Week 64: Fiets Problemen

It was a pretty decent week. We have done really good actually at only speaking Dutch. We held district meeting in English and some people we teach are English but other than that we only do Dutch. We have noticed that during our lessons and talking with members the Dutch comes out better than it usually does. My talk also went really well in Dutch and I felt very confident. Also, we are getting a new mission prez in a few months and he is Belgian so we will probably be forced to speak more Dutch than we are now.  It’s preparation.

Tuesday was a great day, we had district meeting which is always fun. The training was on area books and our job was to get everyone to bring theirs then we would all clean them up together.  Our area has 4… it was quite the job. It's hard to bike in the rain and wind with a bag full of binders. We came back for our app with K and that went really well. It was our first with her. She asked if we do child baptism and I said no and she liked that, I grabbed the BOM to share a scripture and thought this is the perfect time to share Moroni 8. So we gave that to her as 'homework'. We will see how she likes that. We then watched the restoration video with her. That night we had an app with fam J, that was fun, they are a really nice family. We played some guitar for them. They made a delicious stamppot and worst dinner with spek (type of bacon) and other Dutch lekkers.

Well the rest of the week we had some great dinners with members and it was fun. We had a lot of time to work but then everyday we had some new issue. One day Elder Crow got really sick for like 2 hours… the other he had some bike problems and only his 2 slowest gears worked... that was funny to watch. His legs were going so fast and he went nowhere. But before he could fix it we had to bike to an app so he had to use it haha. Another day we had to get it fixed.

Questions:
1.  Did you get your parcel/parcels from me?
2.  Transfers must be coming up soon again?  When are they, I’ve lost track!
3.  How was the work this week?
4.  How is the biking going?
5.  Did you travel anywhere?
6.  Did you have many dinner appointments?
7.  How are District Leader Duties going?
8.  What is the best thing that happened this week?
9.  How are you doing with your goal to speak Dutch?

1. yes
2. 2 weeks ish
3. rough, we had no new investigators this week and we did not want zeros so we skipped one of our studies yesterday as well as half of dinner so we had time to find and we did. It worked. 2 new investigators. super cool.
4. really good. we do it a lot and I like it, lost my bike computer though...
5. Heiloo, Heerhugowaard, Den helder and Amsterdam
6. 5 so yes. but this next week we have 2… sad. Although we do have an exchange with the Zaandam elders so that'll be fun.
8. Watching EC on the bike or watching the old people navigate Facebook during our dinner app when we try to get them to share a vid on there.
9. really good.

that is all
elder fernhout