I am in Germany!!!!!!!!!! AAAAGGGHHH!!!!!! So cool! I love it here already. But man, it is cold. But beautiful! It snowed a bunch yesterday, but mostly it's just been windy/cold.
I have been assigened to serve in Friedrichsdorf, a pretty small town ('dorf' means like... village) north of Frankfurt. It is cool because Friedrichsdorf is where the temple is! I haven't done a session yet (my distrikt is going next week to do one) but I pass the temple every time I go to the church building. It's beautiful! If you are trying to find Friedrichsdorf on a map, the closest big-ish city is Bad Homburg.
My new companion is Sister Thaden. She is awesome. She only has a few cycles left, so I'll probably be her companion for two or three transfers, here in Friedrichsdorf. She is really cool! I'll try to attach a picture of us together. Her German is really good and she's been here for 4 cycles, so she really knows the members/investigators and she knows her way around.
Before I forget, here is my new address:
Sister Kristin Jensen
Hugenottenstrasse 4-A
61381 Friedrichsdorf
Deutschland
A few things about sending letters:
1. This is the address for my actual apartment, which means a couple weeks before transfers, you probably shouldn't send anything there just in case I get transferred to a new apartment. In my emails I'll be sure to mention when transfers are coming up, so that you wait to send letters.
2. Dear Elders, and letters/packages sent to the mission office address, will stay in the office until I have zone conference or interviews or something in Frankfurt, they don't forward them to me or anything. So I guess for letters it's best to just mail them to my apartment.
3. Letters have to have my name on them, or else they won't put them in my box. We don't have a mailbox number or anything, just our names on the slot, so make sure any letter you send says 'Kristin Jensen' in there somewhere haha.
4. Mail from the U.S. to Germany takes about 1-2 weeks, according to Sis. Thaden.
So, I have decided that Germany is cool. Actually, a lot of it is like Oregon. Except way more snow. Sometimes I forget that I'm in Germany until I notice that everything around me is written in German haha. A few other things are slightly different too. Like light switches look different, toilets have these weird flush buttons, all the sidewalks are stone or brick instead of concrete... stuff like that. The town I live in is really cool. It really looks like something out of an old movie! OH. Police sirens here ARE SO COOL. Everytime one goes off I feel like I'm in 'The Bourne Identity' or Anne Frank or some other movie. It's so bizzarre. Instead of being like "NYEEEEAAAAAARRRRRRRR" like they are in America, they're like "oooooEEEEEEooooooEEEEEEEoooooo". (Sorry that's the best I can describe them hahahaha).
Oh, another cool thing: I've been able to us my spanish here! So far I have had dinner with two families that speak Spanish. Except I've forgotten a lot of spanish words. But it was still cool to speak a little spanish with them, even though we just spoke German most of the time.
Church yesterday was fun. All of the members were really friendly. I even worked up the courage to bear my testimony in church. Apparently I told the congregation that "Jesus killed for us" instead of "Jesus died for us" but other than that it went okay hahaha.
My district is cool too. I had my first district meeting last week and afterward we went out for pizza. Oh by the way, German food is sooooooo good. I love the yogurt they have here. And the cheese! I'm going to experience my first döner for lunch today (it's kind of like a doner kebab, I've heard. Anyway, everyone talks about them and so I've been excited to try one for a couple months now).
President Ninow and Sister Ninow are really cool people. I had a quick interview with President Ninow my first day, and he gave lots of really good advice. They took a picture with each of us and I gave them your email address, Mom, so I'm hoping he emailed you? He said they normally email parents to let them know their kids arrived safe. Anyway, hope that got to you.
Oh man, jet lag was lame. Luckily that's over now. My first three days I was soooo tired all the time.
Well, this email is super long already so I'm going to cut it off there. I hope everyone is doing well! I love you all!
Love,
Sister Jensen
A few specific notes: (Jess, you can post these on the blog if you want, or just make sure they get to people)
Grandma/Grandpa Jones - Thanks for the CTR ring! I opened it on Christmas and it fits perfectly! And I wear the slippers every morning while I study :)
Jess - Sorry I haven't written in a bit. I have a letter to send you, I just need to get some German stamps first.
Matt - Did mom tell you about sister Braaksma(sp?)? My host sister in the MTC? If not, ask her to tell you. It's a pretty cool story.
Okay, I love you all! Tschüß!
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