Spooky szn splits

Splits with Ældste Langmann

Hey hey! What's going on? I am coming back to y'all from Denmark! Decent week this week!

Started it off right by going on splits with Ældste Langmann from Germany. We had a good time together. We actually got a guy's number and he was down to meet sometime, so let's hope that works out! Splits were nice. Nothing too big to report there. We finished it off with a nice district council with the boys down in Aalborg and grabbed a pizza that made me feel soooo nasty after hahah. Tasted nice though.....

We also had splits with my district leader Ældste Cousins. We had a good time doing A TON of service. But honestly, it was good we had that. It made the splits go by faster. Plus, if you know me you know that I genuinely love service. So that was sick and I just got to talk to some members that I like, so I enjoyed that. We went out contacting and ran into this less-active member and had a chance to talk to him. I think it was for sure inspired that we met him. We had a Trunk or Treat activity with some of the families in the branch and that was also a good time. We had a light saber in the apartment so I whipped up as a Jedi, lol, lame I know. It's hard to get creative with a white shirt and tie on hahah. I chatted the night away with a member that has bad dementia and honestly it was so pure. I really enjoyed it. I don't think he will remember it or anything, but I sure will. 

Splits with Ældste Cousins

Halloween was rather mundane. Corona has really killed the vibe, but that's okay. Nobody was really out at all that day to be honest. I was wearing my orange tie though, so don't think I didn't even try to be festive. ;) We decided that night to go grab a nice dinner from an American barbecue place hahah. It cost so much, but it was nice to have some tenderloin, ribs, onion rings, chicken, fries AND ice cream as a celebratory meal. It was also the start of our healthy eating period where we are gonna stop buying so many treats.. lol. Earlier this week we bought some ice cream and were eating it at this lookout thing and we saw a rainbow. Small blessings. Maybe we should keep eating treats? Hmmmm, gotta think over that one. 

We ate with a member family last night and it was so sick. It was like their Halloween Sunday dinner party so the whole extended fam (who are also members) pulled up and we ate some FIRE food. It was so nice and it just felt like we were part of the family! Big W!

Tate loved seeing Ældste Vestergaard's family again

I also saw my trainee's family at church yesterday! They were up here for vacation and I got to talk to them! It was awesome to see them again! 

Our lesson with Grazyna went well yesterday! She has her interview today and she is ready! We're so excited to see her enter into this covenant with God. Look forward to next week's email!

Love from Abildgaard,

Ældste Modersitzki

Also big shout out to my sister Shae and her fiance Colten! They are getting married this week on Friday! Congrats to them! Super thankful for eternal families and for both Shae and Colten for their examples to me! 

Celebrating Halloween with an American dinner.

The Polish Way ft Interviews

Howdyyyyy! How y'all been? It's been a wild week. Hope y'all are ready!

We started off the week right by going on splits with the APs. I was paired with Ældste Neiderman. I have been on splits with him SOOOO many times, and that's just fine with me. We are good homies. He could almost be considered my companion lol. We had a good time contacting and knocking. Who is ready for a wild story that will probably scare my mom? Buckle up. We were knocking and had just found someone who was willing to have us come back and teach, so we were feeling pretty good. We knocked on another door and a guy opened up and just gave the usual not interested answers. As we were about to leave he hit us with an "Ikke kom igen," which translates to "Don't come back" and then lifted up his sweatshirt to show us the PISTOL he had chilling in his waistband hahahahaha. We were like, "You got it dude!" I wasn't actually scared, but it was WILD. I would never have expected that to happen in Denmark.

We had a ton of eating appointments this week. We have been working on member relations here and it's finally paying off a little. We have challenged the members to do some missionary work and if they do, they will get in return a homemade dinner made by yours truly. It's gonna be worth it. They seem to be willing to try it though, so that makes me happy.

Eating at his beloved Burger Shack

We had interviews down in Aalborg as well as district council. President Olsen and I are just homies, we just kinda hang out a little bit. It is refreshing to talk to him and his wife. They are super dope. And for those who actually read these you know I LOVE Burger Shack.... so we pulled up and snagged some after interviews. They were playing some good music that matched the outdoorsy vibe and I felt like I was eating a burger up AF canyon.  I was having such a good time.

NOW FOR THE REAL EXCITING BIT!!

We had a lesson with our friend Grazyna from Poland on Sunday! It was a spirit-filled lesson where she conveyed her experiences with feeling the spirit while reading the Book of Mormon and I was just like YES GRAZYNA YES! I had promised her that she would feel the spirit and gain a witness if she did the 21-day Book of Mormon Challenge, and what do you know? God fulfills his promises! So we were just like hey Grazyna, we don't really have much else to teach you, would you like to be baptized? She was super pumped and said yes! She didn't know if she should ask us if she could be baptized, or if we needed to be the ones that initiated that conversation to tell her that she is ready. She said she had thought about it a lot recently. I was so psyched! I told her that this was a step on the road to getting sealed to her husband and she was so happy to hear that. She was so happy that she wanted to go into the commandments lesson right then and there. So yeah, Grazyna is on date for the 7th of November. Pray for her so that it all works out!

Corona is getting worse here in Denmark, we have gotten new restrictions. I just hope we don't get put back on lock down! Hoping for the best!

Love from the Havn!

-Ældste Modersitzki

XXL Pizza + Aalborg splitsssss

Hejhej! This week was solid! Sadly no teaching opportunities, but a fine week nonetheless!

We had splits down in Aalborg and I got to go out with Ældste Appleby and Ældste Cousins. It was a good time! I hadn't really served around either of them before so it was good to get to know them. We did a lot of contacting and I got to contact in downtown Aalborg for the first time! (Even though I served there for a transfer hahahah. Thanks Corona.) We had a good time and I think that Aalborg is super sick. I love that city for sure!

It was Ældste Ngatikaura's birthday on Sunday and we had to celebrate throughout the week because #sabbath, so on Saturday he bought us this XXL pizza that honestly could compete with Bear Lake pizza for the biggest pizza I have ever eaten. It was nice... we still have a ton of leftovers hahaha. I also treated him to some Burger King for lunch earlier in the week and some ice cream on Friday night. We celebrate hard in the Havn. We also are eating well here.

We have been trying to start up the member work here in Frederikshavn and we got a ton of eating appointments set up this week! I am way excited honestly. Gonna try to get some help up here!

This week I was doing my usual Facebook finding and I was playing some nice church music in the background. I decided I wanted to post something on my story with a special emphasis on Jesus Christ. I started looking through some of the missionary groups that I am in and found some beautiful pictures of Jesus Christ. I felt so at peace and loved as I focused solely on Him. It was a wonderful moment. I gotta say I need to focus more on Him in order to continue growing my testimony. Definite step forward and reminder of what I need to do.

Thanks for reading this week. I love and miss you all. Send an email if you're feeling it. I would love to hear from you!

Love from Nørresundby, 

Ældste Modersitzki

Happy birthday Ældste Ngatikaura!

With Ældste Appleby & Ældste Cousins

Feelin' like Paul Bunyan

Howdyyyyy! It's Ældste Modersitzki back again from a wild week.

Started off the week strong on Tuesday by slinging an axe around like Paul Bunyan. I chopped up so much wood that I could have personally given everyone up American Fork Canyon a full bundle. Calluses were for sure popping up left and right, but honestly, it felt so nice. The smell of that freshly split wood made me feel right at home. And I got to learn how to fire a kiln and learn some pottery skills that I never thought I would ever hear/learn/see from this bro named Greg and his wife. He is an American that moved here 19-ish years ago. So that was a good time. We got rewarded with some nice sandwiches from him as well.  I also saw a stop sign for the first time in 13 months. It was funny. I took a pic hahaha.

On Wednesday, we had a mini Mission Conference (minus Iceland) and I know that sounds like a huge gathering, but it was like 36 missionaries hahahah. It was a good time. We got vaccinated and had some nice trainings from the APs and Pres as well as his wife and the 2nd counselor. They talked a lot about becoming educated missionaries and how we can achieve that. All the missionaries had a really good time as well. I love being with the people out here. I have made a ton of lifelong friends. So that was by far my favorite part. President Olsen announced that we are going to get a two-day party in Copenhagen if we do a couple of things in our mission. I REALLY hope we achieve those goals because I want in! On the way home from Mission Conference, we even got to stop by Randers and get the mission-renowned Randers' kebab. It was Ngatikaura's first time, so we had to make sure he got a good one. It was odd to be back there I have to say.

All of the Denmark Copenhagen missionaries (minus the missionaries
serving in Iceland). The mission is pretty small right now.

Mushroom hunting

We went back to Greg's the next day and he invited us out mushroom hunting in the forest with a couple of his friends. I mean, I have never gone mushroom hunting in my life, but it was an experience. Looking over the forest floor for these black mushrooms that look whack. A lady came with us who started petting moss and called everything super beautiful, then decided to give a tree a big hug. It was wild. You would have thought she maybe ate one of the mushrooms that we WEREN'T looking for. hahah. She even told us about a mouse skull she had with the teeth still intact, hahaha. She wants us to do service for her soon. Then, we chopped up some more wood and I was just swinging that axe like there was no tomorrow. It felt way good. Greg came in clutch with some burgers that had freshly picked mushrooms on 'em.... I wonder who picked those...? :)

The rest of the week was kinda mundane, but we had a great lesson with our friend Grazyna. We were able to just talk to her about some of the difficulties she is having on her path to a solid testimony. We started her up on a 21-day Book of Mormon challenge and I think she will pick up in no time. She is super strong. I love her so much! She treats me like her grandson.

Anyway, that's all for the week I think.... love y'all and thanks for reading!

Love from Tolne Gjæstgivergaard,

Ældste Modersitzki

The only stop sign he's seen in 13 months.

The forest where the mushrooms grow.

ODENSE

Halløjsa! How have y'all been? Short email this week. 

I felt pretty sick with migraines for like 2 or 3 days this week. It kinda shot me down in the apartment because I literally couldn't walk or turn my head without wanting to pass out. Don't worry, I'm good now. This is wayyyy normal for me hahaha. But we are back at it again. 

We had MLC down in Odense, a three-and-a-half hour car drive away, because Ngatikaura is the DL. So I was his and the ZL's chauffeur hahah. I just went on splits down in Odense with this guy named Elder Paulsen. He's from Denmark and is brand spanking new to the mission. I was his first experience contacting on the mission and we got a Book of Mormon out, so that is a W. I got to see downtown Odense and it was super cool. I'd be down to serve there.

Splits with Ældste Paulsen

Other than that, I made my mom's famous cookies and cream cookies for Conference and they were superrrr good. Definitely gonna be making those again at some point. Mmmmm. Still thinking about them. And Conference was absolutely BOMB. Like I was consistently astounded by the amount of small reminders that God was giving me to help me keep my commitments to him. I'm still yet to see the last session but I'm sure it will be good.

Today was good. We saw the top of Denmark again! Saw some seals (I always enjoy that), took some pics. It was a low key kinda day. We also saw a church that was painted bright yellow. That was a first. It actually matches the rest of the country.

That's all folks! Hope y'all had a good conference weekend!

Love from Skagen, 

Ældste Modersitzki 

Watching Conference with Ældste Ngatikaura

The yellow church

Choir boy Mod + transfers

So the buzzed eyebrows aren't too bad.

Howdyyyyy y'all! Welcome to your favorite weekly email!

First things first, transfers happened and I am staying up in the frozen north and getting a new comp named Ældste Ngatikaura from Australia. You could say it's the hardest named companionship this mission has EVER seen. Should be a good transfer folks. This last transfer FLEW by so freaking fast, it was crazy. Time is picking up even though daylight time is shrinking drastically. (help?) It's turning to winter this week and I got soaked while we were out contacting for the first time in a while. It was.... refreshing. But, winter is coming and I'm ready, but scared.

We taught a lesson to some new friends this week and got invited to a mom's birthday party the following day, so you know we had to pull up. It was awkward, funny, and also a good time. We had some good food and some great interactions with people we hadn't ever met before; and I had to laugh when the grandma gave my face a little caress with her hand to say goodbye.... I just lost it! hahaha! So funny.

One really good lesson we had this week was with a part-member couple. It went way well. We taught about the gospel of Jesus Christ and she shared her testimony of the priesthood without realizing what she was doing. It was sweet! Things are going well there.

299 days left!

We had a little finding activity with the district and Ældste Jaursch made a cake to celebrate being under 300 days left on the mission. It was news to me that I was under 300 days, so that's cool.

We showed up at this random museum right before it closed and they gave us 20 minutes of free walking around and it was kinda cool. I wish I could have seen it a little more in depth, but like hey, blessings.

We played some floor ball this week. Man, I was trash, but it was a good time. Got the heart rate up and I went to bed TIRED that night.

General Conference is coming up so we were challenged as a mission to share some quotes and decorate some doors so we hit that up. It was kinda fun. It felt like doorbell ditching hahah. But yeah! Prep yourself for conference! Get yourself ready by reading, praying and pondering. It's key!

Have a good week. Love and miss y'all so much.

Love from Det Frostne Nord,

Ældste Modersitzki 

Ældste Mod & Ældste Leland

Buzzed Eyebrows ft Elders Conference

YOOOO what's up? How is everyone? Denmark is getting cold and it's almost the spooky season out here, but it's pretty! Highs of 50s and 60s this week, maybe gonna need the heavy jacket again.... oof.

I started off the week right with splits with AP Peterson. That dude is so sick and super hard-working. He's a definite role model type bro that I'm trying to be like. We had a good time knocking and contacting. We had a lady ask if we were the Corona police? Hahah what even is that? Also, we had a bro get all up in our faces when we knocked on his door. He told us we needed a warrant and wouldn't let us put our hands in our pockets.... Honestly, I don't know what his deal was. He was not a happy fellow. But that was awesome. We went running up a pretty big hill and my legs were wrecked... Guess I gotta hit that grind a little harder. 

I also had splits with Ældste Redd and we went contacting for a good long while, and grabbed an ice cream afterward. We snagged my basketball and played at a local park and had 2 dads try to challenge us 2v2. Let's just say I looked like MJ out there on that 9-foot hoop.

For the second part of my splits with Ældste Redd, we drove down to Odense together to Elders Conference! It was a lot of fun! We had some good trainings on effectiveness and how to become who we want to be. It was mostly nice to see all the boys again. I have made some great friends out here. We drove back and had to stop in Randers and get the famous Randers' Kebab. It was weird to grab dinner there because it almost felt like I never left. So weird. We stopped for gas in Aalborg and at that point I realized that we had been in all of Ældste Leland's areas in one day. Odense, Randers, Aalborg and Frederikshavn. He was tripping a little hahah.

We visited a little castle yesterday on our way to knocking. It was cool. Not up to par to the ones in my last area, but still nice. Pics included.

The famous Randers Kebab

We didn't have as many lessons this week, but today we had a good lesson with our friend about the restoration. I think we might be getting somewhere. We get along well and it's so awesome. I get treated like a grandchild almost.

It's starting to get dark again at like 7:30pm and I am NOT ready for that. Man, bring summer back. It's like it never even got here.

Our president told us that we should dedicate our apartments this week. I hadn't ever done that before so I called dibs and it was spiritual. I enjoyed it. Doing it in Danish as well made it feel even more personal. I kinda felt like a dad though... I think that's a good thing?

I hit the barbershop up for a nice fade this week and he asked me, "Eyebrows?" And pointed to my eyebrows... I though he was gonna get rid of the unibrow kinda stuff but nah... He took that boy across both eyebrows... They are still there... Just the same length as my fade hahahaha. Anyways that's it! Love y'all! Have a solid week! 

-Ældste Modersitzki