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| Harry, Elder Steenblik, Elder Schmidt and Brother Stewart |
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| Check out Zuster Fredrickson's rockin' helmet -- Elder Steenblik, |
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| Beautiful canal in Utrecht |
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| Canal in Utrecht |
Hey Everybody,
Well, lots of change has happened this past week! I have 3
new Elders living with me. My new
companion is Elder Da Silva and the other companionship is Elder Parr and his
greenie, Elder Gleave.
On Monday night we met with a girl named Sarah. Elder Harrop serves in our mission and his dad
baptized Sarah back when he was here. Sarah has kind of fallen away from the church
the past couple of years, so we arranged for us to meet with her and we invited
Elder Harrop as well. We had a super
cool lesson! She has all sorts of doubts and has been offended by members and
let that shake her faith. We had a great appointment with her and are just
working on strengthening her relationship with God.
On Tuesday after our last district meeting of the transfer,
we went out to lunch with some Belgian people that Elder Schmidt had baptized
when he was in Belgium. They were
passing through Eindhoven on vacation and called us so they could see Elder
Schmidt. That was a really cool
experience for him. It was so weird to
hear Flemish again! This was the first time that I actually understood
everything haha. Back when I was speaking Flemish, I was still so new that I
couldn’t understand a dang word for my first 4 months.
Wednesday was our transfer day. Basically the worst day of my life! To sum it
up, we woke up at 5AM and got home at 10PM.
In between those hours, I stood at the train station all day. Most transfer days go pretty well, but every
now and then, you have one where everything goes wrong. That was this day haha. All of the trains were messed up and we lost
some people for a little while. But all
in all, everybody arrived in one piece. At
9 in the morning my throat got a little scratchy, by 10 it started hurting and by
11 it was just on fire. I could just
feel myself getting sicker as the day went on, so that just added to the whole
situation!
On transfer day I was talking with an Elder who just came
from serving in Leuven and he told me that the Vanlangenaker family is fully
active now! And the 2 kids want to get baptized. That is great! Elder Cockbain and I started
working with them when we were together. They are a super cool family and I am so
excited that they have finally made their way back to church.
These first couple of days of the transfer have just been super
busy with planning. We have had to plan
our schedule out and a ton of other stuff, but it is finally all done so now we
can go back to working outside. We have such a busy transfer. It is going to be great!
On Saturday night it was Sister Van Der Riet's 80th
birthday partaaay at the church. There
were tons of members and nonmembers, so we got to talk with a lot of people and
meet some new faces.
We also have a new ward mission leader that just got back from
his mission in France. We are working
with him to find ways to get the ward more involved in missionary work. We are going to play soccer every week with
the young men and they are going to invite all of their friends and we will
invite our investigators. We have also
made a plan to invite the members to pray specifically for our investigators.
Every week, we put together a list of a couple of names and give it to the
members on Sunday and invite them to pray for those names. The ward was super happy to do it and thought
that it was a great idea. It is something simple, but it will help a lot!
Our 4 man is so sick! We have such crazy time together. Elder Parr, Elder Da Silva, and Elder Gleave
are all really cool guys.
That’s basically it for the week.
Have a great week!
-Elder Steenblik
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