Great Traveling and Testing Danish-Søster Severson's Adventures in Horsens Denmark, May 24, 2021 Week 57

 This was a good week!! We did a lot of travelling, it looked a little something like this:


Monday: Copenhagen, then Roskilde for a sleepover with our favorite STLs 

Tuesday: Copenhagen / Horsens I had a language test to extend my Visa, pretty breezy they told you the answers in the questions though so I would be very surprised if anyone failed. Got to drive with the Frederacia sisters who are our favourites. Found GF burgers. 

Wednesday: Horsens, chill day! Our friend Simon decided to be baptized!! Super excited for him!! 

Thursday: Randers! We had in person district council for the first time this week even though the transfer is more than half over. Really fun though! We have some personalities in our district that is for sure. Got the legendary Randers Kabab but we missed our train home :*( 

Friday: Horsens + ZL splits with Elder Vestergaard and Paulsen, made us feel good when they had a hard time contacting here too.  Elder Paulsen said "God is not on the Horsens gå gade." His witness + ours must be doctrine.

Saturday: Horsens + Splits with Aalborg!! Sister Curtis and I had a good time contacting on the gå gade and even found a random choir, we joined for a few songs and it was super random but impromptu fun. Damper on the day was when we found out they were in contact with someone who has Covid and now we are all in quarantine 

Sunday: our apartment because Corona party 

Spiritual Thought: 

This week we met a woman on Instagram who was very very concerned and convinced that I needed to be helped away from my "brainwashing". Between serving in the bible belt and the most secular country in the world I have met an interesting combination of bible bashers and people who feel it is their personal responsibility to inform me about my faith. Most of these people aren't very nice, this particular woman happened to (at least come across as) very genuinely concerned for me, she sent a bunch of articles and podcasts and told me a bunch of things I already knew. It is really sad to me when other people try and pull people away from their faith, degrade their traditions, or mock their culture. But it reminded me of a story in the Book of Mormon when someone tried to shake the faith of a prophet, he said: 
 
"And he had hope to shake me from the faith, notwithstanding the many revelations and the many things which I had seen concerning these things; for I truly had seen angels, and they had ministered unto me. And also, I had heard the voice of the Lord speaking unto me in very word, from time to time; wherefore, I could not be shaken." (Jacob 7:5) 

When we build our faith on personal spiritual experiences, our testimonies are not something that can be shaken. No matter how many facts or unknown scripture  or "proof" someone thinks they have, no one can disprove, deny, or shake a testimony that comes from genuine searching, and personal revelation. Good thing to keep in mind next time you meet a bible bashers on a dark corner of the internet...

Jeg elsker jer!! Og håber at I har det godt! Kærlig Hilsen fra Danmark, 
Søster Severson 













 
 

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