bortaS bIr jablu'DI' reH QaQqu' nay'

The week started well, but towards the end, the temperature shot up to beyond the reasonable temperatures. Of course, the morning we play football, it was up around 30° by the time we stopped playing. And yesterday was pretty toasty too.

On the plus side, we had a good week, and were able to go down to Brussels for another legality trip after a long time not having gone. We took a full van and met several others in Brussels. It was a good group and we had fun in the van on the way there and back.

I may have mentioned it before, but we have next to no Dutch investigators. We do have investigators from Curacao, China-Beijing, China-Taipei, Suriname, Burundi, Aruba, Ghana and formerly Brazil and Nigeria. But I suppose that can simply be explained by the secularism of Europe compared with the very strong religious groups outside of Europe. But this means that a number of our investigators do not speak any Dutch. Too bad that the Wassenaar branch is too far to bring them there.

The office really is the best place to be in this weather. Because even though it gets pretty warm inside, we do have some cooling and we don't exactly do much in the way of physical activity in the office. 

Something I read in a talk recently: Obedience is better than sacrifice. Sometimes we should do what we have been told by our leaders, rather than not do something to give another the chance to do it. Naturally there are times when it does not really matter who steps up, but at other times, *you* are the one that needs to do the task at hand. You have been called, not your friend or your brother or sister or the neighbour, but you. Others may be able to do it too, but sometimes you have what it takes to do it the way the Lord needs it done. 

Additionally, I would like to encourage you to do your genealogy. If nothing has been done, then start with your parents and grandparents. If your tree has been traced back 10 generations, don't despair, there is always more information to find. Just as Elder Andersen said, you can find your cousins too. And now it has become so much easier, with several websites becoming free for members of the church with a familysearch account.