Tuesday, August 12, 2014

I Don't Understand You



German would be the death of me. I couldn’t understand anyone and it was hard for anyone to understand me. On one particular afternoon while me and Sister Christopher were street contacting I once again was reminded how much German I didn’t speak.

We had stopped this lovely lady, very elegant looking. We had been talking about prayer with her and it came for me to bear testimony of prayer. I gave my all, and butchered every word. I couldn’t even get every word out. I was stumbling over every syllable and  had to ask Sister Christopher multiple times for the translation of a work. When we finally ended the women just stood there looking at us. Finally she said, in very broken English, ‘I don’t understand you, but I know here (touching her heart) what you are saying.

I had cried and thanked the women. Giving her the Book of Mormon I had written my testimony in. She probably will never know how much she did for me that day. How she changed the way I served my mission. My German wasn’t good for many months after this experience but I knew that it wasn’t was I was saying that was important but what the spirit was testifying to their hearts that was important.


mit freundlichen Grüßen
Jenessa Jensen

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