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| Now behold, this is Elder Steenblik. Hear him. (Ben came up with this caption.) |
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| New Year's Eve in Lelystad, Netherlands |
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| Ball so hard. Elder Benjamin Steenblik and Elder Jeremy DeWitt |
Man, it has been a crazy week here in Holland!
Happy New Year!!!!!!
This week we have been doing a ton of finding. Knocking millions of doors and talking to
people on the streets. We made a couple
of appointments for this upcoming week that we are pumped about.
On Wednesday, we had interviews with President and Sister Robinson. Unfortunately, we did not receive i-Pads like
I was hoping for haha, but it was fun to talk with them. It was just a super chill interview and after
that we had our district meeting. Then
we had to go straight home! Since the Dutch go so freaking hardcore with New
Year’s Eve, we had to be in our apartments by 4 PM. We ended up watching some church movies. Yippeeeee! Some members made us oliebollen,
which is like a fried dough that is super delicious and fattening. I had 14 for dinner and then 5 more for
breakfast the next day. I don't know how
I am not dead or just plain fat yet. We
tried to take a nap, but there were so many dang fireworks going off it was
impossible! Which brings me to my next point.
HOLY SCHNIKES!!!! Fireworks here are only legal once a year so everyone
just goes nuts on New Year's Eve. It
sounded like we were in a war zone!! When midnight came, this place lit up! I
can't even begin to tell you how many fireworks were going off. Words cannot describe its awesomeness. It was literally one of the top 10 coolest
things I have ever seen in my life. And
I'm not just blowin' smoke. Like, WOW!
On New Year's Day, I went on exchanges to The Hauge with
Elder Torniainen. He comes from the
mediocre land of Finland!! Ha, just kidding, Finland is awesome. When we exchanged, we met up in Amsterdam and
had lunch there. We took one step out of
the train station and were immediately punched in the face with the smell of
weed. It was bad! That whole city reeks
of marijuana. We went and got fries and
they even had, get this, weed fry sauce!!! Mmmm tasty, haha. We saw where all the red light districts were
and what not. I wonder who would win in
a "worst city in the world off" Vegas, or Amsterdam? Elder Torniainen
and I had an awesome day together. We
had a lot of fun and found a ton of potential investigators.
This week I had the chance to give my first priesthood
blessing in Dutch! It was a little rough around the edges, but it was a super
cool experience. We have also been going
through our area book and looking up some of the old investigators this
week. We are still trying to find that
"golden investigator." This next week is going to be another long
week of knocking doors and finding.
I hope that you all had a lovely New Year's Eve and have the
best year that you could ever imagine! If you can dream it, you can do it!!!
-Elder
Steenblik
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