Week 57: HOIHOI

We had a good week here! Last pday we bought these cool bike computers. They tell you how fast you are going and how far you have gone. It has been really interesting to see our stats! and cool to see how accurate Elder Crow and mines are to each other. So this week was about a normal biking week and we did 102 kilometres on the bikes! crazy eh. I never would have guessed that we go so far! and our average speed is like 28 to 32 km per hour, that's without wind. If we have the wind with us we can do 40 plus and then against the wind it's like 18 to 25… depending on how tired we are and how hard the wind is. So ya, that is cool.

On Tuesday I did a baptismal interview. He was a cool guy from Accra, Ghana. He was then baptized on Saturday and confirmed on Sunday. He is in the Amsterdam ward. The short way of writing Amsterdam is Adam or A’dam, just so you know. On Wednesday we did a decent amount of look-ups and referrals. We have so many referrals here in Alkmaar. It's because our area is so big. Also our mission has the most referrals in the entire world haha... so we have a lot of people to be looked up. They are all scattered all over though so that makes it more difficult... we also looked up a few less actives that day and that worked out well. They liked us and we are going over again for a dinner appointment with 2 of them. One is going to make Arubian food for us! and the other is going to make chicken enchiladas. She is American so that will be fun.

On Thursday we went on exchanges to Zaandan, a city near Amsterdam. It was one of the elders birthdays so we had a 4 man exchange and that night we played some games. We also had a dinner appointment with this family from Seattle so that is always fun.  On Saturday we had a volleyball activity with the ward. There weren't so many people there but we had enough. It was really fun. It has been so windy lately, I don’t enjoy it, especially on the bikes!

This weeks Questions:
1.  How are district leader duties going?
2.  Are you getting to know the missionaries in your district better?  Where are they from?
3.  What do you do for service in Alkmaar?
4.  How many do you teach regularly? How is the finding going?
5.  Do you have food in your apartment now?
6.  How was church yesterday?  Do you help out in the branch at all?
7.  How are the members in the branch?  Have you been getting more dinner appointments?
8.  Did you see the M. family this week?
9.  Have you recovered from being sick?
10.  Is Elder Nielsen in a neighbouring zone?  Will you ever get to see him?
11.  What do you do for zone activities?
12.  Did you go anywhere this week? Will you get to any of the islands?

1. Ya being a DL is good. I enjoy being able to work closely with the other missionaries.
2. Haha yes I am, I love going on exchanges, one is from El Salvador, one from Seattle, one from Oregon I think, one from Arizona, and the rest form Utah.
3. Niks, but next week we are helping an older couple in the branch move some things around in their house.
4. We have a lot of investigators but only like 3 we teach regularly. We had some good finding this week too! We have a lot of refferals that we look up.
5. Yes yes we have lots of food. Although we need to go shopping today!
6. I helped out in the young mens' class. We had like 50 today I'd say. I actually introduced myself for the first time haha, and yes we usually give our testimonies.
7. We have almost 2 weeks solid of dinner appointments! It's so good!
8. Nope but she made an appointment with us for this next week! I think they really like having us over.
9. Yes, I am finally feeling 100 percent.
10. I don’t think I will anytime soon…
11. Today we are going to Amsterdam centrum to do a scavenger hunt!!!! So pumped for it!
12. Zaandam and Amsterdam, that’s all. I really want to go to Texel! It's an island. We do have there a refferal! So we might get the chance.

That is all love you bye
elder fernhout

Alkmaar