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

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