Elder Salisbury's Mission

This week has been amazing. It's been quite the blur, but so so much fun. Im super happy where I am and what I'm doing. And no matter how many times we get rejected for being missionaries... It still makes me smile every time hahah. This is the Lord's work, it's hard, but it's very rewarding. We've had a bunch of miracles because of the Lord this week and it's been quite the experience. The Title No not you, just me! I gotta give up, ang? My mission præsident told me to give up! Give up on learning the language, give up on tracking progress, just give up! And honestly I don't think I could've received any better advice. I care too much about my personal progress when I think about learning the language, I don't focus on why I'm learning the language. But when I changed my perspective, that the Lord will help me out with it, it's been so much better. I've seen the blessings roll in. It's been so much easier to relax a little abou...

I'm gonna try to copy other people's formats that I like because going through everyday 1. hurts my brain to think back like that 2. leaves you with a massive, probably crazy weird story... so let's copy Spencer Hull's! :) Also, if you read just the start of this SEND MORE EMAILS!!! I love hearing from you! Please tell me all about what’s going on, especially with college/school starting!!! (and send pictures) TL;DR (A summary of the week for those in pure fear of my massive emails) Basically this week went by REALLY quick, we had something to do constantly. We had a really great meeting with the Blackensteiner family, they’re super hyggeligt, but we are really trying to help them progress in anyway that we can, and it just doesn’t seem to be working, but nonetheless, we continue to try! We had a crazy meeting with our Zone Leaders… they’re great, and I’m really sad Elder Anderson is leaving this transfer because he’s such a funny guy. We went...

Here we go - if you don’t read any of my emails, this should be the first one you read, cuz you’re in for a crazy treat. It has been a roller coaster! It has been so AWESOME here and I love it!!! Let’s get righttttt into it Soooo we have a super long flight here, like 10-12 hours or something crazy like that, it was pretty good, nice and chill. I slept the entire way… which was a bad idea, but nonetheless it was a nice and easy plane ride. So we get off the plane, and of course, they lost our luggage. We are in a foreign place, everythings different around us, we can barely read the signs, so what else can we throw at them? I think Delta has something against us, but luckily they made it nice and easy, and they spoke broken english so it was easy enough to figure it out. We get out of the baggage claim area, and our præsident is waiting for us! It was great meeting him for the first time, he was super happy to see us, and I probably looked so confused (the...

This week will be a pretty short! I'm super excited to head to Denmark. I can't wait to meet the people there and preach the Gospel. All the Danes I've met so far are so amazing, I love them so much already! It's going to be a fantastic time and I can't wait to talk to you all about it. My P-Days are now Mondays. Right now I'm on a train headed towards the airport. Our flight is at 2:00pm , and we will be headed to Amsterdam and then to Denmark! It's crazy!!! I'm so excited. Looking back at my MTC experience, I wouldn't change it for the world. It gave me challenges that were hard, but doable through the Lord. It involved a lot of patience, long-suffering, love and compassion, and it taught me all of that more. I learned a lot of the language. I learned the language of the Spirit. I learned that the little things sometimes count more than the big things, like a warm smile, a loving question, a good conversation. That's what got me through the mt...

Well, this week was pretty uneventful. So hopefully this will be a shorter email, but knowing me that’s probably at least 5 pages… I’ve been pretty sick this week, I felt like I was getting better around last P-Day, and then I stayed home Sunday because I was running a temperature of 101, occasionally 102… fun! But all is well now! I am on the recovery, went to the doctors told, they told me that I was just on the downward half of it so it wouldn’t make sense to give me medicine for the sinus infection and that I will just have to “wait it out” syggggg (basically sickkkkkkkkk). So I just waited it out, had a terrible sore throat, found some meds that actually help.  I also got a blessing for the sickness, however, it ended up impacting me more emotionally/mentally than it did physically which is okay. I had my companion annoint me, and Elder Madsen bless me. He said two things that really encouraged me that my efforts have worked. He said...