September 14, 2009

This past week was a crazy one. I went on an exchange in Assen and got to see Frans Philipps again and that was awesome. Then the next morning I got a call that one of my missionaries had ran away. This is the third time that this has happened to me. So we spent two days looking for him, found him and drove him to Rotterdam to have an interview with the Area President, Elder Kopischke, who was doing a zone conference there. We drove back to Apeldoorn, then drove to Den Haag the next day for our zone conference with Elder Kopischke, which was incredible and we drove to Brussels for our zone leader conference with him which was also incredible.At the zone conference he answered questions from all of us about everything and it was awesome. The the zone leader council was really cool because it was just a handful of zone leaders and Elder Kopischke and we got to ask him more questions and he taught us alot...it was really cool. Then we drove back to Apeldoorn to have a meeting with the stake president to talk about missionary work and that was cool too. In three days we drove over 2000 kilometers...that's well over 1250 miles!
Well my Apeldoorn days are over...and my zone leading days. I am being transferred to Arnhem (just south of Apeldoorn) as a mentor and I am in a threesome with German elder who is from the French-speaking side of the mission and an elder who is having some problems.
My new address is:
Elder Sean Burton
Wichard van Ponllaan
6824-GD Arnhem
Nederland
I love Apeldoorn and its members. I've made so many friends there...it felt really good to be cherished and wanted and appreciated.