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| Mission Leader Council on Friday, September 18, 2015 |
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| Check out these slippers that I got from Elder Butler. Pretty sick, right? |
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| Elder Steenblik, Elder Parr, Elder Gleave, Harry, and Elder Da Silva |
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| Elder Steenblik....... Mr. April 2016 in September 2015 |
It has been a super busy week! But we haven’t really even
had that much time to work in Eindhoven.
We were all over this week working at different places in our zone. That makes it pretty hard to build the work
up in our own area when we are gone all the time, but our overall task is the
success of our zone. So, that is what we
have been doin!
On Tuesday I was in the beautiful city of Nijmegen with
Elder Smith. We had about an hour to
work before dinner, so we decided to go find some new people in a
neighborhood. We were walking to the
neighborhood and we saw a guy at the bus stop covered in tattoos, smoking a
cigarette, and not very happy looking, but we felt like we should talk to
him. We approached him and before we
even said anything, we were both kind of expecting that he would just shew us
away. We started talking to him and he
told us that his father had just passed away 3 days ago. His bus was right around the corner, so we
were able to give him a Book of Mormon and we gave him a chapter to read about
the Plan of Salvation. All we had time
to do was to just testify of eternal families and of the Book of Mormon and
then he had to get on the bus. He was
very touched that we stopped to share a message of peace and comfort with him
during this hard time in his life. That
was just a cool little miracle that reminded me that the Lord guides our steps
to the people who need to hear the gospel.
If we would have been a minute and a half later, we would have missed
him. It also reminded me to see people
through the Lord's eyes.
On Thursday we went up to Arnhem to work with the sisters
and it was about a 2 hour train ride. We
got on the bus to go meet them and it took us clear out to the middle of
nowhere! The bus lines had changed, so it took us a different direction. By the time we were able to get a bus back to
the station and then find the right bus, it had been a 3 1/2 hour journey. Then we had the 2 hour train ride home.
Public transportation makes me more tired than a full day of work!
Friday we had Mission Leader Council at the mission
home. We learned about goal setting and
planning and all that fancy jazz. We
will be training on goals and planning for the next 6 weeks.
I realized something that I really miss this week. We were out working one evening and we saw a
dad playing badminton with his 2 kids. I
realized how much I have missed seeing families play together! In America you
see families with each other everywhere (at least in Utah) but here that is
almost unheard of. It was adorable to
just see a young family having a good time together. I have really missed seeing that.
We have an awesome week planned this week! I am super
excited for it. I really appreciate all
of the love and support from you guys. I
am having such a great time out here. It
is no doubt the happiest time of my life thus far. I am so grateful that I get to be a
representative of Jesus Christ in the Netherlands. What more could a kid ask for? Life is good
everybody…… Enjoy it!
Have a great week!
-Elder
Steenblik
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