Nicholas Fernhout in the Belgium/Netherlands Mission: Week 5: Last Week at the MTC!

Yup I have received my travel itinerary! I am getting really excited now, it's coming fast and no I don't feel prepared haha. Ya the new missionary schedule will be really nice! They are giving us a lot more agency and they do that so it's easier to go back into real life and when we leave the mission field we will be good at managing our time [last Wednesday was a world wide missionary conference and changes were made to the missionary schedule]. Ya that scripture is one of my favourites though!!! [3 Nephi 13:19-21]

[Questions from home:
1. Do you have your flight/travel itinerary?
2. How do you feel about going to your mission? Do you feel prepared, nervous?
3. What did you learn this week? Any funny moments?
4. How is it going as District Leader? What are your extra duties?
5. Have you had any more “fast food” meals lately?
6. Do you get a lot of letters each week?]

1. Yup, so I fly out Feb. 6. I have to be at the travel office at 9:50 am and our flight is at 3:50 I think to Minneapolis, Minnesota. Then we have about a 30 muinutes layover and we land in Amsterdam 8 hours -ish later!
2. I feel good and I really want to leave the MTC but I know that once I get out there I'll miss the comfort of the MTC and I won't feel prepared. But I feel good now!
3. So boodschap is the dutch word for message right, and in our lessons us missionaries have been saying groote boodshap or kleine boodshap, which means big messsage or small message. We use it with our investigators all the time. Well little did we know that groote boodshap and kleine boodshap means number 1 and number 2 as in the bathroom terms. hahahah.
4. My job is good. I don't do that much, I get the mail and lead district meetings and announce things and lead discusions in the mornings.
5. Ya we had Taco Bell again, that was sick.
6. A few, not as many as the others!!!!!! ;)

My stuff,
1. I got grandma's package! It was all Smarties! Canadian Smarties which was really confusing for the Americans haha, I shared them around.
2. We did our TRC this week through skype! We skyped members in the Netherlands! That was really fun, our member said I spoke really well but I mean everyone says that.
3. One day everyone in my district got 2 "Dear Elders" each and Elder Cameron got 3 packages. Then later that day he got another package! I got nothing the whole day! But it's fine. His packages were all huge boxes of food!
4. So I finished the BOM again and I saw one of those lists that says blah blah begat blah blah who begat.... and I decided to map it all out. So now I have this huge webs of names and I keep jumping all over the bible and BOM and it keeps growing. Its really fun!
5. Thanks for the package! It came yesterday. The Kinder Eggs were awesome becasue the Americans have never seen those becasue they are illegal here hahah. And I am really glad you sent that package because even though I said I didn't want it I soon realized I did haha. Mums are the best.[so nice to be appreciated :)]
6. All the Americans here have never seen ketchup chips either and when Elder Cameron got some they thought it was the wierdsest thing ever haha.