Easter sounds like it was wonderful! Sydney made a strawberry
pie? that is awesome! I told my companion about the bunny rolls you make,
and we thought about getting the recipe from you to try it but then we decided
it would take too much time. ;) Oh well!
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| Did you know in Denmark there is an Easter Bunny AND and Easter Chicken! |
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| Us with S (the coolest girl eva!) and some really cute baby chicks! (this was at our Mission leader's house) |
We didn't have anything super fancy
happen on Easter Sunday, but Sister McVey and I did go and sing easter hymns on
a park bench for a little while! It was totally terrifying - and I'm pretty
sure some people laughed at us - but there was a family that sat down at a picnic
table close by and could hear us singing. They didn't leave, so we took it as a
sign that we didn't sound too bad. ;)
On Saturday night we ate with our ward
mission leader and his family, and I found out that they found my blog last
week! How funny and great is that? Now I better watch out when I talk about
Odense, since I know people who live here will be reading what I say. ;) Just
kidding!!
But I won't be talking about Odense much longer because yesterday I
found out that next Monday, I'll be transferring! Ahhh it's breaking my heart
to leave! I love it here and I love all the people we work with. I've made so
many good friends and I kind of assumed/counted on staying here! But the Lord
has a plan and I am very happy to follow it. :)
I'll give you 3 guesses to
where I'm going.
1. It's on Sjælland. (go look on a map!)
2. It's the biggest city in Denmark.
3. It also happens to be the capital of Denmark.
I'm going to COPENHAGEN!
Well, to be specific the area is the
Frederiksberg area, which is the suburb of Copenhagen where the mission office
is located, but it includes downtown Copenhagen! So I am very very excited.
From what I've heard it's a great area, and when Sister Hale was there she
carried a guitar around on the s-togs (like the metro or the subway) and sang
songs - and it got alot of people to talk to her! So I think I'll copy her with
my ukulele. :) It'll be fun!
But I was thinking, would it be possible for you
to send me some ukulele music/a print-out of all of the ukulele chords? I used
to just be able to look it up online, but now, as you know, I can't! And I can
only play one or two songs by memory now, so I need to work on that!
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| Søster B and Søster McV at the Hans Christian Anderson home |
That also
reminds me - I just asked President last week, and it turns out I am not
actually allowed to look at the blog. Woopsies! My bad!! So I won't be doing
that anymore. Lesson learned: Don't go by word-of-mouth exceptions to the
rules! Make sure you hear them from the original source!
And I haven't gotten your easter package yet, but I will next
week when I get into Frederiksberg. So woohoo! 2 Easters for me! Did you get my
Easter package yet? It should get there soon! Along with a postcard for Emily
for her birthday.
This week has been so great. We did a lot of fun Easter
contacting (that awkward moment when you ask someone what Easter means to them
and their response is "absolutely nothing!" - what do you say to
that? Hahaha!). It gave us the chance to bear our testimonies of Jesus Christ
and hopefully the people we talked to will remember that.
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| Sister McVey and I with the fløde ketoffler we made! |
There is a sweet
older woman in our ward who made Easter gifts for us to give to the people we
work with, so we went around and dropped off Easter eggs as well! Easter is 2
days long in Denmark, so we were still able to give away Easter gifts yesterday
- to the H family, who were really cute about it. We told the kids that they
couldn't get their easter gifts unless they participated in our lesson, which
of course made them very eager to listen and answer our questions, and then
they were really cute about saying thank you and sharing the candy with their
parents - which I don't know if I would have done. ;) sorry!
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| This is us with some Hollansk Waffles |
The B family is letting us teach them! C & C, the two
daughters, are almost 8 and almost 10 and before we started becoming good
friends with them they weren't really thinking about being baptized, but their
mom told us yesterday that the youngest said she wants to be baptized when she
turns 8! We were SO EXCITED to hear that!
I really hope it all goes well
because I am going to really miss going to visit them. C & C let me play
barbies with them (it's been a long time!) and we're all just really good
friends. We're definitely going to stay in touch!
Anyways It has been a great week! A lot better than last week,
because I decided to stop whimping around and start choosing to be happy no
matter what. :) things go a lot better that way!
Plus it seemed like a lot of
people we met with shared with us why God is so important to them, which was a
tender mercy to me because I was starting to worry no one felt like they needed
God anymore. :) But of course we all do!
This week we have an appointment with
the B family again, as well as a lot of members we want to stop by (we'll be
baking lots of cookies! woo woo!). And then I'll be packing up again and
transferring away from this lovely city! Ahh it is so bittersweet!
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| Søster McVey and I doing some epic walking down a cobblestone street. |
It's amazing
how close I feel I got to the ward here - I made some really good friends who
are my age or close to it, who I hope I can stay in contact with - in just 6
weeks. I love being here! And I am excited to see what will happen in this last
week here in Odense.
I hope this week is great!
Love,
Hannah
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