Another awesome week

Hallo,

Well, yet another awesome week! As always! Sister Schenk and I are having an awesome time.

Highlight of the Week: Ninow's goodbye party (see attatched photo)

President and Sister Ninow end their mission this week, and my new mission President arrives on Wednesday. We had our last Zone Conference with the Ninow's last week, and Sister Schenk and I wrote a little song for them and performed it, and then yesterday the Assistants organized a surprise party at the Ninow's home. There were about 10 missionaries, including us, and it was really sweet. We sang "God be with you 'til we meet again" (Sister Ninow cried) and presented them with a scrapbook from all of the missionaries. It must be very emotional for them. They've been on their mission for three years!

Lots of other eventful things happened apart from that, though. First of all, Sister Schenk's stalker showed up at church again yesterday. Have I told that story yet? There's a creepy old man who was in her old ward in Frankfurt, and he wrote her a love letter, and then started showing up at our ward building here. A couple of the brothers got him to leave, but Sister Schenk was still a little shaken up. We talked to President, and he said he might have to transfer Sister Schenk to a new area if it continues, but he doesn't want to do that, obviously, so Sister Schenk is writing her stalker a letter telling him she's not interested, and to leave her alone. He also now has a restraining order on our church building, which should help as well.

Other things of note:
- We taught primary yesterday and they were so cute. There's a four-year-old boy from England who told me he wants to marry me. It was adorable.

- I'm going on my first ever split this week! It's pretty rare for sisters to go on splits, because we're so spread out. Anyway, I'm really excited because I'm going on a split with Sister Cannon!

- We celebrated the first day of summer by breaking out our winter coats and scarves again. It was freakishly cold! But today it's 35°C (about 95 degrees) and feels like real summer, haha.

Love you all!
Sister Jensen

Busy busy busy

Guten Tag!

Sorry my email is coming so late. We almost didn't have p-day this week! But we've been fabulously busy and lots of good things have happened.

Highlight for the week: We got transfer calls and Sister Schenk and I are staying together!

We were both so excited. We had actually called President on transfer call day, with news about a baptismal date we had just set, and we purposely called a little later in hopes that he would just go ahead and tell us if we were moving or not, and so we got to hear it direct from the source! A sneaky tactic I think I'll try to employ every six weeks, haha. But then of course I'll have to have lots of baptismal dates to tell him about. Which could happen, the way things are going! the work is really going well, and we're meeting with so many cool people.

Another awesome experience was on Saturday. Sister Schenk and I went to a baptism in Frankfurt, because it was for someone who Sister Schenk had taught when she was there. We did a musical number for it, as well, which reminded me very strongly of when I was little, and Jess and I sang at everyone's baptisms, haha. Louis came with us to the baptism, and he said he really felt the spirit, and it helped him to understand baptism.

Louis is doing great! He has such strong faith. He reads in the Book of Mormon every day, he hasn't missed church yet. I think he's really on track to find his answer. I think the most wonderful thing about our message is that everyone can find out for himself if it's true or not. No one has to take our word for it. I think some people are afraid to, because it would mean that they would have to change their lives, if what we are saying is true. But there are so many people out there who have been looking so long for answers, and for truth, that they'll do anything to know. Those are the people God speaks to!

So our p-day has been sort of spread over three days (a few hours at a time), but we did have time to go to a really cool park where they took a bunch of old, historic buildings from all over Germany, packed them up, and shipped them to a park really close to where I live. They built a little city out of all these old houses, so it's like a museum, but a whole city. They even have actors who dress up in 1700's clothing and walk around, churn butter and all that jazz. It was really cool! I'll try to attach some photos.

We went with an investigator, and Brother and Sister Orum from our ward drove us. Brother Orum is from Denmark, and he reminds me SO much of Grandpa Jensen. But with a really thick accent.

Well, that's about it! I'm having such a good time. We had a couple of days where everything seemed to be going wrong, and we missed every train, and every appointment fell out, etc., and we were pretty discouraged, but we talked about it, pepped each other back up, and now it's going great again! Satan will have to find a better way to get us down. ;)

I love you all! I hope all is going well back home!

Sincerely,
Sister Jensen

God speaks through the Book of Mormon

Hello everyone!

Highlight of the week: Louis!

This was such an amazing story! There was a man who walked up to the church during the week, two weeks ago, and a member talked to him and the next week brought him to church. We met him there and started teaching him last week. We asked him what prompted him to find the church, and he said:

"I lost my job and left my wife and son in Italy to come here and find a job. A family from Nigeria took me in [Louis is also from Nigeria]. I was in their living room, and I cried to God asking him if he really cared, and if he did, why I was having so many problems. Then I saw the Book of Mormon lying on their coffee table. I picked it up and opened it to a random page. I read the words, 'now is the time for your troubles to be over.' Later I tried to find the verse, and I can't find it. I told the family, 'Where is this church? God has spoken to me through this book, and I have to find this church.'"

Needless to say, he found the church, and luckily an English-speaking member drove up just as he arrived and was able to talk to him. The woman that took Louis in is Sister Dirisu, an inactive woman in our ward, and she had just gotten back from Africa two days before she met Louis. It is just so amazing, a miracle really, how everything worked out! It strengthened my testimony that the Lord knows every single person on this earth. He doesn't see us as one big mass of people. He watches out for every person, and he hears every prayer.

We're meeting with Louis again tonight. He was at church yesterday and he bore the most beautiful testimony about the Savior, and how loved and welcomed he felt in the ward.

Anyway, lots of cool things happened this week, and we found a few new investigators, but that experience is really the one that stands out.

The other really memorable one was that a man invited us in as we were going door to door, and it turns out he's a big Evangelisch preacher with a huge congregation, and he grilled us for about an hour and a half on what we believe, the bible, the final judgement, baptism, you name it. It was so hard to not argue with him, which is what I would normally feel compelled to do. But instead we just calmly explained what we believed and bore humble testimony, and the spirit was so strong. At the end, he said, 'You're not at all what I expected Mormons to be.' (Yes! That's the goal!) and he said we could come back any time.

Thank you all for your prayers and support! I'm praying for all of you.

Lots of love,

Sister Jensen