My dear family and friends,
This has been a crazy week filled with wonderful things! Y'all ready? :)
On Monday it was beautiful weather, and the missionaries up in Groningen were getting together for p-day so we joined them. In fact, we actuallly biked to Groningen from Assen! It was super fun, a total of about 18.3 miles, plus another 2.9 miles from where we met the other missionaries to the station in Groningen to take the train back. We took my iPod and speakers and put them in Zuster Harris' basket, and we "blasted" Mormon Tabernacle Choir the whole way. It was grand. :)
On Tuesday we had an entire day with no appointments, which is always daunting- but it turned out to be a great day with great conversations with people. :)
On Wednesday we had an awesome lesson with an investigator about the Book of Mormon, after which Bernadette called and asked if we would come over and dye her hair. I've never touched the stuff in my life, and had absolutely no idea how it worked, but thankfully boxes come with instructions on them! I did my best and it turned out well. :) That night we traveled to Zoetermeer, where we slept over with the zusters there because... (*drum roll*)
Thursday was zone conference! It was really wonderful. Zuster Robinson talked about grace, President Robinson talked about the advances in technology in the mission field (a.k.a. iPads and how the 12 Apostles want us to have them, so that we can hasten the work here and learn valuable spiritual self-suffiency skills as well), we watched an awesome documentary about the Book of Mormon produced by BYU, and we listened to the program the Singing Elders are doing! These elders are a quartet who have created a program involving stories and songs all about the family, loving each other, and trusting in God and Jesus Christ. They are performing firesides all around the mission and visiting members, sacrament meetings, and investigators. It was wonderful!
On Friday we have a great day of service, and then on Saturday a great day of missionary work! The district leaders came to work with us in Assen, and we had a couple of great lessons, met some great people, and got some great advice. Sunday was also great, although I've run out of time to tell you about it. :P
However, before I go I'd love to share with you some thoughts about grace. In preparation for zone conference Zuster Robinson asked us all to study grace from the Bible Dictionary, as well as read the BYU speech "His Grace Is Sufficient" by Brad Wilcox. If you haven't read it, I highly encourage you to do so. There are so many wonderful things in it. One of my favorite quotes from it is, "we are not earning heaven. We are learning heaven." As missionaries, we teach people all the time about the Gospel of Jesus Christ - faith, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring the end. In the end, these things are never enough to pay back what Christ has done for us; but they are what we are asked to do, so that we can be prepared to receive the glorious perfection and eternal life that Christ's Atonement has made possible. I encourage you all to study this topic further and see what Christ's saving, redeeming and enabling grace has done and can do for you!
All my love,
Zuster Jensen
This has been a crazy week filled with wonderful things! Y'all ready? :)
On Monday it was beautiful weather, and the missionaries up in Groningen were getting together for p-day so we joined them. In fact, we actuallly biked to Groningen from Assen! It was super fun, a total of about 18.3 miles, plus another 2.9 miles from where we met the other missionaries to the station in Groningen to take the train back. We took my iPod and speakers and put them in Zuster Harris' basket, and we "blasted" Mormon Tabernacle Choir the whole way. It was grand. :)
On Tuesday we had an entire day with no appointments, which is always daunting- but it turned out to be a great day with great conversations with people. :)
On Wednesday we had an awesome lesson with an investigator about the Book of Mormon, after which Bernadette called and asked if we would come over and dye her hair. I've never touched the stuff in my life, and had absolutely no idea how it worked, but thankfully boxes come with instructions on them! I did my best and it turned out well. :) That night we traveled to Zoetermeer, where we slept over with the zusters there because... (*drum roll*)
Thursday was zone conference! It was really wonderful. Zuster Robinson talked about grace, President Robinson talked about the advances in technology in the mission field (a.k.a. iPads and how the 12 Apostles want us to have them, so that we can hasten the work here and learn valuable spiritual self-suffiency skills as well), we watched an awesome documentary about the Book of Mormon produced by BYU, and we listened to the program the Singing Elders are doing! These elders are a quartet who have created a program involving stories and songs all about the family, loving each other, and trusting in God and Jesus Christ. They are performing firesides all around the mission and visiting members, sacrament meetings, and investigators. It was wonderful!
On Friday we have a great day of service, and then on Saturday a great day of missionary work! The district leaders came to work with us in Assen, and we had a couple of great lessons, met some great people, and got some great advice. Sunday was also great, although I've run out of time to tell you about it. :P
However, before I go I'd love to share with you some thoughts about grace. In preparation for zone conference Zuster Robinson asked us all to study grace from the Bible Dictionary, as well as read the BYU speech "His Grace Is Sufficient" by Brad Wilcox. If you haven't read it, I highly encourage you to do so. There are so many wonderful things in it. One of my favorite quotes from it is, "we are not earning heaven. We are learning heaven." As missionaries, we teach people all the time about the Gospel of Jesus Christ - faith, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring the end. In the end, these things are never enough to pay back what Christ has done for us; but they are what we are asked to do, so that we can be prepared to receive the glorious perfection and eternal life that Christ's Atonement has made possible. I encourage you all to study this topic further and see what Christ's saving, redeeming and enabling grace has done and can do for you!
All my love,
Zuster Jensen
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