Welcome to my last MTC email... I hope 10/20/2021

 Здраво вие !!

Well, well, well, the time has finally come. After 10 long, painstakingly boring, yet difficult weeks, I am ready to ајде чао from the at home MTC. It is starting to feel a little bit surreal that pretty soon I'll be kicking it in the south, teaching the word of God and loving his children there. In exactly one week I'll be flying into Nashville, kinda wild. It's difficult to put my life in God's hands sometimes and trust that he knows better where I need to be, but I'm trying to have faith because he is an all knowing God. I know he loves us and is aware of us, and so we have no reason to fear. There's a line from The Chosen that 10/10 describes my feelings about this: "I actually don't understand most of this, just pieces, here and there when good things happen. But, the rest, I am just following." So, while I certainly don't understand everything yet, I have faith that God knows and that I will be okay if I follow him, whether it's in Tennessee or Macedonia.
This week has felt a little weird since the elders in my district finished MTC on Saturday and actually arrived to their reassignment today. The last couple of days have been kind of nice since class is really just whatever Сестра Chamberlain and I need help with, language or teaching wise. So who knows, I may just come out of the MTC fluent... ahah if only. I am however feeling #blessed #grateful that they made a Macedonian MTC class this year so that I can actually learn my mission language instead of Bulgarian in the MTC, and then having to learn Macedonian in the field. We joined the Bulgarian class for about an hour on Monday and wowza, it is not the same. Like close-ish, but man it was difficult to understand and the verses we were reading in the Book of Mormon were so wildly different. So I'm feeling pretty grateful that God is furthering his work in Macedonia and preparing missionaries to actually speak their language. 
My sisters came into town this week to say goodbye so that was super fun to be together again ! It's hard to realize that it will be the last time for a while, but I trust that the Lord will bless me for leaving behind my life right now to serve him. There is truly nothing more important I could be doing and I'm thankful for the strength the Lord has given me so that I could come this far and know that he will continue to bless me as I move forward.
I love you all, I love the Lord, and I love being a missionary. It is wild to think that I am only just beginning, but I am excited for the many months that lie ahead.
Со љубов,
Сестра Џенсен (this week we learned how to write in Latin script so my name could also be spelled Sestra Djensen- or as I like to say, DJ ensen :)))
Слики !
-Сестра Chamberlain and I getting ready to fit in with the southeners 
-Gospel pictionary during comp study (10 brownie points if you can guess what the answer is)
-The mesa temple !! We got to go to the open house and it was BEAUTIFUL
- visitors center for the temple







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