- On P-day we went to this old dutch canal house and also the verzet (resistance) museum, which was incredible. I can go on and on about how awesome the Dutch Resistance Museum was.
- We had district meeting on the 4th of July, and Elder Packard showed up with American Flag glasses, american socks, and the american flag itself draped across his shoulders. There was a lot of American pride.
- We met with this lady named Judith, who at the end of our appointment cried and said that we had brought peace into her home.
-We had a super awkward appointment with our less active... Super awkward... Where she would just stare at us blankly and somewhat hostilely as we tried to help her make spiritual goals in crappy Dutch.
- We tried to look up a less active but they did not want us to come into their house, so we did some bell ups around it. We decided to just do five and then go to this next place, and we do each bell up in which no one answers until - as it always go - the last bell. And this British guy and he says we can totally come in. So we go up and proceed to meet a very interesting person. This is Dave in a nutshell: he has three sphynx cats (those naked egyptian ones), and we come to find out that he's extremely religious and has a strong testimony of God (he goes to church every morning for a seminary class despite work, and has been going to church regularly for the past year and everything), and he is also gay and been married to his husband for 20 years. And we talked to him for over an hour and had a really good discussion with him about God and peace and the Book of Mormon. He was honestly really cool. He has no interest in investigating but we'll be dropping off an english Book of Mormon for him soon.
- Yesterday we showed up to our dinner appointment and then all of a sudden our ward mission leader and the Amsterdam Elders also showed up... Turns out our cute old lady had accidentally double scheduled or there was some confusion when Sister Gilbert scheduled the appointment... But Zr Groot was fine with all of us there and she was just like "Just all of you come!" So we did...
- We were sitting by the water by Amsterdam Central Station, writing a note for Dave in the Book of Mormon we were going to give him, when all of a sudden these annoying boys chuck a water balloon at us and it explodes all over me. -_- I wasn't that mad, it was mostly funny.
Good Quotes from the Week:
Sister Jansen (our cute Dutch senior couple lady): (translated into english) "Once when we were young, Broeder Jansen carried me over this hill, and he told me that he would carry me over every hill from then on. Now he can't, I'm too heavy... But he does it still, just spiritually"
(After the elders show up to our dinner appointment)
Sister Gilbert: "Ugh this always happens to me everytime I make an appointment!"
Elder Tanner: "Wow Elders always show up? That's kind of weird..."
Sister Gilbert: "I thought the flowers smelled really good, but it was actually just my arm"
I love all of you guys!!! Have a good week!!!
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