Week 71 - September

Dictated from a voice recording that Corinne sent this week. (Thanks, Aunt Barbara!)

Hi Friends and Family. I just thought I would make a voice recording this week because my little fingers are just so tired of typing so I thought I’d give you the chance to hear the sweet sound of my voice on this p-day. 

Anyways, this last week was a little bit of a hard week, it was a good one but it was still hard. We started out the week with all these appointments lined up. We had a great planning session. We had some service appointments with non-members, some eating appointments with members where their friends would come and we would teach them. The week looked so good and then about two days in, me and another sister got sick. So we had to cancel most of our appointments. We did do some things like Facebook finding. We did have splits which was fun. I was with Sister Hepworth which was fun.

Mona is doing good. We did get one lesson with her. She is doing good.

This is the last week of this transfer which is weird because it is my last transfer. Things are going good.

I had a cool experience earlier in the week where we had a video call lesson. I have been thinking about my testimony and stuff. We always say we know the church is true but sometimes we stop and think, “Wait, do I actually know. How do I know?” It feels crazy but it is proof as to why you have to keep going on it and reading your scriptures and praying so your testimony can stay strong, and doing the things every day so that when you do have questions you can get the answers to your prayers.

Anyways, I was having these questions so I was praying and thinking I know you have told me a billion times, but can you help me remember and tell me one more time that it is true. Just help me to know this is true and what I am doing is good. And He heard the prayer. It wasn’t immediate and I prayed it several times. Then we had a lesson with some critical people. It didn’t seem like they wanted to really wanted to be taught but just listen and then tell us why it was wrong which is kind of frustrating and annoying at times. We taught the restoration, about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. We talked a lot about Christ’s ministry and how that all ties in. It was a really good lesson with lots of questions and testifying that we can’t prove all this but we can invite you to come to know on your own. At the end one of the guy’s that it was his first lesson, said he had one more question. He asked, “Why are YOU a member of this church. Why? If you could just give me a short summed up answer. I don’t want anything big or fancy. Tell me why you are a member. Maybe you were born into it but you probably have a different reason now. I want to know why.”

We all looked at each other and thought how do we answer that. We know why. We obviously love it and we have had all these great experiences but how do I tell this person. It’s sometimes hard to express it and share it with people. I looked at my companions and they looked at me and I went first. I started talking. I realized that was the question I had been having all week and wondered how I was going to answer it so I just started talking. I was born into it and stayed in it because it was good. I had good experiences there and good things came from it. I was happy. My answer just came out of my mouth and I hadn’t even thought of it. I told him there came a time that I needed to find out for myself if it was true or not. So I did just like the promise we just read to you. To ponder over it and ask if it is true. You’ll come to know. I haven’t had one big solid experience but I have had many little experiences that have helped me to know that God is aware of me and this is the true church. I can’t prove it to you but I have received a very personal answer that this is the truth and because of that I am going to live this gospel for the rest of my life.

The spirit hit me so strong that there was the answer to my prayer. I don’t know if my answer had an impact on those we were teaching but I knew the spirit was telling me that this is true and you know it. And you need to stick with it.

It has been a good week and being a missionary is fun and really cool.

Week 70 - Mrs. Robinson

I ate pickled herring at an eating appointment this week. Actually not bad tbh👌 we ate with Ældste and Søster Nørrung, a senior couple in the mission from Danmark. They had invited a friend and it was fun to answer her questions and teach her a bit.

Mona is doing well. We had a good lesson with her and Mikala on Tuesday and she went to institute on Thursday. Still keep her in your prayers.

We also met a new friend, her name is Marlene, and sister Curtis met her over Facebook. She wanted us to come help her with her garden, but when we got there she said she wanted to just do it on her own, and let us in to teach her a lesson. Turns out she's actually way positive and "all in". We taught her the plan of Salvation and she loved hearing about it. We're excited to see where it goes with her.

We also did service for a really nice family in Lyngby.

Had a big sister splits on Jylland as well. I was with Sister Carter in Esbjerg and oh my gosh she is the cutest thing. We had so much fun and even talked to someone who is interested in hearing more.

Yesterday we had a ton of success out finding. Got two phone numbers and shared the first Vision with someone. Felt the spirit way strong when we did that, its kinda cool cause you always feel how true that is when you share it.

This week was jo dope. I know that God lives and loves his children. Have a good one!🤙

Mkh Søster Felt

Week 69 - Blue Skies

Update om the Mona story: SHE IS ON DATE! Oktober 10th is the current plan. She is doing so good and is such a miracle. I thank the Lord for her in every prayer.

So since last week we've met with her three times and all three times she had tons of questions about baptism and just really accepted what we told her and the spirit was so strong, so we were able to pick a date with her! She's really dived into the Book of Mormon and she loved learning about the Plan of Salvation. This is such a blessing.

The first lesson was a short video chat where we read 3 Nephi 11. That went well and she was happy to read it with us. Next we met up in person and taught her the plan of Salvation and she had a lot of questions about Baptism, and even asked us if we could take a look at the font afterwards! We showed it to her and ended up asking her if this was something she wanted, and if she would do it if she knew this was all true. Her answer was yes!

Then on Sunday, she took us by surprise by coming to church way early. We came as fast a we could and didn't really have anything prepared and tried to pull a lesson together about fasting, but she wasn't having it. This girl wanted to talk about baptism. The spirit was punching me in the gut the entire time trying to tell me to pick a date with her,, but I wasn't able to get the words out until sister DeLange asked Mona if we could finish with a prayer😂 luckily she was understanding and didn't mind that I had interrupted her.

It's kind of throwing me for a loop how fast this is going, I've never experienced someone this eager to learn and act on it. It's kind of worried me sometimes, but I'm sure that as long as we pit our trust in the Lord and do what we know is right, it will all work out!

We also had another lesson with Robert this week. We read President Nelson's talk about preparing to enter the temple and he really enjoyed it. We're hoping that he'll make the choice to be motivated by this.

Fun fact about Robert: he only wears purple pants. All the time. At first I thought it was the same pair of purple pants, and then I realized that he in fact owns multiple pairs in many forms. Swear purple pants, purple pants skinny Jean's, long-John underwear looking purple pants- interesting guy. He's also vegetarian and owns a lizard that lives in a terrarium on his floor. So that's Robert.

I think he's also the neighborhood ice cream man. Because his freezer is always full of it and children always come by asking for ice cream. Haha so he is basically just your average old Australian man living in Denmark. Nothing out of the ordinary 🤷‍♀️

Welp thanks for tuning in folks. Remember us in your prayers; Keep Christ in your heart and a smile on your face!

Ej hvor skønt i er💗

Med kærlig hilsen,

Søster Felt

**A man gave us peacock feathers when we knocked on his door!

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