September 16, 2013
Geliefde Familie:
Hallo
iedereen!
This week was
fantastic. Pretty busy, but that's exactly how I like it on a mission. It's
kinda funny how much Nederengles I want to use when I'm writing to you, but you
won't understand it. Jammer.
We brought Christian
rap to a new level this week by adding CARIBBEAN to the mix! We were doing a
service activity for a part-member family from St. Martins. We were doing their
yard work and the man (nonmember) turned on music to work with us. It was
funny. They call Christ “Cha Cha”! And then every so often, we'd get a
not-so-Christian rap song to come on and my companion would usually ask them to
skip it haha.
For Christmas, can I
get some gardening gloves? Those would definitely come in handy.
Miracle of the week:
CHRIS! He is from Africa and he is wonderful. Sierra Leone or however you spell
it. He's been living here in Nederland for 11 years and he is very devout in
his Christian faith. But this week we set a baptismal date with him! October
12! He is so excited. He usually has to go to Germany on the weekends to work
for someone, but this week he surprised us by not going and he showed up to a
baptism for another city that comes to Groningen to do baptisms because they
don't have a font. The city is Emmen, by the way. But we are so excited for
Chris! He is wonderful.
We were sitting in Starbucks
doing our weekly panning (yeah, I know...but we were at the train station
because we were on our way back from exchanges and we wouldn't be able to go
back home before we'd have to leave again) and this 82-yr old lady came up to
us and was talking to us. She is the most popping old lady I have ever seen.
She was like, "girls, you are so young and beautiful. The world is a
beautiful place. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise” she was like this huge
world traveler and it was so cool and I want to be just like her when I'm that
old. But also like Grandma because Grandma is awesome.
More often than not I
show up to District Meeting soaking wet. Literally dripping. I don't even know
what I'm going to do in the winter. It was so unpleasant. I need to get black
boots really badly because the shoes I was wearing (those black loafers) were
so wet I had to take my shoes off to dry. Then I gave a little talk in District
Meeting so it was obviously SUPER professional with bare feet...but I didn't
feel that bad because the wife of the senior couple told me to do it, so if she
says it's okay, it's okay. Love Sister Spek.
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| We ride in the rain a lot! |
MOM, HAPPY ALMOST
BIRTHDAY! For your birthday I will go on a mission to the closest mission to
yours. Also, I forgot to tell you, one of the sisters here used to live in
Gottingen. She talks about it all the time when we are on exchanges together.
Tender. Also, thanks for keeping up with my blog.
"Music and the Spoken Word" continues to hold the title for craziest music I hear on my mission. We
were listening to it last night at a members house before we could catch our
train and we heard them singing, "rockin' my soul in the bosom of
Abraham," so with that ambiguous image, I will sign off for this week.
IK HOU ZO VEEL VAN
JULLIE! My family is so cool. Congrats, Mark, on football.
Zuster Heilner
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