A beautiful mist hovered over the city and surrounding areas all day.
It is so pleasant to look out over the lake on a day like this day. People are bundled up, clothing is limited to dark colors and boots, hats and scarves are the order of the day. We are still in the 40s day and night.
We left for Roskilde at 9:30 to attend the sacrament meeting for Mikael who will be leaving in a couple of weeks to serve a mission in......drum roll..........Salt Lake City! He will have a much different mission than those who are currently serving in South Africa, Scotland, France and Australia. I am positive it will be a good mission for a number of reasons....one, because the people of Salt Lake love the missionaries, and two, he is well-prepared to work, and three, he has a strong testimony.
It was a wonderful sacrament meeting. We just happened to have the stake president, the new stake president from the other stake in Denmark, the temple president, the mission president and the area seventy at our meeting. They were meeting the rest of the day for planning and correlation apparently. Mikael had to cut his remarks short....so that they could fit several other talks in. I would have loved to hear all of Mikael's talk, but the other talks were very good too.
Mikael talked about having the full-time missionaries visit with his non-member friends and him over dinner. He loved how they answered every question. He told several little stories that had a lot of human interest....and great gospel applications. He is going to be excellent....Salt Lake....you are in for a treat!
I attended the YSA Sunday School, and the YSA Relief Society and enjoyed them thoroughly. Even after all these months, I still feel a little awkward walking into the YSA class with my silvery hair. But they are always welcoming.
After the block, we went to his open house....at his family house! It was a 25 minute-drive over gently-sloping hills with sleepy farmhouses nestled among trees and verdant fields......with a soft mist veiling everything in sight.
At the open house (lasting from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.) we visited with a lot of different people, ate open-faced sandwiches and cookies. (I took a large platter of chocolate chip cookies) We left after only a couple of hours....people were still coming and we opened space for them!....actually our motives weren't entirely so kind....we are both tired.
Driving back into Copenhagen at 5:00 was dark, and it was fun to see all of the Christmas decorations up and twinkling.
We came home, made a warm dinner, and I think we will retire early. It has been a good week, but a tiring one, and I will be grateful to fall into bed tonight.
It's so funny to see the American flag up. It looked so normal until I remembered you were in Deark, then I realized he put them up at his party because he was coming here. Wouldn't it be fun if he served in NSL?! I'm sure the Danes have a huge advantage having already learned English. Does he have to go to the MTC for language training or just missionary training?
ReplyDeleteYes...I had the same reaction when I walked in their home and saw the American flags...it looked normal but not quite right, and then I remembered. He is fluent in English and will not need any language training at all. He will probably be in the MTC for a week. I would love it if he served in NSL and ran into Lia and Peter, but I think the area of his mission is fairly small and specific....I believe South Salt Lake.
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