It is transfer day, but I am staying in Apeldoorn with Elder Shumway, which means I will be here for the next two transfers because this is Elder Shumway's last transfer, so I will have at least one more transfer period after that in Apeldoorn.
Sunny and Jeanine got baptized this past weekend. It was so awesome! The spirit was so strong and way awesome. And we've got the family Aalderink getting baptized on Friday which will be really awesome too. They love the church, they feel so at home in the church.
A couple of days ago we went out to our bishop's house to work in his yard. He lives in a little tiny town about a 45 minute bike ride from Apeldoorn (the car was in the shop) and it is in a pine forest. It was really cool. I cut and chopped about a cord of wood. I was sooooo sore afterward, I am not in as good of shape as I used to be.
Zone conference was really, really cool. President Woodland pretty much told us how to live our lives and then we said goodbye to him. It was sad to see President and Sister Woodland leave. It was really good to be in Den Haag again. We stayed the night there and I got to see Huub and Shijam. They both just received the M. Priesthood (I can't spell that).
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
June 15, 2009
This past week went by really, really fast! We had another baptism on Sunday, Sister Linschooten, she was sooo happy and beaming with joy.
The ward here is so awesome. I love the members. All the kids from 1-9 years of age love to play with us. The girls from 10-21 years old are in love with us and we use that as an advantage to give them advice for their lives because they listen to every word we say. The boys from 10-21 years old think we're really cool and also listen to us. Then the rest just love us because we actually talk to the members here and try to help them with their problems.
I am teaching an English class every Thursday and it's really fun. We are trying to get a Family Home Evening going in the church for investigators, less-actives and new converts that will be alot of fun too.
Everything here is going fine and dandy. Today we are heading for Den Haag for Zone Conference and I'll get to see Folly and hopefully Huub.
I made an apple pie from scratch on Friday...it was really good, but now I'm out of shortening and they don't have that here.
The ward here is so awesome. I love the members. All the kids from 1-9 years of age love to play with us. The girls from 10-21 years old are in love with us and we use that as an advantage to give them advice for their lives because they listen to every word we say. The boys from 10-21 years old think we're really cool and also listen to us. Then the rest just love us because we actually talk to the members here and try to help them with their problems.
I am teaching an English class every Thursday and it's really fun. We are trying to get a Family Home Evening going in the church for investigators, less-actives and new converts that will be alot of fun too.
Everything here is going fine and dandy. Today we are heading for Den Haag for Zone Conference and I'll get to see Folly and hopefully Huub.
I made an apple pie from scratch on Friday...it was really good, but now I'm out of shortening and they don't have that here.
June 8, 2009
Wow, the past two weeks have been incredible! Yesterday we had three baptisms which puts me up to 13 now in total and we've got baptisms planned for the next three Sundays and hopefully more after that. We baptized Robert Hirwa, Jimmy Mutesa, and Lorenso Put. We are working with Sister Linschooten, Jeanine, Fam, Aalderink, Alim, Yaya, Yana, Nelson, Marisca, Jeremy, Tom, Kevin, Sarah, Gwen and more that are also getting close.
We also had eleven investigators in church on Sunday...it was awesome. The work is going really, really well here. I love the members here, they are so awesome. I hope that I stay the rest of my mission here. It's just going really, really well here and I'm loving it.
We are also in the ward choir and we go around singing the Prince of Egypt songs.
The members here love us and it's just a ton of fun to be around them. We have about three dinner appointments a week all with different members and some of the members we get every two to three weeks. It's awesome. I just love Apeldoorn.
So far we've been to Amsterdam and Apeldoorn and on Saturday we are going to Rotterdam and the next week to Groningen...it's fun.
We also had eleven investigators in church on Sunday...it was awesome. The work is going really, really well here. I love the members here, they are so awesome. I hope that I stay the rest of my mission here. It's just going really, really well here and I'm loving it.
We are also in the ward choir and we go around singing the Prince of Egypt songs.
The members here love us and it's just a ton of fun to be around them. We have about three dinner appointments a week all with different members and some of the members we get every two to three weeks. It's awesome. I just love Apeldoorn.
So far we've been to Amsterdam and Apeldoorn and on Saturday we are going to Rotterdam and the next week to Groningen...it's fun.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
June 1, 2009
I had an awesome week. I got to go to The Hague Temple with Brother de Jong this week, cool, eh? I also had my last interview with President Woodland before he and his wife return to the States. It was good.
Today we had a sport day with the ward and it was really good, I'll tell you more next week.
Today we had a sport day with the ward and it was really good, I'll tell you more next week.
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