Happy Thanksgiving & Merry Christmas? Søster Severson's Adventures in Hope Mills, NC Nov 30, 2020 Week 32

A long week folks!!! Happy post Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas?!? What the heck has this year turned it to? I swear it was just a few weeks ago that I got my call and now it has almost been a full year... 

(on that note, still no news on Denmark last we heard our visas will take 6+ months to process so we will see if I'm even still a missionary at that point) 
((jokes but for realzies I will probably get there with only 3-4 months left and that's also assuming things don't get worse with Covid)) 

This week was fun though! Pretty low key because everyone was doing their own things for Thanksgiving. Got to call the family and talk for a while because we were told not to contact anyone after 5 on Thanksgiving. We were able to go to a members house and eat on their back porch. The Quicks are such a blessing, gonna miss them. 

Oh yeah BIG News of the week is that I'm getting transferred !!! Finally leaving Hope Mills after six months (4 transfers). Don't know where I'm going yet but if y'all are curious you can check my FB to see where I move to lol. I am actually really sad to go, it still feels like there is a lot of work here to do and I am sad to be leaving. BUT excited to see where I will go and who I will serve with next. 

Last night we went to say goodbye to some of my favorite member families and it was so sad :((( really going to miss them. They probably won't remember me but I will remember them and I got some cringe pictures with them to hold on to :) 

Spiritual Thought of the week was inspired by the one and only Chris Severson. Fader sent me his talk on gratitude and in it quoted one of our favorite writers Viktor Frankl, who was a psychologist and Jewish holocaust survivor wrote about his life in a concentration camp, he said: “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” Fader related it to gratitude and the power of accountability in gratitude. When we are accountable for our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors we are using our agency. When we choose to victimize ourselves we are surrendering our agency and our power to choose how we feel. When we ask the question "do you want to be happy?" Everyone seems to unanimously agree that they, and everyone else wants to be happy. But when we ask the question "are you happy?" People are less likely to respond in the affirmative. Even though we want to be happy, a lot of us aren't. Is happiness even within our control? Yes, it is. If we learn to master what Frankl is talking about and learn to live in a state of active gratitude we can all experience lasting happiness in this life.

Sorry this was a long one, figured I would make up for some lame short ones these past few weeks... love you all and hope everyone has an awesome first week of December! Don't forget to participate in #LightTheWorld!!

Søster Severson

Pictures!!
1. The Fam on Thanksgiving!
2. Quicks!
3. Seymours!
4. Faith, a friend of the Elders who was baptized.








Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

🇩🇰 MTC week 4 "Søpapegøje"

Image
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".  S øster Clark also got reassigned but to Yakima Washington (leaving July 14th) on the other side of the country, I am super exc...
Read more

Primary & Youth of the Moraga Ward Announcements-Søster Severson's Adventures in Sønderborg Denmark, March 1, 2021 Week 45

 This past week I was asked to create a video of my companion and I singing "I want to be a missionary now" in Danish. My Mom said the kids had a blast tapping their sticks to the music. I guess it's my first primary music video. lol This next one is my advice to the youth of the Moraga ward. I think it's for the 16 year old class? I guess I've learned a lot over these past few years. Sorry kids, the high school years are rough. But there is always hope and faith that God has a plan for each of us. I testify He loves us more than we know. Love Søster Severson
Read more

Intermission week 1

      Wow these past few days have felt so unstructured compared to the MTC- But I forget how much I need recharge time so it has been good to be able to find new ways to fill the time.       Our last few days in the MTC were kind of crazy- we had a teaching appointment like everyday and we said goodbye to our teachers way too quickly. Part of me felt like 'yes ok I am ready to be done with this', but the other part was like 'ahhh wait I still understand nothing and can't say anything waittt'! Getting released was also weird too, mostly just because I thought I would feel different but I felt the exact same and I was like ahh I feel guilty watching netflix I'm a missionary, wait no I'm not... why do I still feel guilty? Luckily that passed and I just feel calm now.       I don't think I realized how much pressure and anxiety I was putting on myself to be perfect and to be the best missionary right now . It is funny because som...
Read more