January 5, 2009

I'm doing pretty good. I finally broke down and bought a new coat, a North Face and it's way warm.
I'm staying in Lelystad/Almere. I'm also training a brand-new missionary. Oh, and I'm the district leader. Ya, it'll be fun.
New Year's here was crazy. It's the only time of the year that they can buy or light fireworks and they go crazy. On the 31st it was really foggy and there were bombs and fireworks of all kinds going off around us in the fog. And then at midnight it was really crazy. Just imagine Stadium of Fire or the city's firework displays, but times 100,000 because everyone has that many fireworks and they all light them off at the same time. It was nuts, but way awesome.
I have a baptism on Saturday. She is from Portugal and her name is Jue.
The lady with the cancer bore her testimony in church and said how she was so grateful for everyone and that her treatments were actually getting easier to bear and they're actually supposed to get harder, so that was cool.
Iris and her daughter Noor are progressing still and are getting really close to baptism, and we've found a ton of new investigators.