Hello!

Dear Sister Jensen and Family:

We have a little calendar that I have to change the date on every day. It seems like I just start the month and then the month is half gone and the next time I change it, it is the end of the month. When the Lord said that in the last days he would speed up the time to save the Saints, it seems like he has doubled the speed of time. The next thing I do is look in the mirror and find out, yup, he has sped up the time.

I have been wondering if you are getting some of the snow that I have been reading about in other parts of Europe and England. We have had very little snow, and for a while, the cold was at 0- to 10 degrees far. The ski resorts are hurting. They have about 3-5 feet of snow as compared to 10-16 feet they normally have. I have not shoveled much snow.

I was in the temple a few weeks ago and I was introduced to a couple. Their name was Libbert. I asked them were they where from and they said Canada. I told them that I was transferred from Copenhagen Denmark to Odense and my companion was Elder Libbert from the state of Washington. He asked what his first name was and I said Elder. It took me a few seconds to come up with his first name. I said that it was Dean and he told me he was his brother. They grew up in Canada but Dean's dad moved to the United States.

I told him I would like to talk to Dean and tell him the rest of the story about the Knudsen family in Odense to see if he remembered them. I told him about how they had grown up Catholic but there had been some problems when he divorced his first wife and married another Catholic. They had one son. We did not have the chance to baptize them. They did join the church. Brother Knudsen’s son was a High Councilman, at that time. He may be a bishop or in the stake presidency now.

When were over there for the temple dedication, and we were staying  with a family in Copenhtold Brother Libbert about Else and her family and said that I had baptized her when she was twelve years old. I told him that her name is Else. She continues to carry on her mother’s tradition of feeding the missionaries. Between Else and her husband (Erling), only Heavenly Father knows how many. When Else was old enough to go on a mission, she taught a young girl in Aarhus. That young girl married Brother Knudsen's son and their son served a mission in the USA in the Las Vegas Nevada Mission. Small world.

He gave me Dean's phone number. Before I could call him, Dean called me. We talked for quite a while. He remembered Brother Knudsen and the Catholic Priest and what went on there. He still lives in Washington state.

You will never believe that I have had another experience at the temple. A few year’s past there was a young man called to serve a mission in Denmark. He is from the Nephi North Stake. I saw him when he was receiving his own endowment. I talked to him and his dad, I knew his dad very well. I told him if he was ever in Copenhagen to look up Else and Erling Knudson and tell them hello from us. I told him that there would be a good chance that he would get a fantastic meal from them. I do not remember his first name, however, his last name is also Knudsen. When I saw him at the temple the other day, I asked him if he had been in Copenhagen and he said yes, that he had been there. I asked him if he knew Else and Erling Knudsen and he told me he did and that he at eaten at their home several times, I told him that it has been a two-generation service to many missionaries. It is a small world. 

How are you doing with your pacemaker? My mother had two of them implanted--not at once but a couple of years apart. It made a difference in her life. She lived to be just a few months shy of 93 years old. 

Well! Enough about us. How are you doing? How is the family?

May you and your family have a great year.

God bless all of you,
Leonard and Myrna.

P.S. Takker dig for den Jule cort, det var fint. Se, mine Danske er ikke saa godt.Three weeks ago we started our 13th year as temple workers. We work on Friday Evening and Saturday Afternoon.