Week 15 Ommoord Netherlands

It was only 11 Euro! So I had to get it but I couldn´t get

golf balls yet.  They are too expensive.

This week was awesome!  First off the Netherlands received the biggest storm they have had in 20 years last week. haha it was insane!! We were riding our bikes in it and I turned a corner and the wind hit me and stopped my bike right in my tracks!  My companion swerved off the road trying not to crash. haha It was insane!! Then later in the week my bike broke.  I took it all apart and it ended up being the stupid chain! I fixed it alright but I think I'm going to have to start saving up for a new chain.  That thing has gone through a lot.  So Angela sent me her talk last week and it talked a lot about tender mercies!  We had just watched the Mormon message on Tender Mercies so this got me thinking about them a lot and then you'll never guess what happened.  Like 5 times in a row we were running late in gouda and we had to be back to rotterdam and on our way into the train stations they have all the times for trains displayed up on big monitors. So we walk into the train station and realize our train left 10 minutes ago.  So we go up and wait by our spoor for the next train and they come about every half hour, but when we get up to the platform we see on the sign that the train happens to be ten minutes late! haha So right as we get there the train is pulling up! This happened seriously like 5 times last week!  If that's not a tender mercy then I don't know what is!  

So we visited the Gruppmans this week and sister gruppman started talking to us about this missionary fireside next month around Christmas and it is going to be awesome!! Both of the Gruppmans are super famous.  They are tight with Elder Uchtdorf and they played for the prophet on his birthday!  Crazy cool.  Oh yeah and they also translated D&C into Russian and did the Russian temple video.  But anyway they are super musically talented and they are going to play at this fireside.  It is mainly for investigators and both me and Elder key got super excited when she was explaining it.  We ended up staying there for like 4 hours planning the thing and it will be perfect for investigators to learn about the gospel.  The next day we got invited by Brother Gruppman to go to his concert and we our investigator Dhana lined up to come with us and he hung out with us all day and then when we were on the way to the concert he got a phone call and had to leave.  Bummer.  But we decided to go to the concert anyway.  It was super cool.  We are going again this week.  I've never really been into classical music but it was amazing!  So anyway we didn't teach a single lesson this week but we knocked a bagillion doors!  We handed out most of our copies of the book of Mormon and we had a lot of cool experiences.  I love knocking on doors.  You never know what you're going to get and yeah we get rejected a lot but we also get the chance to bear our testimonies multiple times on every street.  A lot of people hate knocking doors but me and elder key both love it!  We have so many potential investigators now because of it and I hope we will start to see some success.

 

Elder Hulet