Week 8: Well......I've Been Eaten Alive...

HELLOOO Family!!!!

THIS WEEK WAS AWESOME!!!!

So we did exchanges with the Breda sisters and the Gent sisters this week and it was soo much fun but I miss having my comp with me when I go to member's houses and whatnot..she doesn't have the opportunity to get to know them because she is gone a lot...I feel bad. But I do love being able to serve with different girls each week. We had a dinner with members almost every night this week. Which was way cool.

Wednesday we had dinner with Bishop Staples. At first it was kinda awkward because I don't really know how to speak dutch but after a while we got into the groove of things. They showed us their awesome hobbies. Sis Staples makes really cook cakes with fruit on them...I want her to make we one soo badly..haha and she also paints sculpture things..They look really cool. Haha Bishop is a chemical scientist...I think haha He works for a popular company that makes tape..I can't remember the name for some reason. It is cool stuff. They also showed us their genealogy. They both have so much work done. Their soup was super good (For you Br. Mohrman) haha loved it. She read us this awesome story that I will have to tell you when I get back. We felt the spirit sooo strong(: After we left...Like 2 minutes out of the door, a drunk guy comes up to us and is talking to us about why we are on a mission and stuff. (I couldn't really understand him..) But Kinda out of the blue is asked us to sleep with him in English. We got out of there asap. Nast. That just goes to show that Satan can influence people to ruin the mood of the spirit. He is so mean. UGH. Sorry you had to read that..I don't know if that was appropriate or not.

So we had zone conference on Thursday. It was really good. Talked about how we need to work on our invitation to baptism. We want the people to be at the point where they WANT to be baptized and ask to be...It is kinda hard to explain haha but it was good stuff! Loved it. Right after Zone conference, we did exchanges (so sis rigdon went to Gent with one of the sisters and I just took 2 of the Gent sisters with me). We went straight to the Boegaert's house (awesome members). She has a really cool conversion story. We had our FIRST APT with a potential investigator that night so she drove us home.. I was kinda freaking out because this was my first lesson and I hadn't really prepared anything. Oh the lesson was with Jason ( the guy we contacted and he didn't have his shirt on). Sis. Boegaert comforted me and same with sister Brophy and Djoukeng's.....

We met up with him...and I don't know why I was soo worried!! That was the best lesson ever. I don't care what anyone says but it was great! Spirit was so strong and we just bore testimony every second we could. He told us that his mom is the "poison of his life" because she only does stuff for herself. And that life was just hard. He also had really good questions. It was cool because he said that after talking with sis Rigdon and I at the door, he had a vision/dream/impression thing that only one of us were going to meet up with him the next time we met and that person would be with 2 different people. One of those people would be more experienced and the other more in the background. That totally happened. He was freaking out. And when he told us that we were going nuts inside because it had happened. AHH He receive revelation..crazy stuff. He also said that he had never met his real dad until 2 days after talking with us at the door. That all these good things were coming together at this point in his life. It was cool. He would always say throughout the lesson that we looked soo happy and were glowin. It's true, we look different and stand out from everyone. I know he wants that for himself. (Sorry I am just going over details briefly...sorry if it doesn't make sense). He also said that he was going to call us so many times before we contacted him but he was too scared. HE IS GOLDEN. I love him to death. He hasn't read a book before but he promised he'd read the Book of Mormon. He already read the restoration pamphlet. He is praying more intently. Soo cool. Yeah So we are meeting with him on Wednesday. So excited. God totally blesses us to find people that are ready. I know he will get baptized. I want him to be at least..haha This transfer is when I want it to happen. haha I am weird.

The rest of the week was good. Yesterday was fast Sunday..which was a lot harder than I thought it would be. But I am alive. We went to Hoboken to look up a referral and we found the address...And it wasn't his house...Weird. So we looked throughout the street for him. No where. We then called the ZL and they rechecked and found out that that was supposed to be for GENT....Good to know there is a street in Hoboken that is the same as one in Gent. We spent a long time doing that.

Anyways sorry for the super long letter. I have a letter I want to send to you guys but I haven't had time to get stamps...I will send it soon. SOrrryyy,... Love you!!!!!

LOVE YOU
You can also send stuff to the mission home..but yea! Miss you

Zr Kohlert