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| Elder Ben |
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| Last time seeing President and Sister Robinson |
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| Elder Steenblik, Elder Jesse Holt and Zuster Aubrey Watts |
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| Eindhoven is huge when it comes to graffiti and it's everywhere. This one is pretty sick! |
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| Elder Steenblik with his homie Genzeer |
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| Ben's kitchen |
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| Ben's tiny stove and tiny fridge |
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| Ben's TINY bed under the window (Bless his legs and back!!) |
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| Ben's closet on the right |
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| Ben's bathroom/laundry room |
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| Ben's study area |
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| Ben's front room |
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| Ben's stairs in his apartment |
Goede Dag Jongens,
This week we had our zone training! It is nice to have it
over because it was a little stressful preparing for it, but it went great. It was down in Antwerpen Belgium. Every time I go back to Belgium, it just makes
me miss it! Hopefully I will have the chance to serve there again. For the first 2 hours of our training, we were
combined with the Belgian Zone and President and Sister Robinson gave their
final presentations. It was nice to hear
from them one last time. Then we split
off with our zone and started our training. It was crazy because we ended up having way
less time than expected, so we were scrambling the whole time to rearrange
everything. It sure kept us on our toes!
Elder Holt, Zuster Watts, and I all gave presentations. After lunch, the district leaders did
workshops. It was an awesome day. We left at 6 15 in the morning and got home at
8 45 that night. We were pretty dang
pooped!
We eat with a woman named Sister Van Der Riet every week and
this week we decided to cook her some food.
Elder Holt and I made 3 huge plates of taco salad with Doritos and French
fries in it. It actually turned out
amazing, but I hated cooking it. When we
were walking the pans to the car, Elder Holt tried to set the pan down in the
back and dropped it! Now there is taco salad all over the back of our car and
on a nice warm day, you can smell some delicious Mexican food in the car.
We met with a less active guy this week named Genzeer. He is from Sudan and he is just a total Bro. He was baptized when Elder Alston was here and
he is just so nice and happy. Hopefully
we can get him to church soon.
Saturday, we had District Leader Council with all of the
district leaders in our zone. Afterwards,
we all went out to eat at an awesome Italian place and the calzones were enormous. The food took forever to come out and we had
to travel out to Maastricht to work with the sisters, so we had to hit the road
right after. We ended up getting stuck
in traffic and by the time we got to Maastricht, we only had 30 minutes to work
with the sisters, but it was still great. Maastricht is super a beautiful city!
We also met twice this week with an investigator named
Frank. He is a great big tall Dutch guy.
He loves parables and deep metaphors and
what not. He has a super good knowledge
about the gospel, but is a little bit scared to come to church. We are trying our best to help him take that
step and come to church.
Elder Holt is an awesome companion and is a super good
worker. He is 6 years older than me! At
first I didn’t really think much of it, but then I realized that when I was in
6th grade, he was a senior! He is even older than my older brother, Jake. We get along super well.
On Sunday we had a guest service at church, so all of the
members invited friends and less active members. The running count of Peruvians in the ward is
up to 11. There are so many that we had our
gospel principles class in Spanish! We get lots of Peruvian food throughout the
week which is just lovely.
This next week is going to be super busy with exchanges and
splits and all of that good stuff. I am
loving every second out here. The church
is true and God loves you. Deuces.
-Elder Steenblik
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