That Moment when He knows that You Know that He Knows.....The Most Exciting Thing Ever

(We) went to the doctor again last monday, and basically, this guy was the biggest jerk I have ever met in my life. Could have punched him in the face. He told (my companion)  to go get blood tests, but she's decided against it, so she's just working harder... okay.

The other day we had to make lunch for district meeting, so we made grilled cheese and tomato soup. So we just got a big block of gouda cheese because it was cheaper than buying slices. Then we went to a different city than Leeuwarden the rest of the day, so I just had a block of leftover cheese in my bag the rest of the day. I felt very Dutch. All I needed was some bread and some wurst and we could have had a Dutch meal. :) When we were buying the food that morning, because we totally forgot we were supposed to feed everyone until we were doing planning Monday night, we were waiting at the bus stop to go to the Groningen church and this old lady walks buy so we offer her our seats on the bench, and she threw a tantrum. Like, stomped her feet, tears in her eyes, and said that if she was tired and wanted to sit, she would tell us. Okay, sorry. My bad. Then there was this dad yelling at his kid and he's like, "Come!" And then this old guy looks at him and is like thats a child, not a dog. ha.
On Wednesday, I had my exchange in Assen with my MTC companion. Yay... It was okay though. We did gardening as a service project. In the rain. It was very muddy. Also, my Toms got ruined this week, because they ripped during that activity. So sad.

Thursday, there was a couple in the ward who took us out to dinner to celebrate Sister Rosenlof's birthday. That was fun, it was at this pannekoeken place, which is like swedish pancakes but a little thicker I think, or maybe they are exactly the same. Not sure. Anyway, even though it wasn't my birthday, they still got  me a present, because mine was in june so it's not like they can celebrate it with us next year. Anyway, it's a book about things dutch people with bad english say. It's funny.  It was also the husband's birthday this week, so the wife gave him a present, and it was this really nice sweater, and you can just tell it was expensive, but she left the price tag on, and then he looked at it and he's like oh, this was a lot of money. and then the wife is like i know, i bought it with your money. Ha. I'm pretty sure they have a nice amount of money, but it's not like you can ask these things. Well, not if you have class anyway. But the branch is really nice to us, and they like us, so that's good.

Okay, now it's time for a miracle. So we had that investigator that we dropped and then picked up, but we both know he knows it's true so sister rosenlof and I were talking about how we could help him, and when he could be baptized, and we both said November 22. So we got the idea to use a baptismal calendar and tell him to choose a date out of the six weeks that are on there, and we would prepare him for that date. So he thought about it, and he chose November 22. cool, huh? Sister Rosenlof and I, being of little faith apparently, even encouraged him to choose a later date because we weren't sure if he could do the 22. But he stuck with it. So we taught him like crazy this week, and he doesn't have a problem with any of the commandments, in fact, he's already living them, and so he's right on track to get baptized next week. We gave him all the baptismal questions yesterday so he knew what they were, and he answered them all correctly. So he should be good. So I hope he does in fact get baptized next friday. :) It's pretty much the most exciting thing ever.

That was pretty much all for this week, just teaching him. Oh, we did find 4 new investigators this week. I dont know if any of them are going anywhere. One guy is from Iraq and was fighting in the war when he decided he wanted to die for jesus, so now he's a street preacher and preaches to muslims. He also says the holy spirit branded a cross into his tongue. Pretty sure he was problem on something and branded that cross on his tongue himself but whatever.

Is it possible that you can send me copies of some of those blessings you have? I feel like that would be interesting, but if not that's okay too.

There are two americans in this branch, but there weren't any in Lelystad. And the two americans here both knew each other before hand. So there's not too many, Most americans are down south near the border, because the military base is right over the border.

Christmas stuff, well, Sinter Klaus offically starts this week, so every weekend for the next few weeks, kids will get presents in their shoes on saturday on sunday. Just little things like candy and stuff until the actual day of sinter klaus. Today is st Maarten day, so the little kids go around door to door and sing songs for candy. Kind of like Halloween. Food stuff, well we are eating a lot more potatos and sausage stuff with the members. Especially stampot. It's like mashed potatos with meat and vegetables in it. Then there are these little stands around town that sell all these delicious fried bread. The most famous is Olliebollen, which is like this little circle of fried bread with powdered sugar. They're wonderful, and there are other things like apple flaps of things with fruit and whipped cream and such. We have a market every friday and saturday where you can buy all kinds of cheap things. Oh, I'm going to need to buy warm clothes soon. It's getting super cold, and wet, and windy. Yay!

But that's pretty much it, I can't really think of much else. I hope all is well. Love you! Miss you! Have a great week.

Karoline