Quarantined fun!

This week was a crazy one!  We are officially quarantined as a mission here in Denmark...so that's fun.  Not really.  We are only allowed to leave our apartment in the morning for exercise and once a day for an hour walk.  We are 4 days in out of 14 days (or more).

Other than that, we are doing great and I'm loving serving out here.  I don't have much to write this week because not much is going on but I did want to share a spiritual thought about President Nelson.  He has prepared us for this moment by creating the Come Follow Me program for us to learn and study with our families in our homes and telling us to take our vitamins lol!!  But for real, I know he is a Prophet of God and he leads our church today through our Heavenly Father.

I love you all and I love hearing from you especially because I'm a little bored in Frederikshavn lately.  Have a great week, live your lives and have fun (and follow the rules of course)!  Don't let the fear of Corona or anything else keep you from doing great things!

Kærlig hilsen

Ældste Fisher

Pictures:

1) took a picture with one of the members in Frederikshavn before it wasn't allowed to stand close to other people and before we were put on lock down
2) sunset out my window
3) a nice member dropped off some yummy food to us
4) we went to a cool park on one of our daily walks

Video:

1) Quarantined boredom 

Floor ball mishap

Howdy!!  Hahaha...a lot of the older people in our ward greet us by saying that.  They think we're cowboys!!

This week was a great one!  We had some miracles and a lot of fun!!  We were out street contacting on Saturday and we talked with a young guy named Rasmus.  He said he wasn't much of a religious guy but when I told him that our God is loving, forgiving, and has a plan for our lives, he was very interested and said he would love to learn more about it!  Earlier that day I had prayed for help in our area that we would find more friends to teach.  God answers our prayers :)

This week we were playing Floor ball (like hockey but with a whiffle ball) and I was running super fast with the ball when an aggressive, sneaky kid stuck his stick in between my feet and it was like someone stuck a stick in the spokes of my body bike hahaha.  I went down hard and fast and hit the ground something fierce.  Ouch.

My spiritual thought this week is about service and bearing your testimony.  There are opportunities every single day to serve people.  Some can be big, some can be small.  But whatever it is, DO IT!!  Service has made me the happiest because it gets me to focus on others, rather than myself.  Often times when you serve, you will also be able to bare your testimony to people which will also lift you up!  Do you see where I'm going with this??  The times when we are giving to others and focusing on their needs and how we can help them come closer to Christ, we will often come closer to Christ ourselves.  So forget yourself and go to work!  There are people who need to see your smiling face and people who need this gospel in there lives, and some of them can be members too.  Look for opportunities to serve others and try every single day to have the pure love of Christ in your heart and I promise this will change your life, like it has mine.

I love you all and I hope you have a great week!!

Kærlig hilsen 

Ældste Fisher

PS: I found a really cool Crossfit gym in Frederikshavn.  I looked like a kid standing outside a candy store, staring into the windows.  Ha, ha.  One day I'll go back and get a Danish Crossfit workout in.

Pictures:

1) Outside Crossfit Frederikshavn
2) Inside shot of the gym
3) Huge shipyard
4) Just standing in a field in Denmark
5) Port in Strandby
6) Opposite few in Strandby

Video:

- Elder Welch and myself playfully pestering a chicken/bird/fowl. I have no idea what that thing is

What's up Wasseam!

Hey guys!!  This week was good!  We had some cool experiences and also had some fun stuff happen.

On Friday we had a lesson with our new friend, Wasseam!  We met him when we were on splits in Hjørring last week.  He's a young kid (16 or 17) who is Muslim and wants to hear about our religion.  We taught him about the Restoration and answered a ton of questions he had.  He's still interested and wants to meet with us soon so let's hope this works out!

This week we were going to do some service for a member who needed help moving a playhouse in his yard, so we biked out to his house in the rain.  When we got there we were soaking wet but it was fine and actually pretty normal.  Once we started moving the thing we realized we couldn't get it to the back of the house so he just had us set it down and we didn't end up moving it after all hahah!!  It was still fun though because we got to try and help someone out!

We had stake conference on Sunday and it was so good to see all my friends from the mission and some of my favorite members from Randers 🙂  There was a bunch of great talks from the youth in Denmark!  It was so cool to see their faith and how awesome they are!!  One talk that stood out to me however was given by one of the counselors in the Stake Presidency.  He talked about 3 things we need to remember and 3 things we need to forget.

Three things to remember:
- Christ
- Sabbath day
- The worth of souls is great in the eyes of God

Three things to forget:
- Past sins and mistakes
- Others mistakes and sins
- Ourselves!

He talked about how the happiest we can be is when we are serving others!  I invite you all to write down every day how you served someone today and keep track of it.  It will boost your happiness and help you serve others better!!  If we worry about our problems we are missing out on helping other people with theirs, which in turn, will help us forget our own problems!  I love you all...have a great week!!

Kærlig hilsen 

Ældste Fisher

Pictures:

1) Elder selfie
2) Sleepy Elder Welch
3) Still sleepy Elder Welch
4) Saw a cool Raptor in Frederikshavn. Had to document it because trucks are rare around here

Aarhus and Hjørring fun

Hey guys!! This week was a little bit of a weird week but still a good one.

Tuesday and Wednesday we were in Aarhus for splits. It was good to go down there, get some work in and have a good time.  On Thursday and Friday we drove out to Hjørring (another city in my area) and visited some less active members and tried to find new people to teach.  We had some good conversations with a few people and talked to some members so that was good!  Then the rest of the week was pretty much just regular missionary work days.

Today we were out on the street trying to find and this lady who was wayyyy drunk came up to me and started speaking Norwegian.  I could understand her a little bit because Danish and Norwegian are similar languages but she asked me where a bar was and then asked if we wanted to come with her hahah!!  We saw her 20 minutes later and somehow she was wearing different clothes and told us that she lost her passport.  Rough day for that lady.

My spiritual thought this week is about the Sacrament.  I think sometimes we take for granted how big of a deal it is!  We have the opportunity to renew our Covenants each week and be forgiven!  Next time you take the sacrament say a prayer of gratitude to God for sending his Son to us :)

I love you all!!

Ældste Fisher

Pictures:

1) me and my new guitar friend
2) Church in Hjørring
3) Inside of church
4 & 5) old town Hjørring

Video:

1) we've had some serious storms roll through. Clip of some serious hail coming down

Rubjerg Knude fun!

Hey everyone!! Hope this week was a good one for everyone!! This week was super fun for me 🙂

Our friend Karsten had to move his appointment to this week on Thursday so we are excited to meet with him and teach him the gospel!

This week we went to Rubjerg Knude which is a lighthouse on this giant sand dune on the western coast of Denmark!! It was so fun and so crazy!!  We went and stood by the edge of this cliff and the wind was so crazy that we could lean back and the wind would push us back up!  Then we decided to go jump off some sand cliffs and it was so fun hahah even tho there was sand everywhere... 

On Saturday we had a mission wide challenge to give out two Book of Mormons for each companionship to honor President Nielsens challenge for this conference.  We had 2 awesome miracles.  We found a guy named Eric who was on his way to a funeral when we stopped by and he said he believed in Christ.  He didn't seem very interested but I decided to go for it and offer him a copy of the Book of Mormon and he was so happy to get it!!  The other miracle was that we were walking on the street in the last hours before we had to go home and we found a recent investigator.  His name is Roger and he was reading in the Book of Mormon but when he moved he lost it so we gladly gave him another.

I'm so grateful for this gospel and the miracles, joy and peace that comes from living it.  My mission has changed my life in a lot of ways forever and I'm so grateful for it!  I challenge all of you guys to read in 3 Nephi 17 this week and think about the love Christ and God have for you as their children:)

Love you all!  I love hearing from you all!!

Kærlig hilsen 

Ældste Fisher

Pictures:

1) me and one of my favorite ghost treats
2) just wearing my shades indoors
3) Fisher and Welch selfie
4) On the coast
5) Fighting the wind
6) The coolest lighthouse in the sand
7) Our district

Videos:
1) Elder Welch tumbling down the sand hill. He's hilarious!

We found a fella!

Howdy!!  This week was good!  I hope everyone is doing good! 

So this week we had a pretty busy schedule!  We had splits with the AP's, splits with the district leaders and our normal work too!!  It was super fun!! 

We had a miracle that happened this week...we found a new guy to teach!  His name is Karsten.  He is such a cool guy!  We met him on the street and he asked us a bunch of questions and was super curious.  He even wrote a paper about Mormons when he was in school so he knew some stuff about us.  He is an Adventist and a believer in Christ so it will be good.  We meet with him tomorrow at our church.  I'm so excited! 

A little story real quick hahah (pics included)
My companion is the nicest kid but he definitely is not the most coordinated when it comes to riding bikes, as I've said before. This week we were biking to the church and I started hauling to the church and he took off after me. I got into the parking lot and I looked back just in time to see him hit a metal bar with his bike and do a flip off the bike superman style!!  I ran over to him and luckily he was fine just a little shocked, but it was probably the funniest thing I've ever seen In my life!!  I'm glad he's okay.  Elder Welch keeps things exciting 🙂

God loves you all so much and I love you all so much!!  The joy that comes from living the gospel is real and I love the gospel so much.  Read every day and pray and I PROMISE you will be happier!  Have a good week!

Kærlig hilsen 

Ældste Fisher

Pictures:

1) Me and a bronze buddy in Aalborg
2) Just eating a French fry pizza with some other missionaries
3) A pretty Frederikshavn sunset :)
4) Some of Elder Welch's bike crash wounds
5) Elder Welch's "I'm good, thumbs up" pic

Isaiah 41:10

This week was a good one!! We had Zone Conference so that was fun!  I love learning from President Olsen and it was way good to see a lot of my missionary friends.

One of the highlights of my week was seeing my 16 yr old buddy, Mads Koch, from Randers. He came up to Frederikshavn branch this Sunday, with his grandpa who's the stake clerk, to see me and say hi!  I love that kid!

Something cool and (super rare) that happened was that we contacted a girl on the street who would like to learn more about God!!  What?!  She texted us first after we had introduced ourselves and we should be meeting with her this week.  We also met a guy from Poland this week and he didn't speak Danish so we told him we were from the US and he went crazy hahaha!!  He started flipping out and asking us a bunch of stuff and talking about how much he hates the Catholic Church in Poland and how it's not right to pay to be baptized (which is true) and we gave him a card and hopefully we will talk with him again soon.

We met with a member this week and she told us her conversion story.  She was Hindu and she started meeting with the missionaries and was doubting if God even knew her.  She told us that she said a prayer and asked if God knew her and if he did, the first scripture she opened up to would show it.  She opened to Isaiah 41:10 which says,  "Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness."  She got emotional and so did we and then she bore her testimony about how God knows us and is aware of us. It was powerful!  I would like to bear my testimony along with this member and say that I know God loves us and knows us.  There have been countless times on my mission where I have prayed to Heavenly Father for some help or to see his love for me, and without a doubt every time I have seen it.  It might not be the way we expect it to be, but it always happens.  I love you all so much and I invite you to pray to Heavenly Father and ask him if he knows and loves you.  You will receive an answer.

I hope you all have a good week!  I love hearing from you all!! 

Kærlig hilsen 

Ældste Fisher

Pictures:

1) Elder Welch role playing with a stuffed animal friend

2) Contacting selfie

3) Elder Welch makes a mean curry!

4) Me and my homie Mads