Week 63 - All the Best

Here is my email full of information as requested by my dear mother:

After two longs days of finding, søster Shults and I drive up to the promised land of Copenhagen where I dropped her off with søster Lee, (her new comp) and I switch of to be with søster Hepworth. We drove together to the church in Søborg (Gladsaxe 2's/Lyngbys church) did some quick Facebook finding, and then joined the other sisters in anxiously waiting for the new sisters to arrive.

When the five of them came in, we all screamed and were so excited.

There I found out I would be with søster DeLange, who is also from Logan,, lol round 3. Who is super nice and we think a lot a like. She was serving in Arizona before she came here, and has been out for a couple of months.

After that we had to spend two days in Quarentine. Most of our time was spent Facebook finding, but we also had some lessons!

One with Angeliina, a less active members, and two of our friends.

We actually ended up putting one of the friends on date, which was crazy!

**we had a lesson with this same friend today tho and honestly dont have the highest of hopes after how it went. Soooo,, dont get too excited.

After we had been released from Quarentine, we had coordination and spent the day outside talking to people. IT FELT SO GOOD. We ended up sharing the first Vision with this one guy and the spirit was SO strong. It was insane. Sister DeLange also got to try her first Danish hot dog.

Church went well on Sunday, none of our friends came, but it's all good. We had a ton of success on Facebook though and now have a bunch of new people to meet up with this week. Life's good my friends.

Lately I have been doing my best to just enjoy the blessings I have in my life. Having a progressive mindset doesn't mean you constantly look for the negative, it really just means you look for and take opportunities to be better. Life is meant to be enjoyed! There's nothing wrong with being happy!

Elsker jer, mkh søster Felt🇩🇰

Week 62 - Tomorrow!

Today I tried to write my email Søster Hepworth style but quickly got bored of writing my email. Enjoy.

Wednesday

We work up bright and early and whipped our blueberry over to the elders place to give them a ride to zone conference. On the way we discovered that Elder Merrill can drink an entire large cocio in one sitting, elder Appleby had a mutual back home, and Søster Shults really loves Dansk Lovsange and being in charge of the map. We arrived early and helped søster Olsen prepare food in the kitchen.

The conference went well and the spirit was strong. Sister Shults bore a dying testimony and together we gave a training on how we can have companionship unity.

The plan was, that after that we would split with the Rødovre sisters, but given that sister Lee had been sick all weekend, we decided not to push our luck.

Friday

Another Day of waking up bright and early, but this time to drive to Jylland. We trucked over to Esbjerg for splits with Sisters Paras and Nielsen. Legends.

A few bridges and brief three hours later we had finished our trip on the winding E20 and arrived at "the Chicago of Denmark" Esbjerg.

*because their crime rate is the highest*
*honestly somebody probably just littered there once*

We knocked on the apartment door and it slowly creaked open. A rather small, blonde head poked around the door.

"Hi Mom!" She said.

MY CHILD!

I would have tenderly embraced sister Paras, but

1) Corona

And

2) She hates almost every form of physical contact.

So I gave her a loving high five.

Then it was finally time to work. She and planned out our day and started off for the gågade. Oof. A jysk gågade with søster Paras, first thing in the morning.

Does anybody know how to spell day-zjah-vooh?

We started off light. Just smiled and greeted people. Then I saw a man in a blue shirt, and the Spirit was like,

"Go."
And I was like,
"What?"
And the spirit was like,
"Do it."
So I was like,
"Okay,"
And walked up to this old man.

Keep in mind it's been a bit since we have contacted like we did in the good old days.

As I approached him, my brain came up with this brilliant, groundbreaking question:

"Hej, kan du godt lide Jesus?"
*do you like Jesus*

I know, mic drop.
The Savior did it a little better(See Matthew 22:42)

But anyways, that lead to a really good conversation about how we can get to know the Savior.

Saturday

Jylland zone conference. Aka round two of the training. Aka more yummy frikadeller.

President dropped a bomb on us. Classic President. I found out that Sister Shults is leaving me on Wednesday to go be with another sister and I'm getting a trainee! WHAT?!

Sunday

I went on splits with sister Peterson in Horsens and she is amazing and I love her. 

After the drive back from Zone conference we walked past the cemetery into the old building that houses the sisters.

"What did this building used to be?" I asked Sister Peterson. She looked at me as she switched her key in the lock of the rickety old elevator, and smiled a bit.
"You sure you wanna know?" Oof.
"Yeah," I said, unsure if I really wanted to know.
"Its an old insane asylum," she answered.

Of course it is.

I wasn't sure if I believed her, but after walking in and seeing the structure of the building I can confirm that it is in fact an old insane asylum.

"You can look at it like you live in an insane asylum by the Cemetery," she said, "OR you can choose to say that you live in a castle by the park!" Good ole positivity right there 👍

We had a great time working together 😄 it was fun to be a guest at church!

Monday

Today we played badminton with the elders and came to a baptism. It was great! Angeliina came too on her own and it was fun to chat with her. She is doing really well.

Thank you for your love and prayers! I love Sjælland and being a missionary!

Mkh, Søster Felt

Week 61 - My Liahona

Halløøøøøjjj familien felt (and guests)

I hope you're all doing well and enjoying Summertime back home. Summertime is awesome here, as the sun never seems to set and the Danes never seem to have pants on.

Not gonna lie, it's been a bit of a long week here in Slagelse. Sister Shults and I have needed to figure out our groove, and at the same time we're trying to keep track of all of our people, have all of those sjovt meetings, organize splits/trainings, and pass stuff over to the Elders.

We had a lesson with Angeliina on Friday and it went SO GOOD. We talked about temples, and the spirit went WAY strong. She brought up her family and baptism and got crazy goosebumps. It was so cool. We also read with her on Thursday. She's doing great and loving being a frisk member of the church. She also had a way cool experience setting some money aside for tithing, and saw that she was blessed because of it. Love that girl.

We had another Facebook finding workshop with our district this week, and now that we have two new elders in Slagelse, the testosterone has been upped +20,000. I felt overwhelmed and just kinda hid in the back of the room and did my thing while Sister Shults played coach. It went well!

We also had a couple of lessons with different friends and the elders, eating appointments with Bishop and his wife and Anny and Leo, and found out that we will be planning a sister conference soon!

On Sunday we had two sacrament meetings (one in a little "branch" in our area held once a month) and I got to talk at both of them.

I've been thinking a lot lately about how it is actually a huge blessing to be put into situations that are new and strange and unfamiliar to us. It may be icky at first, but it really gives us the opportunity to fine-tune our "spiritual ears" and rely on the guidance of the Spirit. Then can we see how blessed we become when we seek to do God's will instead of our own. When we listen strive to listen to the Spirit's promptings, he will direct us choice by choice, to help us find a new "manner of happiness" to live after.

"When we seek to hear—truly hear—His Son, we will be guided to know what to do in any circumstance," (-President Nelson,, April 2020, Hear Him)

Elsker jer!

Mkh, Søster Felt

In Slagelse

Week 60 - A Child of God (the Bonner family)

"In God’s kingdom, greatness and leadership means seeing others as they truly are—as God sees them—and then reaching out and ministering to them. t means rejoicing with those who are happy, weeping with those who grieve, lifting up those in distress, and loving our neighbor as Christ loves us,"

In preparation for Angelina's Baptism, we were with her almost every day. We had some more eating appointments and lessons with her and then all of a sudden she was baptized. It all just flew by. The whole program honestly all went wrong, but she didn't care. She was just happy to be getting baptized. Our friend Mathias came,, the ward just swarmed around him. Naturally. The boys a charmer.

When Angeliina came up out of the water, the smile on her face was just so big. After she got the gift of the Holy Ghost, the peace there was indescribable. The testimony that she shared after was very special. I remember when we first started teaching her she was too nervous to pray in front of us, and when we finally got her to do it, she could only do that by writing it down first. And then for baptism, she was able to share her testimony and just speak from the heart. It has been wonderful to see her grow with the gospel. She's more confident now and doesn't stress so much. She knows who she is.

She told everyone thank you and shared her story about how she came to find the church. She talked about how excited she was to join our new church family. And at the end, she said, "I am just so strongly convinced that this church is true. It has helped me so much and I have felt that it is true for such a long time," boom. Mic drop. It was bomb.

On the train home last Friday, she told us that as a child, she was bullied. I just remember feeling great compassion for her. That evening I discovered a kind of love that cannot be described. All I can say is I just know that what we do is of great value and importance. I am so so happy.

Earlier in the week we had a Facebook finding workshop with our district. Søster Webb and I made a super fun game to get the elders excited about it. It actually went great! Afterwards we had a district activity and had a campfire. It was way fun!

Welp, sadly I sent søster Webb home today. I'm gonna miss her! But I'm still in Slagelse with another old companion, søster Shults 😁 should be good, I'm excited!

I know God lives and loves us. I know that he places us in positions to bless others and grow. I know trials happen for a reason, and after trials come the blessings.

Elsker Jer!

Med Kærlige Hilsen,

Søster Felt