Runners in Randers!

Hey everyone! Week one down in Randers! Let's get started! I don't have a ton of time.

This week was kind of a slow adjustment period. It was still pretty good though! My companion Ældste Millett and I have been having some fun and living it up!  We had a decent bit of service this week helping out some less actives. (Pic of a moved couch down below.) It was nice and she needed some help. We were happy to help! We met a couple of the branch members and ate with them and that was way good. We also have had a lesson and taught the restoration with some people that are way positive so that was awesome!

We had another Christmas party this week! We had a bunch of Christmas food and got sent home with like 50 Æbleskiver so we were super psyched. Then the bro who gave us them said he needed the Tupperware back on Sunday... It was Friday night.... We had to wolf those down. Hahaha soo good though.

Now for the email title... We ran a 5k on Saturday morning... It was 35 degrees and 95 percent humidity but it was way fun and I actually got way hot. We helped out some members and got some better relations with some non-members. Total win. The time was like 38 minutes so I'll try to improve next week. It was fun!

Also a quick spiritual note: read the talk "But If Not" by Dennis E. Simmons. It helped me out a lot with faith this week. I needed it! 

Have a great week! 

-Ældste Modersitzki

Done with training and transferred

Transferring to Randers by train.

Hey hey! Ya boy/elder back at it again.

This week has been crazy but at the same time not a whole lot has happened, so sorry if this email is a little bland, but like it's Denmark so it's still way cool!

Teaching this week was good! We continued our teaching of a family that we kinda thought we were gonna get dropped by. This time we whipped out the plan of salvation and they loved it! I mean who doesn't love it?! It's the best plan literally ever. I was able to help clarify how God loved us so much he did all of this for us. And they thought we were gonna drop some fiery hell. We said nah and continued teaching about happiness. Good stuff.

We knocked a good bit this week but like it was nbd. We also got insulted a ton in Danish so my vocab is expanding for sure. Hahaha! Gotta love it. We also had a Catholic woman try to convert us. It was interesting but fun. She read some Bible verses with us and prayed with us so I guess that's a W.

Members that I love.

Now for the news! I got transferred to Randers! It's on the other side of the country where the Danish is way different and deeper and yeah, so we are in for a ride. I rode a train for like 3 hours then hopped trains and rode for another 40 minutes. My new comp's name is Ældste Millett from Provo. He's cool I'm sure I'll send pics next week. It was really hard to say goodbye to the members and other missionaries in Copenhagen though. I'll include pics!

Love y'all! Have a good week! 

-Ældste Modersitzki

Christmas party!

Cool place we found on Amager

Elders Cook, Nielson and Modersitzki

Tate will definitely miss Ældste Cook. They've been
near each other since their first day in the MTC.

The one with the Blood Sausage and the false priest

A real Danish Christmas dinner

Happy late Thanksgiving from a place where it was just another normal winter/fall Thursday! I am very thankful that I can be a missionary and spread God's light to all of his children! Name a better thing than that to say around the table on Thanksgiving.... Bet you can't. 

Whatta week! It was way cold this week! It started snowing and of course it didn't stick. Every day is about 35 degrees with a -8 degree windchill and 95 percent humidity. It's a little cold hahah. I am layering up to say the least. We had some great experiences and some not so great experiences so I guess you could say I am in fact... a missionary.... gotta love it. Start her off strong with the fact that I can hold most kinds of convos in Danish. So like... W. I have been reading the Book of Mormon in Danish and wow.... I've never read slower in my life, but that is fine. It takes about an hour for me to read a page and understand what it means. Small steps people... small steps.

Thanksgiving dinner this week was a pizza given to us by a non-member that we helped move. He was way kind and generous. The highlight of the day was calling the fam though. I got to see all of the cousins at a get-together and it felt almost like I was there.... Besides the delays and all that on google hangouts hahahah. The second highlight of the week was that we were contacting with a member and we talked to this dude... Wearing tight black leather tights.... and painted nails. He told us that he loved Jesus and that he was a false priest... he literally said he was a false priest. He then proceeded to ask Ældste Farr if he could heal his ear (because Ældste Farr is deaf in one ear). Ældste Farr said, "Well yeah! Of course!" Long story short, it didn't work because, you know, we are the ones with real Priesthood power. :) By the end of our conversation he no longer wanted to talk to the missionaries, just the member to try to intimidate her. She is the strongest member I have ever met so she stood up for herself and in perfectly respectable missionary form did not get mad or angry. I was so proud. We left after he said "Woe unto you" like 75875 times and he also said that Mormon was Satan so that was fun. All in Danish. He also said he would throw up if we would sing him a song... I nearly broke out in song but being a conservative missionary I didn't. So fun. The member was happy that she could have her first "real missionary" experience.

The same member whose name is Jennifer (she is the best) had us over for a "real Danish Christmas dinner" on Sunday. It was way whack but I love trying all of this stuff so I was a happy guy! We had a lot of meat... like a lot. My favorite part was for sure the blood sausage though. Sounds way good but kinda tastes like gingerbread, but it's meat... yeah IDK, but you know I ate a ton.

Sunday was a big miracle. One of our friends that we were unsure if we should continue teaching or not kept her commitment to come to church on Sunday! We were so hyped! She came with her daughter and I think they both really liked it! 

Birthday lunch for Ældste Farr (maroon beanie)

Also shout out to Ældste Farr because he had his Bday this week! We went out to celebrate and eat some burgers in the cold! Gotta love Denmark! This week went by super fast so I am a happy guy!

Love you all! Remember to think of Christ this Christmas season!

-Ældste Modersitzki

The nativity in front of the Copenhagen temple