My dear family and friends,
First, let me apologize that I haven't replied to many letters this week - it sounds like it was a crazy week for the Jensens, and this Jensen is no exception!
So I don't have time to tell the whole story and it's not really my story to tell anyway, so suffice it to say that some craziness went down last Sunday where Zr Ramirez was mildly threatened by someone. We were both fine, but due to the circumstances President decided to pull her out of Apeldoorn just in case something not good should happen in the future. We got the news on Tuesday night, and the switch happened on Thursday. And guess who my new companion is? Zr Harris, who I worked with 4 transfers ago in Assen! She had been in a threesome in Amsterdam, and she got transferred here while Zr Ramirez joined the threesome in Amsterdam. Even though I was very sad to see Zr Ramirez go after only 4 short weeks and it is a frustrating situation, it is very fun to be working with Zr Harris again.
On Wednesday, the last day I was with Zr Ramirez, we had to go to Den Haag so she could do some stuff for her Argentinian ID card or something like that. And we encountered every possible problem you could have with the train system! It turned what should have been a 4 ish hour trip into like 7 hours. Craziness. However, the emergency transfer the next day went smoothly so all was well. :)
Friday craziness started off not so happy, since someone stole my helmet. Who steals a helmet in a land where you get laughed at for wearing helmets?? :P But, positivity will always come off conqueror! That afternoon I could hardly be thinking about my troubles because Zr Harris and I made goals and plans for the next few weeks, and we are so pumped about really working hard and seeing miracles here in Apeldoorn. President shared with her that when he and the APs were praying and talking about who would come here to replace Zr Ramirez, that had a very strong feeling that it should be Zr Harris. So we don't what's going to happen or why we need to be companions again, but we know there's a work here for us to do, and it's going to be something amazing, I guess! :)
There were other great things to tell you about, but I definitely do not have any more time. :(
I love you all!
-Zr Jensen
P.S. the title of this email is a play on words, because "liefdevolle" in Dutch means filled with love, but it sounds like "leave-full" and both the leaves from the trees and the love from Heaven have been raining down like crazy this week, amidst all the other craziness. :)
First, let me apologize that I haven't replied to many letters this week - it sounds like it was a crazy week for the Jensens, and this Jensen is no exception!
So I don't have time to tell the whole story and it's not really my story to tell anyway, so suffice it to say that some craziness went down last Sunday where Zr Ramirez was mildly threatened by someone. We were both fine, but due to the circumstances President decided to pull her out of Apeldoorn just in case something not good should happen in the future. We got the news on Tuesday night, and the switch happened on Thursday. And guess who my new companion is? Zr Harris, who I worked with 4 transfers ago in Assen! She had been in a threesome in Amsterdam, and she got transferred here while Zr Ramirez joined the threesome in Amsterdam. Even though I was very sad to see Zr Ramirez go after only 4 short weeks and it is a frustrating situation, it is very fun to be working with Zr Harris again.
On Wednesday, the last day I was with Zr Ramirez, we had to go to Den Haag so she could do some stuff for her Argentinian ID card or something like that. And we encountered every possible problem you could have with the train system! It turned what should have been a 4 ish hour trip into like 7 hours. Craziness. However, the emergency transfer the next day went smoothly so all was well. :)
Friday craziness started off not so happy, since someone stole my helmet. Who steals a helmet in a land where you get laughed at for wearing helmets?? :P But, positivity will always come off conqueror! That afternoon I could hardly be thinking about my troubles because Zr Harris and I made goals and plans for the next few weeks, and we are so pumped about really working hard and seeing miracles here in Apeldoorn. President shared with her that when he and the APs were praying and talking about who would come here to replace Zr Ramirez, that had a very strong feeling that it should be Zr Harris. So we don't what's going to happen or why we need to be companions again, but we know there's a work here for us to do, and it's going to be something amazing, I guess! :)
There were other great things to tell you about, but I definitely do not have any more time. :(
However, I would love to share with you a thought I had about Halloween. :) The don't celebrate it much here, but I was pondering about how kids on the other side of the world were excitedly going langs de deur (knocking on doors) and receiving fun things in return. No kid knows what kind of candy or other treat will be given them, but they know it will be good. And I realized that this is like the gospel! :) From 3 Nephi 27:28-29 and similar scriptures we learn that if we knock, Heavenly Father will always open unto us. If we kneel in sincere prayer and ask for our righteous desires, we will be answered. Just like a kid on Halloween, we don't know what kind of answer we will get; but we know that it will be sweet and good, and because it comes from a loving Father in Heaven it will be exactly what we need. :)
I love you all!
-Zr Jensen
P.S. the title of this email is a play on words, because "liefdevolle" in Dutch means filled with love, but it sounds like "leave-full" and both the leaves from the trees and the love from Heaven have been raining down like crazy this week, amidst all the other craziness. :)
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