Guten Nachmittag

Guten Nachmittag!

This week was pretty cool. Sister Römer and I have been getting to know each other a little better, and having lots of fun. This whole week it has been POURING down rain (in July! Crazy. Must be the Second Coming.) But we're mastering the art of riding bikes with umbrellas.

Highlight of this week: Mission Leader Council. They always invite one companionship of Sisters to come, but I had never been before! Part of it was just talking about numbers and how each of the zones are doing, but we also talked about Europe as a whole and how missionary work is going, and what plans the Europe office has, and it was fascinating! Apparently things are going really well, and there are a couple of countries, Portugal, for example, where missionary work has just taken off and they went from having a couple hundred baptisms a year to a couple thousand! Germany will be next :) We gave a talk in Relief Society and Priesthood about missionary work yesterday, and now the members are really getting excited, and everyone is catching the vision!

Please pray for missionary work here. Pray that we can find the people who are ready. Also, please pray for our investigators, especially the da Luz family, the Quiring family, and Peter. We could really use your faith!

A couple in our ward got sealed this weekend (they've been married for almost 10 years), and we helped make the wedding cake and decorate the church building for the party afterward, and then we gave a temple tour to the guests who couldn't go in the temple. It was a really cool day! It made me think of Grandma and Grandpa Jones, getting sealed after so long being together. The Spindens (the family that got sealed) were so happy! You could just tell they were glowing inside. So cool!

Sister Römer is helping me tons with my German, and I'm helping her with her Englisch. It's kind of cool to not be the only one making ridiculous language mistakes all the time, haha. But my German is getting way better! And she's also teaching me a few phrases in Swiss German, which is actually an entirely different language. When Sister Römer talks to people in Swiss German, I have no clue what she's saying. It sounds cool though!

That's about it. Hope all is well at home! I heard the last Harry Potter movie came out last week! Hope it was awesome. I'll be stoked to see that when I get home.

Love you all,
Sister Jensen

Louis Got Baptied

Hallo,

Highlight of the week: Louis's baptism!

It was so cool! It was such a beautiful service. Almost the whole ward showed up for his baptism. All the members love him already, which is really good, because now he has lots of friends to keep him active in the church! :)

We also went down to Frankfurt for another baptism right after ours. The Elders in Frankfurt were teaching a really cool girl about our age, and she came up for a temple tour one week, and she said it really helped her feel the spirit, and after that she decided to get baptized! She asked Sister Schenk and I to be there and sing at her baptism, but then Sister Schenk got transferred, but luckily Sister Römer can sing, too, so we did that.

What else... oh, so we had interviews with President Schwartz. He is such a good man. So far, I've never seen him not smiling! He gave me some really good suggestions and advice. After our interviews, he and his wife came back to Friedrichsdorf for Louis's baptism, which was cool.

Other than that, not a whole lot to tell, just staying busy! It's been crazy hot here. We've been eating a lot of frozen grapes. It's our new favorite thing.

Love you all,
Sister Jensen

New Companion

Hello!

Highlight of the week: A day in Darmstadt

I had a really fun split with Sister Cannon last week, down in Darmstadt (hometown of President Uchtdorf). We made some really awesome contacts on the street, and we made mexican food for dinner. Germany has zero good mexican restaurants. It was so awesome to see Sister Cannon again.

Also, we had a meeting on Friday where our new mission president and his wife (President and Sister Schwarz) introduced themselves a little and gave a very inspiring spiritual thought. They are a really nice couple. President Schwarz doesn't speak much English, so from now on all of our meetings will be in German.

I also have a new companion now. At the Friday meeting, we found out that Sister Schenk was going to be transferred out of Friedrichsdorf. That night she packed all of her stuff and on Saturday we travelled to her new area where I said goodbye to her and picked up my new companion. The sad thing is that Sister Schenk is now really far away, way on the other side of Germany, so I probably won't see her for a long time.

My new companion is really nice, though. Her name is Sister Römer. She's from Switzerland. I'm attaching a picture of us that we took at the temple this morning.

Love you all,

Sister Jensen