Baptism by PowerPoint and LOTS of Driving

Howdy! This week was.... something new for me.  Like the title of the email says, this week was, in it's own way, baptism by fire... Neither myself or Ældste Madsen have any idea what we are doing.....so we have been making PowerPoints, trainings, Google sheets and all that kind of busy work to prepare for Mission Leadership Council which we had last Saturday.... Man there is a lot more busy work than I initially thought with this whole AP business.

But, there are also some MAD perks. We got to spend a day in Copenhagen! Let me explain. Our mission got new sisters this week!!!! These are the first reinforcements we have gotten since June/July and the mission has like 0 missionaries right now. And we got to pick them up from the airport! They were delayed too... so we got a day in Copenhagen... kinda. We still needed to do some office work and fix Ældste Madsen's phone, so it worked out pretty well. We chilled outside the airport for an hour in just our suits. It was freezing! What an experience lol. We had a little conference with all the sisters in the mission, and that went well too.

Another part of the job is to figure out solutions for problems that come up in the mission, and the big one this week was that the sisters arrived, but their baggage was in Russia. It came a couple of days later and we had to head to Copenhagen and pick it up, then drive it over to them on the other side of the country. Keep in mind that we live an hour outside of Copenhagen. So we had a quick little 8-hour car ride the other day playing taxi for some suitcases hahaha. But BIGGGG shoutout to the Sønderborg sisters. They grabbed us a shake and a McFlurry from McDonalds.... blessings right there.  We got home a little late from that drive as you can imagine. I whipped the whole way and it made me think of road trips with friends to Oregon and California. Good times. Rough amount of time spent driving this week: 20 hours.

Good news: Mission Leadership Conference went great and I felt like our trainings and PowerPoints were appreciated. The learning curve is still gnarly, but we are improving every day. Plus, we have a few friends we are teaching. One of them is WAY ready for baptism, but has a couple of fears that we are working with right now. She bore testimony of the Book of Mormon to us and it was POWERFUL. She will get baptized, I am sure of it. 

We went to this way sick bridge that we crossed a couple times this week. It's the bridge between Sjælland and Fyn. I think it is one of the longest in the world. So that is sick. We were right under it and got some pics too. Honestly, it was a great spot.

Sorry this email was boring, but I have a lot to look forward to this next week with Christmas and some other stuff! Remember to keep Christ at the center of both Christmas and your own life. Glædelig Jul from Denmark! Love you all so much!

Love from Storebælt broen,

Ældste Modersitzki