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| This was at our last District Leader Council |
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| Beautiful sunset in Maastricht |
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| Checkout my new planner for next transfer. Made it myself. |
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| Elder Steenblik and Elder Schmidt |
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| Elder Steenblik and Elder Schmidt. Some members bought Harry a new oven, so they asked us to help them take it to his place. We surprised him and pimped his crib out! |
The weather here has been pretty much all over the place. One day it’s super hot and you are sweating
like crazy, the next day pouring rain and cold. Monday was a nice day so we went and played
some B-ball at a nice court that we found. We played a game with the two guys from the
country of Georgia who were just jacked out of their minds. It was pretty scary, but they were really nice
and we balled hard.
On Tuesday, I was on an exchange in Eindhoven with one of my
best friends, Elder Morrell. We had an
awesome day together and had a lesson with Theo and Sylvia. Jack just got home from his mission in France
2 weeks ago and he came along. We taught
them about the importance of prayer and scripture study. It went well, but we never really can tell how
much Theo understands because of the language barrier. They both came to church on Sunday as well.
Wednesday, I was on an exchange in Tilburg with Elder Byers.
Tilburg is full of crazy people! I have
been there 3 times in my life and every time I go, there are at least 4 crazy
homeless people or people high on drugs that give us hassle. We even got followed by some guy for a little
bit and had to flee the scene. There is just somethin’ in the water over in
Tilburg.
Thursday, we were in Arnhem working with Sister Watts and Hermana
Ramirez. Hermana Ranierz only speaks
Spanish and is learning Dutch and English at the same time. Those are 2 dang hard languages to learn
together! She is doing awesome with it though.
When we were on our way home from Arnhem, there was a line
of policemen standing in the train station. People always think that we are policemen, so
I went and stood in the line to see if I would blend in. Three of the cops started talking to Elder
Schmidt and I and asked us who we were and what we do. We talked to them and taught them about the
church. We contacted the PO-PO! I can
check that one off my bucket list. They
were all really cool guys.
We had Mission Leader Council at the mission home on Friday
and I needed a haircut. On Thursday
night at like 10 o’clock, I cut my hair. It was going well and looked pretty average,
but I needed Elder Schmidt to help me with the back. He came over to help and within 10 seconds, I
heard the dreaded words nobody ever getting their hair cut wants to hear. "Oh Crap!" along with the sound of
the clippers cutting off a chunk of hair. Haha! It happened again! Elder Cockbain did
the same thing to me back in Leuven! We did our best to fix it, but there is
still a huge patch of hair missing on the back of my head haha.
We had a great Mission Leader Council. I gave a presentation with Elder Neptune on
listening. That’s kind of funny because
I am probably the worst listener I know. My mind likes to wander into really intense
daydreams. But I learned a lot from
preparing the presentation and hopefully will be able to become a better
listener!
Well, that’s about it for this week. We will be getting transfer calls on Sunday
night and we are pretty sure that one of us will get transferred. I hope that I get to stay in Eindhoven, but we
will see.
Have a phenomenal
week.
-Elder Steenblik
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