The Last Texas Sheetcake

Dav everyone! Hope you are all well! Sorry I missed last week....that was my first missed weekly for the last 2 years lol, but the temple was calling my name.

This week was good. We spent a lot of time on splits.... 4 days to be exact, which was honestly way motivating and helpful for me. Gotta love the finding grind on splits. It poured rain on us in Herning to the point that I hung up my jacket when we got home, put it on an hour later and it was still SOAKED. I just used the other jacket I brought, lol, but it was sick to just be out in the rain, living that missionary life. I was vibing with it. Plus we got some more sheetcake from my boy Ældste Cousins. Life is good. AND we gave out a Book of Mormon to someone who was high key super positive too.

We hit my favorite city in Denmark, Aarhus, the next day. We did some more contacting and had a meeting with President Olsen. We stopped in Randers and got some of the best Durum Kebab in Denmark as well..... plus the best kajkage (frog cake?) you can get. Man I talk about food a lot, lol. Not to mention I also got a fresh haircut from my guy Demo while we were there. We are good friends. Hopefully we are going to start to teach him soon! Contacting in Aarhus is sick because of how pretty it is and how many young people there are. Gotta love it.

We finished off by driving to Roskilde... on the other side of the country. We grabbed a nice Brunsviger Kage (I don't know a translation for that honestly) on the way. I loved being outside in the warm weather... 65 degrees feels BALMY here. I am whipping a short sleeve shirt every day. We gave a district council training because we are ZLs on top of APs so that was fun. We talked about asking good questions, listening, and solving people's concerns. It went really well! We even had a kahoot about the district members to see who had listened to each other the best and that was fun!

I gave a talk in church on Sunday about keeping the Sabbath day holy. To my surprise the stake president pulled up... so after the sacrament I hopped up there and gave a decent talk I think. The pressure was on. All was well though. That was probs my last talk in Denmark which is weird....

Anyway, the weinerbrød (pastries) are STILL fire and I love it here. Especially in the summer!

Quick spiritual thought: 2 Nephi 22:2 states: Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid; for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also has become my salvation. TRUST IN GOD! He will do everything for our good if we will let Him be our strength and salvation! Be not afraid!

Love from 2 different Silkeborgvej apartments,

Ældste Modersitzki

All the Pastries

Tate got to go to the Copenhagen temple on P-Day this week, so we didn't get a letter. He did send a few pictures though.

Tate loves these yellow fields in Denmark.

And here are more pastries. These pictures crack me up.

These elders are killing the pastry challenge. ;)

Pinky Promise??

Helløj helløj everyone. I have a total of 5 seconds to write this email, so I'd best dive on in.

This week was more laid back. We had a couple of meetings, but no need to bore you all there. We are doing well with our pastry goal. Currently sitting at 24/36. I don't think it will be a challenge to achieve that, hahaha.

We had splits with two of my good friends out here, Ældste Fisher and Ældste Hintze. We started off the splits by doing a food challenge with pastries (only counted as 2 towards our goal though). We all tried to eat 6 big nougat filled croissants and 3 berliners (jelly-filled doughnut kinda things). I nearly died. Only got 5.5 croissants and 2.5 berliners. I could not eat more..... sadly.

We also hit up one of my fav burger places called Halifax. It's nearly been a year since I have had it last and I was loving digging in. That's some good stuff.

We even tried some fun contacting stuff playing basketball outside an apartment complex we had knocked not too long ago. A bunch of 9 to12-year- old girls came out and started playing with us. It was sick hahah. They started stealing our name tags and all that... I wasn't sure if we were going to get them back. We made one girl pinky promise that she would give my tag back before we left. She took it around and showed everyone, but eventually did keep her promise and gave it back!

I am finally fully legal in Denmark! (Long story lol.) I took my language and competence test down in Copenhagen on Tuesday. Definitely passed though, don't worry, hahah.

Kinda lame week I know. I will try to get some better stuff next week lol.

My spiritual thought for the week comes from Romans... which is loaded with good stuff. I highly recommend it. Romans 8 38-39: 

38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 

39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I love how simply stated it is that we cannot get away from the love of God, which is embodied in Christ. He is the ultimate sacrifice and example of pure, unwavering love. Nothing can separate us from his atoning grace and love.

Have a good week!

Love from Stevns Klint, 

Ældste Modersitzki

Meetings on Meetings ft Moms day

Howdy everybody! Lovely to be writing to you all again. Always a pleasure!

This week was, as the title states, a meeting-filled week. Kinda hard to put together, I know. lol. We had both Zone Conferences this week, and for the first time since last summer, 100 percent of them were in person! Yeehaw! This was my first in-person training for the whole mission and I was low key nervous, lollll, but it all worked out luckily enough. We brought the Nerf Hoop my mom sent to me for Christmas 2019 to use in our training, and President Olsen was a good sport and tried to make a couple shots for us. Hahaha! It was awesome to watch. He is a legend. We tied it all back into focusing on the work and our purpose as missionaries, efficiency in everything we do, and having a love for God, the people and the work. It was fun! I think both zones appreciated it..... or at least I hope they did.

We had a mini leadership meeting for all the DLs and ZLs who aren't going home within the next two transfers to kinda train them up because they are all so new to both the mission and leadership. That was fun as well! Plus we had a little Kahoot quiz with pastries as the prize.... it brought the competitiveness out of them all hahahah. Plus, the mission provided some good pizzas afterwards. Kebab pizza is heaven sent let me just say. I talk about food way too much in these. Hope y'all love it haha.

Speaking of food, our pastry count for this transfer is 16 pastries. We are at 16/36 for our end goal here in 4 weeks. I don't think it will be too hard to reach, lol. I also had Chick-Fil-A sauce for the first time in 2 years (shout out to Kate Hepworth!) and it was sooooo good. That stuff is straight up candy hahaha, even with some fries from McDonalds.

Happy Mother's Day to everyone! I hope you all had a good one and appreciated the mother figures in your lives. I had the opportunity to call my sweet mom and chat with her, it was great! She is high key the best mom in the world! Love you Mom!

A quick spiritual thought before I sign off. In Moroni 7:33 it states, "And Christ hath said: If ye will have faith in me ye shall have power to do whatsoever thing is expedient in me." What a powerful thought. Through Christ all things are possible. People can be changed and mountains can be moved! I love that I can share this message with the people in Denmark! I love it here!

Kærlighed fra Trællerup,

Ældste Modersitzki

A pastry a day keeps the doctor away

Aloha!

I had a total of zero minutes to email last week so I apologize for the lack of me in your inbox.

I don't really have much to say today, honestly. Some elders finished their missions this last week and I am pretty good friends with two of them, so that was harddddd to see them go. A mission is a revolving door of goodbyes, but it is okay because I am sure I will see these people again! I'm looking forward to it.

I started my second to last transfer this last week. I am still with Ældste Madsen in Slagelse. This will be four transfers together with him here and I am still excited about it. He's a great missionary.

This week we did a lot of goal setting for the transfer, and my favorite goal we made is to eat 36 pastries this transfer... That is one pastry a day, every day besides Sunday... Should be easy. The first week was easy at least. We pound those pastries. It's a vibe.

We had some good eating appointments this last week too. No real funny stories. The people we ate with are some big examples to me of who I should be when I grow up. It's kinda sick that I can talk to these people about everything in Danish as well. I never really thought I would get to this point when I first got here, but with God anything is possible!

Quick little spiritual thought: I read through some of the Book of Acts this last week and I really loved verse 8 in chapter 8. It simply states, "and there was great joy in that city." This is right after the apostles came through Samaria and healed the sick and preached to the people. Imagine how great a joy can be felt when one person repents and feels the joy of the gospel. Now imagine a full city! Although I haven't converted whole cities, I still feel as though I can relate to this because my joy in the gospel is as large as a whole city's joy. The gospel is love and the result is joy and eternal life. It can't get better!

I'm happy to be a missionary and happy to be in Denmark!

Love from København,

Ældste Modersitzki

The departing missionaries