New New New

Hey what's up? This week we had transfers and my life keeps getting tossed around! I lost both Ældste Jaursch and Ældste Christensen to transfers, but I got Ældste Østergaard from who is from Denmark as my comp! That  means my Danish will get much, much better. After that I will start training an Ældste Vestergaard! I haven't met him, but he is from Denmark as well! Also, I got called as District leader, so that's cool too. 

The weather has been fire and I got sunburned one day working out in the garden with Mario and Karin, our friends. They made us some way good steak, chicken, and sausages afterwards. We talked about the gospel and got to talk about the Book of Mormon a little which was good. We are good friends and help them out a lot, which they are grateful for. 

We had Zone Conference this last week and there were some big announcements made that we should be opening up hopefully soon and that we get to hold Zone Conference in person next transfer! Baby steps people! 

We also got to meet with a couple of missionaries to make a musical number for our Facebook page. It was awesome to see Ældste Moore from the MTC and some other elders and sisters! 

I don't have a ton of new updates with Facebook. Just pushing through. 

We had Brad Wilcox as our Sunday devotional! He is such a loving man and dropped some good fire about studies and how we can keep faith. 10/10 would recommend!

The members we live with made me some "Corona socks" hahah! She is so nice. 

I had a good week! That's a basic wrap up! Love y'all! 

Love from Allerød

-Ældste Modersitzki 

Ældste Jaursch & Ældste Christensen

The Allerød Trio. One last time.

Flæskesteg sandwiches = blessings

At the Copenhagen temple with ZL Redd

Howdy y'all! This week was not so thrilling, but we did have some new stuff that happened so I'll dive in.

This week went really fast and I had some good experiences, but we'll get the tough ones out of the way first. Sadly, Marie's baptism was postponed until a later date so hopefully that happens soon. We will see. I also had a lady over Facebook who was way willing to talk and discuss how religions need a new revival! Sounds too good to be true right? Well, it was. She found out I was a "Mormon," told me I needed Jesus, and blocked me. :( Her attitude changed way quick, but what can ya do?

This week I bought some sushi from a place similar to Smith's in Utah and it was way nice. I still love sushi. Corona didn't change that. We also had a "Nutella pizza" that was way fire with Nutella, strawberries and bananas. So nice. Since we are on the topic of food, I'll tell you about the sandwich I had from this little street vendor. It's called a flæskesteg sandwich and man, it is nice. Y'all gotta look that up when you get the chance. It's got rodkål (red cabbage) and søde agurk (sweet pickles) and that flæskesteg stuff on it. Big blessing right there.

The Nutella pizza that the elders were
so excited about. :)

I went on splits with ZL Redd and got to see Copenhagen again and that was cool and brought back some memories. I got to see the temple again and it was so peaceful and had tons of flowers. I love the temple. We also played some basketball at the church and I could still dunk. Way happy about that!  Didn't think I'd be able to, but I guess I can still jump a little bit.

We had our district meeting in person again and President Olsen was there. It was an awesome training by Ældste Jaursch on faith and belief. He killed it. Interviews with president after were pretty fun as well. We laugh a lot and get along well. 

On Sunday, we were out for a walk with one of the newly baptized members here and we were walking behind this older man who we could tell was having a hard time staying up. He nearly fell over, so we ran up to him and asked if we could help. He, of course, said yes and went on about how it was his first time going out for a walk in 2 years by himself and he was 95. So, I jumped in there and became the man's crutch for about a fourth of a mile. Luckily, we were close to his house. Then he went on about how "tåbelig" (foolish) it was for him to go out by himself. I was happy to help and maybe be a small answer to his prayers. My challenge to y'all is, to be the answer to someone else's prayer even if you feel that God isn't answering yours. 

That's Sweden (Helsingborg) behind Tate!

I got to see a new city called Helsingør today, it was awesome! I could see Sweden across the harbor and watch the ferries. Plus, they have a pretty sweet castle there too. I love this country!! 

That's all this week folks. 

Love from Kronborg Slot, 

Ældste Modersitzki 

Kronborg Slot

A bunch of 2000s songs stuck in my head

This week was.... something to say the least. It was a little rough on the edges and every day felt the exact same. Kinda funny how I have written that nearly 5-ish times in a row now. Lol.

This week was special in the way that we had a "lesson" of sorts. It was mostly just talking about our mission and all that, but it was kinda fun. Everybody has different experiences so it is cool to hear about them!

Hmmm what else... I've slacked on reading the Bible the last couple of days.... Gotta kick back in... I only have all the time in the world to read it, haha. Anywaysssss I came across a couple of passages in Psalms that I was like danggggg, that is fire! The church is still true. Kinda funny how the Bible testifies of the truthfulness of the church (and people think we don't believe in the Bible). Interesting how that works out.

This week was like 2000-2010 hip hop songs in the way that 1. They all sound the same, aka the days all have the same plan, 2. They all have the same lyrics, aka every day has pretty much the same thing happening, 3. They all have the same instruments, aka we are talking to nearly the same people every day. Not to mention the fact that I have had a total of twenty-three 2000s songs stuck in my head this week, I can't seem to escape from Jason Derulo, even in Denmark!

In D&C 4 it states that the field is white and ready to harvest... In Denmark the fields are yellow and ready to be harvested.... literally. All these bright yellow fields are putting me in a trance because I love them so much. Denmark is pretty when you are looking for it... and when you aren't. We had some nice rainstorms this week. All of these forests are getting incredibly green.

Fredensborg Slot (where the queen lives right now)

This week had some cool sights. We got to see where the queen lives right now, a place called Fredensborg Slot, which is dope. The gardens around the castle are incredible and the lake nearby made me wanna go hop in. It was smooth as glass too, so I might have wanted to go wakeboard on it as well... it gave me some Bear Lake vibes... but Bear Lake has never been as flat as that lake was. 

I also got some sad news that Elder Cook won't be returning to the mission so that threw me for a loop. We are chilling though. 

Fun fact: Missionaries have now been in Denmark for 170 years! Kinda cool aye? 

Maria's baptism is on Saturday. I'm still praying that I can go! 

I hope you are all doing well and that everyone had a great Mother's Day! I want to give a big shout out to my own mother! She is THE GREATEST! #MarciModForPres

Have a good one y'all! 

Love from Allerød,

-Ældste Modersitzki 

With Ældste Jaursch

My boy finds McDonalds everywhere he can.
Hot wings for the win!

Big News!

Frederiksborg Castle in the distance

This week was kinda just like the last one and the week before that x8. But there was some cool stuff! Gotta wait 'til the end for the best news so far! 

Starting this one off right with all the outdoors experiences that I had this week. I still love the outdoors, no surprise to anyone there, hahah. We did some service again for the same couple as last week. This time we took out an entire grove of bushes and trees! It was gratifying to see how quickly we tore through it and they were very thankful! We're always happy to help, even happier when they told us that they want to have us over for dinner sometime to talk a little! Miracles happen! We also soaked up some sun this week by taking walks to some cool places. We walked by Frederiksborg Castle and fed some ducks and swans in the moat. That was relaxing and fun, not gonna lie. 

This week was tough with Facebook finding and making new friends. My lack of motivation combined with how rude some people had been really took me back a step or two. But we're back on track now. This week was an adventure because it had the highs of teaching over Facebook and the lows of having a guy call me a "snake," tell me that "Mormonism doesn't belong anywhere near Christianity," and that I was "an enemy." Hahaha, I was like hmmm...okay...well, have a good day! Sometimes it's a test of my patience out here. Lol. It was fitting this week that I studied the story of Job in the Old Testament. It really puts everything into perspective--things here really aren't that bad, and as long as we focus on Jesus Christ we have nothing to worry about. 

Yard work break ft. chocolate milk

Let's talk about food now because I'm always talking about food. The members in this ward are incredible and have given us soooo much food. It's ridiculous how spoiled we are. We live in a basement apartment in the home of some members and they invited us up for some ice cream and cake and then we discussed some gospel principles! It. Was. So. Awesome! I love those people.

We had Zone Conference over Zoom this week and I'm excited for those to be in person again. It was still good, but I like seeing my friends. 

Ældste Christensen has been teaching me both Danish and English grammar this last week. Wow. It's crazy how much I don't know hahaha. We are getting there.

Now for the big news! If you can remember all the way back to my time in Randers, we invited a lady named Marie to be baptized and she accepted. Well, the elders up there right now invited her to be baptized on the 19th of May and she accepted! I'm hoping I can go back and see it so so so bad! She is so golden and I'm so happy for her! 

Also, I hit my 9-month mark on Thursday! Time flies! 

Big shout out to all my friends being reassigned! Y'all are troopers and I'm so proud of you! 

Love from Djævlens Ø! 

-Ældste Modersitzki 

PS - My P-day is on Tuesday next week because Monday is the 170-year anniversary of the first missionaries in Denmark, so I'll talk to y'all then! 

The fields are getting yellow

Restartttttt

The new companions: Ældste Christensen (from Morgan, UT),
Ældste Jaursch (from Germany) & Ældste Mod

Hejså! What's up?

Week 8 or so of quarantine. I've lost count tbh. Denmark is kinda opening back up so things are looking up, back on the missionary grind soon? Maybe. 

The reason I called this email restart is because I've nearly restarted all possible aspects of missionary work. Everything from knocking to member work and even the people around me. It is all very, very different. And I guess I should expect some growing pains with all that but I'm kinda getting in the groove. This week I started to meet some of the members here in Allerød and they are so awesome. They feed the missionaries all the time. I haven't made a dinner all week! How whack is that? The Facebook work is good. There are so many nice people on the Internet, regardless of if they want to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ or not. I'm happy to have them as friends!

In-person district council

Guess which mission is the first in the world to bring back in-person district councils... If you guessed Copenhagen Denmark. You would be correct. Nice to be back seeing the other missionaries again and reuniting with my old comp Ældste Millett! Good times! 

This week we were able to do some service for some non-members that live close to one of our awesome members! I got to take out a massive bush, some tree roots and weed a big garden. It felt so nice to be outside and doing things. I felt like I was back working in the yard and wow, I never thought I would have missed that.... but I did! They are some nice people too!

I read a decent bit of the Old Testament and I wanted to share a scripture I ran across this week. It comes from 2 Samuel 22:29. For thou art my lamp, O Lord: and the Lord will lighten my darkness. What a fire scripture! Straight forward and to the point. The Lord has control. 

As a mission we had John Bytheway give us a Zoom fireside because his son is in my mission. It was fire. He spoke about keeping Christ our main focus and not letting the darkness eclipse our light, or in other words, don't let your doubts block out what you know to be true. Kinda goes well with that last scripture eh?

Anyways that's all that happened this week I think. Denmark is getting pretty! 

Love from the land of the Vikings, 

-Ældste Modersitzki

It felt great to get outside and do some yardwork!

XO TRIO LIFE

Well some news for y'all. I'm getting transferred.... Again. To the other side of the country. A place called Allerød, with my Boi Ældste Jaursch from the MTC and Ældste Christensen who I met a while back! I'm psyched to be with those bros but I'm kinda tired of moving around. That makes 5 areas/places in 1 month. I was in Aalborg (my area) for about 10 days, Herning (1st 4-man) for 2 weeks and Frederikshavn (2nd 4-man) for 1 week. It's tough moving again and I regret unpacking my suitcases, but like, the Lord's will right? And I was able to see A TON of the country and I'm very thankful for that!

Now for this week. There was lots of Facebook finding, Bible bashing and seeing some really cool places. Frederikshavn is super dope. It is right on the ocean and the harbor has some big ships in it which I loved. It has a little bit of a beach town vibe to it, plus it has some really cool WW2 bunkers and cannons! It was lit. I also saw the very tip top of Denmark called Skagen and there was some cool bunkers, seals, and sand! The beach was soooo nice, I even got to step foot in 2 oceans at once! The oceans don't actually mix so I just saw the waves hitting each other and that was dope. I was also the only smart one who brought Chacos so I got to touch the water. That was definitely a highlight! 

We did a lot of Facebook finding and member lessons which are going well. I think the member lessons help both the members and the missionaries a lot! 

Hillerød/Allerød seems super awesome. I haven't seen much of it yet, but I'm sure I'll love it. Fun fact: I've been in nearly all the Elder areas in my mission now (either on splits or serving there)! I'm just missing Odense and Bornholm so I'll let ya know if more whack stuff happens!

Love from Nordsjælland, 

-Ældste Modersitzki

This isn't Tate's picture, but this is the North Sea and the Baltic Sea meeting.
The waters don't mix. In the picture above, Tate is standing on the sandbar that you see. Photo cred: Ecobnb

Making friends with the seals.

The lighthouse

God Påske!

The flyer that Farr and I made/translated into Danish ourselves

Whelp. I'm still in Denmark ladies and gents. Living it up. I don't really remember too much of what happened this week but I'll try!

First off, y'all know the new church logo? I've seen the original statue in person... Not to flex but I'm gonna flex that. Thorvaldsen (the sculptor) is Danish.... Isn't that kind of dope? I think so at least.

This week consisted of getting bashed over Facebook Messenger and getting thrashed in Monopoly (my luck and dice roll is so bad). I would never go to Vegas because I can't even get a good dice roll for Monopoly money, let alone for real money.

We went for a run this week and goodness, I'm out of shape. I've been missing the Randers 5k because my body needs it, haha. 

Sunrise

Lots of Facebook finding this week led to someone responding to my post asking for a fast by saying we aren't Christian... I laughed and sent him a personal message saying aye, we are actually Christians and thus we hit a Bible bash. He whipped out some sources that were rather questionable and I just was like.... Do you want me to tell you what I believe in or do you want to tell me what I believe in... Lol. I am starting to understand how serving in the Bible Belt would be. Shout out to those people. They really are the best missionaries ever. 

Easter/ Påske was pretty fine, nothing much happened. We watched church online and had a little mission-wide "Music and the Spoken Word" which was good but weird. Zoom calls aren't my favorite. I prefer in-person stuff. I read the story of the crucifixion in Danish and that was special. I can't really describe how happy I was after I read it. I love my Savior and I know He lives and knows each of us individually.

I'm getting moved again to a place called Frederikshavn and I'm excited but sick of moving. That makes 3 times in 4 weeks or so but it's whatever. 

I hope y'all have a good week, stay safe! 

Love ya Boi, 

Ældste Modersitzki 

Playing Monopoly with the Herning elders