Week 68 - The Dog Days are Over

This week was SO HYPE. We worked so hard and had so much fun and it felt so good. I'm just so convinced that a healthy mix of those things is the secret to happiness. Also Jesus.

So: last week I wrote about a couple of people who reached out to us over Facebook wanting to learn more about the gospel as well as a referral from a member. Luckily all of those things followed through!!

The first was Mette. Søster DeLange and I met Mette over Facebook a month a go while we were serving together in Slagelse. We made a post in a group for finding friends over Facebook (too perfect I know) saying that we were going to be eating dinner at an italian restaurant at the beach, and if anyone wants to come they may! (This was the members restaurant) We included a diclaimer: the food is free but comes with a message about faith.

Well, Mette ended up writing to let us know she didn't have time for dinner but would love to hear our message! Woot woot! So we've been messaging her for like a month now answering her questions and trying to get an appointment set up. We finally got to video chat with her on Thursday! She was SO nice and loved hearing the message. We are so bummed we didn't get that chance to teach her in Slagelse, but we're happy she's so excited about it all. She is setting up all of her appointments and messages me twice to remind me to send the Elders in Slagelse her number so that she could have a meeting with them and go to church with them. She also gave us a referral after her first lesson! She is seriously so great.

Okay, next is Mona. Backstory: each night when we are about to finish working, I send out what I like to call a "miracle message" which basically means I send out a really bold message and invite someone to learn about Jesus. I've been doing that for a bit now, and sometimes people will message you back once or twice, but usually they will say no or just not respond. On Tuesday we sent one out to this random girl that we saw lived in our area. It said something a long the lines of, "Hi, you dont know me, but I'm a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ and I just prayed to God and asked him to help me find someone who needs him right now. I dont know if that's you, but would you like to talk a bit about God?,"

This girl RESPONDED like an hour later saying that she is actually searching for a new religion and would love to talk. So we've been messaging all week and turns out she grew up orthodox but doesn't feel like is right. So shes checked out the Catholic church quite a bit, because that one seems to be the oldest, but doesn't like how flashy the church's can be. She also asked me if I would come to church with her this Sunday,, and then she told me she read about the church on its website, had downloaded the Book of Mormon app, and was wondering if we could meet up sometime so I could help her learn how to read it.

I mean, YEAH.

So Mona is a total miracle and please keep her in your prayers.

She came to church an hour early so we could give her a tour and a quick lesson before. That was our first time meeting her in person and oh my gosh she is the cutest thing. She's our age and she really just wants to find what is right.

When we took her into the other room she just had so many questions about the churches background that it was straight to business talking about the Restoration. And you guys,, I have NEVER had the words come to me so smoothly in a lesson before in my life. In english or Danish. (Danish with Mona). Afterwards søster Curtis and DeLange said, "we've never heard you teach the Restoration like that before, it was so good!!" They said I said explained things in ways they knew I've never used/thought of before. I felt that too. The spirit was totally working through me and it was the coolest thing. Anyways, we finished up the lesson, and headed to sacrament meeting. Søster Curtis and DeLange ran ahead to greet some other guests that we had. And Mona and I lingered behind because she had some questions about some of the paintings.

She asked about the painting with Christ ordaining his apostles, which lead to a conversation about the authority we just taught her about. Then she asked me how someone becomes a member of Christ's church. And it was so cool, cause we walked to the painting of Christ getting baptized and talked about that! The spirit was SO strong. And then we walked into the best sacrament meeting probably ever that began with the song, "we thank thee, oh God, for a prophet,"

After church a member drove her home and she texted us to let us know she would be coming the next week and she would love to meet up again before that.

This whole thing just went so well. It was a testimony to me that God really has a plan and is very aware of all of his children.

I also saw this as we met with a less active this week, Robert, for lunch. Robert has been less active for a while and has received all of the lessons and reads and prays but still just doesn't come. We honestly didn't know at all what to do or how to help him progress. We didn't even know what we wanted our goal to be with him. We decided it would be best to prepare a scripture to share and keep our visit short.

We read a simple verse from the bible and Robert bore his testimony to us a bit.

Then, out of no where, a question just FELL out of my mouth.

"Robert, have you ever been to the temple?"

Turns out, he hadn't! And that ended up being something that really intrigued him. We decided with him that working towards the temple would be our goal. Later that evening, we saw that he reposted on Facebook a bunch of church articles and talks about temples.

God really knows his children, and if we work our hardest and be obedient, he will guide us with the Spirit so we can help them!

Thanks! Love you all!

Mkh,

Søster Felt

Lol, I sucked at pictures this week.

Week 67 - Three, is a magic number

Hi Everyone! This week was a really really good week. We were really busy, and had a lot of appointments.

It was so nice to reunite with my old friends from the beginning of my mission. I've loved being able to come somewhere where I already know the ward and the area and I have great companions so I can just WORK. Seriously so nice.

I got to go out finding with Isabella this week which was really fun, and had a lesson with sweet Lene.

One of my favorite lessons that we had was with a returning member, Kristoffer. He grew up in the church but had went a different way in his youth. Now he wants to come back. And you can tell he's just all in. You could tell he'd been through some hard times and he told us that he had been struggling and when the sisters called him to ask if he wanted to meet up sometime. And that coming back to church had always been in the back of his mind.

He asked a lot of really good questions and you could just tell he was so genuine. Like, "How do you guys find the strength to withstand temptation?" And "How do you think we can keep ourselves close to God?"

He told us that as a kid he really only read the Book of Mormon cause he had to, but now that he's reading it because he wants to, it has changed everything for him. At the end we asked him if he has any questions and he told us, "no, no questions, but I did just want to tell you guys that ever since I've been meeting with you things have just been going a lot better,"

We also had a lesson with Shao. Lol.

Church was so good. And a lot of people actually remembered me! Which I didn't expect,, cause I was in training when i was last there. It was so nice to see all of the amazing people in that ward. I love my Gladsaxe 2 peeps. Søster DeLange and I gave our testimonies and it went well.

There was this really sweet young mom I worked with a lot a year ago, visited her quite a bit and invited her to help with missionary work when she wanted to. A little before I left she thanked me a lot and told me she had been going through a hard time, and that she needed it a lot. She wasn't able to be at church this last Sunday, but after the meeting her husband came up to me and my comps and said, "Hi sister Felt! Thanks for your testimony. It's great to have you back:) I have a friend who wants to learn more about the church and I would love your help with that,"

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You guys that's like a way big deal.

That's one thing that I have a hard time with, sometimes it's hard to feel like your a good missionary when you don't get a lot of referrals. I've had to work hard to remind myself that good works are good works, even if you dont see the fruits. Helping Frederikke was a good thing. And I know God needed me in the ward at that time so that I could help her. And who knew that a year later it would lead to us finding people to teach!

God is a God of miracles. And the work moves forward. It requires both faith and patience to recognize. Elder Eyring once said, "the Lord is building His kingdom quietly through His faithful and humble servants, with little fanfare, toward its glorious millennial future. It takes the Holy Spirit to see the growing grandeur." I know that that is true. The work is moving forward whether or not you are aware of it, and its up to you to decide whether or not you will be a part of it.

This week I also learned that when we do all that we can, God will make up for our shortcomings. Finding was hard for us this week and we barely got our 15 hours. Between trying to figure out our new routine, driving to our area from Copenhagen, and all of the appointments we just didn't feel like we did as much as we would've liked to. It was kinda a bummer that we didn't have much "success". But we were ready to plan better for the next week so that we could be more effective and hopefully find some people.

Then we got that referral on Sunday, and about 4 different people reached out to US over Facebook to tell us they were interested in talking more!

It just really showed me that God blesses you for trying and for your desires. And really, we aren't in control of anything. We need His help in everything we do and if we want to share this gospel with anyone, we're going to need to rely on Him.

Welp, that's all folks. Elsker jer💗

"A new commandment I give unto you, That ye be excellent to eachother; as I have been excellent unto you, that ye also be excellent to one another."

-John 13:34

Mkh, Søster Felt🇩🇰

Week 66 - Each Life that Touches Ours for Good

"Now ye may suppose that this is foolishness in me; but behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and small means in many instances doth confound the wise," AlmasBog 37:6

Hi everyone! Søster DeLange and I got transferred to Lyngby and now we're serving in a trio with Søster Curtis😊 I'm really excited because Lyngby is the area that I started my mission in, so it will be great to go back and see old friends. The only difference is that this time, we won't be living in the tiny Lyngby apartment, there's not really room for a trio there.

Instead, we're living in Copenhagen! I'm so happy this is like my dream come true! Haha we are in the middle of everything and right next to the temple. It is such a blessing.

One downside though is that we have moved into an old Elder apartment,, and I don't know if these elders value cleanliness as much as søsters do. Either that or they were REALLY busy. Cause this apartment was sooo gross when we got here. We've spent like all pday cleaning it up,,, minus the part we spent on the trains traveling up here.

It was sad to leave Slagelse, I love the people and the area a lot. But it was definitely time for something new. I shared my testimony and talked about how in Slagelse I've really learned how god really does work "by small and simple means," and that its many little miracles that true conversion is made up of. We said goodbye to the members and took some pictures, and then that was that.

The rest of the week was mostly spent meeting with members for a final eating appointment/lesson/etc, passing things over to the elders, and finding. It was a really good week.

We had this one really cool experience when out finding with a member. She stopped a mother who was with her kids, and she couldn't speak Danish or English. So her 12 year old daughter ran up to translate. We ended up teaching a lot about the message of the Restoration of Christ's church through the daughter, and the mom agreed to meet up! It was really cool.

I love you guys! I hope you have a great week!

Mkh, søster Felt

Week 64 - This One's for the Girls💃

I had a wonderful week with some lovely ladies whomst I adore so dearly. Thus, in regards to the dedication of my July 27-August 2 email:

This One's for the Girls💋

Though this week was bomb for many reasons, I have to say that the most explosive of all of the bomb reasons was Søster Konference. You see, we sister missionaries love the work, oh so much. We love finding, teaching, helping others learn about the Savior, testifying, watching others feel the spirit for the first time, and the list goes on. Being a Sister Missionary is amazing. Wearing your heart outside of your chest for everyone to see is empowering. And honestly the day I take the tag off is gonna be brutal.

But, you see, sister missionaries, are not just sister missionaries. We are also girls. And girls, just wanna have fun ;)

so: we had 🔥Sister Conference🔥

With that we went and toured Copenhagen, where we saw the Kristus statue, visited Nyhavn and the temple! We played some get to know you games *I made a kahoot and had way too much fun with it* and had some awesome trainings about how to contact and knock doors.

Which I thoroughly appreciated, because even though I've been here for 15 months I still have no idea what I am doing. I literally just need the spirit in everything otherwise I am just screwed. Luckily the big G comes in clutch and helps us out whenever we're in a pinch. The trainings are still appreciated though. Plus we all shared success stories and bore our testimonies all over the place so it got way hype.

It was cool because we did a bunch of roleplays, and even though it was all pretend, the spirit was still SO strong whenever a sister testified to the person they were contacting. This stuff is true kids.

After that, we had some delicious Danish dinner, and mingling with the sisters was so fun, I thought to myself, "Man! I feel like a Woman," we then watched the best two years and went to bed. The next day we had some good studies and another AMAZING training about us being clay and God being the Potter. It was awesome and exactly what I think we all needed to hear. We finished with a testimony meeting that was literally so bomb.

Later in the week we had a lesson with my girl, Angeliina. She is doing great! We talked to her about Come Follow Me and she's excited to get started. On sunday she walked to church with a member and didn't even sit with us. 😓😭✋she's graduated! I was so happy.

We also had a Facebook workshop, but, there was a ton of Elders there. And as I said, this ones for the girls, so we're not gonna talk about them. Plus, girls don't like boys. Unless there names rhyme with Len and Terry. But, during our knocking blitz sister DeLange and I were actually able to find someone! He liked hearing our message about the Plan of Salvation and said we could come back anytime!

There was also a man that approached us on the street and asked us about life after death, and asked US if we would be opened to meeting sometime! Uh yeah, I mean, okay, sure🤷‍♀️ if you want

So if you're wondering if we were spiritually fed this week, the answer is yes😁 but in the ways of the world we received plenty of food as well. We ate at Tina's restaurant and at Mencita's today. Mencita is a member from the Philippines and OH BABY that food is good and I ate so much and suddenly I'm so jealous of my sister's mission.

But yes this is me, telling you all, that I am doing well and I love being a missionary. God lives, he has a plan for you, and you can find answers. But why take my word for it when you can ask the big guy yourself? After all, I'm just a girl on a mission ;)

Davs! Elsker jer!

Mkh, Søster Felt