Well, this week was pretty good. I'm in a companionship with a German and an Argentinian. It's fun, but I don't like this whole biking thing (gone are the good old days of having a car as a zone leader). We have a few good investigators and it will be fun.
I miss Apeldoorn and being a zone leader, but everything has to come to an end eventually. The members in Apeldoorn were really awesome helping me celebrate my 21st birthday.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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.
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.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
September 7, 2009
Hey, so this week was awesome! We started out with an awesome exchange in Brussels. We went to their district meeting and I made apple pies for everyone in the district and they all loved it and wanted the recipe, so I wrote my version down and give it to a few of them and now it has spread all over the mission and people keep asking me for the recipe or to make them a pie...it's funny!!!
Then we just had a great day. I got to work with Elder De Mass, who I lived with in Den Haag and it was just an incredible day.
On Monday night we drove down to Brussels to drop something off at the mission home for Sister Brubaker, and she and Pres. Brubaker were in their regular clothes, moving things around, so so we helped them and then got to eat dinner with them. That was cool, too.
Tuesday night one of the French-speaking elders got his bag stolen so we had to go to the police department with him and we didn't get home until way late. In the morning we went and played soccer by the Saint Contin Aire. Brussels is a really cool city. Then the rest of the week we had a blast. We set a new baptismal date with Rodrique.
We also had stake conference last weekend and a missionary had just come home from the Greece, Athens mission...he knew Mike Middleton and it was cool to hear how he was doing from one of his fellow missionaries.
And that was my week, it was awesome.
Then we just had a great day. I got to work with Elder De Mass, who I lived with in Den Haag and it was just an incredible day.
On Monday night we drove down to Brussels to drop something off at the mission home for Sister Brubaker, and she and Pres. Brubaker were in their regular clothes, moving things around, so so we helped them and then got to eat dinner with them. That was cool, too.
Tuesday night one of the French-speaking elders got his bag stolen so we had to go to the police department with him and we didn't get home until way late. In the morning we went and played soccer by the Saint Contin Aire. Brussels is a really cool city. Then the rest of the week we had a blast. We set a new baptismal date with Rodrique.
We also had stake conference last weekend and a missionary had just come home from the Greece, Athens mission...he knew Mike Middleton and it was cool to hear how he was doing from one of his fellow missionaries.
And that was my week, it was awesome.
Monday, August 31, 2009
August 31, 2009
Today we are headed to the mission home in Brussels, staying there for a few days, that will be fun.
This week we set a new baptismal date with Bernard from Mali, Africa. He is really cool. We asked him what he thought about 3 Nephi 11 and he said 'It is true,' then we asked if he'd be baptized and he said, 'yes.' It was really cool.
Other than that all our other appointments fell through, 25 of them to be exact.
But we had a great interviews training and we were able to build the missionaries up and help them out. I also got to give blessings to the three sister missionaries who are struggling and that was really cool. The Spirit was incredibly strong and it was really good.
We also got to do service for the bishop who lives in a pine forest. I got to chop wood and cut a large amount up. It was great!
This week we set a new baptismal date with Bernard from Mali, Africa. He is really cool. We asked him what he thought about 3 Nephi 11 and he said 'It is true,' then we asked if he'd be baptized and he said, 'yes.' It was really cool.
Other than that all our other appointments fell through, 25 of them to be exact.
But we had a great interviews training and we were able to build the missionaries up and help them out. I also got to give blessings to the three sister missionaries who are struggling and that was really cool. The Spirit was incredibly strong and it was really good.
We also got to do service for the bishop who lives in a pine forest. I got to chop wood and cut a large amount up. It was great!
Monday, August 24, 2009
August 24, 2009
This morning I went with a member out into the forest (if you can call it that) and stalked deer and black boars. It was really cool. It felt so good to be out in the woods again. It was not the same because it was really flat and you could hear the trains and the highway noise so it was not really out in the wild, but at the same time it was in the wild part of the Netherlands, so that was cool. We got really close to the boars and saw a fair amount of deer.
This past week went by really, really fast and I do not even remember what we did! We set two new baptismal dates withe Rodrique from the Congo and Sjon who is Dutch. The work is going well here. I'm still going strong and sprinting to the end, trying to gain speed the whole time. I'm still growing and maturing.
This past week went by really, really fast and I do not even remember what we did! We set two new baptismal dates withe Rodrique from the Congo and Sjon who is Dutch. The work is going well here. I'm still going strong and sprinting to the end, trying to gain speed the whole time. I'm still growing and maturing.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
August 17, 2009
This week we were in Rotterdam to listen to Elder and Sister Russell Nelson and Elder and Sister Kieijweg and Elder Kopichske. It was incredible!! Their talks were really, really good and they are really nice people. Sister Nelson is really cool, I liked her talk! The whole mission attended the conference, the French and Dutch-speaking missionaries.
We have found tons of new investigators this week and only one of them is Dutch, the rest are African and from South America and China. I love these people, they are awesome.
We have found tons of new investigators this week and only one of them is Dutch, the rest are African and from South America and China. I love these people, they are awesome.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
August 10, 2009
I've been to Rotterdam, Brussels, Utecht, Zwolle and Arnhem. It's been pretty crazy, but also really good.
My new companion and I get along really well and we are getting the work going here. This past week we found six new investigators and hopefully we can really get the teaching pool built up before I leave on September 16. I have no idea where I'm going. I am hoping to go to Sint Niklass, but you never know where you will end up.
All my past baptisms here in Apeldoorn are doing really well and it's great to be here, but I can feel that my time here will soon be up and I'll have to move on to another city.
Yesterday I gave a talk in church, it was fun because I just did it from notes/outline and then I had to try to convert my thought train from English to Dutch, but it turned out well, so I was glad.
This upcoming week we get to go to Rotterdam again to have a meeting with Elder Russell M. Nelson, I'm really excited for that, it should be a really neat experience.
My new companion and I get along really well and we are getting the work going here. This past week we found six new investigators and hopefully we can really get the teaching pool built up before I leave on September 16. I have no idea where I'm going. I am hoping to go to Sint Niklass, but you never know where you will end up.
All my past baptisms here in Apeldoorn are doing really well and it's great to be here, but I can feel that my time here will soon be up and I'll have to move on to another city.
Yesterday I gave a talk in church, it was fun because I just did it from notes/outline and then I had to try to convert my thought train from English to Dutch, but it turned out well, so I was glad.
This upcoming week we get to go to Rotterdam again to have a meeting with Elder Russell M. Nelson, I'm really excited for that, it should be a really neat experience.
Monday, August 3, 2009
August 3, 2009
Alim got baptized and it was awesome...he's such a stud. I hope that someone in the ward will sponser him so that he can go on a mission.
Right now I'm sitting in the mission office emailing. Brussels is a really cool city. We are going to see some of the sights and then eat with one of the members.
Elder Shumway is headed home to Oklahoma on Wednesday and my new companion is Elder Howell. He is from California and a new zone leader. It will be a fun transfer with him.
Right now I'm sitting in the mission office emailing. Brussels is a really cool city. We are going to see some of the sights and then eat with one of the members.
Elder Shumway is headed home to Oklahoma on Wednesday and my new companion is Elder Howell. He is from California and a new zone leader. It will be a fun transfer with him.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
July 27, 2009
This week went by really, really fast. I don't have alot to report, but this week we gave our interview training. It was a lot of work and it was really tiring trying to keep everybody happy and having fun and at the same time get them to learn things. It was about seven hours long, but we pulled it off and it turned out really well. 22 missionaries is alot of missionaries!
Monday we picked up Alim to take him to the Vels to eat dinner and he got into the car and said that he's done smoking weed and he'd thrown all his weed smoking stuff away and that he wants to get baptized on August 1, so pray for him that he can fight the temptation of smoking weed so that his life won't be controlled by this addiction. The Vels were awesome, they invited him to come for dinner with them on Sunday and they gave him their telephone number so if he needs someone to help him or he just needs something to do, he can call them and they'll come pick him up. Alim said afterwards that they felt like parents to him because he doesn't have any.
Alim is from Sierra Leon and he came here when he was seven and how he is nineteen. He almost died in Sierra Leon...he was a child soldier and a ton of bad things happened to him there, then he came here with nothing and was in a foster family that treated him terribly...when he was sixteen he started to live on his own. He's been through alot and he has no one, he has no family and is all alone in this crazy society. My heart breaks everytime I hear more of his story. That really goes for almost every African I meet. They all have very sad stories of the wars and the struggles in Africa. It is heart wrenching. It sure makes me grateful for the life that I have been given when I realize just how good my life has been. I've got no complaints.
We are headed for Utrecht tomorrow for Zone Conference and then the next transfer Elder Russel M. Nelson is coming and Elder Kopiska from the Area Presidency. I get to go to really personal meetings with both of them!!! Cool, eh?
Monday we picked up Alim to take him to the Vels to eat dinner and he got into the car and said that he's done smoking weed and he'd thrown all his weed smoking stuff away and that he wants to get baptized on August 1, so pray for him that he can fight the temptation of smoking weed so that his life won't be controlled by this addiction. The Vels were awesome, they invited him to come for dinner with them on Sunday and they gave him their telephone number so if he needs someone to help him or he just needs something to do, he can call them and they'll come pick him up. Alim said afterwards that they felt like parents to him because he doesn't have any.
Alim is from Sierra Leon and he came here when he was seven and how he is nineteen. He almost died in Sierra Leon...he was a child soldier and a ton of bad things happened to him there, then he came here with nothing and was in a foster family that treated him terribly...when he was sixteen he started to live on his own. He's been through alot and he has no one, he has no family and is all alone in this crazy society. My heart breaks everytime I hear more of his story. That really goes for almost every African I meet. They all have very sad stories of the wars and the struggles in Africa. It is heart wrenching. It sure makes me grateful for the life that I have been given when I realize just how good my life has been. I've got no complaints.
We are headed for Utrecht tomorrow for Zone Conference and then the next transfer Elder Russel M. Nelson is coming and Elder Kopiska from the Area Presidency. I get to go to really personal meetings with both of them!!! Cool, eh?
July 20, 2009
We had an awesome baptism on Saturday. Jeremy is from China and he's incredible. He said that after he received the gift of the Holy Ghost that it felt like fire burning in his chest and he liked it. His English isn't very good, so when he describes how he is feeling it is always with fun words and actions. But his English keeps getting better and better, especially since he read the English Book of Mormon every day. He is really cool.
Sister Aalderink, who got baptized three weeks ago, is getting her patriarchal blessing this week and she's on fire! She has read 'Our Heritage' and 'Our Search for Happiness' since she was baptized, not to mention the scriptures.
The ward is really reaching out to Jeanine and bringing her into the ward family, and also Jimmy, Robert, and Lorenzo. They're all doing really, really well. And Bram, Ronsina, Nelson and Rozita are all starting to come to church regularly. It is all just going really, really well here and I'm loving it.
Tell Addi that I'm anything but trucky...the only reason I make comments in my emails is because ya'll started complaining that I wasn't missing home and didn't want to come home, so I throw those in there to comfort you. Elder Shumway isn't trunky either, because the work would slow down a ton and it would bite trying to get his boing, but he's working hard to the end!
Neither of us have a problem focusing on the task at hand and we're just loving it. I feel so good now, I've never felt so free of burden or concern or worry. The only thing I worry about is the choices that the people make that we're working with, but I know the the Lord will take care of them, so it's not a big deal. I do my thing and do everything I can to get as much done as I can and do it His way and it just all seams to work out really well. Everything just flows smoothly and I love it.
Our whole zone is just moving along, we've got a lot of missionaries that are struggling and that we've been working with, but overall everyone is doing well, even though one of the missionaries ran away and got on an airplane and went home...still don't understand why he just didn't tell us he was done and we could have sent him home instead of having to search all over the country for him...but whatever.
Monday we had our District Leaders Council and we brought all the district leaders and mentors to our house and cooked steak, chicken, mashed potatoes, corn-on-the-cob, and apple and pumpkin pies...it was really good...that as good as the zone leaders council, but still good. And we had a good discussion on how to lead and reach out to other people to lift them up and inspire them to be their best self.
Sister Aalderink, who got baptized three weeks ago, is getting her patriarchal blessing this week and she's on fire! She has read 'Our Heritage' and 'Our Search for Happiness' since she was baptized, not to mention the scriptures.
The ward is really reaching out to Jeanine and bringing her into the ward family, and also Jimmy, Robert, and Lorenzo. They're all doing really, really well. And Bram, Ronsina, Nelson and Rozita are all starting to come to church regularly. It is all just going really, really well here and I'm loving it.
Tell Addi that I'm anything but trucky...the only reason I make comments in my emails is because ya'll started complaining that I wasn't missing home and didn't want to come home, so I throw those in there to comfort you. Elder Shumway isn't trunky either, because the work would slow down a ton and it would bite trying to get his boing, but he's working hard to the end!
Neither of us have a problem focusing on the task at hand and we're just loving it. I feel so good now, I've never felt so free of burden or concern or worry. The only thing I worry about is the choices that the people make that we're working with, but I know the the Lord will take care of them, so it's not a big deal. I do my thing and do everything I can to get as much done as I can and do it His way and it just all seams to work out really well. Everything just flows smoothly and I love it.
Our whole zone is just moving along, we've got a lot of missionaries that are struggling and that we've been working with, but overall everyone is doing well, even though one of the missionaries ran away and got on an airplane and went home...still don't understand why he just didn't tell us he was done and we could have sent him home instead of having to search all over the country for him...but whatever.
Monday we had our District Leaders Council and we brought all the district leaders and mentors to our house and cooked steak, chicken, mashed potatoes, corn-on-the-cob, and apple and pumpkin pies...it was really good...that as good as the zone leaders council, but still good. And we had a good discussion on how to lead and reach out to other people to lift them up and inspire them to be their best self.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
July 13, 2009
Well, another week has gone and I've been all over the place. I was in Amsterdam for a meeting with the new mission president and then I was in Brussels for another meeting with him and then this morning I was in Arnhem looking for a run-away missionary who ran away last night.
We have been soooo busy, plus we have a baptism on Saturday!! It is all going by so fast and I've never felt better. I'm loving it.
I love our new mission president and his wife. They are really cool. I was in the kitchen for a long time cooking with Sister Brubaker and now we're good friends and I've had a ton of conversations with President Brubaker. They are wonderful people and it is going to be a good 4-1/2 months.
I am excited for these next few months. I've never been happier or more focused on what is important in my whole life. I continue to have huge moments of realization where I change immensely. I've a very different person now, I'm still the same Sean, but now I'm version 3.0 because I have figured out how to improve myself and get rid of the bad habits.
I love this work and I love this gospel
We have been soooo busy, plus we have a baptism on Saturday!! It is all going by so fast and I've never felt better. I'm loving it.
I love our new mission president and his wife. They are really cool. I was in the kitchen for a long time cooking with Sister Brubaker and now we're good friends and I've had a ton of conversations with President Brubaker. They are wonderful people and it is going to be a good 4-1/2 months.
I am excited for these next few months. I've never been happier or more focused on what is important in my whole life. I continue to have huge moments of realization where I change immensely. I've a very different person now, I'm still the same Sean, but now I'm version 3.0 because I have figured out how to improve myself and get rid of the bad habits.
I love this work and I love this gospel
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
July 6, 2009
So, the computers were messed up last week and I couldn't email...sorry.
BUT, the last two weeks have gone by really, really fast and yesterday was my five month left mark. It goes by so fast.
Yesterday at church I had a ten year-old girl ask me if I would kiss her...it was really funny. Elder Shumway and I have all the girls in the ward to choose from...they're also all under the age of 16 except one. They listen to us...it's really good and then their parents like us more and then we get more dinner appointments and then everybody is happy.
We baptized the Aalderinks last week. I baptized Gerard and Elder Shumway baptized Hilda. I confirmed Jeanine in sacrament meeting. I've now had 17 baptisms on my mission...who would have thought 19 months ago that I would have had more than one! I still have five more months to go! I got a phone yesterday that a man I found and taught in Den Haag just got baptized. It is going really good. We have another baptism scheduled for the 18th with a young man from China named Jeremy Zheng.
I have talked to the new mission president a few times and we are going to Amsterdam to meet him and his wife tomorrow and then on Thursday we're headed for Brussels for Zone Leader council...it is going to be a crazy week.
Well, I'm excited for the next five months and I'll not be coming home sooner or later than that. I've been advised to start thinking and making plans for what I'm going to do when I get home. So, I need to know when school starts at BYU in January.
BUT, the last two weeks have gone by really, really fast and yesterday was my five month left mark. It goes by so fast.
Yesterday at church I had a ten year-old girl ask me if I would kiss her...it was really funny. Elder Shumway and I have all the girls in the ward to choose from...they're also all under the age of 16 except one. They listen to us...it's really good and then their parents like us more and then we get more dinner appointments and then everybody is happy.
We baptized the Aalderinks last week. I baptized Gerard and Elder Shumway baptized Hilda. I confirmed Jeanine in sacrament meeting. I've now had 17 baptisms on my mission...who would have thought 19 months ago that I would have had more than one! I still have five more months to go! I got a phone yesterday that a man I found and taught in Den Haag just got baptized. It is going really good. We have another baptism scheduled for the 18th with a young man from China named Jeremy Zheng.
I have talked to the new mission president a few times and we are going to Amsterdam to meet him and his wife tomorrow and then on Thursday we're headed for Brussels for Zone Leader council...it is going to be a crazy week.
Well, I'm excited for the next five months and I'll not be coming home sooner or later than that. I've been advised to start thinking and making plans for what I'm going to do when I get home. So, I need to know when school starts at BYU in January.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
June 22, 2009
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).
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).
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.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
May 25, 2009
This week went by really fast. We were in Brussels for two days at a conference and it was really, really cool!!!! Sister Woodland made whole chickens for us and mashed potatoes and all sorts of good stuff. I love Zone Leaders Councils, the food is always so good.
Yesterday we had a total of ten investigators who came to church as well as a bunch of inactive members....it was really cool.
Then we also had the ward choir performance (we're part of the ward choir, even though we are terrible singers) and that was cool. Afterwards I went outside with five little kids and they decided to gang up on me and tackle me to the ground, so I spent an hour running/breaking tackles with all these little kids...it was fun and I'm a little bit out of shape, or at least compared to how I used to be...compared to all of you, however...well, let's just say that I get a very good workout every morning and I still have no fat and I'm in better shape that ya'll...but hey, not everyone can be as good as me. Ha, ha, ha.
It was a good week though, even though we had no food, but hey, we were taken care of.
Yesterday we had a total of ten investigators who came to church as well as a bunch of inactive members....it was really cool.
Then we also had the ward choir performance (we're part of the ward choir, even though we are terrible singers) and that was cool. Afterwards I went outside with five little kids and they decided to gang up on me and tackle me to the ground, so I spent an hour running/breaking tackles with all these little kids...it was fun and I'm a little bit out of shape, or at least compared to how I used to be...compared to all of you, however...well, let's just say that I get a very good workout every morning and I still have no fat and I'm in better shape that ya'll...but hey, not everyone can be as good as me. Ha, ha, ha.
It was a good week though, even though we had no food, but hey, we were taken care of.
Monday, May 18, 2009
May 18, 2009
Sorry this is going to be so short. We spent a ton of time today further cleaning our apartment and de-junking it. I found a dryer in a closet that was broken and I fixed it and now we have a clothes dryer!
It's been a good week and it's great to be back to a normal companionship (third elder got transferred). We will be going to Brussels on Tuesday for Zone Leader thingy, so that will be pretty cool.
Frans Philips was baptized on Saturday and that was awesome!!
It's been a good week and it's great to be back to a normal companionship (third elder got transferred). We will be going to Brussels on Tuesday for Zone Leader thingy, so that will be pretty cool.
Frans Philips was baptized on Saturday and that was awesome!!
May 11, 2009
I did not get transferred, so I'm in Apeldoorn for at least another six weeks. Talking to you all for Mother's Day was great! Love you all.
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