🇩🇰 MTC week 4 "Søpapegøje"
Hvordan har I det?
This week flew by just like the MTC has ahhh! I have less than two weeks left! Ah how did that happen?! Yes I got reassigned this week, and I am going to Raleigh North Carolina leaving June 18th!!! My stake president called in the middle of one of my classes so we talked for like thirty seconds and that's all the information I got (I think it was all the information he had lol). Nothing new on my missionary portal- no email, not 100% sure what I am supposed to do next either.
If you know anyone reassigned there or who served there let me know!! I am mostly just excited I get to go to the South. (ok so its like northern southern but like I think it counts)... When I heard I had been reassigned to North Carolina I was just kind of like "yep that's where I need to go. lets do it". Søster Clark also got reassigned but to Yakima Washington (leaving July 14th) on the other side of the country, I am super excited for her :) but sad we don't get to serve near each other. :(
This week in class we talked about how flat Denmark is. Like so flat. Like the highest natural point in the country is only 170 meters (560 feet) above sea level. That's like not even half of a twin tower.
We did a lot of practice teaching this week and I learned a few things:
1. I can't speak Danish
2. I can't speak English (ahaha rip to our TRC where we tried to testify to a girl about the power of prayer and none of my companions, or I can speak coherent English anymore-- Sister Maquiling gets a pass because English isn't her first language anyway).
3. What is a question??? Like I have no clue, how do you ask a good question? I can't seem to figure it out.
4. I am very good at confusing myself while trying to give simple explanations and analogies-- really it is a gift. Good thing I will get to do some teaching in English before I have to do it in Dansk lol.
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Spiritual Thought: This week we were talking about repentance and were asked why we teach repentance after faith but before baptism. It really puzzled me at first, but the answer that I came to is that we have to have faith to repent, and then repent, to build a resilient faith which prepares us to make commitments, like baptism.
When we understand how to be continuously repenting or turning to God we can progress continually. We learn how to be humble and how to keep going even when pride or embarrassment tells us to abandon all hope. Tbh I would have quit the MTC weeks ago if it weren't for repentance-- it has been humbling to have to learn how to speak a new language accept negative feedback and correction. It has been because of my faith and because of my desire to progress that I have been able to repent, turn back to God, and try again.
It is in that place of humility (especially God given humility or sorrow) when we have to choose not to surrender the ground, or faith, we have won. Do not let a moment of pride or embarressment impact your eternity. Because Repentance allows us to be more! To be better! More teachable (lol a hard one for me), more compassionate, more faithful, more like Him!
I like this scripture in Alma chapter 34 that talks about the atonement and I think it explains really simply why faith has to come before repentance, and why repentance and the atonement are so essential to our salvation.
Alma 34:14-16
I am so grateful for the opportunity I have to be on a mission and to become more than I am. Repenting, changing, and coming to God is really really really hard. But also incredibly simple, because God wants us to come back to him. The whole gospel is simple! Faith and Repentance are simple to give us a space for hope, direction, and resilience, yet hard to do to give us a space for change and growth.
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Danish Word of the Week: Søpapegøje (soo- pap-a-goy) One of my new favorite words. The literal translation is "sea cardboard parrot" comment your guesses of what that menas and there will be a picture of one at the bottom.
Pictures!!!
1. Exercise ft. Min Mor og Hund!
2. Letter to myself when I get to Denmark... probably won't see it again for a couple months lol, have fun trying to decipher my terrible Danish and terrible handwriting
3. Elder Severson og Søster Severson! (Still need an actual pic of us)
4. How to pronounce any Danish word my advice is if you don't know what sound it makes its probably an "L"
5. Søpapegøje!!! På min fantastiske collage!
Hej Hej!
This week flew by just like the MTC has ahhh! I have less than two weeks left! Ah how did that happen?! Yes I got reassigned this week, and I am going to Raleigh North Carolina leaving June 18th!!! My stake president called in the middle of one of my classes so we talked for like thirty seconds and that's all the information I got (I think it was all the information he had lol). Nothing new on my missionary portal- no email, not 100% sure what I am supposed to do next either.
If you know anyone reassigned there or who served there let me know!! I am mostly just excited I get to go to the South. (ok so its like northern southern but like I think it counts)... When I heard I had been reassigned to North Carolina I was just kind of like "yep that's where I need to go. lets do it". Søster Clark also got reassigned but to Yakima Washington (leaving July 14th) on the other side of the country, I am super excited for her :) but sad we don't get to serve near each other. :(
This week in class we talked about how flat Denmark is. Like so flat. Like the highest natural point in the country is only 170 meters (560 feet) above sea level. That's like not even half of a twin tower.
We did a lot of practice teaching this week and I learned a few things:
1. I can't speak Danish
2. I can't speak English (ahaha rip to our TRC where we tried to testify to a girl about the power of prayer and none of my companions, or I can speak coherent English anymore-- Sister Maquiling gets a pass because English isn't her first language anyway).
3. What is a question??? Like I have no clue, how do you ask a good question? I can't seem to figure it out.
4. I am very good at confusing myself while trying to give simple explanations and analogies-- really it is a gift. Good thing I will get to do some teaching in English before I have to do it in Dansk lol.
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Spiritual Thought: This week we were talking about repentance and were asked why we teach repentance after faith but before baptism. It really puzzled me at first, but the answer that I came to is that we have to have faith to repent, and then repent, to build a resilient faith which prepares us to make commitments, like baptism.
When we understand how to be continuously repenting or turning to God we can progress continually. We learn how to be humble and how to keep going even when pride or embarrassment tells us to abandon all hope. Tbh I would have quit the MTC weeks ago if it weren't for repentance-- it has been humbling to have to learn how to speak a new language accept negative feedback and correction. It has been because of my faith and because of my desire to progress that I have been able to repent, turn back to God, and try again.
It is in that place of humility (especially God given humility or sorrow) when we have to choose not to surrender the ground, or faith, we have won. Do not let a moment of pride or embarressment impact your eternity. Because Repentance allows us to be more! To be better! More teachable (lol a hard one for me), more compassionate, more faithful, more like Him!
I like this scripture in Alma chapter 34 that talks about the atonement and I think it explains really simply why faith has to come before repentance, and why repentance and the atonement are so essential to our salvation.
Alma 34:14-16
14 And behold, this is the whole meaning of the law, every whit pointing to that great and last sacrifice; and that great and last sacrifice will be the Son of God, yea, infinite and eternal.
15 And thus he shall bring salvation to all those who shall believe on his name; this being the intent of this last sacrifice, to bring about the bowels of mercy, which overpowereth justice, and bringeth about means unto men that they may have faith unto repentance.
16 And thus mercy can satisfy the demands of justice, and encircles them in the arms of safety, while he that exercises no faith unto repentance is exposed to the whole law of the demands of justice; therefore only unto him that has faith unto repentance is brought about the great and eternal plan of redemption.
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Danish Word of the Week: Søpapegøje (soo- pap-a-goy) One of my new favorite words. The literal translation is "sea cardboard parrot" comment your guesses of what that menas and there will be a picture of one at the bottom.
Pictures!!!
1. Exercise ft. Min Mor og Hund!
2. Letter to myself when I get to Denmark... probably won't see it again for a couple months lol, have fun trying to decipher my terrible Danish and terrible handwriting
3. Elder Severson og Søster Severson! (Still need an actual pic of us)
4. How to pronounce any Danish word my advice is if you don't know what sound it makes its probably an "L"
5. Søpapegøje!!! På min fantastiske collage!
Hej Hej!
❤️Søster Severson
(megan.severson@missionary.org)
(megan.severson@missionary.org)
Raleigh North Carolina will be excited to get YOU!
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