This week´s title is influenced by the fact that almost NEVER in the life of a missionary do things come at a steady well-manageable pace. Instead, either nothing is happening making you miserable and desperate, or everything comes at once, making you miserable and desperate.
So here´s the story.
It´s the most wonderful time of the year. Yeah
yeah we all know but what does that mean? In essence, NOBODY wants to risk
having a less-than-ordinary Christmas season. Which is good because people tend
to put in more effort to be happy, pleasant, and peaceful. For the most part.
Comprised list of things that happened in the
past 7 days making a hectic start to the Christmas season:
- Investigator getting an operation this
Friday. No formal appointments for a month. Yay.
- Zone Conference in Rotterdam.
- Super awesome new investigator drops us.
Come back next year. (We are going in January mwhaha)
- Zone Service Project at the Food Bank in
Zwolle. People start to see us more than Jehovah´s Witnesses here to dunk the
Dutch. #JokesOnThem
- 2 repeat 2 Stake Christmas Concerts Saturday
and Sunday evening in Apeldoorn bringing FLEETS of nonmembers to the church
including sweet little Maria with both eyes still intact.
- Transfer calls occurring DURING the last
Christmas concert making 9:00 last night a jumble between Maria,
nonmember friends, members wanting to know about transfers, missionaries
wanting to know about transfers, a broken fax machine in the office making us
solely reliant on the computer, and call in reports with a jam packed Apeldoorn
church building. Woot.
To say the least, things have been exciting.
But really, they have been. It was a great week. Jose is killing it, is
becoming more and more independent, should be getting a calling soon. Maria
came to the concert, despite the fact that she thought I invited her to a
comedian show at the church, and she loved it nonetheless. Hamid has surgery on
Friday. Henny dropped us. The December blues are coming around a bit where
investigators have little to no time to meet. So we will go find new ones. AKA
member referrals from the concert.
But, the other news I guess, is that I´m
staying in Apeldoorn. Thank goodness. I would have been so upset to leave. I
could honestly live here the rest of my mission and be completely content. This
place is home, these people are family. Give me an immunization shot to
transfers please. Elder Hosea is coming here which is Elder Conatti´s greenie
and he is a sick kid so I am pumped.
We are getting Skype set up soon. SO CRAZY. I
can´t believe it is here again. I feel like I was just in Den Haag.
Hopefully I can get some pictures of our zone
service project soon because I was in charge of it with the members and leaders
of the organization and it went great! I wrote an article also for the Zwolle
newspaper which is going to be reviewed and published probably.
I will try to get some video or pictures for
the Christmas concert too. I was really good. For real. The stake has musical
talent here.
Also there were 6 missionaries going home this
transfer and 3 of them gave dying testimonies in zone conference who were my
companions and I got shout outs haha. I am known in the mission for having a
little amount of companions. Mostly because Conatti and I stayed together for so
long.
This week is packed with more zone stuff. The
sisters that came out with me are going home next transfer which is nuts. TIME
FLIES.
We should have good stories coming up. We plan
on seeing Maria twice hahaha so twice the adventure.
Christmas in Europe is truly a blessing. I
wouldn´t trade it for anything in the world.
Love
Elder Trevan Scott Reese
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