Breda - Week 22
This was an absolutely hectic week, haha. On Tuesday,
Jasmine asked Mangum and I to come over while she opened her mini-mission call.
She was called to Antwerpen and she is so excited. She´s going to be there for
four days sometime next week. I am so excited for her!
Jasmine receiving her mini mission call
On Wednesday, we were
tracting and we found a windmill with a cute little animal farm next to it.
There aren´t a ton of windmills in Breda area so that was pretty fun to see. We
debated what would happen if we grabbed onto one of the sails... they looked
really strong. We also found some super gorgeous houses and knocked on all of
them. One of them is probably going to be my future house.
Pictures of
my future house! :)
On Thursday we went to Eindhoven for Zone Training, which I
was super excited for because Eindhoven was the first Holland city liberated by
the 101st Aireborne. There´s even a memorial behind the church for them, which
I was extremely excited for and took a picture with before Zone Training.
Zone Training was inspiring as usual. It always helps me refocus and get reinspired. There is a super awesome old guy named Harry who is in his 80s who goes out tracting with the missionaries all the time and who comes to every single zone training and conference and district meeting. He does so much with the missionaries that the mission made him a legit missionary badge. He knows everyone's name in our zone and where we are serving. He is amazing and everybody loves him and it´s so fun to see him at Zone Training. After Zone Training, Zuster Mangum and I went to Tilburg for exchanges, which was pretty fun, but added to the hecticness of the week. We were really tired.
Zone Training was inspiring as usual. It always helps me refocus and get reinspired. There is a super awesome old guy named Harry who is in his 80s who goes out tracting with the missionaries all the time and who comes to every single zone training and conference and district meeting. He does so much with the missionaries that the mission made him a legit missionary badge. He knows everyone's name in our zone and where we are serving. He is amazing and everybody loves him and it´s so fun to see him at Zone Training. After Zone Training, Zuster Mangum and I went to Tilburg for exchanges, which was pretty fun, but added to the hecticness of the week. We were really tired.
On Sunday we had Stake Conference but it was all the way
down in Brussels... Which is really far away and really difficult to get to
because it´s in a different country. We have NS-Business cards for
transportation in the Netherlands but for Belgium it´s a whole different story.
They have a totally different train system (which is a lot more difficult) so
we had to a drop a lot of money in order to get down there. And it also took an
hour and a half for Elder Soso to make our travel plans.
In order to get down to Brussels by 10:00am, we had to leave an entire day earlier and sleepover. I chose Gent because my old MTC companion is down there, and it was SO FUN to see Zuster Leman again. I was so happy. We left Breda at 4:50 pm and got to the Gent apartment at 8:30 pm, and then we had to leave by 6:50 the following morning and walk kind of far in the dark. It was pretty exhausting but an awesome adventure. It was fun to go to Belgium again. Stake Conference was good, I can understand a lot of what´s being said for the most part but the trick is focusing and wanting to pay attention haha. It was also really cool to hear the Belgian accent, which is called Vlaams. It sounds really French and it is soooo pretty.
It was a pretty hectic week!
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