🇩🇰 MTC week 1 "Spiky Pigs and Christmas Cats"
Hej allsamen! It has been a crazy week here at the online missionary training center! I have two awesome companions Søster Clark (from Utah!) and Søster Maquiling (from the Philippines!) that are also in my District (group) going to Denmark! Our daily schedule so far looks something like this:
6:00 wake up, get ready for the day!
7:00 sometimes workshops about being a missionary, but mostly listening to Mormons Bog på Dansk and reading along in English
8:00-11:00 Class!!! Class with Søster Clark in the mornings (while Søster Maquiling is sleeping) we practice grammar and learn about culture and how to teach people about the gospel.
11:00 Personal Study! It has been so fun to spend time studying the scriptures and deepening my own knowledge of the gospel, my studying has felt much more focused since actually becoming a missionary
12:00 Lunch!
1:00-3:00 Language Study! We have been trying a whole bunch of stuff to keep language study fun and productive, mostly using Embark (church vocab app), Trying (and struggling) to memorize scriptures, and writing little journal entries alt på Dansk!
3:00 Companion Study!! All three of us get to study and learn together and help answer each others questions and prepare for lessons that we teach online (called TRCs).
4:45-7:45 More Danish class! Our Danish is pretty terrible but we find it absolutely hilarious to babel in danish and learn random words.
8:00-10:00 Usually just dead tired at this point, get ready for bed, and write in my journal.
Spiritual Thought: We had a missionary devotional from Elder Garret Gong this last week about "Bloom where you are planted" and he quoted one of my favorite authors Viktor Frankl who said “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.” I love this thought especially during this pandemic that we can choose to have peace and productivity. Our circumstances are what we make of them, let me know what you have been up to during quarantine.
Danish Word of the Week:
Its a two for one, our teachers were telling us that there are different ways to say 'Hedgehog' (which are apparently super common in Denmark) depending on where you are from. So in Jylland (the peninsula) the word is "pindsvin" which means spiky/stick pig, but further east the word is "julekat" which means Christmas cat.
Pictures!!!
1. Getting sung to over a Zoom Workshop for my Birthday! It was kind of terrible but missionaries are nothing if not thoughtful!
2. Gluten-free Birthday Cake (ft Danish flags from Dayna Bain! Thank you!!) turns out Denmark celebrates birthdays with flags so perfect!!
3. My Dansk Books!
4. Søster Clark and I struggling to memorize Moroni 10:3 på Dansk day 1 (ft Bror Jensen)
5. My setting apart as a missionary! (ft my cute parents and President Rains!)
Kærlig hilsen,
❤️Søster Severson
6:00 wake up, get ready for the day!
7:00 sometimes workshops about being a missionary, but mostly listening to Mormons Bog på Dansk and reading along in English
8:00-11:00 Class!!! Class with Søster Clark in the mornings (while Søster Maquiling is sleeping) we practice grammar and learn about culture and how to teach people about the gospel.
11:00 Personal Study! It has been so fun to spend time studying the scriptures and deepening my own knowledge of the gospel, my studying has felt much more focused since actually becoming a missionary
12:00 Lunch!
1:00-3:00 Language Study! We have been trying a whole bunch of stuff to keep language study fun and productive, mostly using Embark (church vocab app), Trying (and struggling) to memorize scriptures, and writing little journal entries alt på Dansk!
3:00 Companion Study!! All three of us get to study and learn together and help answer each others questions and prepare for lessons that we teach online (called TRCs).
4:45-7:45 More Danish class! Our Danish is pretty terrible but we find it absolutely hilarious to babel in danish and learn random words.
8:00-10:00 Usually just dead tired at this point, get ready for bed, and write in my journal.
Spiritual Thought: We had a missionary devotional from Elder Garret Gong this last week about "Bloom where you are planted" and he quoted one of my favorite authors Viktor Frankl who said “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.” I love this thought especially during this pandemic that we can choose to have peace and productivity. Our circumstances are what we make of them, let me know what you have been up to during quarantine.
Danish Word of the Week:
Its a two for one, our teachers were telling us that there are different ways to say 'Hedgehog' (which are apparently super common in Denmark) depending on where you are from. So in Jylland (the peninsula) the word is "pindsvin" which means spiky/stick pig, but further east the word is "julekat" which means Christmas cat.
Pictures!!!
1. Getting sung to over a Zoom Workshop for my Birthday! It was kind of terrible but missionaries are nothing if not thoughtful!
2. Gluten-free Birthday Cake (ft Danish flags from Dayna Bain! Thank you!!) turns out Denmark celebrates birthdays with flags so perfect!!
3. My Dansk Books!
4. Søster Clark and I struggling to memorize Moroni 10:3 på Dansk day 1 (ft Bror Jensen)
5. My setting apart as a missionary! (ft my cute parents and President Rains!)
Kærlig hilsen,
❤️Søster Severson
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