My dear family and friends,
What a week! It was pretty crazy saying goodbye to people in Maastricht (or not saying goodbye, since there was no time), but sometimes I guess we're needed in different places. I will be forever grateful for the time I spent in Maastricht and the people I have met there- it really is a beautiful and blessed city.
However, new adventures await! Which began with the adventure of transfers... oh man. Getting three suitcases and a bike to the Maastricht station, out at Rotterdam, saying goodbye to my companions, traveling with said bike and suitcases to Utrecht with some other missionaries, stopping out, meeting my new companion, then again on to Assen and then from that station to the new apartment... when you can't take a bike on the bus and the train doors only stay open for about two minutes for you to get your stuff on or off... fun times! Haha, I am reminded why we are told to pack light. ;)
Despite that craziness, I think I will like it in Assen! As prophesied in my last email, Zuster Dobler really is great. :) She came the transfer after me, so we're both relatively new but she has already been in Assen 2 transfers and has learned a lot. She is very sweet and fun to be around, and we think quite similarly so that's fun!
The rest of the week has basically been a blur of new faces and new places, but it's great! Of course every place has it's own set of challenges and opportunites, and Assen just has a different feel than Maastricht. The change will be good I think, we learn different things from different challenges. I'm very optimistic though, Assen has great investigators who are progressing well and I am excited to work with them. It's also a pretty little city! Defintely differnt than the rolling hills of Zuid-Limburg (the province Maastricht is in), it's super flat and therefore quite windy. But the weather has been beautiful the last couple of days and there are these little wildflowers that grow everywhere - they look like mini tulips, they're so fun and a cheerful portent of spring!
I don't have much more to report right now, but I hope to be able to tell you more about the people and everything else here next week. As a thought for this week, I have found a quote here that I really love: "You have the power to increase the sum total of the world's happiness." Just like those wildflowers, they are so litle - and so are we. But they bring so much happiness to me and so can we bring such happiness to others! We may not feel like we are making a difference, but we definitely are. Do something this week to brighten someone else's week, and cherish the smile on their face! :)
-Zuster Jensen
P.S. Huge shout-out to my brother Garrett, who just got his mission call to the France, Lyon mission, speaking Chinese! Haha it's so perfect for him and I'm so proud of him. Missions for the win! Which is awesome, because in the end everybody wins when the gospel is spread over the entire world. Yay! :D
(p.p.s. this is Garrett and here's my mission blog ;)
Transfer day!
Me, Zuster Dobler, Bernadette, and wildflowers :)
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