April 27, 2009

So of the three people that were supposed to get baptized on Saturday, only one of them did, one will have to wait a couple of weeks and the other one went crazy. Levert's baptism was really good and way spiritual. He showed up an hour and half early and was all dressed in white and just prayed for that entire time. It was really cool and his testimony at the end was way solid.
Life is going pretty good here. I don't think that I'm going to be staying in Apeldoorn next transfer, but we'll see, I've got two weeks left.
We went to the hospital to visit a member who broke her pelvic bone. It was weird to be back in a medical care place. It felt good to wheel her around the hospital on her wheelchair. I love hospitals.
One of my friends is getting married on Thursday, it's weird to get wedding invitations, especially when you can't go.

April 20, 2009

This coming Saturday I will be having three baptisms, Alim, Sunny and Levert. It should be really cool. We are still driving a ton and having fun. The members here are pretty cool. We also sing in the choir...that's really funny!
Today on P-day we went to this place called Apenheul and we had monkeys climb all over us. It was pretty cool. It is getting really hot here and I am starting to get tan.

April 13, 2009

I am doing 'good'. I spent alot of time in a car this week. We went to Brussels, twice to Zwolle, twice to Leeuwarden, once to Heerenveen, and then all over in Deventer and Apeldoorn. PLUS, I got to drive a big van to move things around so that we could have a table and some beds in our apartment. We didn't get to do much work in our city, but it was still fun.
The Zone Leader Council was really, really good.
The country has two Easter days, so everything is closed today(P-day), we can't go shopping and we are at a member's house right not emailing our families.

April 6, 2009

So, one of the positive things about Apeldoorn is the fact that we have a car all the times now and I don't even ride a bike at all. That and we have a really big apartment, well actually we live in a house but it's not what you are thinking of as a house. It has one room downstairs that consists of the kitchen, dining room, and living room and the upstairs has three rooms in the same amount of space and they are our bedrooms and study rooms. It's big compared to other missionary/normal person living places, but compared to America, it is a tiny, tiny place to live.
Apeldoorn is really small, I've already memorized how to get to alot of places, it's pretty easy. We drove to Leeuwarden the other day and took a ton of stuff from the missionary apartment there because they are closing it, of which we got kitchen supplies, a blender, a waffle iron and a sandwich toaster, and other things for our apartment...it was cool.
We are headed for Brussels tomorrow for our Zone Leader Council. It will be alot of fun and then we have interviews and a few other things this week.

March 30, 2009

WOW! I'm getting transferred to Apeldoorn as a zone leader. My new companion is Elder Shumway from Oklahoma City, he has only three more transfers before going home, so I'll either be in Apeldoorn a very short time or a very long time.
I'm really sad to leave Den Haag, everything was starting to go really, really well and now I'm going to the problem zone where nothing is happening. Plus I'm in a threesome apartment because Pres. Woodland sent a problem missionary with the two of us to try and change him around so he won't crash and burn. I'm going to be missing so many baptisms and a ton of good things that we were just getting started here in Den Haag. Maybe I'll be able to come back after a few transfers or so. I hpe so. I love Den Haag, it's the best place in the mission to be. Oh well, whatever.
My new address is:
Elder Sean Burton
Wolwevershorst 62
7328-NV Apeldoorn
Nederland

But last week was incredible!!!