Another First

Thursday night late - Actually early Friday morning, October 25, 2013

Well it has been a lovely day, but I am tired.  First of all, thank you for your prayers.  They were heard and answered.  The spaghetti sauce was very good....and so many seemed to like it.  We had about 50 YSAs there and 8 men visitors.  Possibly a good indicator was the fact that nearly every plate came back nearly clean!  We fixed garlic bread, green salad, spaghetti and brownies.

We had one huge pot of spaghetti sauce, and probably have enough left to serve another smaller meal - for maybe a dozen.  Everything else was eaten completely eaten....they loved the garlic bread!  I could have fixed another 20 slices and they would have polished it all off.  Even the very dense brownies were eaten with gusto with people asking for more.

They are amazing young adults.  I love the way they come and visit with each other and with us.  They are interesting and kind and enthusiastic and courteous.  It is also a very interesting group because there are not only Danes, but young people from many other areas.  One was from outside of London, another from Canada, another from Norway..etc.  Great fun to talk to.

I especially love their testimonies which shine through everything else they say.  One young man is twenty years old and not in school, obviously not on a mission, but working so that he CAN go on a mission.  His papers will be processed by the end of the week.  He is very personable and kind.

The two in charge of the program, a young woman and a young man, both in their mid-twenties, are both returned missionaries....he was in Portugal and she was in London.  They are as new to their callings as Stan and I are.  But they expect to take this program here in Denmark to great heights.  Within another 6 months they are expecting a bumper crop of missionaries coming home and the whole program is expected to take off.  As it is now, I believe we have 4 investigators, and there is always someone new each week.  There are six missionaries out, and several in the process of preparing to go. And we have about a dozen or more who are returned missionaries. So the missionary spirit is strong here.

It does look like we'll be quite busy here...with all kinds of things going on through each week.  Family Home Evening at the center every Monday.  This Sunday they have their own Sacrament meeting on Sunday night, separate and apart from their home wards.  Wednesday is their temple night - and we'll go.

It is all very invigorating....but I'm tired!!!  Talk to you later.

A game they love is "crud' played with the balls on these pool table, but you use your hands instead of pool cues.

After everyone had firsts and before some began on seconds.

This huge pot must hold 6 to 8 quarts....it was full to the top as you can see.  It was so heavy we could hardly lift it.