Hiley Kitto has created a new homepage for the Great Danish Mission. His information is much more complete and up-to-date than mine, so I'd recommend visiting it. Thanks Hiley!

New Danish Mission Homepage

This page was created to provide information about the Danish Mission and the missionaries who served there (or in Iceland under the Denmark Copenhagen Mission). All opinions and statements are strictly those of the respective authors. In no way do they constitute official doctrine or interpretation of doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

In working on this page, we are able to once again remember the good memories of companions, Church members, friends and others who made our missions in Denmark so memorable.

This site contains lists of LDS missionaries who served in Denmark or Iceland (organized by Mission President), pictures, humorous stories, spiritual adventures and other feats of derring-do performed by the intrepid Danske missionaer.

I began this list because I thought it would really be neat to know where everybody is, so when we're travelling we can find a missionary buddy to visit (perhaps in the Biblical sense of the word . . . as in visited by many plagues!). It has grown so much that I can't keep up with it all and have enlisted the aid of Hiley Kitto, another RDM (Returned Danish Missionary) I'm not updating any of my lists, but Hiley has automated his, so give him your info. Tell us where you live (if you dare) and whether it's okay to publish your address, phone, etc. on the Net.

LDS Mission Alumni Pages

• The Links to Scandinavia Denmark Page (Familiar Graphic??)
• Larry Hunter's Latter-Day Saint Website 
• Det Lille Lys (The Little Light) (Danish LDS Stuff) 
• Jylland's Posten (Danish Newspaper)

Tusinde tak to Pres. Knud B. Andersen, who provided me with the foregoing list of mission presidents and their dates of service. It was forwarded to me by Steffen Estrup, who also maintains the Sidste Dages Hellige i Danmark page.

 

In the "olden" days, when I was young and dirt was still a novelty, there was only one mission that I cared about, the Danish Mission, encompassing the tiny kingdom of Denmark. My grandparents left the tiny, isolated island of Bornholm in the early 1900's to emigrate to America, settling in Brigham City, Utah. My grandfather never joined the Church, but Grandma did after Grandpa died. She was 84 years old when she was baptized. Just the year before she had received her American citizenship.

We often held impromptu aebleskiver -eating contests among the cousins who were always around their home and I was the unofficial champion with 24. Boy, was I sick!! We just knew that anything Danish was better than things from other places.

Of course, all of the grandsons wanted to go on missions to Denmark, \but I was the only one called to our beloved Danmark. Imagine my surprise when I returned home and tried to speak Dansk with my grandparents, only to find that they spoke Bornholmsk and were nearly unintelligible. Having spent a few days on Bornholm on my way home, I knew something about that particular and peculiar Danish dialect, but it was fun to hear anyway. I had a great time teasing them and chiding them for speaking Svenske. Danes don't exactly love Swedes, you know, or Germans either. (Study history for enlightenment)

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