Dear family and friends,
What a week!! The last letter I wrote was from the MTC, and now I'm here in the Netherlands with so much that has happened I don't even know where to start!
The trip was good, definitely a long flight. It was weird to basically have a 36 hour day where I caught a little sleep here a there throughout... strange. I can't tell if I have jet lag or am just tired from working hard, but I guess I'll use the jet lag excuse for as long as I can! ;)
The first night we were here we stayed in a hotel since there was such a large group of us coming from the MTC. President and Sister Robinson are great! They are very down to earth and encouraging. And my trainer is wonderful! Her name is Sister Reeder from Arizona, and she has been so sweet and encouraging as I've adjusted to being in the field. Which, by the way, I'd guess you're all wondering where my first area is! I am serving in Maastricht, which is a beautiful city down south, still in the Netherlands but in this pocket surrounded by Belgium and Germany. There is actually a US air force base located nearby, so my ward is in English and there are several American families in it. Also, since the members live all over in this area, we are technically allowed to leave the mission boundaries for dinner appointments, which was exciting! For Halloween and American family who lives just over the border in Germany invited us to their house for dinner so I've now been in two European countries, and later this week I'll hard a third since I'll be going to do some legality stuff in Belgium! :)
I have met some of our investigators as well as lots of the ward members. Pretty much everyone is so friendly here! The Dutch people are great- either they'll tell you straight out that they don't want to talk to you, you they'll have a friendly conversation about anything. However, the language is a bit tricky. They speak this weird dialect here called Maastrichts, which has some different pronunciation and vocabulary. It makes it that much harder to try to understand people with my limited MTC Dutch! I can usually get the gist of what people are saying, but I have a bit of learning to do before I can understand enough to respond to more than simple questions and statement. It'll come, though!
I'm so sorry I don't have more time, it being my first p-day here there was a lot we had to do today. However, I'll be sure to write a good long letter next week. Until then, know that I love you all and appreciate all of your love and support!
What a week!! The last letter I wrote was from the MTC, and now I'm here in the Netherlands with so much that has happened I don't even know where to start!
The trip was good, definitely a long flight. It was weird to basically have a 36 hour day where I caught a little sleep here a there throughout... strange. I can't tell if I have jet lag or am just tired from working hard, but I guess I'll use the jet lag excuse for as long as I can! ;)
The first night we were here we stayed in a hotel since there was such a large group of us coming from the MTC. President and Sister Robinson are great! They are very down to earth and encouraging. And my trainer is wonderful! Her name is Sister Reeder from Arizona, and she has been so sweet and encouraging as I've adjusted to being in the field. Which, by the way, I'd guess you're all wondering where my first area is! I am serving in Maastricht, which is a beautiful city down south, still in the Netherlands but in this pocket surrounded by Belgium and Germany. There is actually a US air force base located nearby, so my ward is in English and there are several American families in it. Also, since the members live all over in this area, we are technically allowed to leave the mission boundaries for dinner appointments, which was exciting! For Halloween and American family who lives just over the border in Germany invited us to their house for dinner so I've now been in two European countries, and later this week I'll hard a third since I'll be going to do some legality stuff in Belgium! :)
I have met some of our investigators as well as lots of the ward members. Pretty much everyone is so friendly here! The Dutch people are great- either they'll tell you straight out that they don't want to talk to you, you they'll have a friendly conversation about anything. However, the language is a bit tricky. They speak this weird dialect here called Maastrichts, which has some different pronunciation and vocabulary. It makes it that much harder to try to understand people with my limited MTC Dutch! I can usually get the gist of what people are saying, but I have a bit of learning to do before I can understand enough to respond to more than simple questions and statement. It'll come, though!
I'm so sorry I don't have more time, it being my first p-day here there was a lot we had to do today. However, I'll be sure to write a good long letter next week. Until then, know that I love you all and appreciate all of your love and support!
Tot ziens!
-Zuster Jensen
-Zuster Jensen
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