Spaghetti Ice Cream

We had several fun food adventures in Ribe and Fanø including this fun spaghetti ice cream.

 It is a soft ice cream topped with jam, whipped cream and guff which is a sort of marshmellow (pink)

 Jim's big adventure was dried, salted, smoked issen -fish, unique to the island.  It was fried and actually quite tasty, certainly well-preserved.

Fanø Part 2

Finally back to Fanø, the darling little island on the west coast.

 The beach on the island is amazing. It is probably 10 miles long and a mile wide, b  iggest beach I've ever seen.  You could drive anywhere and set up camp anywhere.

 There was plenty of opportunity for wind cycling, note the car and kite.

 The city in the south had many thatched roofs, including these brand new homes.

We ate at this lovely old Kro, said to be the oldest Kro in Denmark.

First Family Home Evening

We had our first Family Home Evening with our new group of missionaries tonight.  We grilled pølsers and everyone else brought something.  Everyone introduced themselves and we had a good hygglig evening -cozy and friendly. Our new missionaries are working on their Danish and it was appreciated by the natives.

Lise and Ole Ravn-Peteresen from Aarhus are serving with us for a month and  Ella Damsgaard and Bodil Furbo are in the sisters' apartment for the next week. Fun to have them all here.

These are just two of the five varieties of pøIsers and frankfurters I bought.

The Morning After

All last week there was a Jazz Festival going on throughout various spots in Copenhagen.  It didn't catch up with us until last night and they gathered under an underpass just around the corner.  It was loud and we could hear them easily from our apartment.  However, it stopped at exactly 11 pm and fortunately it was raining so one wandered over to the Temple Square to finish off their drinks, a sweet blessing.
   The rain has lasted through today and we have dropped 20 degrees since our 80 on Wednesday.
   The best part of today was going to church and meeting Sophie.  She was baptized when we were here before and Sis. Hoge connected with her and invited her to church and she came.  We were so pleased to see her as I think she might not be a regular attender.  She has graduated from school here and is working as a carpenter.  A cute girl.  She lives in the Roskilde Ward boundries.  We are talking there next week so we invited her to come and hopefully get her integrated into the ward.

Tidwells in Roskilde

Some good friends from our Holladay neighborhood, Kathy and Tony Tidwell (who were with the tour a few days ago..) came to the temple for the noon session and afterward we took them out to Roskilde.  They had done most of the sites in Copenhagen and Roskilde is one of our favorite cities.
 Roskilde was the old capital of Denmark and the kings and queens of Denmark are all buried in the famous  Church there. Plus we walked by the Viking Ship Museum, but it was closed.  Pictures for another time....

Hollyhock in Denmark too.

A Sweet Week

There have not been large numbers of people at the temple this week, but we have had some sweet, special experiences.
   Yesterday, we had two sisters (from different families) come to the temple for the first time in many years.  One has been home with a sick husband who recently passed away and the other has MS.  They were both so happy to be back in the temple.
    This week we have or will have four young people receive their own endowments.  One is going on a mission and this sweet sister is from Ghana and studying in Denmark for two years. Her mother came from Ghana to be with her and this good man, Brother Larsen, and his wife took her under their wings and helped her prepare.

And she was well prepared and so thrilled. As we talked to her afterward she repeated several times how it felt like she home.  She spoke English so I took care of her.
Tomorrow we have a Danish couple coming who will be married the first of August. Pres. and Sister Buur will take care of them and if they were Swedish, Pres. and Sister Nelsson would take care of them. It is easy to divide things up by language.

Tour Group

Life keeps moving on and new memories are made every day even when we haven't shared all the past ones.  I will return to Fanø again but today there was a ring at the door of the temple and this is what we saw when we opened it.......

 a tour group of 88 who had just finished the Baltic Cruise and were seeing a few things around Copenhagen before they flew out today.  Rich and Karen Nielsen and Kathy and Tony Tidwell from our old ward  in Holladay were among the group.  Look close you may recognize someone from your neighborhood.