The Class of Life

Mijn geliefde familie en vrienden,

Sorry it's going to be a quick letter this week! But I love you all and it's been a great week, just so you know! Here's a summary:

We found some great new investigators this week, they are few but they are solid.

We had a zone training on Wednesday! As zone leaders/ zuster trainer leaders we planned the whole thing and each gave presentations on various things, and it went super well and we ended perfectly on time, which never happens. We's good. :) It was also awesome to see how our presentations, which we prepared separately on different topics, all connected to each other and built on each other. Inspiration is a real thing, people.

On Thursday we had exchanges! They are doing a new thing in the mission where for zone leaders and zuster trainer leaders, the people they are going on exchanges with come to their city and they split into 2 companionships but all work in the same city for a day. So in other words, the Leeuwarden zusters came here to Apeldoorn and I worked with Zr Kimmons for the day while Zr Twiggs was working with Zr Voss here. It was fun to be back with Zr Kimmons, although it was a bit of a crazy exchange figuring out the details of this new exchange method- things like there are suddenly 4 zusters in a city with 2 bikes, and the bus system in Apeldoorn isn't the best, and other fun things like that. It was great!

On Saturday among other things some members from Maastricht, the Wheatleys, came up to treat Zr Twiggs and I to lunch! They had some extra train tickets that needed to be used up and since both Zr Twiggs and I served in Maastricht, they decided to come visit us. It was so much fun, they are the sweetest, and it was fun to hear all the news from my first city. They also brought us some American treats from the American military base, it is awesome. :)

Sunday we had a great day and in the evening we had dinner with our investigator Glory from Vietnam. I can't remember if I've told you about her, but she is awesome! She is a student here, only 19 years old but so sweet and mature. Anyway she had us over for dinner and then we answered a bunch of her questions about the church from what she's learned so far. She has the best questions!!!

Well I'm really running out of time, but as a quick thought I want to share something I was talking about with Glory. She asked about whether we ever have doubts on our faith and whether that's ok. I testified to her and I want to testify to you, everyone has doubts and questions and that's ok! But the important thing is, you have to hold to what you know is right in the meantime. I told her it's like taking a challenging class at school - even if you don't understand everything at first and have questions, you still have to pay attention in class and do your homework in the meantime, and then it will all work out. So keep to the basics and grow your faith! Love you!

Zr Jensen