Last pday was great. We traveled to the museum and took some pics with the “I Heart Amsterdam” letters, so that was cool. Then we went inside the Rijksmuseum. I was so happy to go there! First of all it was a super duper cool building and second I had never been to a really nice art museum. I also always love going to Amsterdam. I took tons of pics inside the museum, and yes I took some of the Van Gogh paintings that were there. There were 3. There was also some other pretty famous paintings. They had some really huge massive ones. They had other cool things like ship parts and miniature models as well as a whole room of cool old weapons. One of my favourite things though was the library of cool old books they have all about art, I think. I also took pics of that. I loved it, there was so much to see. However, the coolest thing that I saw was a little self portrait that I found. It was done by a guy named Edgar Fernhout… how cool is that!!! I need to learn more about this guy haha! I took a few pics of that too. So weird to find my name in the Rijks Museum! I wonder if his temple work is done...?
The weather has been okay, not too bad not too great. It hasn’t been too wet so that’s nice. Ya, I am also really pumped for General Conference! It is at the church and they are going to have some food for us! They will have stammpot in the evening and a solid breakfast for the priesthood session. Sadly, one of the session goes from 10:00 pm to 12:00 pm Central European Time so we won’t be able to watch that and it will have to be done on a different day. I don’t think they will do anything cool here like the parade they had in Belgium last year. It'll just be like back home I think.
M. dropped us, that was expected though. We had a great lesson with K. She is very positive and made a comment that she has found the true church, she is so cool. We didn't have that many appointments this week which means we had time to find and find we did. We found 17 people this week, it is was crazy. That's the most I have had in a week. So the next 2 weeks we have now a lot of appointments! We had an app with this guy who spoke Arabic and pretty much zero English or Dutch. Our entire lesson was translated through someone on the phone he called. It worked well and we gave him an Arabic BOM. He liked it and said he would read it. I am learning a few Arabic words because we meet so many people.
Then on Friday we had interviews and I got my package and then we traveled home to Alkmaar with the Zaandam elders. We went on exchanges and all worked in Alkmaar. It was great. I was with Elder Duwors. He is from all over cause his dad is in the military but mainly from the Seattle area. He is cool, we worked hard and found 5 new investigators. We got lost looking up a referral but it was good. We treated them to pizza for dinner. Saturday we had volleyball which is always fun! Sunday we had potluck which is my favourite. We also had a good app with an African family. They all speak Dutch and French, except the wife who only speaks French. It was fun to speak the very limited French I know but if you can say ca va and allez you are set. They thought that was funny. They got really excited when we explained the Restoration and the BOM. We gave her a French copy and she reads it a decent amount! Oh I forgot we had a dinner app with fam M. and they heard I haven’t had haring yet so they got some for me and I finally ate some. It was really gross but honestly not as bad as I thought it would be... I definitely only had the one bite though…got some classic pics.
Questions:
1. Did you have any activities this week where you could get the Easter parcel I sent?
2. Did you go anywhere this week? Anywhere new?
3. How is the missionary work going in your area?
4. Tell me about what you did last PDay, did you make it to the museum?!
5. Did you have many dinner appointments this week? (Stammpot and worst sounds so good!)
6. Transfer calls are next weekend? When will you know what is happening?
7. Where will you watch General Conference next week? At the church or a members house?
8. Did you get a new bike mileage counter?
9. How has the weather been?
1. yes interviews. thanks for the package! very much appreciated!
2. nowhere new. biked through a cool forest but that is all.
3. great lately! hope I don’t get transferred.
4. yes and I loved it. took many photos. met some Canadians, one from Red Deer.
5. nope but it was all good.
6. Saturday. I will probs stay here with a new comp.
7. at the church but then we will miss some sessions so we will watch that here at the church on another day .
8. I actually found my old one!!! I was so happy .
9. warming up a bit.
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