22/3/14
...But not this week. This week was pretty good. We got plenty done
on Monday, when meeting with President and Sister Robinson, though
elder Cockbain had some issues with the payment system, so that was
quite frustrating for him. We had a good time with the Howells and
Markhams in the evening. But still no sign of elder Loorbach, so one of
the members sent him a facebook message. We read about fasting from
Preach My Gospel, with them.
On Tuesday, we went to district
meeting, and I was asked to speak about virtue. Elder Cockbain was
trying to get bills paid that were not sent through on Monday, so he did
not stay in district meeting for long. We ate pizza afterwards and had
some fun playing ping pong while waiting. That evening, we had our first
teaching appointment, with G. (the 13 year old niece of a member). Our
first investigator!! She wants to get baptised! (Technically, she wanted
to get baptised first, and then her aunt told her that she needed to
follow the missionary lessons first, but it's awesome). But the tricky
thing is that she is on vacation here in the Netherlands for a few
weeks, and her mother is inactive, so we don't know if she will be able
to be baptised when she goes home, unless her grandfather can get that
arranged...
Wednesday, we continued with preparations for the
upcoming transfer and new missionaries. We had no appointment and so we
ate at the office.
We went to visit sister S. and read from
the Book of Mormon and the Bible with her, on Thursday. It always feels
so good going over there, so she has some company during the week and
can also hopefully feel the spirit as we read. In the evening, we went
to eat some pizza with brother Moore and two of his daughters (well,
they had already eaten, haha) and he got us each a can of Cream Soda
(it's goooood, though a better name would be caramel soda, hahaha). We
had fun there too. Brother Moore is really cool. And Canadian.
We
were out of the office by 9:30 on Friday, heading for Brussels and we
walked around a bit in the centre, until our appointment at the town
hall. We got back to Leiden around 4:45. And the carpet had just been
cleaned, so we had to walk around the office in our socks (and they got
wet). Later, we went to eat dinner at the Brobbeys. And that was also
very fun. Brother Brobbey is very energetic and we had a very lively
discussion about politics, but it was all in good fun.
This
morning, we played football for an hour or so and then went to help with
a service project at the ASH (American School of the Hague) in
Wassenaar, where we scraped paint off of benches. We also so a tonne of
police, fire department and military vehicles on the frontage road of
the A44 (which will be partly closed for the upcoming nuclear summit in
Den Haag.
Brussels - City Hall
Victor Hugo's old house
Stamps!! (Many thanks to Kimberly Stigter
for these :p They belonged to her grandparents and she made sure they
got to me, because she knows I collect stamps)
Some statue everyone rubs in Brussels
That's a lot of gold
Moroni?
City hall again
Elders Bitters and Kartodirjo
Grand Place
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