Week 9 Ommoord Netherlands

me with a 68 mustang

me on a golf course

Cool looking church  in Gouda

The kind of books you find in stores here

Ice cream from the icecream truck. it was delicious and you can see the truck in the background

 Cool water tractor they use to clear the canals

So we have been trying to stay close to our neighbor Ellen to just kind of be good neighbors and good examples but she is still against the church because of what she found on the internet. It is super sad because she had so much potential.  We started teaching this Jamaican woman this week named Carolyn and in the first lesson she said she wanted to be baptized!! We have a date set up for October 25th but she said she can't give up smoking.  She really has a long way to go and she has been taught by the missionaries before and she just has a hard time understanding what we teach.  We really have to teach very simply, but we get to teach her in English which is pretty awesome.  Also her husband is super against the church and he always tells us about all of his medical problems when we are over there.  He only has six toes. haha weird. So we decided to bike to Gouda this week and it is super far!! It took us about an hour and a half on a bike and then when we got there I got a call from the AP's saying I needed to mail them some things and they needed to be sent out that day so we were only in gouda for 20 minutes then we had to go back but we ended up getting lost and it took us like 2 hours to get home.  We figured it out and we biked about 65 kilometers.  Not to bad but it was super windy and rainy, so that made it worse.  We are supposed to visit members every single day so we really don't get much time with investigators.  They want us to focus on strengthening the ward more than building it. So we have dinner appointments just about every night next week.  I love it!! We ate at family Teske's this week and sister Teske is American so we got to teach them in English and it was nice to be able to contribute to conversations because I usually have no idea what's going on.  There was a little market thing outside of our apartment this week and it’s pretty much just like a traveling yard sale but we decided to check it out and I bought all three of the lord of the rings books in Dutch!!! It only cost me a buck fifty as well.  So I'm pretty excited about that.  Well it was a successful week and I will keep yall updated on Carolyn.

 

Elder Hulet