something like that. ;P That's how Elder Ririe always paraphrased it ;) It's funny though - I wish I took more pictures, but at the same time, maybe I take to many pictures as far as the whole "Don't look like a tourist" thing goes. And on top of that, I still have the problem of never taking pictures of people... They just move too much... and they just seem to have minds of their own. I'm all about photographing things that aren't going to react to my pointing a camera at them. Like shoes. Everybody likes shoes.
Also, I would like to make a comment on my spelling. I don't know if it's actually any worse than it usually is, but I feel like it is. Let me tell you why. You see, I'm using google chrome. Which I usually love. But you see, I'm currently using Google Chrome in a Danish library. And one thing about Google Chrome is that it likes to underline misspelled words in red. Now that's all fine and dandy when you speak the language for which it's expecting you to spell. But since everything's in Danish, I can't figure out how to switch the settings. Now, I could just switch to Internet Explorer. But I'm way to lazy to open a whole new browser, log in, and copy and paste. So I'm a little paranoid about my spelling, and therefore may overcompensate a bit.
Mhmmm.... let's see... what've I been up to this week....
Well, On friday, we got a surprise call from the bordering Danish Elders. They were asking if they could use our font for a baptism the following morning. We of course said we'd love to oblige them. Now, if you'll recall from last week's chronicle, our Gemeindehaus was having some plumbing issues. So certain pipes were... out of order. Those pipes just happened to be all the warm water pipes, and the pipe leading to the baptismal font. After testing that, we called the Denmark Elders and told them that we would only be able to have cold water unless they wanted to wait a week or two. They said that their options were either that, or to go cut a hole in the ice. So they came here. We spent about 4 hours split between Friday night and Saturday morning carrying buckets to the font. We also were finally able to get a hose hooked up and that helped us out a lot. Saturday morning we were boiling water on the stove, and using whatever we could find to heat water and pour it in, but it didn't even make a dent in the temperature. So the girl who got baptized was very cold. She was good about it though. But she kind of yelped as she got in, and was like, "Let's just get this over with!" I felt so bad. But also Good. It was interesting. It was mostly in English (she was from the Phillipines) but they did a lot in Danish too, so we got to hear a lot of it. It's pretty crazy. Dutch is way easier to understand. Anyhoodles, that was quite the party.
Ummm....
yesterday, which also meant that he got a couple packages. And he is quite the saint. He shared a lot of candy with me. For instance, he gave me one of his half pound Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. That was amazing. And Oreos dipped in peanut butter are a beautiful thing.
3.Nom Nom Nom
Well, I feel like I should say more, but I'm not coming up with anything, and I'm pretty much out of time, so, have a wonderful week! The church is true!
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