Oct. 2, 2011

Hey Y'all

Well, my birthday was actually really great this year. Waaaay better than last year. We had interviews that day. It was cool that we were able to meet with some of the other missionaries at interviews. Guess what. There was actually another missionary that has the same birthday as me. Elder Sandstrom. So we had to share.. I got the package there from Chelsey and opened it. There was a Birthday Boy badge I put on and wore it the rest of the day. After we were done with interviews we went to Silkeborg and some of the members in the branch threw a little party for me. It was so nice of them. They made a danish dish, Flæskesteg for us that is so good. I hadn't had it since Christmas so I was happy about that. They also had a cake for me and THREE other desserts. We ate so much but it was all delicious food. They also got me a little gift as well.

The next day is when we had my other BDay party thing. We went to Family Home Evening and we gave a lesson about the Iron Rod and had an activity where we blindfolded everybody and made a course through the church with yarn that they had to hold on to and it led them to the tree (and the treats) at the end. That was fun and everyone enjoyed it. After the activity they brought me more cake and sang to me. When we were done we went to Mia's house with her two friends, Pia, and Anne Marie, and they made one of my other favorite Danish meals, Tarteletter, and they gave me some presents. It was a couple of really fun days. :)

The rest of the week was also pretty packed. We had a lot of appointments and also Conference. We couldn't really meet with Annie because she has been pretty sick, but we did stop by one day to see how she's doing and let her know that we care, and she was happy for that. She said that she still wants to come to church and that she still wants to meet with us as much as she did before but she isn't going to be ready for baptism on the 8th. So that's a bummer, but hopefully we will still be able to get her in the water before I go home.

We met with Omar and Malin the other day and found out some really exciting news. Malin told us that she is pregnant again! She's expecting another baby in May! We went over there to give Lucas his bday card and present. He just turned 5 years old and he is very proud of that.

Saturday we went to Århus to see the first session of conference. I really enjoyed Conference. We saw the Saturday morning session that evening at 6, then we stayed the night in Århus, and the next morning we went back the the church, had a nice breakfast, and watched the priesthood session and then the Saturday afternoon session. After that we headed back to Herning and watched the Sunday morning session with Mia at her house. We weren't able to see the final session because they show it from 10 to midnight. That's just a bit late for us.. But I enjoyed the talks that I did see. I watched them all in English except for the Saturday afternoon. Some of my favorites were Elder Hollands talk in the Priesthood Session, and Elder Eyring on Sunday morning. Oh and of course President Monson is always good. :) It's so cool that they are making another Temple in Provo! That was exciting to hear that they are gonna rebuild the tabernacle as a temple.

So that is the update with me. Thanks for the update with you all! Congrats on the Marathon! You two are both crazy! But that's cool. I hope everyone had a fun weekend in St George.

Tillykke med fødselsdagen to Tia!! That is so weird for me to think that she will be going to young womens in a year! I hope she had a good Bday and that she will have a good Bday party on Friday!

No way! Colton is coming home after me? He must have extended for a long time! That's cool though, so I'm the next one to come home? That will be weird with me, Colton, and Jerry all coming home a week after the next.

I'm pretty sure that the UFO thing is mostly just for art. It is in a little town that has a big art museum near it. I also heard though that it is designed so that it gets struck by lightning a lot and that when it gets struck it reverberates and echoes over the entire area.

So transfers are coming up on the 12th. I'm sure I'll know what's gonna happen by next week. I'm 90 percent sure that I'm going to leave, which kinda sucks. I'm so sure because McCleary is gonna be training and so they will most likely have him train here where he knows what is going on. I wish I could stay here, but I'm not to worried about transfers because it will just be a few weeks than I'll be outta here anyway.

Duh how did I forget to tell you this big news?! We got a car finally! When we went to conference they gave us a car to come back in. So we will finally be able to visit some of the people that are farther away and get a lot done. That also means that we have one last chance to finally go play soccer golf. We are planning on going today, and we really hope it will finally work out!! Oh and then next week we are hoping on going to Lego Land! That would be so cool!

Well that's all I've got for today. Thanks for everything you do!! Have a great week and I'll see you next month!! :)

Love Elder Tyler Lee :)

Ps. Let me explain these pictures for you. The first 3 are from my first BDay with some members from silkeborg. The big fella across from me is Benny the branch president. Then there is me with my cake from Herning branch (it's nice having two branches, haha) Then in the next 2 there are people who were with to FHE. The girls in pic number 6 are the ones who threw me a party after. Mia is on the left. Then there is a picture from my party, and then lastly it's me with my presents I recieved. Let me tell you a little about the gifts. Mia gave me the coolest danish book ever. Its called ''Muldvarpen, der ville vide, hvem der havde lavet lort på dens hoved'' The translation is ''The mole that wanted to know who it was that took a crap on it's head'' It's such a funny book. I got toy story 3 from Pia. It was so funny when I opened it, because a few weeks ago I told her that she looks exactly like Jessie the cowgirl from toy story (because she does) so she got me that movie kind of as a joke. I also got a sketchpad with some nice pencils, a nice golden danish Christmas ornament, and some other little things. And then the best is the pass of all passes I got from Chelsey. :) It's a pass that lets me go to basically any place in Utah as much as I want all year. (seven peaks water park/ice arena, trafalga, sporting events, wolf mountain ski resort, and more) She got one for herself as well so now we have a whole bunch of fun things we can do when I come home.

K gotta go. See ya in 49 days!

Sept. 26, 2011

Hey Everybody!!

Thank you for all the great emails and all of the birthday wishes!!!! :D I can't believe that tomorrow is my birthday! It feels so weird to be turning 21! I'm getting so old! I'm excited though. I should have a really great birthday. I won't really do to much tomorrow to celebrate because we are really busy, but the next day Mia is going to through me a little bday party. Isn't that nice of her? It will be nice to have a little something because last birthday was really lame.

Whoah!! I never thought about this. In just a few days I'll be able to say I'm coming home next month! Weird! We are down to 8 weeks now. That will be done before we know it. There are six missionaries that go home in 2 weeks, and then me and my group will be the oldest in the mission. See ya soon! ;)

It sounds like everybody is doing good and that the girls are having fun as always with their plays. That's cool that I'll actually be able to see this next one.

Well there has been a little change in plans... A roadblock has come with Annie. :/ This last little while we have been working really hard to help her understand tithing, but she has had a problem with it. She has nothing against giving money to the church but she says that she won't be able to pay 10%. Because she has a daughter and grandson in California and family in Africa that she has to send money to each month to help them, and she doesn't think that she has enough to pay 10%. She said that she would be able to spend 500 kr a month and if the church won't accept that then she won't be baptized. She doesn't understand that it isn't about the money, but about the obedience and sacrifice. Anyway, she called us today and said that we are going to have to put off the baptism for now. She still loves the church and wants to come, but now she is just having some problems and the baptism will hopefully come later.

But at least we will still have a baptism in a few weeks. There is nothing that will stop Malin from getting baptized. She is doing so great! Even though she is getting a lot of crap from her parents and family, she is not letting it stop her because she knows it's true. The only thing that is a bummer though is that it is after transfers so I will most likely miss out on their wedding and I'll have to pay to come back for the baptism. Oh well it will be worth it.

We also hope that Ryan will keep moving forward. We were a little bummed yesterday at church because he told us that he was going to come but he never showed up.

So yeah this week has had it's ups and downs, but for the most part it was pretty good. Here is an up. The other day I bought a chocolate milk flavored slushy thing. It was so good! It was like hot chocolate, but it was freezing cold! (so I guess it really wasn't like hot chocolate at all..) I want another one right now.

This week we also went on splits to Horsens. I was able to be companions with the bald missionary, Elder Peterson. Haha. It was a pretty good splits. And when I was with Elder Camp we just talked about going home the whole time. He is in the group that is going home in 2 weeks.

Saturday was pretty cool. First of all we were able to meet with our investigator, Isabella again finally. It had been forever!!! She is doing pretty good. And then after that was fun. Do you remember those pictures of me and McCleary by that weird giant UFO-lookin statue thingie? Well on Saturday they had an open house thing for it, and we were able to actually go down inside of it! It was pretty cool. It seems so much bigger when you go inside of it! Don't you worry, I have some pictures of it.

Sunday was a good day, even though neither Ryan or Annie came to church. It was someone's birthday so we all had a delicious meal together after church. They had so much cake too. And then after we were finished with that we went over to Omar and Malin's place and hung out with them a bit and shared a message with them. I just love that family! By the way, it is the little boy, Lucas's birthday on Wednesday, the day after mine. It was funny, I told him that my BDay is the day before his and he got way mad and kept denying it, because he wanted his birthday to be before everybody elses. haha. We got him a coloring/activity book for his bday that we are hoping can keep him occupied during sacrament meeting.

I'm excited for this week because first of all it's my birthday! And we also have interviews and General Conference! I'm excited for conference! It's always cool because when I'm watching it I think that you all are doing the exact same thing.

I have a ton of pictures for you! Let me just tell you a little bit about them. So the first five are of us in OnePieces. We found these awesome One piece jumpsuit things at a store and had to try them on. They were cool, and they zip up all the way over the head. The problem though is that they are 200 dollars!! The next 5 are some of our recent card house creations. We are getting pretty good. Then the next 7 are from that giant space ship thing. And finally the last one is a giant disgusting spider that snuck into our house! It scared me so bad! It was so creepy! At first we tried to kill it by throwing a handfull of poppers at it, but that didn't work, it just made it mad, and it started running towards it, and it was SO fast! So we started yelling and hurried and crushed it with a newspaper.

Well I hope you have a great week! Thanks again for everything! And thanks for the birthday wishes! I miss you too!! See ya in no time!!!! :D

Love Elder Tyler Lee

Sept. 19th, 2011

Dear family.

Hey!! How's it going? I'm doing great! How crazy is it that we are down to single digits in weeks now! It is almost done!

Everybody is coming home from their missions now. So I guess the next is Colton right? And then me?

Congrats on your silver Anniversary! That is crazy! You are so old! Happy birthday to Tani! Yeah, it is kinda weird that she is 14. And also that I am nearly 21 years old. That is fine with me that you won't really be sending me much. That would kinda be a waste. It would be nice though to maybe get a little bit of money. I'd like to get a new euro suit before I come home, and also it would probably be nice if I could get a few odds and ends to bring back for people.

Well this has been another good week. They all seem to be good weeks lately. We have been so busy, it is hard to squeeze everything in that we need to.

I think it's awesome that Annie wants me to baptize her. And in the ocean! It is probably going to be freezing cold but hopefully we'll just be able to get in and out and hurry and dry off. Her baptism is in less than 3 weeks! I'm so excited, and I can tell that she is too. She is absolutely loving church, and really becoming friends with all of the members. They are also so happy to have her.

Tuesday was a great day. Tuesdays are always good because we usually meet with Annie, and Omar and Malin. We taught Annie about the Word of Wisdom, and she said that she likes drinking wine and coffee every once in awhile, but that she would stop. :)

Also on Tuesday we had an awesome appointment with the Pearse family. We talked a lot about faith and challenged Ryan to take a leap of faith by doing all of the necessary things to get a testimony and be baptized by December. He said that is something he wants and he'd do that. So, there is going to be another baptism in Silkeborg! :D We are going to set an actual date with him tomorrow. Probably the first or second week in December. So I won't be here, but oh well.

We went to Annita on Wednesday, and she was so happy to see us. She is so funny. And she is the nicest person ever. Bitten is also doing well. By the way, her name is pronounced just like its spelled.

Thursday we went to Århus for a special training thing. That was pretty cool. But other than those things, not much other exciting stuff happened this week. Hmm, I've been having really good weeks with awesome appointments and stuff, but there isn't really too much to write home about it.

Sunday was a very interesting day at church. We were in Herning branch this time, and I can honestly say that it was probably a good thing that no investigators came that day. It was kind of a disaster. First of all, David, the guy that plays the organ showed up late. He showed up right as we were starting singing the song, and he just ran in and shouted, I'm here! And then hurried over the the organ and started playing. Then during the second talk is when it got really interesting. It was Thomas giving the talk. You have to understand what Thomas is like to understand this.. He was baptized a little over a year ago. He's a way nice guy, just a little weird. Anyway, he was up giving his talk, but he apparently doesn't know how to give a talk. He was up there for about 30 minutes rambling on about random things that had nothing to do with anything. And he kept asking questions to the crowd and to the branch president. But nobody knew if they should actually answer so they just sat their quietly and he kept asking. Finally at one point the branch president stood up and told him that its his talk, he needs to just talk and stop asking questions. But he kept doing it anyway. And then finally when he was done he closed by saying something like,''I hope you all have a good day'' and then he sat down. It was pretty weird..

Anyway, the rest of the Sunday was actually really good. We had a potluck meal after the meetings that was really good, and then after that we rode back with a couple in the ward to their house. They live about an hour away from the church by car, but they come every week. They live on a farm out in the middle of nowhere outside of a tiny little village. So we went over there and got to know them better and they showed us around. they actually have a way awesome house that is way old and it has a ton of old furniture and stuff. The wife collects porcelain dolls and they were all over the house. We ate dinner with them and then we went home.

So that was my week. Today we are just gonna play some ping pong and maybe do a little shopping, and then we are gonna go over to Mia's and hang out there. Maybe play a board game or something.

I have 3 pictures today. They are just me making a house of cards. Nothing too exciting, but better than nothing at all, right? Thanks for the pictures you sent. Jansen is looking pretty snazzy.

Have a wonderful week. See ya!!

Love Elder Tyler Lee

Sept. 12, 2011

Hey!!! Happy Monday!! :) Today I have exactly 10 weeks left! So after this email there are only 9 more. Isn't that crazy?!?! November 22 is coming up so fast!!

Well this has been another awesome week. Everything is going so good right now. Wanna hear some exciting news? We were over at Annie's house and we started getting plans ready for the baptism, and she chose me to baptize her!!! :) I'm way excited. It will be awesome to get in the water before I come home. And one of the cool things about it is that she is going to get baptized in the ocean! How awesome is that?? The date that she is getting baptized is the 8th of October, so the weekend after general conference. By the way, she is still doing great! She was in church yesterday and loved it again. The ward members are all become good friends with her already and she's already fitting in.

Yesterday after church we had a branch counsel meeting and we talked about Annie's baptism and also Omar and Malin's wedding/ baptism, and the ward is so excited for all of it. It has literally been years since they have had a baptism, and now they are having two in one month! Oh btw Omar and Malin had to push their wedding back 2 weeks because it was too soon and they couldn't get it all figured out. They are waiting on some papers to arrive from Canada for Omar. So they are getting married on the 22nd and she's getting baptized on the 29th. You are welcome for that picture of them. They are such an awesome little family.

Let me tell you about the Bednar fireside! It was so awesome!!! So, we woke up early and traveled down to Copenhagen on Wednesday. When we got there we ate lunch and chatted with each other and all that fun stuff, then at 2 o'clock Elder Bednar came. The first thing that I thought when he walked in was, Wow he is a lot shorter in real life. Ha ha. We all took a group picture (they will send it to me). And then from there is was us missionaries and him for about 3 and a half hours! It was so cool, because he didn't come with anything specific he wanted to talk about. He just talked to us and we asked him questions and he'd go from there. those 3 and a half hours went by so fast! The theme of the day ended up being about how we should be an 'Agent' who acts and not an 'Object' that is acted upon. His testimony was so strong. And then when we were done with that meeting, we traveled over to the stake center and there we had another fireside with Elder Bednar. This one was open to anybody, and there were so many people there! It was a similar settup (questions and answers) So in all we were with Elder Bednar for close to 6 hours. It was a way awesome experience! It was awesome to see that he is a regular person too with a sense of humor. At the first of our meeting with him he had us all stand up and say our name and where we are from, and he was joking with us. Like, there was this sister missionary who said she went to Davis high, and Elder Bednar was like, ''So you are a Davis Dart, eh? That is the dumbest name ever!'' Ha ha We had some good laughs that day. Well that was that. It was way cool that he was able to come.

Also at the fireside I saw a bunch of familiar faces. I talked with Jennifer and her mom, Maria Engbjerg (from EFY) And also the Olsen family from Ballerup. They are some of my favorite people ever. They have a son on a mission in Portugal that I became really good friends with while I was serving in Ballerup.

After that we went to the Ballerup house to sleep. It was the last time that that will happen because they are getting rid of the house and the missionaries are moving. We also got a new bike for McCleary, so we don't have to walk around with blister feet anymore.

Let me tell you about a couple of our other investigators. Things are finally picking up in Herning. Two investigators that we found a few weeks ago are doing way well. We met with Anitta and had an awesome lesson with her. We gave her a Book of Mormon and she was so excited. It was funny, she wouldn't stop thanking us for it. She promised us that she would read it and pray about it. And she also would like to come to church some day with her 16 year old daughter Anja.

We also met with our investigator Bitten and had a similar experience. We taught her about the book of mormon and she said that she thinks it sounds way interesting and that she would go to the library and rent it. She couldn't believe it when we said that we have one with that she could have for free. She said though that she is excited to read in it and that she would try praying. She's never really tried praying because she doesn't really believe in God. So we asked to try and pray and ask if there is a God and if he is there. We hope that these two keep moving forward. Oh yeah, and Bitten has a pet squirrel named Henning. Cool huh?!

Oh, we caught another frog a couple days ago. It is huge!! I think it's the biggest one I've ever caught. I have to pictures of it for you, and also a video. :)

That's it for my week. It was a good one. :)

That's cool that Camron and Rurika have now moved into a little place of their own. It doesn't sound very luxurious but it'll do.

That's crazy that it's been 10 years since the 9-11 attacks. Yeah I remember that very well. I haven't really seen or heard too much about it hear in Denmark, but that is probably just because I don't really follow much with the news as a missionary. I did read a little bit about it in a newspaper.

You asked a couple questions about the mission. First, no I don't think that me and Elder McCleary with be together for the rest of my mission. Because he was told by President that he will be training at the next transfer (Early/mid October) So I assume that he will stay and get a noobie, and I'll move one more place for about a month and a half. That will be kind of annoying to move once more for a short time, but oh well. Also you asked about Sister Andersen. I am pretty sure that she will come home about 2 months after me.

So I'm scheduled to speak on the 27th eh? Alrighty. That is ok I guess. If I'm not too lazy I'll try to get a talk figured out while I'm hear so I don't have to worry about it during thanksgiving. Do you know If I have an assigned topic? Probably not yet.

Well I gotta bounce. I hope you are doing well and that you have a great week!

See ya!!

Love Elder Tyler Lee

Sep. 4, 2011

Hey there!

Thanks for the email! Want to hear something crazy?? Today I have 77 days left! That's 11 weeks! And that means that we will only have 10 more emails on my mission! Crazy huh?
First of all, thank you very much for all of the pictures from the wedding! It was fun seeing those. Everybody is looking pretty nice in their suits and dresses. Tia is getting tall! Rurika's dress is very pretty, and the cake looks delicious. Too bad I'm not in any of the pictures.. oh well. I'm excited to see the professional pics as well.
It sounds like everything is going great, and that is awesome that there is a new little cousin that's been born!
It's been another awesome week here in DK! It's true, everything seems to be falling into place. Here is another example. We are wanting to introduce Omar's family to the Pearce family because their families are so similar, and the other day we found out that they already know each other! Omar and Ryan are in the same Danish class! We are hoping that they will all become great friends.
Alright so let me tell you about the news and updates from the week. Last Monday we had a district meeting here in Hammerum, and then after that we all had a sports day together. That was really fun. We played ping pong, basketball, and handball (a very popular sport in Denmark) We didn't know the rules so we kind of made up our own version.
Annie is still doing awesome! She told us that she reads in the book of mormon every single night and it helps her sleep. The other day she said that she was reading until 3 am because she couldn't stop!! We are going over to see her again tomorrow. Omar and Malin are doing great too! They have been working on getting their marriage ready and have come up with an official date now. They are getting married on Oct. 8 and Malin will get baptized the week after! :) I'll try to get some good pictures of both. It's cool how excited they are about it now! Before it kinda seemed like it wasn't so important to do right away, but now that they are moving on it, they are both so excited! Speaking of that family, it is cool seeing how much Melissa has grown. When I first came she was just barely starting walking, and now she is running all over the place and now she talks too.
Well I think that is the update with our most positive investigators. Hmm what else have we done this week? On Friday we found out that the church was having an open house thing and they told us to come, so we did but nobody showed up. So me and McCleary ended up playing close-your-eyes pictionary for an hour. That was fun. After we were done there we caught a train to Århus to go there for splits. In Århus me and Elder Feil went to the church to translate some meeting they were having there and there were a few people at the meeting from Aalborg. It was fun talking to them and catching up with them. We came back Saturday evening.
Sunday was fast Sunday again. Only 2 more left. I'm always surprised with the little branches in Denmark with how they are able to fill up all the time with their testimonies. I was waiting for a pause so I could go up but it never came. After church we went over to Mia's place and spent some time with her and a couple of her friends. We played a quiz game and it was so hard because it was in Danish. But it was way funny because it seemed like the only questions I was getting right were the ones about Denmark. Mia was very surprised that I knew those answers. It was funny she was like, I'm danish and I don't even know those answers! It was mostly luck..
This next week is going to be good too. If you don't remember, this is the week that Elder Bednar is coming to speak with us!! We are going to Copenhagen on Wednesday and he is going to talk to us missionaries for 3 hours! I'm way excited! I will for sure tell you all about that. Oh we are also excited for it because Elder McCleary is going to get a new bike while we are over there so we don't have to walk around everywhere anymore (I've gotten blisters on my feet)

Well have an incredible week and have fun in St George! I miss you a whole bunch! See ya soon!

Love Elder Tyler Lee

Aug. 28, 2011

Hey everyone!!

It was so great hearing from you like always!!! :) Thanks! Whoah!!!! Camron is married!!!! This has been one of the best weeks ever! So much good stuff is happening now!! It's like the best is being saved for the last of my mission! I have to tell you about the week right away. It started out lame, because last p day we were so set on going to play soccer golf. The weather was perfect, but then we looked up a travel plan of how we would get there on bus, and it said, take bus number whatever to Sunds, and then walk for an hour! It turns out that the course is out in the boonies, so if we have any chance of going we are going to have to get a hold of a car. We are running out of time though, the weather is getting colder and the days are getting shorter. Later in the day we went over to Mia's place and had dinner and played settlers of catan, and then we went back out side to grab our bikes and ride home and guess what!!! McCleary's bike had been stolen!! Ya serious, someone jacked it! So the rest of the week we've been on foot and bus. The mission office is getting us a new one, but we have to wait another week or so before we can get it. Tuesday was a Silkeborg day. We met with Annie, and Omar and Malin. Wednesday was fun, we went to Århus for a zone conference. Those are always fun. It seemed like it had been awhile since we have met with other missionaries. Oh at the end of the meeting they gave each companionship portable dvd players. Cool huh. For watching a preach my gospel dvd and other church stuff.
Thursday we did a little bit of service with Inge. I don't know how that never gets done. Oh yeah that reminds me, a few weeks ago we were doing service over there and Inge's little niece and nephew were over. (they speak english) At first they were way shy but by the end they were so crazy. We ended up having a big battle with them, and Inge got a lot of it on film and put it on Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYg6STPoBHE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UGbkpFvzf0&NR=1 It's kind of long, but now you can see a little bit of what it is we've been working on (we've come a lot further) And also some cute little kids. The girl's name is Blue. How cool is that??
Friday we were working in Herning and we got a few lessons in. One with our new investigator Anitta. She seems way cool. She is actually good friends with Mia! She saw my VDR ring and I told her what it stands for and she thought it is way cool and is going to order one online.
Saturday was a Silkeborg work day. We had a good lesson with the Pierce family. Ryan the Dad said that he'd like to come to church again, and then we invited the whole family and asked if they would like to come. they said they would think about it, and later we got a text saying that they think its a good idea and they want to come. They can't come this next week but they want to come the week after.
Then Sunday is when it gets really good. It started out by us going to the Silkeborg church and finding out that there had been a bunch of water damage downstairs so we went down there to help clean up a bit and saw that the carpet was soaking and there were like 5 frogs hopping around! Hahahaha. so we started church by catching frogs and releasing them back into the wild. We were bummed when church started because there were no investigators, and we were hoping that there would be 4. but after a couple minutes, Bruno walked in and sat down, and then a few minutes after that, Omar and Malin came in with their family. So we were able to have a guest class and Omar could translate for Bruno. (If you don't remember, Bruno pretty much only speaks French, and Omar is fluent in French) Bruno really liked the lesson and he wants a french BOM and for us to teach him and his fam. Unfortunately we found out that they are planning on living here for only about 2 months. So we will have to work fast. Then at the end of the lesson was the highlight of the week. We said something about testimony and the Malan was like, ''I got mine the other day!!'' And then she told us a story about how a couple days before she was praying about a wedding date but couldn't feel anything, so she decided to pray about something that she believed, the book of mormon. And then she said that she was filled with so much joy and warmth and was overwhelmed and started to cry. She said that now she knows without a doubt and needs to be baptized. that got us to discussing the wedding date and we made a goal for being married in September. Omar was a little reluctant but said that they actually have a free weekend on the 17th. So we said we could do it then, and that Malan could be baptized on the 24th. I could just see that she was so excited. Omar was like, hmm that's a little quick. And then Malan was like, ''well you better hurry because I'm getting baptized on the 24th!'' Whooo! So we have another baptismal date!!! They agreed to that and are starting working on the wedding plans!
After church we went over to Annie's house and ate more food. We had a great lesson with her and I was so happy to hear that she had been reading in the book of mormon every night and that it has been helping her sleep calmly. She is rock solid. She will get baptized for sure. We will probably have to bump her baptism though to the 8th of October because conference is on the 1st.
So that was the super exciting Sunday and awesome week!

Whoah!!! My brother is married!! That is so weird! Thanks for telling me all about the whole thing! It sounds like everything turned out very well. I'm sad that I had to miss it but I'm glad that they got married. It's cool that I now have a new sister.
Oh the other day my memory card got messed up! I put it in my camera and it says, ''reinsert the memory stick'' So I do but it doesn't help! It's all screwed up! I'm lucky though because I have almost all of the pictures backed up on my harddrive (all except like 10ish) and I also have been emailing most of them. It is way annoying though because I'm gonna have to buy a new memory card. :/

Thanks again for everything! Especially for supporting me through my whole mission! Have a fantastic week! I'll see ya soon!!! :D

Love Elder Tyler Lee

Aug. 21, 2011

Hey!!!

Hey! How are you doing this fine day? I'm going to get to telling you about my week right away, because it's been a really good and exciting week! First of all let me tell you about the update with Annie! So, we've been over there 2 more times this week and both the appointments were way good. We gave her a baptismal calender and she said that she is still excited about being baptized on the first of October. This last appointment we had, we brought the Bowlers with us. they are an older couple missionary pair, and we invited them so Annie would have someone she's knows when she went to church for the first time, because we were in Herning on Sunday. Anyway, she became great friends with them. She told us at one point in the lesson that she has committed to baptism and she is not going to back out. She also told us that we always bring such a good spirit with us and that is why she loves meeting with us. Well yesterday was her first day in church... And she absolutely loved it! She already got to know the members and invited some of them home to her place after church. She's excited to keep coming to church and the ward is happy to have her. Oh yeah, she had a concern about tithing, but we explained it to her and she said that it wouldn't be a problem at all. So she will get baptized for sure, there is a good chance that it is before October 1st.
Here is another little miracle that happened in Silkeborg yesterday. A guy named Bruno just walked in and is waaay interested in the church! He is also from Africa, which helped Annie feel more comfortable. And he has a wife and 3 kids. He speaks French which is perfect because Omar is from Canada and speaks French! It seems like everything is working out just perfectly!
Things are also picking up in Herning. This week we had the zone leaders over on splits and we found 3 new investigators. 2 of them seem pretty positive. Mia said that she wants to come with us to teach them, because they are around her same age. And then in Church we had a lot of people there. Michael Kjær, the guy whose roof we helped fix, and his family came and enjoyed it, and our investigator, Gene showed up as well. We had a total of 3 investigators in church, and 2 less actives.
So that is the update with the missionary work. Here are some of the other things we have done this week. I hit my 21 month mark for one! 3 more to go.
There is a member named Thomas, who noticed we didn't have helmets, so he bought us some helmets. Thing is, he got us girl helmets. A pink one, and a light blue one with flowers. What the heck?
Oh here is something cool we did. We caught a fly, tied it to a leash, named it Fredrik, and kept it as our pet for a day. Haha. How you ask? Well you catch a fly in a cup, slide a paper under, and put it in the freezer for 5-7 minutes. The fly freezes and looks like it's dead. Then get a long hair and tie a slip knot and slide it over one of the fly's legs and tighten it. Put the fly on you hand, or somewhere warm and it will slowly thaw out and come back to life and even start flying around on its little leash. It's a pretty cool trick. Fredrik ended up escaping, so we crushed him with a magazine.
Yesterday after church we went over to Mia's place for lunch, and she also asked for a Priesthood blessing, so I got another opportunity to give a blessing in Danish. That was cool.
I think that is about all that has happened with me. I think that today is finally the day that we will be able to play soccer golf. the weather is finally cooperating!
I'm glad that you have had a good week and that wedding planning is going well, although you've had some annoying and stressful days I'm sure. It's so crazy that they are getting married on Saturday! That came up so fast! I can't believe I'm gonna have a new sister in 5 days! It sounds like you have been having a ton of fun with her mom and family. They sound pretty fun.
I have one picture. Well, I did. But the computer is being dumb and not letting me open it. So I guess that will have to wait.
Hope you have an amazing week!! See ya very soon! :D Bye!!

Love Elder Tyler Lee