Monday, November 11, 2013

Week 16 Ommoord Netherlands


So this week was pretty average teaching and contacting wise but one pretty crazy thing happened.  We found this guy Rob a couple of weeks ago and he had worked in the states for a long time so his English was perfect.  Anyway he gave us his card and wanted us to call him so we set up an appointment and we went and ate dinner  with him and had a nice little lesson about the church, and it turns out that he isn't interested at all!! We then went with him to his business meeting which was supposed to be half an hour.  It ended up being about two and half hours!  So we show up at this meeting and we realized it was a meeting for a coffee company.  They were kind of offended that we didn't accept the coffee when we walked in but anyway long story short.  It was one of those businesses where they try to get you to sell their product for them and then they say you make commission on it but really your just making more money for the guy up top.  haha we realized this pretty early in the presentation and it was really sad to see how many people fell for it.  Two 18 year old kids could tell it was a scam but they sold this on a ton of people.  We then went and met the guy who was on top of the pyramid and shook his hand and we told him we were Mormons and he was like oh yeah I’ve got tons of you guys drinking my coffee. haha I don't think he knew that we don't drink coffee, but anyway it was a really cool experience! haha We also had splits with the DL this week and I was with elder Tjong-Ayong and I contacted a cape verdian dude and he was super drunk and he gave me a nice big hug. haha you'd be surprised how often you get hugged by drunk people here.  Well sorry there wasn't much spiritual stuff in the email this week.  The people here are so closed off to religion so we work crazy hard and still hardly ever see success.  Hopefully this next week will be better.

 

Elder Hulet

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