A few good quotes

Hello!

I hope you're all enjoying the change in weather as much as we are! I have heard a lot of people sneezing around here, and to me that is a beautiful sign of good things to come.

Mostly, today, I wanted to share a few of my new favorite quotes:
"And it is my duty to say to you that the need was never greater of new revelation than now. ... Men have come to speak of revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. It is the office of a true teacher to show us that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake. "
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. After all, you find out the strength of the German army by fighting against it, not by giving in. You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness -- they have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. We never find out the strenth of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means -- the only complete realist."
- C.S. Lewis

So those are my thoughts for today: 1) That God lives, and that we have revelations today, and 2) to encourage all of you to 'walk against the wind' this week, and by doing so find out how strong you truly are. A good tip for that is to "stop doing today one thing you know you shouldn't do, and never do it again!"

Some other quick notes:
- Elder D. Todd Christofferson is coming to Düsseldorf this week! We'll have Zone Conference with him on Thursday. He is also holding a meeting for members and investigators, and Iwona is going to come, along with a few other people we're working with. Speaking of which...
- Iwona called us this morning to tell us that she read the Book of Mormon until 2:00 AM this morning becuase she couldn't put it down. She is now in 3rd Nephi! Please pray for her.

Lots of love,
Sister Jensen