It's the Day to Get Ready for Sunday!

The skies early in the morning were clear blue and it was crisp and cool.....perfect walking weather.

So we walked to the post office and some other places.  I love walking around here.  Next week, we plan on doing a lot more walking since we have a holiday from school.  I want to stroll through one of the larger more beautiful parks in Frederiksberg....and Spring should make it especially lovely.

This was a glorious Saturday when I didn't have to think about homework, but I DID have to think about Danish.  I decided to give Sunday's talk in Danish.  I have been toying with the idea all week, and when I went to bed last night, I lay there giving it to myself in Danish....and it seemed like I was able to say what I wanted!

It made it difficult to sleep.

This morning, I consulted the expert....Google Translate.....which really doesn't do a spectacular job, but it gets the idea down.  Later in the day I called one of the young men from the center who translates for me from time to time.  He helped me translate a paragraph written in 1985.

Finally, I cornered SK and asked him to listen to me.  He patiently listened, corrected, listened, corrected, listened, corrected...you get the idea.  It is 11:00 p.m. and the final edition of my talk is printed up, and I just need to read it aloud one or two more times to make sure that it will be somewhere in the discernible range for all who hear it.  I feel kind of frazzled.....and nervous.

By the time you wake up on Sunday morning, I will be relaxing at home, feeling either completely and utterly humiliated or just plain relieved.  I'll let you know whether or not to claim you know me if you ever come to Denmark.

We went to the center and worked there for awhile.  Since we will be there now until the middle of July, I want to do a few things that will make it nicer for everyone.  I posted pictures of nearly all of the missionaries serving from the Copenhagen Stake of Denmark, and I want to post pictures of past activities at the center......which I will do, as soon as I figure out how to get the pictures from the computer (taken on SK's phone, my phone and our camera) on to a flashdrive and into a photo developing store.

Melissa, I know you are smiling.....How many times have you tried to help me organize our photos into folders etc.?

Oh....a fun thing happened this afternoon.  Four of our YSAs came by.  They were on a picture scavenger hunt.  It was a YSA activity for their ward.  They came in and filled the quiet apartment with laughter and enthusiasm.  We got our pictures taken several times to meet requirements....A missionary with his badge on.  "Feeding a missionary"...SK being fed a carrot.  "Writing to a missionary"...someone handing me a letter addressed to me.  "Talking to a missionary"...shaking hands with a missionary.