K I'll apparently try to give more details about how everything's going down for the rest of my mission:
With three transfers left, I'll probably have one city left. There's a very slight chance that I'll have two cities. I'll have two more companions, three if I go to a second city as well. Who knows. What I would like to happen is to leave the office and just stay in one city until the end of my mission. With three transfers in one city, you build up good relationships with the members and can really do some good work. I wanna go to a big city, I don't like small areas.
So I honestly tried to make an effort to take photos this week, but then I kept freakin leaving my camera in the car whenever I should have had it to take photos. I'm really bad at this and I'm sorry. I really am. And I realize my letters haven't been very good lately. Life in the office has just been less and less exciting, it's hard coming up with stuff to talk about every week. Kind of like how you guys have trouble writing me about your lives every week =) Zing! Anyways, I'll try and take some photos this week and send them to you guys next week. Dad also requested that I send you guys pictures of the projects I've been working on. The yearbooks are too big to send through email and I could use WeTransfer.com, but I'd rather just show you guys when I get back. It's not that long to wait =) Isn't time flying by over there too? I think the Earth is spinning faster or something. Somebody should study that crap.
The weather was pretty crappy today, but the rest of the week it was getting pretty warm! So hopefully that keeps going and we hit summer soon. Today, we went mini-golfing at this place in Amsterdam. Us and the APs (Elder Bourne and Elder Bosco). It was super fun and the course was ridiculous. It was just really creative. One of them, you had to hit it off this ramp, into a little net, and that was the hole. And there were just a bunch of other ones that were on crazy hills and stuff where you had to precisely rebound it off of little walls and stuff (Again, I unfortunately didn't even have my camera in the car this time. Elder Yocom got photos though, if you can find his blog or talk to his mom or something). I took 2nd place. Elder Bourne won, that bum.
We taught a lesson to this girl the other day who is a friend of a member and came to that musical fireside thing. She's in her thirties, blind, lives in this really cool little gated community in the middle of the Leiden centrum, and has been taught by the missionaries a bit before. She unfortunately doesn't really feel like she knows or has a relationship with Heavenly Father or Jesus Christ. The lesson was really good though and she's making progress little by little. So I'm excited to teach her again, hopefully next week or so.
We're really busy with this Facebook campaign (like the one we did before for Christmas) now for Easter where people can order a free "Finding Faith in Christ" DVD. It's going really well and we've already received about 160 referrals in two weeks. The crap part about these campaigns though is to see all the crap that people do though. Satan blinds people so easily and they just don't understand. The really sad part is when they have to go public about it and say crap on Facebook. If you look at the comments for the campaign on Facebook, people are just being rude and a lot of them are also trying to Anti-Mormon people by completely stating false things about the Church or by twisting truths. It's ridiculous. Just think about what their motives are for one second and it's easy to see that they're not the type of people seeking to spread good, truth, light, or happiness. Sad to see. But at least I'm not in charge of the Facebook website at all =) I just gather all of the referrals and send out the DVDs and stuff.
Life's going well. I'm burned out every week by the time I get to Saturday. Sorry I'm not doing so hot on emails or pictures. I hope you guys all know how much I really love and care about each of you! I'm really excited to see and hang out with you all again. It's a bummer that I'll get back home and then just get whisked off to BYU so quick. We'll have to make that a good week =) Byyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
- Our replacements will come in and begin their 3 week training around March 24-26.
- Elder Yocom and I will leave the office April 15th.
- I'll have three transfers left at that point until August 19th, when I'll go to the Mission Home.
- August 20th, I'll fly home.
- BYU starts like August 27th basically.
With three transfers left, I'll probably have one city left. There's a very slight chance that I'll have two cities. I'll have two more companions, three if I go to a second city as well. Who knows. What I would like to happen is to leave the office and just stay in one city until the end of my mission. With three transfers in one city, you build up good relationships with the members and can really do some good work. I wanna go to a big city, I don't like small areas.
So I honestly tried to make an effort to take photos this week, but then I kept freakin leaving my camera in the car whenever I should have had it to take photos. I'm really bad at this and I'm sorry. I really am. And I realize my letters haven't been very good lately. Life in the office has just been less and less exciting, it's hard coming up with stuff to talk about every week. Kind of like how you guys have trouble writing me about your lives every week =) Zing! Anyways, I'll try and take some photos this week and send them to you guys next week. Dad also requested that I send you guys pictures of the projects I've been working on. The yearbooks are too big to send through email and I could use WeTransfer.com, but I'd rather just show you guys when I get back. It's not that long to wait =) Isn't time flying by over there too? I think the Earth is spinning faster or something. Somebody should study that crap.
The weather was pretty crappy today, but the rest of the week it was getting pretty warm! So hopefully that keeps going and we hit summer soon. Today, we went mini-golfing at this place in Amsterdam. Us and the APs (Elder Bourne and Elder Bosco). It was super fun and the course was ridiculous. It was just really creative. One of them, you had to hit it off this ramp, into a little net, and that was the hole. And there were just a bunch of other ones that were on crazy hills and stuff where you had to precisely rebound it off of little walls and stuff (Again, I unfortunately didn't even have my camera in the car this time. Elder Yocom got photos though, if you can find his blog or talk to his mom or something). I took 2nd place. Elder Bourne won, that bum.
We taught a lesson to this girl the other day who is a friend of a member and came to that musical fireside thing. She's in her thirties, blind, lives in this really cool little gated community in the middle of the Leiden centrum, and has been taught by the missionaries a bit before. She unfortunately doesn't really feel like she knows or has a relationship with Heavenly Father or Jesus Christ. The lesson was really good though and she's making progress little by little. So I'm excited to teach her again, hopefully next week or so.
We're really busy with this Facebook campaign (like the one we did before for Christmas) now for Easter where people can order a free "Finding Faith in Christ" DVD. It's going really well and we've already received about 160 referrals in two weeks. The crap part about these campaigns though is to see all the crap that people do though. Satan blinds people so easily and they just don't understand. The really sad part is when they have to go public about it and say crap on Facebook. If you look at the comments for the campaign on Facebook, people are just being rude and a lot of them are also trying to Anti-Mormon people by completely stating false things about the Church or by twisting truths. It's ridiculous. Just think about what their motives are for one second and it's easy to see that they're not the type of people seeking to spread good, truth, light, or happiness. Sad to see. But at least I'm not in charge of the Facebook website at all =) I just gather all of the referrals and send out the DVDs and stuff.
Life's going well. I'm burned out every week by the time I get to Saturday. Sorry I'm not doing so hot on emails or pictures. I hope you guys all know how much I really love and care about each of you! I'm really excited to see and hang out with you all again. It's a bummer that I'll get back home and then just get whisked off to BYU so quick. We'll have to make that a good week =) Byyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee