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| It ain't no Picasso, but better than I expected! Elder Van Fleet, Elder Holt, Elder Steenblik and Elder Goates |
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| 4 missionaries and 1 mission leader ROCK it with graffiti!!!! |
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| God Bless the USA!!!!! Harry, Elder Holt and Elder Steenblik |
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| Harry fed us some delicious Dutch raw herring. It tastes as good as you would imagine raw fish tasting. |
Hey Guys!
Well, we will get down to the juicy stuff from the get go!
Elder Jesse Holt will be getting transferred on Wednesday, so I will be getting
Elder Schmidt here in Eindhoven! I don’t know him very well, but I know that he
likes playin’ some B ball which will be fun.
The other Eindhoven Elders (Elder Goates and Elder Van Fleet) are getting
temporarily closed. We are losing 45
missionaries over these next 2 transfers, so we have to temporarily close a lot
of cities down. In October, we will have
more missionaries than we had in the beginning, so we are shrinking and then
growing even bigger. We are going to
have a super young mission and lots of people training and re-opening cities. It will keep our hands full!
On Monday we played soccer with the young men in our ward. The young men here are great! They are always
willing to go on joint teaches with us and always willing to help. I got my license on Monday as well, so I can
finally drive! Driving here is the worst! Everything is so small, speed limits
are low, millions of bikers everywhere, random bus lanes and one way
streets. They have those cameras
everywhere that if you speed even a little, it takes a picture of your license
plate for a ticket. You should see me trying to fit
in the car! The main problem is our GPS is always on the fritz. That thing wants to get us killed! It is always taking us down one way streets or
bus lanes. Hey, don’t get me wrong, I am
very grateful that we have a car, but I sure do miss driving in America!
Tuesday I was on an exchange in Eindhoven with Elder
Knudsen. That kid is hilarious! Our
exchange was a little crazy. First,
someone forgot a phone somewhere so we had to drive there and take them their
phone. Then someone needed us to pick
something up from the store. We finally
got home and we got a call that one of the sisters in our zone was in a bike
accident and was in the hospital for the night, so we had to drive out to
Tilburg at 10:30 pm. It was a crazy day,
but we had an awesome time together!
Wednesday was Canada Day, so we celebrated it with some
members here in honor of Elder Holt.
Elder Holt made us some Canadian food called poutine. It was fries covered in cheese, gravy, and
bacon! Oh man it was good, but you just felt disgusting after eating it. We listened to him sing Canadian songs and
praise Canada.
On Thursday we were in Arnhem on spits with the Sisters. Then on Friday, we had a Mission Leader Council in The Hague. We got to meet
President and Sister Bunnell. They are
amazing and just so adorable. They are
super passionate about the work and the most loving people ever. I am excited to get to know them better over
the next year.
Saturday was the 4th of Juuuuuly! God Bless America!! On Wednesday,
we took Elder Holt’s crap, so now it was payback time! Elder Goates, Van Fleet
and I spent our whole companionship study singing American songs. It was glorious! We went and did some graffiti
with our ward mission leader. We painted
a bunch of planets and wrote the scripture reference to Genesis 1:1 and it was
super fun. That night we had a 4th of
July BBQ with Angelique and Renate. We had
so much food and it was just lovely!
Here is a funny Dutch story. Kracht means strength. Our ward mission leader got up on Sunday (he
is from Ireland) and was trying to say that the Spirit strengthens him. He said verkrachting instead of kracht. What he actually said, was that the Spirit
rapes him! Haha. The joys of the Dutch language!
Our work load here just got a ton bigger because we will be
taking all of the investigators of the other Elders. We will be super busy trying to balance all
of that, but it will be a good time.
I hope all of you had a great 4th of July and are keeping
nice and cool in this worldwide heatwave.
See ya
-Elder Steenblik
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