The Bus of Life

My dear family and friends,

Yet another week is come and gone! Are we really in September now?? Kan niet. :)

We started this week with a great p-day in Haarlem, the most notable thing being that we went inside this giant church called St. Bavo or something like that. It has this big beautiful organ that is 30m tall (around 90 feet), which Handel and Mozart have both played on! I wanted to play it so bad. :)

The rest of the week has been riding on buses interspersed with awesome appointments, hence the title of the email! Our schedule just happened to work out this week that we were on buses travelling around Haarlem, above IJmuiden, and all over the place all week. But the awesome appointments include:

• Several wonderful dinner appointments! The members make such a big difference, and it's wonderful to get to know them and help them in whatever ways we can.
• Service again! We are really getting to know the people at this school for handicapped children well, and they appreciate what we do so much!
• Cynthia! She has been unable to meet with us for a couple of weeks, but we saw her again this week and she is still very positive that this is her church and she wants to be baptized next month! She calls us her children and feeds us delicious Surinams food every time we go over, and talks about how much she loves Jesus. We love Cynthia! :)
• Church! Which is great every week, but this week especially! A 25 year old woman from the Philippines who is living here for a year or so came to church (she's a member), and she brought two friends with her! They are super sweet and both accepted a Book of Mormon after we taught them about the Restoration during sunday school. It was wonderful!

Well, sorry for the short synopsis, there just isn't enough time! But as a last thought to connect everything, having spent so much time on buses this week I was pondering about it a lot. Life is much the same - a lot of it is very monotonous, with random bright and dark points in between. But it doesn't have to be that way! If we are prepared and doing our best, we can use our "in between" time to reach out to others, improve yourself, learn, or any other number of things. Don't wait to things to happen to you before you enjoy the time you have here! It really is short, and with the knowledge we have we can make every minute count, even when there are still things we will have to be patient and wait for. I'm so grateful for a loving Heavenly Father who has a perfect plan for each of us!

Have a wonderful week!

-Zuster Jensen