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| Elder Smith and Elder Steenblik at Zone Training |
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| Elder Steenblik being a sloth |
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| I will miss the Eindhoven church and the members so much |
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| Elder Jordan Bishesar from Paramaribo, Suriname will be Ben's new companion starting on Wednesday, September 30, 2015 |
We had an amazing week this week. We started out with Zone Training on Tuesday
and it took lots of planning to get it all ready. We spent so much time preparing it, but it
turned out great and was all worth it! I gave a presentation on always
remembering the Lord. I challenged
everybody at the end of the day when they are praying, to look back on their
day and see how they have seen the hand of the Lord in their life that day, and
then thank the Lord for those blessings.
The Lord´s hand is in our lives every day and sometimes we fail to see
that! It was super fun preparing it and giving it at Zone Training, but I am sure glad
that it is over! What a weight off our shoulders.
We found some really cool new people to teach this week and
set some good appointments for next week.
We definitely saw a lot of miracles finding people! We met a woman
knocking doors and she said that she was a huge Donny Osmond fan. I talked with her about Donny Boy for a while
and then we started talking about faith.
She said that she actually had a Book of Mormon in her house that her
friend had given her years ago! She was really interested in us coming back and
explaining a little bit more about the Plan of Salvation because her father
passed away about a year ago. We are
really excited to start teaching her.
There are 4 Elders in the mission who are putting on a
concert devotional in a couple of weeks, so they came and worked in Eindhoven
this week to promote their concert. We
had a couple of dinner appointments together with 8 missionaries, so this week
has just been a partay!
On Thursday night we traveled up to Nijmegen to give a
baptismal interview. I gave it to a guy
named Jeffrey and he was so cool! He was really prepared to be baptized. Throughout the whole interview he was
testifying of how he had gained a testimony of every principle that we talked
about. Then on Saturday night we got to
attend his baptism.
We also did some service for a less active guy in the ward
this week. We helped him and his
girlfriend move. They were both very
grateful for our help and invited us over for dinner this week! We are also
going to play soccer with him every week.
This week has been a wet one. Every time we are outside we get soaked! At
least it hasn’t been too terribly cold yet.
Well, now to the juicy stuff. I am getting transferred on Wednesday! I am
going to Den Haag! (The Hague.) My new companion will be Elder Bishesar. Eindhoven has been absolutely amazing and I
have loved every second of it! I loved serving with Elder Da Silva as well and
these past 6 weeks have been the happiest of my whole mission. I will miss the members here so much. But I have heard nothing but good things about
Den Haag! (Other than it is the worst driving in the Netherlands.) Dang it!
Haha, but I am super excited. I am so
grateful that I had the privilege to serve here and I look forward to what the
future has in store.
Peace out
Eindhoven!!! It has been real!!!!!
-Elder Steenblik
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