Week 38 Almere Netherlands

Mom you wanted pictures of me and my bike so heres 2!

We made the chocolate cake that Audrey sent me!
And yes it was Delicious!

We were super busy like every day this week.  We got a call Monday night that we needed to help this family in the ward move on Tuesday, so had to help them all Tuesday and some of Wednesday. Turns out they had to be out of their house within 24 hours, so it was super stressful for them.  They had like 50 cats and dogs and rats too.  We ended up getting the sisters and the hilversum elders to come and help us too, so we had a lot of help but they still didn’t quite get everything out on time. 

I enjoy doing service and helping people out. That has to be my favorite part of missionary work, because it is just something different to do and I feel like people appreciate it more than when we bug them on the streets. haha so then Wednesday we had the funeral for zuster van vliet.  She is one of the ward mission leader’s wives.  Broeder Van Vliet wanted it to be a missionary opportunity, because most of their family aren't members.  So he had us set out a table with book of Mormons and liahonas.  Then in his talk, he was the only family member not crying and he just THREW DOWN on everyone else with the plan of salvation. It was super cool.  He is such a positive guy.

Then after the service we had to stay for the rest of the day cleaning, which was fun, but it was a lot of cleaning.  Then Thursday we had to travel to rijswijk to pick up my companions ID card, and that took most of the day and when we got there they didn't even have it yet, so it was a waste. 

We had a few really good lessons with Farley this week.  We are on the post baptism lessons so we got to teach eternal families this week, and we showed him the church film "together forever". I don't know if any of you have seen it but it was like made in the 80's haha so it was super cheesy. He actually ended up falling asleep during it. haha it was funny.