Company's Here

Molly and her parents, (our son, Brian and wife, Elizabeth) arrived today from Utah. They had a great trip and Molly slept most of the way across the Atlantic.

 We managed to keep them awake by taking the Harbor Cruise through the middle of Copenhagen.  The day was the warmest we have had here, plus it was a Saturday afternoon and everyone was getting as much of the water and sun as they could.

We went to the Little Mermaid and then to Kristina, the statue honoring the Mormon Pioneer immigrants who left Denmark.

Lights Out

We had a good day at the temple.  Some of our new workers are having such good experiences  They are learning and doing things in the temple they didn't think they could do. Blossoming is so fun to watch.
 It wasn't fun however, when we came home tonight, turned on the kitchen light and it literally blew out of the socket and took the rest of the lights in the house with it.  We found two plugs that worked in the kitchen and managed to get dinner.

Our kind engineer, Allen Jackobsen, came in from his home an hour away and fixed the problem....a fancy fuse system we had never seen before.  Next time we will be smarter...Yeah Allen.

Final Fanø Fact

 My Aunt Ireta had two porcelain dogs as part of her decor many years ago.  I found the same dogs in many windows in Fanø. the Buurs also had a pair and explained why they are so popular.  If the dogs face out, the man of the house is out to sea, when they face into the house, he is home.  It was a way to tell the neighbors what was going on in your home and when to come visit and when not to.

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.