Boy, do I have a story to tell you. I witnessed an assassination attempt on the royal family of Nederland!!! It was crazy. It was Queen's Day and the Queen came to Apeldoorn and so did 200,000 people to see her. It started out with the parade, celebrating the life of the Queen. The royal family was shaking hands with some people and then they got into this convertible bus and it was driving through the parade route and the royal family was just waving to everyone when all of a sudden a car burst through the barricades and ran 14 people over and just barely missed the royal bus and then ran into a cement monument. Now seven people are dead, including the driver of the car and eight are still in pretty rough condition.
Evidently the driver had lost his job and was kicked out of his house so he decided that killing the Queen and the princes/princesses would solve his problems and as a result seven people are now dead, eight physically wounded and thousands have the mental scars of seeing it happen, and I'll tell you what, it was not a good sight or sound.
The aftermath is pretty bad too. Luckily, we did not go where we were planning to stand because then we would have been right where the car came through the crowd. This little girl that saw the whole thing was just crying and it was so sad to see all of these people in such a state...it was pretty rough. The whole city is just in shock and horror and now in a state of mourning.
On the lighter side of things, my zone is doing better than it has ever done and is just exploding right now. It's awesome! The other night we were at this inactive member's house and her husband wanted nothing to do with the church or the missionaries, but he started a water fight with one of the little kids and somehow it spread and then everyone got involved and we were all soaking wet by the end and now we have a good relationship with the husband and all the family...it was cool.
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