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

Pictures only this week. :)

Tate was too busy with transfers to write this week, but he sent a few pictures. He’s down to 12 weeks left on his mission! Time is flying.

A Texas Sheet Cake Kinda Week

These rune stones are so cool!

Heyyyyo!

I will attempt to keep this short.... which I tend to be rather bad at.... but whatever, let's hop on into the week!

We had a service appointment on Tuesday... it was funny. We pulled up to this lady's garden and her husband / boyfriend (I am still not sure which to be honest) was waiting for us there. He said that she would be there soon and then 30 minutes passed. Finally, she pulled up and had us take some grass out of a hole she had dug and put down a box spring in said hole.... then we covered it in a tarp so she could sleep on it. Afterward, she grabbed some random PVC pipe-looking things and told us to build a canopy... No sweat, we figured it out, hahah. Nice lady. We talked about her conversion story (and some very wild stories) and she gave us some really good pastries and treats. It was a funny appointment for sure, especially when her friend pulled up. Good times.

The man famous for his Texas sheet cake. :)

We went on splits with my friends Ældste Fisher and Ældste Cousins in Herning. Ældste Cousins is mission-renowned for his Texas sheet cake. We pulled up and he had some ready for us. Man, I ate way too much sheet cake but I don't regret it. That stuff is niceeeee. Herning was fun as well. We welcomed a new senior couple and helped them figure out tech stuff on their phones. Then went contacting and all that. It was nice and the sun stayed up for a long time. That is so nice and welcomed after a long dark winter.

After, we headed to Aarhus with Ældste Paulsen and Ældste Møller. It was fun being with the two Danes. We even got to eat with a family that I love from Aarhus. Shout out to the Perkins! They are so dope. On the way home from their house we stopped by a supermarket and snagged some nougat croissants because Ældste Møller loves them. The man bought NINE. Whatta legend. We hit the evening contacting there as well. Denmark is such a great place. I highly recommend it. Not biased at all.

Eating the best pastries in the world!

We also had in-person district council meeting this week. That's always a plus. Iceland zone conference was this week too. We joined in for the first 15-ish minutes over Zoom... I hope to be there in person one day though.... hahaha.

We are headed to the temple today to do baptisms for the dead! I am super stoked for it! I am very thankful for temples and their power, as well as the fact that I am able to attend today for the first time in a while.

Love you all so much! Have a good week!

Love from Templet i København,

Ældste Modersitzki

A hot pepper challenge....

Howdy everybody! Quick little recap email, hope you enjoy!

This week was pretty normal... except we were on splits a couple times, which for me seems like a very, very normal thing considering I pack up and sleep in another apartment about twice a week these days lol. We were with Ældste Hintze and Ældste Neiderman in Roskilde and that was good fun. Nobody was feeling like talking to us, what's new? Hahah! Eventually we knocked on a door and a girl from the US opened up and talked to us about Utah because she lived there for a sec.. She spoke in perfect Danish with the accent and everything, and she had only lived here for 5 years... wild. She was the only nice person of the day lol. But we had a good time with them. We even snagged some funky looking, delicious Turkish pizzas.

We also went on splits with the tech elders. We tried to do lots of sports contacting by playing soccer and basketball on the streets of Copenhagen. It was lots of fun, but we didn't meet too many people who were interested. It must have been quite the sight seeing four dudes in white shirts, ties and name tags walking the ghettos of Copenhagen playing basketball. We met this cool guy named Nikolaj though. After all that we grabbed treats at a local supermarket and found habaneros and Carolina Reaper peppers on sale... So we had to try them. It's not every day where we can try two of the hottest peppers in the world. They burned my mouth for like 20 seconds, then my face went numb and my ears were tingling.. good times not to be forgotten hahaha.

We had a couple of eating appointments which were fun. We got to explore this city called Kalundborg which I really like the vibe of. It's a super pretty coastal town. And of course we ate lots of pastries because why not? You only live in Denmark once right?

I am doing well! Love and miss you all! See you guys in under 100 days! (I think. I don't actually know what the exact number is lol.)

Love from Kalundborg,

Ældste Modersitzki

The elders with their Turkish pizzas

First Sunburn of the Year + A Prophet's Voice= a week full of Danish holidays

God Påske! Happy Easter! Your one and only Ældste Modersitzki back again. I don't really know how it has been a week already, but time is cruising! I write too much usually so I will attempt to keep her short this week.

We started off the week by heading to Zone Conference in Aarhus with the office elders over in Jylland. It was a good time for sure! It was the first in-person Zone Conference that we have had since last July or something like that. Kinda wild. It only was an hour and a half in person and then an online session later in the evening. Because of the church building which we were at, our laptop was set up away from the main chapel and I accidentally cut off Præsident Olsen with a video for part of his training.... lollll my bad. The online portion went fine and our training was short but pretty good. We just talked about habits and doing small things every day to be better. We also had a testimony meeting about the Book of Mormon for the zone. We had just finished up reading the Book of Mormon in 90 days so that was good!

Then for an intermission we went on splits with our friends down in Odense, Ældste Christensen and Ældste Croft. Ældste Croft is brand new so we really went hard haha. It was great to see them again and work down in their area. Odense is pretty sick! We snagged them some nice pastries as y'all would expect and shared the love. We also got to see a monument dedicated to Hans Christian Andersen (Danish fairytale guy) on his bday. Shout out to him lol.

Sjælland zone conference went about the same... Didn't cut off Præsident Olsen this time hahah but instead tried to mute a senior missionary and accidentally skipped the video that was playing.... Big ole facepalm to round that boy off hahahah.

After Sjælland ZC the Bornholm elders (Ældste Brown and Ældste Hogge) got to stay over and watch General Conference with us. It was a riot. Those dudes are so fun. Plus General Conference was super good. My favorite talk was for sure President Nelson's talk about faith. It felt like a slap in the face directed to me to get my faith together and get going hahaha. It was definitely one of the moments where he was speaking and I could just feel that he was inspired and a prophet. He was answering doubts I didn't even know I had. Super good stuff in there.

On the topic of spirituality, I started studying the New Testament with the Institute study manual and mannnnn that is so helpful. The stories in the Bible feel much more real!

We got to hit some service this week, I love service. We just moved some brick tile things for one of my favorite families in Denmark. Then we had a little break before dinner and it was way nice outside so we tossed around the football in our car. I ended up getting my first sunburn of the year.... it was 61 degrees and had a low UV index.... gonna be a long summer for me if it stays this way hahah.

Fun Facts: 

 • The Denmark Copenhagen mission has more sisters than elders, and if things stay the same we will almost end up having more elders in Iceland than Denmark.... That has never happened before... ever. 

• Denmark has like 4 or 5 holidays the week of Easter which correlate to biblical events. They get work off on Thursday (the day Christ washed the disciples feet), Friday (Good Friday/ Crucifixion), Saturday (no good reason there honestly... just felt like not working), Sunday (resurrection), and Monday (a day to recover from the Easter hangover), so buying food is a tough one these days with nearly every store closed hahaha.

Anyways this boy got LONG, Happy Easter from Denmark!

Love from Skovvejen, 

Ældste Modersitzki