Love from Denmark, Ældste Modersitzki

Whelp, now we are here and I need to sum up the mission in one email. I don't know how I am going to do that, so bear with me. I will say that I am very excited to see my fam and hug my mom again though, not gonna lie.

Well, I don't really know what to say. I have fallen in love with Denmark. I don't know how else to explain it. I started off my mission less than loving everything here and feeling like God really didn't care what happened to me. I was very selfish overall. BUT luckily God was willing to work with me, through many wonderful people, places, companions and tons of blessings. God has blessed me with the ability to see His children and give me a glimpse of His plan through His eyes, especially the missionaries I have been blessed to work with. WOW we have some rock stars here in the Danish Mission. I love all of them so much.

Ældste Jaursch and Ældste Mod
They were in the same MTC group.

Being in the position I have been in for a little while, I have had the opportunity to see how a mission president gets inspiration. The Lord leads his people, especially in Denmark. Between calls and texts at 4 am from the mission president and the random ideas he gets, the Lord is behind everything!

I have come to LOVE the gospel while I have been here. Before my mission I will admit that reading scripture and learning about spiritual things was about the last thing on my mind. But don't worry, I have found that I love reading in the scriptures and diving into the stories and verses. I am fully convinced that God had every single one of us in mind while He inspired / wrote the Bible and Book of Mormon! And to add to that, there is no way that Joseph Smith wrote that book, he had to be inspired!

I HAVE BEEN SO BLESSED, and I am so thankful for my time here, for the people I have interacted with and met, and that God was willing to work with someone who was probably not the easiest disciple in the world. I am thankful for every single missionary I have interacted with, they are the best and I am happy to call them my new found family. I also want to thank all of you for reading my emails, donating money, and offering prayers on my behalf...and a big Thank You to Grandpa Dave and Grandma Karen for quietly funding this amazing experience!

I have so much more to say but I'd best stop soon.

Jesus is the Christ. We have a loving Heavenly Father. We are His children. God lives. Christ lives. It is only through Him that we can come back to our Father in Heaven. He knows us all individually. He knows my trials and how to comfort me. He loves me (and you). He is the answer to all the problems that the world is experiencing and it has been my pleasure to put on the name tag and represent him every single day for the last 2 years. I love Him and His plan.

See you all soon!

Love from Denmark one last time,

Ældste Modersitzki

It wouldn't be right to end the blog without Tate
eating a kebab. Food. Always food.

And it wouldn't be right to end without showing a Zoom call.
Every missionary who served during COVID knows these well.

I'm so proud of Tate for loving his Savior enough to serve
a mission. We missed him like crazy, but it was 
completely and totally worth it.

Saying Goodbye to my Danish Grandparents

We're so grateful for Leo and Anny!

Helløjsa!

This will be my second to last email just FYI. I will try to sum up the mission next week.

So our big thing this week was another combined zone conference with our new mission president and his wife. It was such a great experience. He is different from my last mission president, but I was able to get a spiritual confirmation that he is taking things where they need to go. So of course I'm going to back that up. He is such a great guy and very inspired. I'm happy to be working under him. Plus it is always the greatest to meet up with other missionaries and see friends. It was sad to say bye to the missionaries in Jylland, especially my boy Elder Vestergaard, my trainee and great friend. Hopefully I see him one more time before I dip on outta here.

We had a couple of service projects which were of course great and I attended a birthday party as well. It was fun and there was great food there too, which I am always down for. There was also a big Danish EFY kinda thing and we got to be involved, which meant that I got to see some of my old friends from earlier areas. We got to give a training to them and just hyped up missions and how they are so great to a bunch of 14-18 year old youth. Love it.

We also tried this bomb miso ramen place in Copenhagen, recommended by a member, and I was feeling in heaven hahah. Mod approved lol.

The hardest thing of this week was saying goodbye to my Danish grandparents, Anny and Leo. I have been over at their house once a week since December, plus an interval of time where it was every Sunday for online church. I have really grown close to them and they are so kind and loving. Giving them a last hug tugged at the heartstrings and kinda kicked things in. Woof not fun.

Anyhow, this email is LONG so I am going to finish it off with Moroni 7:13 which states: "But behold, that which is of God inviteth and enticeth to do good continually; wherefore, every thing which inviteth and enticeth to do good, and to love God, and to serve him, is inspired of God." Bam. Everything which has good consequences and invites you to do good is inspired by God. That applies to everything. Listen to that voice you have which helps you discern what is right and what is wrong and then ACT on it!

Love from Vor Frue Kirke,

Ældste Modersitzki

New President and New Places

Helløjsa everyone! My week was crazy and I have roughly zero minutes to write this, so sorry in advance Mom! This is going to be a short one haha rip.

We used this entire week to prepare for and receive the new mission president we got on Wednesday! His name is President Mattsson and he is a really dope Swedish guy! We have already connected quite well with the 213098 meetings we have had which he likes to hold in person, so we have been driving over an hour one way for these meetings every day haha. But, excitingly enough, one of the first items of business was them asking us when we will move to Copenhagen... we had like one appointment two days after and they said to move by next week, so we geared up and said goodbye to Slagelse today. I had five days notice to leave the area I have been in for 7 months lol. I gave a closing testimony on Sunday and now we are living in downtown Copenhagen in a really cool place. It's definitely gonna be a good time. I bet everyone is jealous high key.

On July 4th we celebrated with the new mission president, his wife, the office elders, and 2 senior couples, and it was a lot of fun! I was of course whipping my America outfit (shout out to my mom for the socks) and everyone was loving it lol. God bless America.

Well, my spiritual thought today is veryyy simple. God puts change in our path to change us, not to make us even more stubborn. His plan is always better, even when we want ours to work out more. Change is GOOD. My favorite quote from this week was from President Mattsson. He said, "Do pilot things. Let's be different!" And I came to realize how much more I need to learn about letting God change me and putting myself in uncomfortable positions to become who I need to be.

I am loving it out here and trying to live up the last two weeks! Also, Denmark is in the Euro Cup semifinals against England.... Copenhagen is going to explode with cheers if we win!

KOM SÅ DANMARK! VI SKAL IKKE HJEM, VI SKAL VIDERE!

Love from Vodroffsvej,

Ældste Modersitzki