We are having another thanksgiving dinner tonight. They're
planning on having several turkeys. I don't know how we are going to eat that
much. You have to order turkeys here, you can't just go to a store and buy
them, so usually you order them for the whole year. Interesting.
It is soooo cold. Also, my jacket doesn't have a hood on it,
so I'll probably get pneumonia at some point or another. My hair froze the
other day when we were caught out in the rain. Fun times.
We do not have a christmas tree. Wait, that's a lie. There
is the miniest of mini christmas trees on our coffee table. It's about the size
of a mug. And they're expensive, so that's probably all we'll have. Maybe we
will make one out of paper or something.
Transfers were good, but it was definitely hard to say
goodbye to Sister R. So, how they work here: everyone in our zone, who
is transferring, has to meet at one central train station. For us, it was
Utrecht.Which is about a two, 2 1/2 hour ride away from us depending on the
train route. So yes, I got on the train with Sister Rosenlof. We had to be
there at about 10 but got there at 11 because you actually can't take bikes on
the train until after 9. Anyway, then the zone leaders have the travel plans
for everyone and they pair you up with whoever else is travelling to a
different zone. And then eventually everyone gets going. I got to wait in the
train station all day with the zone leaders because Sister Rigdon was coming up
from Belgium, so she obviously was going to take the longest to transfer all
the way from the bottom of the mission to the top. But it wasn't too bad. There
was an Elder who left a suitcase. stupid. So the zone leaders had to split off
with one of the elders waiting and take a suitcase to a city a couple hours
away. Sister Rosenlof almost died on transfers. We were on the train platform,
and she had heaviest suitcase and her bike. Anyway something happened, she and
her bike started tumbling backwards down the escalator, with her suitcase
dragging her down. Scary.But I had the rest of her things, and the Elders had
all of their things, so we're like what the heck do we do? But she saved
herself. So that was good.
Sister Rigdon: She's from Kaysville Utah. She's tall and
blonde. We're the best pair ever. We would have beautiful children.We are
pretty similar. We have the same personality, as in we are both weird. We
talk to each other in weird voices, and she jumped out and scared me, the poor
thing has no idea what she's getting into. She's really creative, so I'm sure
we will be teaching with a lot of object lessons. But I like Sister Rigdon,
she's a great sister.
We didn't really have too many things this week. The other
day we went finding in this little village, which was a long bike ride away, and
we saw a lot of sheep. But that's not important. Have I mentioned sinter klaas
before? It's this week, and it's like christmas, because you dont give gifts on
christmas, you just do it on sinterklaas. Anyway we're in this village and
everyone who answers their doors are like uh hello guys, sinter klaas is coming
in 10 minutes i dont have time for this. And we're just like what? So we walk
to the centrum type area and theres like weirdo music playing and all these
decorations are there and i'm like uh I think we just walked into the intoch of
sinter klaas to this little place. So we're standing there, and all of sudden a
bunch of Zwarte Piets start jumping out of everywhere. Swarte piete is kind of
like santas elf. Except so much scarier. He's supposed to be from Spain. And
he's black, and he kidnaps bad children and puts them into a sack. So weird. So
these white adults dress up in costumes and pain themselves black. Then throw
these candy type things at everyone. Anyway then sinterklaas comes in a big old
boat down the canal and the place goes crazy. It was pretty exciting.
Oh, this is random, but our mission got an Elder from
Finland this week. That's exciting. I also got to experience biking in the hail
for the first time this week. If you are wondering if it was fun, it definitely
wasn't. It hurts and stings pretty badly.
so that's about it for this week.
Love you! Miss you!
Karoline
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