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| Elder Steenblik jammin with his homies |
Hey Guys!
Well, I heard that Leo finally won an Oscar! That is fantastic
news.
We had a busy week this week with exchanges. On Tuesday, I was on an exchange in Almere
with Elder Fairbanks. Elder Smith had
the car, so Elder Fairbanks and I had to bike around and use a map. That was the first time I had biked in
Almere, so we got lost a lot. I always
feel like such a moron stopping my bike and looking at a map haha. People just laugh at us because they probably
don’t even know what a map is. We were
missing a piece of our map and it’s the part that was going to tell us where we
needed to go, so we decided to ask some people where the street was that we
were looking for. We had to knock 4
doors before we could even find someone that would listen to us long enough
that we could ask them! Everyone else just said "no interest" and slammed the
door! Man oh man…. Even after 20 months these Dutch people still test my
patience. Haha, but I do love them!
I was also on an exchange this week with Elder Gemmell and
he is from New Zealand. We found some
hand warmers in the apartment, so he took some. He had no idea how to use them and he thought
that you had to put them in the microwave to get them warm. You should have seen his face when he opened
it and it started getting warm! Haha he could not believe it. His mind has officially been blown.
We met with a less active woman this week named Valarie and
she is from Suriname. She hasn’t been to
church in over a year, so we were just straight up asked her what the reason
was. She went on to tell us that Sunday
is the day that she catches up on her TV series. She showed us her iPad and she has a full on
schedule of the week and when her TV shows are on. Uh, I think we might need to re-evaluate some
priorities! Now don’t get me wrong, I have watched more Netflix in my days than
I would like to admit. But c'mon! It has
actually been super nice, kinda hard, but super nice to go 2 years with no TV
and video games. It is a good feeling to
never be wasting any time.
Things are going great with Rashida. We had a lesson with her this week and the
Bishop came on a joint teach. She had
lots of questions about baptism. We
taught her about how when we are baptized, we need to do it in the right way
with the right authority. It made a lot
of sense to her and she said that she felt good about it. We want to set a baptismal date with her but
it is difficult because her husband is in Nigeria right now and he won’t be
getting home for at least another month. Maybe even longer. We want to make sure that he is well aware of
what is happening.
That’s basically it, I think. Have a great week everyone!
-Elder Steenblik
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