Sankt Hans Aften

Ældste Paulsen & Ældste Mod

Helløjsa! Your fav half Dane, half American here again. Let's just dive in!

Soooo this week got very occupied by my boy Ældste Møller. He is from Denmark and was originally assigned to South Africa (shout out to Marc) but has been serving here for nearly a year.... but he finally made it to South Africa! We were with him from Tuesday to Thursday morning, trekking into Copenhagen every day hahah. We ate with him and his grandparents Tuesday evening, and then on Wednesday it was his parents and President and Sister Olsen. It was lots of fun, a really good time. I'm gonna miss him. It was weird dropping yet another missionary off at the airport, his fam was all there, but he was stoked to make it to South Africa. He wasn't even that sad to go. I don't even

With Ældste Møller

think he cried hugging his family goodbye part two.

Wednesday night was Sankt Hans Aften aka a day dedicated to John the Baptist combined with an old witch burning tradition. So everyone lights a big bonfire to ward away witches and bad spirits, but also to celebrate John the Baptist hahahah. It's pretty much just another excuse for Danes to drink lol. We only saw one bonfire though because the sun is nowhere near down by the time we get home. I love the daylight here.

We helped out with a wedding reception here in Slagelse to make up for not being able to help my sisters with their wedding receptions lol jkjk. Love you both @shae and @erin. But it was fun and everyone was grateful, and we got free food out of it... and one of our friends even pulled up. Win win situation I guess.

Lately I have been vibing with the hymn Come Thou Fount. Let me just toss in some really good lyrics.

Jesus sought me when a stranger Wandering from the fold of God He to rescue me from danger Interposed His precious blood Oh, to grace how great a debtor Daily I’m constrained to be Let Thy goodness like a fetter Bind my wandering heart to Thee Prone to wander, Lord I feel it Prone to leave the God I love Here’s my heart, oh take and seal it Seal it for Thy courts above

Woahhhhhh I know. I know. What a good song! I LOVE how I feel listening to it. Christ searches after us EVERY time we go astray and leave His presence. He rescues each of us individually. He makes all the difference. We cannot repay Him, but we can show him we love Him by keeping His commandments and loving the people around us. Right now I am working on giving Him my whole heart. I invite all of you to do the same, give Him control, give Him your talents, give Him your thoughts and best efforts, give Him your all. I promise you won't regret it. I love this gospel and it makes me so sad to think that all these random people around me have no idea how great of a plan was created especially for them. Gotta change that!

Love you all tons! Shout out to my homies who have gotten home! Also shout out to Denmark's National team for moving on in the Euro Cup. Everyone here is going wild over it!

Love from Kirke Hvalsø,

Ældste Modersitzki

When you know what you know....

Tate found the church where his ancestors
were baptized (in Vejle).

Aloha everyone! It's felt like summer in Hawaii here this last week because of the humidity and temperatures, so I felt like that fit well, lol. I bet I am the only one who will find that funny but oh well hahah.

My week was great! I ate lots of good food and felt lots of birthday love! (Thank you to everyone who shot me an email or text! Love you all!) We also ate lots of cakes and cookies.... not mad about that in the slightest either, just a little worried about my sugar intake. I also had my final interview with President Olsen which was good, but sad. I'm gonna miss him, but I'm excited for the next chapter that begins here on the 30th! I am very grateful for the example and kindness that President Olsen has showed to me these last two years. I don't know where I would be without him. I have been very privileged to work so close to him these last 7 months.

I am not going to bore you with the details of my week so here are my thoughts from a fire devotional that we got from the general YM president, Steven Lund, on Sunday evening. He dropped the most fire quote that sums up my service as a missionary. He said, "When you know what you know, you do what you do." I have been blessed to have received a testimony of the gospel. I am here to spread that. I cannot deny the things I have felt. I can't even express my desire to share the happiness, peace and love that I have felt from this gospel. I know what I know and that is why I am out here doing what I am doing. Best two years of my life, for my life and for others' lives. People would risk life and limb to be out here doing what I am doing, others are incapable of doing what I am doing but they wish they could, so that makes it my responsibility to serve for them. I am very privileged to be out here sharing joy, peace, love and eternal happiness with my family. It's so special and I love it.

Also, I hit the amusement park that inspired Disneyland.... there is my flex for the week lol.

Happy 20th birthday Tate!

Also, I can't believe I am 20... when did that happen? Time cruises.

Love from Tivoli,

Ældste Modersitzki

This is where our Danish ancestors are from (in Vejle).

More birthday fun!

Vaxxed vibing

Howdy howdy everyone... another crazy week. Lol, here we go! I have zero time... what else is new?

This week we had a service appointment where I was out cutting grass again... I was in my element. It was fun. The people we did service for are pretty cool as well. I love service so much still.

We had roughly 32048 meetings this week: a bunch with President Olsen, tech meetings, Missionary Leadership Council, District Council, and a combined zone conference. Man, we had a lot to do. But it made the week go quickkkkk. It was also a little stressful, but everything went to plan and we gave an nice little training about unity for zone conference and everyone seemed to like it! President Olsen spoke for over an hour, which was impressive. He did a great job. I've learned a lot from him in the last two years. It's gonna be sad when he gets released. I loved seeing my friends from the mission at our combined conference. It was super fun but there was also a hole from the old missionaries for sure.

Also I got vaccinated this week! I didn't think I would in Denmark, but we got it hahah. I will get fully vaccinated a month from now so that will be dope.

I got two burgers but no pastries this week, rip. Something has got to change.

Today for Pday we were in Copenhagen so we checked out my favorite church and also went to the top of a church spire that overlooks all of Copenhagen. It was so sick. I definitely won't forget it. I will attach some pics don't stress.

Masks aren't a thing here anymore, so that's hype. Life is getting semi-normal and Danes are getting hyped over the Euro Cup. Gotta love the team pride hahah.

Quick spiritual thought: So as a back story I gained my testimony of the truthfulness of the gospel while I was reading the Doctrine and Covenants back at the beginning of my senior year of high school. Of course I knew other stuff was true, but church was not a priority and neither was a mission to be honest. Obviously that changed, and here I am now! But I started reading the Doctrine and Covenants again and I can see why and how the verses there impacted me back then. Read your scriptures people. They do wild things. Anyways, it's been cool to reflect on that time vs now and see what has changed!

Have a wonderful week!

Love from Marmorkirken,

Ældste Modersitzki

The end of the Madsen Modersitzki era

Howdyyyy everyone! Hope you are all doing well! This week was baller so we will dive on in!

This week was Ældste Madsen's last week before he went home, so we had a good time and worked hard so he could earn it. I dropped him off at the airport this morning and it was hardddddd to say bye to him and to the others in the group that I have grown so close to. Good thing it will only be 6 weeks until I see all of them again! We achieved our pastry goal and ended with probably close to 50 pastries eaten this last transfer... our goal was 36.... it definitely took a toll on my mission card, but it was worth every penny. It's going to be hard getting away from my pastry addiction.

We ate dinner at the Italian pizza restaurant that 2 Italian members own, and it was sooooo good and it was so much fun being with them! We always eat the wildest things on the menu so we got smoked salmon on a pizza and another pizza with octopus, mussels and shrimp on it. So baller I can't even describe it. Octopus got checked off my food bucket list hahah.

We had an in-person District Council Meeting in Roskilde and then drove to a member's house there and ate dinner as a district with them. It was so much fun. Our district is so different from one another but we get along well and it's always so fun.

Splits with the Roskilde elders was also quite an experience. We played some soccer with some members and non-members to start the day off, and then Ældste Hintze and I hit the streets to go give out a Book of Mormon. We had been going hard for 3.5 hours of straight contacting with no success and he needed to go to an appointment with his comp.... we decided to have that fourth floor last door kinda mindset and kept going until the exact second he needed to leave. We ended up giving one out to this cool young guy named Patrick. I learned a lot that day. Everything is in God's hands and timing. THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE READY TO HEAR THE GOSPEL (or who will at least take a book). By the end before we gave out the book I had zero faith. Nobody was willing and I felt awful. I was talking to EVERYONE and I felt like Denmark was the last place that God could be found. Then my prayer was answered. God answers prayer people. Sometimes He even waits until the last second right when you are about to break. But it's good for me and you! Gotta love it!

Sorry that was long... I still love Denmark so much. I'm excited for my last six weeks with my guy Ældste Paulsen who is a Dane..... I will have zero English left in me, lol.

Love from Københavns Lufthavn,

Ældste Modersitzki

The Last Texas Sheetcake

Dav everyone! Hope you are all well! Sorry I missed last week....that was my first missed weekly for the last 2 years lol, but the temple was calling my name.

This week was good. We spent a lot of time on splits.... 4 days to be exact, which was honestly way motivating and helpful for me. Gotta love the finding grind on splits. It poured rain on us in Herning to the point that I hung up my jacket when we got home, put it on an hour later and it was still SOAKED. I just used the other jacket I brought, lol, but it was sick to just be out in the rain, living that missionary life. I was vibing with it. Plus we got some more sheetcake from my boy Ældste Cousins. Life is good. AND we gave out a Book of Mormon to someone who was high key super positive too.

We hit my favorite city in Denmark, Aarhus, the next day. We did some more contacting and had a meeting with President Olsen. We stopped in Randers and got some of the best Durum Kebab in Denmark as well..... plus the best kajkage (frog cake?) you can get. Man I talk about food a lot, lol. Not to mention I also got a fresh haircut from my guy Demo while we were there. We are good friends. Hopefully we are going to start to teach him soon! Contacting in Aarhus is sick because of how pretty it is and how many young people there are. Gotta love it.

We finished off by driving to Roskilde... on the other side of the country. We grabbed a nice Brunsviger Kage (I don't know a translation for that honestly) on the way. I loved being outside in the warm weather... 65 degrees feels BALMY here. I am whipping a short sleeve shirt every day. We gave a district council training because we are ZLs on top of APs so that was fun. We talked about asking good questions, listening, and solving people's concerns. It went really well! We even had a kahoot about the district members to see who had listened to each other the best and that was fun!

I gave a talk in church on Sunday about keeping the Sabbath day holy. To my surprise the stake president pulled up... so after the sacrament I hopped up there and gave a decent talk I think. The pressure was on. All was well though. That was probs my last talk in Denmark which is weird....

Anyway, the weinerbrød (pastries) are STILL fire and I love it here. Especially in the summer!

Quick spiritual thought: 2 Nephi 22:2 states: Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid; for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also has become my salvation. TRUST IN GOD! He will do everything for our good if we will let Him be our strength and salvation! Be not afraid!

Love from 2 different Silkeborgvej apartments,

Ældste Modersitzki

All the Pastries

Tate got to go to the Copenhagen temple on P-Day this week, so we didn't get a letter. He did send a few pictures though.

Tate loves these yellow fields in Denmark.

And here are more pastries. These pictures crack me up.

These elders are killing the pastry challenge. ;)