Week 5

Okay, sorry again! I'm really late on posting this one. We'll have another one in just two days. My apologies...


Hallo, familie!

Wie gehts? This week has been yet another wonderful week at the MTC! The Christmas lights are up on the campus, and it finally snowed a ton, so the atmosphere is feeling very festive! I made a red and green paper chain to decorate our classroom, and each day we rip off a link -- counting down until the day we leave! I'm starting to get really nervous/excited now that I'm past the halfway point. I'll be in the field in no time!

How is everyone back home? I hope you're all happy and healthy! EVERYONE got sick here. Like half the MTC at least. I finally caught it, despite my plethora of vitamins I was taking. Man there was just no stopping it. The worst part is that when someone gets sick and has to stay in bed, the companion has to stay home, too, and since there are three of us, and we all got sick at different times, we ended up missing quite a bit of class last week. But luckily we're pretty much all better now!

Another district in our zone left, going to the Alpine mission, so it's pretty quite with lots of empty classrooms on our floor, but that will change soon since we're getting 30 new missionaries next week! I'm really excited. I hope there are some more sisters coming in. On our floor we have all the German speaking classes, Icelandic, Dutch, Danish and Swedish. At the far end we had Portuguese but they're all gone now because they finally got their Visas. Apparently portuguese visas are sehr hard to get. The floor below us is mostly Russian speaking, which is fun haha. We have turf wars.

Hmmm.... what else.... Oh, for devotional on Tuesday Julie B. Beck came! She is so cool. All of us girls were so excited, and elders were like, "Who is Julie B. Beck?" hahahaha. She gave the coolest talk, too. By the end, the elders were all saying, "Man, maybe I should watch the relief society broadcasts from now on, because that was awesome!" hahahaha.

Oh, so we had our very first TRC teaching appointment in German! It was SO NERVEWRACKING. Oh man. At the end we were like shaking and one of my companions looked about ready to cry. Needless to say, we are not pros at speaking German yet. I mean, we can say a few sentences, but nothing prepared me for our "investigator" asking me to explain things like unpaid clergy and why we don't do infant baptism. I have soooooo much to work on! Seriously, I sometimes I get really discouraged because I just want to be fluent and be able to say everything I want to say, you know? But it's coming along. We have 4-5 hour periods at a time where we're only allowed to speak German, and I'm always surprised at how much I can say. We're going to do some serious practicing for next week's TRC, so that we don't fail so bad next time.

I'm still loving the MTC! I'm learning so much every day. I wish everyone could come here, just so they could feel the spirit that's here. It's wonderful.

Oh, one more random thing: I did sealings for the first time today! (Missionaries are only allowed to be proxies for children) It was very cool! The provo temple has about 14 sealing rooms haha.

Jess - I'm adding to your assignments: I also need the lyrics to 'God rest ye merry gentlemen' and 'Oh come oh come emmanuel'. Pretty please? :3 Love you!

Grandma - Thank you for the pillowcase! I snuggle with it every night and think of you. I'm writing you a letter today, too, and you should get it soon. Love you!

Mom - Sorry to hear about your travel plans getting cancelled. Glad you got some work done, hope you have something fun planned to celebrate your hard work!

I love you all so much!

Smile!

The church is true!

Love,
Sister Jensen