Okay, so let me
explain why I am emailing at two different times. Last night not only did our
first plan fall through. Not only did our back up plan fall through. Our second
back up plan also fell through. Zorg niet, kinderen, I always have another
plan. BUT, my brilliant companion was like, "Hey, remember when our
neighbor invited us to come over sometime for tea? Let's go!" So we went
and asked about the holiday. Today is basically Dutch Halloween. It's called
St. Martin. It's only celebrated in the north. We basically needed an excuse
for her to invite us in, so we were like, "we just wanted to know what
protocol was. Like, how much candy should we buy and how late does it go?"
Cause since today is P-Day, we can hand candy out for a little while! They sing
a song and carry lanterns and we give them a snoepje. Pretty excited. ANYWAY,
she offered to show us around the province! So we went all around province Groningen
today. It was so cool.
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St. Martin! Kids came to
our door! We gave out candy and mormon.org cards
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Grand Canyon! Also,
listen people; I'm NOT fat, okay? It's the coat.
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So I keep hearing that
missionaries in America aren't allowed to go door-to-door anymore. Can someone
verify this? They seriously just get enough appointments? I had four appointments
planned the other day, which is pretty good, and they ALL fell through. UGH.
Things here are just
really different in the Church. I mean it's all the same, but I've never seen a
high chair for feeding children in Sacrament Meeting in America. Maybe I'm not
looking hard enough. Other super different things. I said at a family's house, "We are here to
help YOU with your missionary work" and she said to me, "Sometimes it
feels like we're only here to help YOU." Well...if that's the feeling the
Holy Ghost is giving you...HELP US. Also something frustrating. We all have
those sacrament meetings where we're like, "wow, I hope there aren't any
investigators here..." well I had one of those last week and we had six
investigators.
MIRACLES THIS WEEK.
Seriously. I feel like a TON of my plans fell through, but we saw so so so many
miracles. Basically, everything fell through one night, so we went to look up
some potentials. Met their family, and they're SO prepared. But the wife is 8 months
pregnant and is having problems, we found out when they cancelled our last
appointment, and is now in the hospital. So...hopefully we'll be able to visit
her. Another miracle. My bike broke YET AGAIN. I wanted to kill somebody.
Especially because it was literally the day after I picked it up from the shop.
But I took it back, and the nicest man ever fixed it for me for free. He was
even making jokes because he could tell I wasn't very happy. And then he showed
me how to use a binnen band to "tie a bunch of Bibles more easily to my
bike." So basically he's the best.
Just learned that this library closes at 5, which is now. uuuuh we are going to go to the church later to send
pictures. I have cooool pictures. I saw Germany today!
I love you people so
much. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANNIE! Keep it classy. There's a letter for you in the
mail.
Oh before I forget,
the Facebook that has pictures of me in an eating contest is called
"Groningen Jovos" oh and the blog of the senior couple here is romigscalledtoserve.blogspot.nl I
thiiiink.
IK HOU VAN JULLIE
tot straks, ik zal
meer bij de kerk email. uh, google translate that.
Zr Heilner
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Our cute neighbor,
Ellen, offered to show us around Groningen Province. This church was closed but she just
asked the person who lived right next door if they had a key and they gave it to
us so we could go inside!
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At the castle, we ate
apples from the trees...hehe. Ellen did it. When in Rome, right?
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GERMANY! A little island
called Borkum...you can barely see it. James, it's in your mission!
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Pretty sweet sun dial
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