Hey everyone, this
week we are cut a little short on time so I will try to write fast. First off,
TRANSFERS began yesterday and I am staying here. Thank goodness because people
were scaring me saying that I was going to Amsterdam at the last minute. But I
get to stay, even though Elder Abankie is leaving to Emmen.
This last week was
incredible full of splits, exchanges, and the temple! Saturday we
went to Zoetermeer for another of Elder Abankie´s temple sessions and it was
packed. They had to pull chairs in and have translation into French, German,
and English while the session was in Dutch. IT was really cool to see so many
people at the temple, travelling from far away to take part in that
blessing.
Now, reasons why
yesterday was one of the funniest, happiest, craziest Sundays of my mission:
1. Elder Abankie and I
are taking selfies at the door of the church with members, Oma Peters walks in,
looks at us and says Tjongejonge basically meaning ´you dorks´ before being
escorted to her seat in Relief Society.
2. In a full Gospel
Principles class we begin reading about the Brother of Jared, someone states
what his real name is (Mahanrimoriancumr or whatever) and Elder Abankie
mistakes it for a recited prayer used to convert to Islam. Perfect.
3. We had the primary
program in sacrament meeting. Not much tops hearing the songs you loved as a
kid being sung by 25 kids, in the language you have fallen in love with.
Classic.
4. We had our annual
lunch with Oma and Opa Kloosterboer in which Oma Kloosterboer got caught in a
laugh attack, making it next to impossible to finish our erte soup with class.
5. JOSE. WE had a
lesson yesterday reviewing the Restoration and following up with her
commandment keeping. Last week I told her she could choose 2 of the 4 days
between appointments to have a cup of coffee, and to go buy new tea. I ask her
about it, and she bought a bunch of new tea, and drank coffee ONE of the 2 days
then swore off of it afterward. She kills it, every time. We planned her
baptismal service yesterday and she was so giddy and excited :)
6. We ate dinner last
night with Oma Peters. We thought she was making pannenkoeken for us but so
when we asked about it she looked at us like we were crazy and said she would
never cook something like that for missionaries of the church hahaha then she
went on to teach us Fries many more unnecessary words that exist in the Dutch
language.
7. Top that off with
insane transfer calls and number reporting and it was quite the Sabbath Day.
My new companion is
Elder Childs which is gonna be great. I have been around him quite a bit and he
won´t put up with crap (are there is a lot right now) so hopefully we can
sternly corral this zone into order.
It should be good.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for your prayers for Jose. She is such a killer
investigator. We practiced baptizing yesterday and she is so pumped haha only 2
more weeks!
We have zone training
in a week and a half, transfers, new planning and tons of adventures in front
of us. And we only have 5 weeks this transfer so the Lord is gonna smash all
those miracles and adventures and moments of pure insanity into 35 days. Let´s
go.
Love
Elder Trevan Scott
Reese
So the temple is
getting work done right now and a crane ended up hitting Moroni up top. So now
he is at a slight 20 degree slant. But the new one is ordered and UPS should be
here in 3-5 business days.
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