A bit about my week. We had on Monday an appointment with this lady who we found who was baptized in Colombia where she is from. She moved here and she speaks no Dutch or English. So we had to have someone translate over the phone. We gave her a Spanish BOM which she was extremely thankful for because she said she hasn't been able to read it for about 20 years or so. Luckily we have a few Spanish speakers in the branch who will be able to translate for her!
PDAY we had a dinner appointment with this really cool family. They have a long story though. So they aren't members but have friends who are. They have been friends for like 30 years and learned about the Church through them. They then had the missionaries over for dinner every week for like 3 years. That was 14 years ago. They came to church one day and we made an appointment with them! They had a lot of deja vu they said because we looked the same as the other elders and had the same convos.
We also had weekly service on Wednesday. We helped out at the fruit garden, can’t remember the english word (boomgaard). That is always fun. We love sitting there during breaks and listening to all the old Dutch people chit chat with each other. They're so funny. We learned how to trim the branches of a plum tree. Oh and we also went to district meeting which was chill. We only have 6 in our district which is the smallest I've ever been in. On the way back we were sitting on the train and the train driver forgot to stop at the city in between Almere and Lelystad. He blew right past it and then came on the intercom and it was super funny!! He had good humour about it.
On Thursday we had 5 appointments, all went pretty good. One was with this guy the other elders met and made an appointment with then we had to go to it cause they are gone. This guy was crazy, very biblical and antagonistic, not fun. We told him we were going to leave then he kept trying to tell us things and why were were wrong. He had looked up some info about us on the computer since the last appointment, all of it was wrong and not right and he wouldn't listen to our side of the story. That happened a lot this week actually. Lots of people had looked up weird stuff on the internet and then asked us weird questions. Some of the others did however hear our side of things and we told them to just pay attention to the sources of what they are reading.
Friday we also had 5 appointments, busy busy. We gave a BOM to this one guy we met last week and he told us to come back in 3 weeks and he willl have read the whole thing… that should be fun. We had another dinner with C. He’s so cool and he makes really good food too. Saturday we had to cancel our weekly sports cause the members were not going to be there and we had too few people. We had a good appointment with M and we put her on baptismal date for the 29 of September. She should make it. She knows everything and has strong faith. We had 6 people in church though which we are really happy about! And yesterday was chill. We had an appointment with this less active named B. He is a funny guy. We died laughing over a conversation we had, but like not in an irreverent way. We love B. We later had a dinner with the branch president and his family. He has a bunch of kids and so that was really fun. Life is good here in Lelystad!
Questions:
1. How was the weather this week?
2. Did you go anywhere new?
3. How was church on Sunday? Did you have any responsibilities?
4. How is the work in the branch going?
5. Did you eat well? Did you have many dinner appointments?
6. What was the funniest thing that happened this week?
7. What was the worst thing that happened?
8. What is the most challenging about missionary work right now?
9. What is going well with missionary work right now?
1. Absolutely perfect, couldn’t have asked for better weather. It’s that point where you wear short sleeves and when you go outside and are doing something you don’t even think about if you are hot or cold. It's wonderful!
2. Almere.
3. Good! and nope.
4. Great. We are changing things up in the branch with callings and things and it is fun to see the process of how that goes.
5. Oh yes! we are blessed here.
6. Either B or the train thing.
7. Snapped a string on my guitar but that took 5 mins to replace cause I had an extra. So it wasn't that bad but nothing else worse happened this week. Oh wait, no that one appointment with the crazy guy sucked. We just stood there for like 15 mins and got roasted. Wait we also got anti a lot this week too which sucked. I guess there are worse things than snapping a guitar string.
8. All of the anti! People here use phones so much and are so connected and love to look stuff up and read so fast and it is hard to stop.
9. getting people to church! that's a first...
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