My dear friends and family,
Well, the day has finally come for another missionary to leave Maastricht. Transfer calls were last night, and after 3 wonderful transfers I will be leaving my beautiful first city! I will be going all the way north to Assen, to work with Zuster Dobler. I've never met her but I'm sure she's great, and I know almost nothing about Assen but I'm sure it's great too!
I am truly sad to be leaving Maastricht, and especially Zuster Manning. We've become really good friends between the MTC and two transfers in the land, but I know we couldn't stay together the whole mission and there are things she and I both need to do in different places. She will be staying in Maastricht with Zuster Whittington.
Our investigators are doing well, while there are still challenges we've seen progress this week in getting some to church, progress with stopping smoking and drinking, and progress in finding and resolving concerns. I am very optimistic for the future of Maastricht and know I am leaving it in good hands!
In other news for this week, Thursday was Zone Conference, a.k.a. 6 hours of straight inspiration. I took lots of notes but a personal theme which I really got out of it was having trust in Heavenly Father's plan for us. Like Nephi, we need to pray to know God's will for us (to have a vision), to know what our "Promised Land" is. Then we make goals to get there- in other words, we keep the commandments. Even when we don't see the entire future, when we have faith and we're doing what we're supposed to be doing we will know that God is leading us, and we can have peace because we know that His plan will always be the best one.
There was a surprise with Zone Conference as well - we got to watch Meet the Mormons! I don't know how many of you have seen it, but it was very well done and very inspirational. I know I'm more motivated than ever to make the most of my mission and of the rest of my life as well. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it! :)
There were other great things this week, but unfortunately I'm running out of time so just know life is good here in the Netherlands. As a parting thought for you all:
This transfer I have especially turned to prayer more than ever, and this week in our ward's conference a speaker said something that struck me - the number we need to call to reach heaven is 525, or 5 fingers on each hand turned to each other as we assume a reverent posture for prayer. It really is like a celestial 911 (or 112 for the Netherlands). When we need help, the first thing to do is "call 525" and talk with Heavenly Father. I know that this will always bring help as well as peace, happiness, and even unexpected blessings. Don't forget to pray!
Well, the day has finally come for another missionary to leave Maastricht. Transfer calls were last night, and after 3 wonderful transfers I will be leaving my beautiful first city! I will be going all the way north to Assen, to work with Zuster Dobler. I've never met her but I'm sure she's great, and I know almost nothing about Assen but I'm sure it's great too!
I am truly sad to be leaving Maastricht, and especially Zuster Manning. We've become really good friends between the MTC and two transfers in the land, but I know we couldn't stay together the whole mission and there are things she and I both need to do in different places. She will be staying in Maastricht with Zuster Whittington.
Our investigators are doing well, while there are still challenges we've seen progress this week in getting some to church, progress with stopping smoking and drinking, and progress in finding and resolving concerns. I am very optimistic for the future of Maastricht and know I am leaving it in good hands!
In other news for this week, Thursday was Zone Conference, a.k.a. 6 hours of straight inspiration. I took lots of notes but a personal theme which I really got out of it was having trust in Heavenly Father's plan for us. Like Nephi, we need to pray to know God's will for us (to have a vision), to know what our "Promised Land" is. Then we make goals to get there- in other words, we keep the commandments. Even when we don't see the entire future, when we have faith and we're doing what we're supposed to be doing we will know that God is leading us, and we can have peace because we know that His plan will always be the best one.
There was a surprise with Zone Conference as well - we got to watch Meet the Mormons! I don't know how many of you have seen it, but it was very well done and very inspirational. I know I'm more motivated than ever to make the most of my mission and of the rest of my life as well. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it! :)
There were other great things this week, but unfortunately I'm running out of time so just know life is good here in the Netherlands. As a parting thought for you all:
This transfer I have especially turned to prayer more than ever, and this week in our ward's conference a speaker said something that struck me - the number we need to call to reach heaven is 525, or 5 fingers on each hand turned to each other as we assume a reverent posture for prayer. It really is like a celestial 911 (or 112 for the Netherlands). When we need help, the first thing to do is "call 525" and talk with Heavenly Father. I know that this will always bring help as well as peace, happiness, and even unexpected blessings. Don't forget to pray!
-Zuster Jensen :)
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