Thirty-two... THIRTY-TWO?!

Tate and Ældste Laurence are with a family who is related
to our neighbors here in Highland. It's such a small world!

Howdy! Mod back out here! I'm staying in Randers for another 6 weeks and I am way happy about it!

We are gonna start this boy with some spirituality, but also with some fun stuff too. We had a lesson with Marie on Tuesday. We were scrambling to find a third member and then we remembered that Oliver (one of our dope members) served his mission in Africa so we made that connection and brought him. He killed it and the spirit was testifying all about the plan of salvation and its truthfulness. So yeah, Marie had no objections... especially when we told her that we could live with our families for eternity. She was way down for that. Quite honestly she was way down for everything we said... She is very prepared for this gospel. At the end she goes, "Elders, this is exactly what my kids need to hear! Will you come back and teach some basic principles to them? They will be here on Friday." We were like uhhhhh YEAH! So we died a little bit because we were so excited and then when we came back we were expecting just Marie and her 10 year old son... When we pulled up with our member and walked in. She had brought all three of her sons (10, 8, 4) and her boyfriend who lives in Finland who she wants referred to the missionaries up there..... We were like uhhhhhh WAHOO. We taught another fire lesson about God's plan and the member came in so clutch with stories and examples.... Just straight fire overall. The kids love America too and they wanna hang out with us and play basketball with us! We of course said yes to that hahah. After the lesson we got a text from Marie saying that her oldest son really likes us. I was so happy about that!

We had another lesson with our other friend Wahida on Saturday (whatta day just y'all wait) and God blessed us with a member that could make it to the lesson because we could not find ANYONE that was free. But she pulled up and we re-taught the restoration to her and she enjoyed it. She is very good at doing the challenges that we ask her to do. She is awesome too!

On Friday we had district meeting and it was BOMB. Sister Smith was going home so she gave our training for that day. She shared a song called Different by Micah Tyler and it hit hard man. I loved it immediately. It is soooo good, I suggest looking that up. Ældste Laurence was also feeling generous and bought everyone some Randers Kebab because it is supposedly the best kebab in the mission. That tasted so good! 

Burger Shack count this week: 1, not too shabby. The Skive Elders were in town so you know we had to grab some.

It snowed this week and I was dying because it covered all of the cars and everything. Who would've thought? Also it is very warm today, like almost 50, so I was happy about that. My eyes aren't used to the sun when it is out haha. But I love when it is.

You can't tell, but these elders are soaking wet from biking
16 miles through a rainstorm in the dark. So worth it though.

Let's get to Saturday, it was crazy town. First we had transfer calls and we are both staying!  Then we had an eating appointment with some people that are related to the Ballams back home for breakfast at 9 AM and that was way fun and went very well, mostly just making friends with them. They are such nice people. Immediately after we went to the church to plan our lesson with Wahida and then we finished up our lesson at around 12ish. We went home, ate lunch and studied until like 2 or 3ish and then hit the bikes. We had an eating appointment and lesson with a part-member family that lives in a place called Sonder Onsild... 16 Miles away... Our bikes have batteries so we get some assistance, but if they die we are screwed. They are so heavy. So we plan it out and bike over there. Our batteries stay alive the whole way out there and of course we charge them at the family's house while we knock for half an hour and come back for dinner. We found a bro while knocking too so we might be doing this bike ride more often. The bike ride there was incredible, rolling hills and farmland as far as the eye could see. It reminded me of Idaho a little bit with the smell of manure and amount of tractors. I was in paradise. We taught this lesson about the book of Mormon, the spirit, and faith and it was spirit led for sure. We even got to help the member out with her concerns, and had some way good Mexican food mmmhhmmm. They also had a cat so I had a small allergic reaction but we pushed through bc the church is true. Then we biked back... 16 more miles in pouring rain and pitch black darkness. Our flashlights from our bikes were the only lights for a good long while. The wind was gnarly too but it was a lot of fun. We got SOAKED. My shoes are still wet from that and it has been 2 days haha. I loved it. It was one of the first times I have realized how much I really do LOVE Denmark. 

We also had stake conference and it was good but I was mostly just happy to hang out with Cook and Jensen. It is nice to see a lot of missionaries!

I finished Jesus the Christ this week and I gotta say that is a 10\10 would read again. I understand Christ more than I ever did before that book. Then I started the book Our Search for Happiness by Elder Ballard and I came across a section that talked about eternal families and marriages and I just had the most overwhelming feeling that I would be with my family forever and that it was a true doctrine from God. I was like sheesh I believed it before but it was a whole new level!

Sorry for the long email but a lot happened sooooo until next week,

-Ældste Modersitzki

Just for the record, Tate never got this excited
to see snow on cars when he was at home.
He cracks me up!