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| I was trying to steal Elder Abanke's swag by using his glasses. It didn't work! |
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| Our beds already for our starry night |
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| Elder Hunter England gazing at the stars |
P-day is on Saturday this week because Monday is a big Dutch
holiday called King's Day.
Well, we started the week off with an exchange. Elder Abanke came here with me in Hengelo. He is a super swagalicous piece of man from Suriname
which is on the north coast of South America.
He is one of the coolest guys you will ever meet! He is so humble and
just, amazing.
We were walking home and we walked past a little bar/cafe
thing by our house and some people yelled "hey boys!" I thought “oh
great, the drunk people are yelling at us.”
I looked and they told us to come sit with them. We went over and they told us that they have
seen us all over the Netherlands, but didn’t know what we do. We told them how we were missionaries from
our church and then they had lots of questions about the church. There was a group of about 8 of them, so we
basically started teaching them! Believe it or not, we actually had a very
intellectual conversation with them. While we were talking to them some drunk guys
came outside and started yelling at us and our new homies totally stood up for
us. It was sick! Elder Abanke already speaks
Dutch, but they thought that I was just the most amazing thing they have ever
seen. Haha! They couldn’t even imagine that 18 year old
kids would leave America, learn Dutch and go teach for 2 years in a foreign
land what they believe. They were just
in shock and had so much respect for us. Before we left, I was talking to one of the
guys about rugby and I asked him if he had ever seen “Forever Strong.” He hadn’t, so he looked it up on his phone and
even started downloading it. We are in
the Netherlands, so you can just download whatever you want legally. Haha! Now every time we ride by the bar/cafe
thing, some of the people yell "Hey Elders" and wave to us. It’s awesome because now we have some new
friends!
We also went on Splits in Enschede this week and worked with
them for a while. We found some new
people and made an appointment for next week for them. The dinner appointment we had cancelled and it
was Elder Crowson's birthday, so we all went out to dinner to an Argentinian
Steakhouse and got delicious burgers.
This week was fairly warm. To show the Lord how grateful we were for the
warm weather, we slept under the stars! On the 2nd floor of our house there is
a little part of roof that you can walk on, so we took our mattresses out and
slept outside. It was great and I felt
like I was camping. We woke up in the
morning and we were covered in frost and everything was wet. It reminded me of trek! Overall, a very baller
experience.
We met with most of our investigators this week as well.
Things are going good with everyone.
Well, we just had P-day on Monday, so that is basically it. Have a great week everyone!
--Elder Steenblik
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