Okay I realized that my last few emails have really kind of sucked. So I will try to be more informative on this one! So some things about Europe: Dutch people don't have as much personal space bubbles as we do... Since there's so many people packed inside such a small country, they just tend to talk a lot closer to you, and it makes me a little uncomfortable sometimes... It's weird. Umm most people don't have any dishwashers or clothes dryers. So hand washing the dishes and you hang your clothes over these little wire racks. The candy is mostly all chocolate stuff or lots of black licorice. I hate black licorice =( but the chocolate is really good and I think I saw a pack of skittles the other day. I will definitely go find that place again! The Dutch play basketball ridiculously. Apparently there are hardly any such thing as fouls here. We play every week with this group of (mostly) non-members and they just intentionally foul constantly the whole time; it's pretty freakin painful. We've had one day with some crazy hail, and a lot of days with tons of wind and rain, but no snow! Weird stuff. Definitely getting colder here though! Absolutely nothing really happened for Halloween, which felt really weird. We just did missionary work and by the end of the day were like, "Oh! It's Halloween! Oops." Um oh, there are tons of lingerie stores here! Ha ha there's no avoiding them or anything, but it's a lot different than Utah! Imagine having a Victoria's Secret on almost every street.
Okay and now for some experiences that I've had ever since I got here: First, one of the first people I contacted on the street, we suddenly were having this amazing conversation and the guy already knew about the church and every thing was going well, and then all of a sudden he just says, "Yeah I'm homosexual, so I gotta go." Just out of nowhere. Like... WOAH!!!! Blew my mind and I didn't know what to say so... "Okay, bye!" Talking to Jehovah's Witnesses has also been interesting, and by talking, I mean listening as they go on and on and on about the wierdest things. Another guy the other day came up to us just out of the blue from across the street and starting just telling us that there was no historical or scientifical evidence that Jesus Christ was a real person on the Earth. Which, that's a load of crap first of all, but he went out of his way to try and just ruin our beliefs. Didn't work. At all. Made us a bit angry though as we walked away. All we could really do without being rude was tell him our testimonies that Christ did live on the Earth. He was just telling us off though right in front of his little daughter. Ridiculous. Some other people will be riding by on bikes and be like, "They're not home!" And they have no idea what they're talking about, but they just don't want us there. Too bad =) Cuz I'm helping and saving people and I know it. OH! Another time, this young guy we contacted on the street was trying to bible bash us and tell us that the Book of Mormon couldn't be true because of his belief in the Trinity. So we reminded him of a few things in the Bible like how Christ prays TO HIS FATHER and how the Holy Ghost descended in the form of a dove to Christ when he was baptized. And the guy just wasn't listening at all so we ended up just thanking him for his time and going. Then we walk around a few corners and down a street, and find two other Elders who came to visit us'. So we're talking to them, when all of a sudden.... THE GUY POPS UP OUT OF NOWHERE! I saw him walk away before and then all of a sudden he went out of his way to come and find us somehow. Crazy. Then he starts saying the same stuff, we testify to him, he doesn't listen. He says he'll pray for us, my companion says that we'll pray for him (ha ha ha ha ha) and then he walks away. Ridiculous. I just wish that people would just read the Book of Mormon and come to an understanding of how perfectly everything fits together when you have the fulness of the Gospel between the Bible and the Book of Mormo
Okay and now for some experiences that I've had ever since I got here: First, one of the first people I contacted on the street, we suddenly were having this amazing conversation and the guy already knew about the church and every thing was going well, and then all of a sudden he just says, "Yeah I'm homosexual, so I gotta go." Just out of nowhere. Like... WOAH!!!! Blew my mind and I didn't know what to say so... "Okay, bye!" Talking to Jehovah's Witnesses has also been interesting, and by talking, I mean listening as they go on and on and on about the wierdest things. Another guy the other day came up to us just out of the blue from across the street and starting just telling us that there was no historical or scientifical evidence that Jesus Christ was a real person on the Earth. Which, that's a load of crap first of all, but he went out of his way to try and just ruin our beliefs. Didn't work. At all. Made us a bit angry though as we walked away. All we could really do without being rude was tell him our testimonies that Christ did live on the Earth. He was just telling us off though right in front of his little daughter. Ridiculous. Some other people will be riding by on bikes and be like, "They're not home!" And they have no idea what they're talking about, but they just don't want us there. Too bad =) Cuz I'm helping and saving people and I know it. OH! Another time, this young guy we contacted on the street was trying to bible bash us and tell us that the Book of Mormon couldn't be true because of his belief in the Trinity. So we reminded him of a few things in the Bible like how Christ prays TO HIS FATHER and how the Holy Ghost descended in the form of a dove to Christ when he was baptized. And the guy just wasn't listening at all so we ended up just thanking him for his time and going. Then we walk around a few corners and down a street, and find two other Elders who came to visit us'. So we're talking to them, when all of a sudden.... THE GUY POPS UP OUT OF NOWHERE! I saw him walk away before and then all of a sudden he went out of his way to come and find us somehow. Crazy. Then he starts saying the same stuff, we testify to him, he doesn't listen. He says he'll pray for us, my companion says that we'll pray for him (ha ha ha ha ha) and then he walks away. Ridiculous. I just wish that people would just read the Book of Mormon and come to an understanding of how perfectly everything fits together when you have the fulness of the Gospel between the Bible and the Book of Mormo