Another Sabbath day in Copenhagen. Our little branch meets at 10:00 a.m. Everyone comes in happily greeting everyone else.
The building is an older one...a lovely old brick building. The interior is all done in light wood for floors, and downstairs in lineoleum. Everything is scrupulously clean. The chapel is all wood floors and wood with lightly upholstered chairs. We have one Young Man in the young men's program and perhaps two or three in YW. The mission president has assigned us and the two senior sisters and the senior couple who work in the office to this branch. There is also a set of cute young elders who serve here. With an average attendance of 35 to 40, you can imagine how their attendance is boosted with the addition of 8 missionaries.
We attended the class for YSA today during Sunday School. There were five there....one of them taught. One of the sisters has been called to San Jose, CA on a mission. They are all cute and very strong spiritually.....they have to be in a very liberal culture.
It has been rainy and very gray all day. They tell me this is a typical day this time of year. Good thing I worked so hard to get my Mary Poppins umbrella here! This is a serious umbrella....39 inches tall unopened and is wide enough to get three or four underneath.
Hey, I knew you'd be glad you brought that umbrella!
ReplyDeleteAnd you were soooo right!
DeleteThat is a wonderful Mary Poppins umbrella! Is there a story behind it?
ReplyDeleteYes! We were told in a letter from the mission president to bring a sturdy umbrella (the wind can be very strong). Your dad kept saying wait until we get there. By the time we were in the MTC, I was sure I would need it when we got off the airplane, so I went online and ordered the sturdiest I could find (according to the reviews). We went back to Lia's home for one night before getting on the airplane, and the umbrella was there - huge! Dad said "You can't take that on an airplane!" Well....I carried it on all three airplanes, and no one said a thing....except for the other 8 senior couples, who all teased me about it. We all had a good time with it. The rain is coming down in sheets this morning....but we'll be good under that umbrella!
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