Breda - Week 23

Breda - Week 23

Wat heeft deze week gebeurd? Well, firstly we found a lady (while doing bellups) who actually knew who we were and wanted us to come back, so on Tuesday we returned to her house for an appointment. It ended up being a 3 and a half hours long... Mevrouw Smith is a lonely old lady who mostly wanted some company, and though we tried to bring up the gospel and how she got her Boek Van Mormon, she would keep steering the conversation elsewhere. It was pretty funny and it also kept us out of the pouring rain. During that day, Mangum and I also tried some centrum contacting. We´re both terrible at it so we challenged each other to contact one person, and after we did that we could get some fresh harring at the market in the centrum. Zuster Mangum hasn´t had fresh harring yet so that was an adventure. 

Thusrday was a day of little miracles. We had interviews that day and also we gave away both of our Book Van Mormon´s within two hours and had scheduled an appointment! This rarely happens, so we were both eccstatic. Mangum did a glorious heel click out of happiness that I recorded. 

Our highlight of the week though was definitely on Saturday. There is this thick bush/hedge (when I say thick, I mean really thick, you can´t stick you´re hand through it) that comes up to about shin-high and is pretty wide, and these five kittens live inside of it. They are feral and super young and whenever we go knock over there I always try to feed them a little cat treat but they´re super scared and will only come to the edge. Anyways, we knocked for like an hour and then returned only to see this other guy trying to do the same thing. I decided to be brave and go and try to talk to him, and he and his girlfriend loves rescuing animals, so they wanted to help these kittens. You can tell that the kittens were starving. So we tried to help them get the kittens while talking with them and getting to know them, and it was pretty hilarious. I didn´t think their method of trying to get the kittens was at all effective. They ended up getting their neighbor the bring giant sticks to whack the bushes and herd the five kittens to the middle of the bush (the middle was not a good idea but I was like whatever). And then the guy and girl were like trying to walk through the hedge, which involves basically destroying it, so there are holes in that hedge now. It was the funniest image. Two missionaries in skirts with three random people whacking a hedge trying to catch kittens. We ended up leaving eventually but hopefully they caught the kittens, and now if we ever see those people, we have a pretty good conversation starter. 

We also had an appointment with Zuster Staf that evening. Zuster Staf is this adorable old lady who lives in a resting home who is less active because she can´t leave, so we go and share a spiritual thought and sing hyms for her and she loves us. We call her Oma Staf and it makes her cry. When we started to leave she started crying and it was so sad. :( Next week is her birthday so I am going to make her a card with Mice on it, since she loves mice. 

Those were some of the highlights from my week! Oh yeah, we´re also doing this challenge for the whole mission to read the entire Book of Mormon from Oct 13 to the end of the year, while highlighting the names of Christ and any reference to Him, and it has been a really uplifting experience. I have loved doing the challenge. 

I love you all!!!