Week 26: Whipped in the Face...Ha ha....Not Really!

Hey family!!!! How are you guys doing in the FREEZING weather? It sounds like you guys are colder than we are. It is starting to get a little cold here..I had to wear two pairs of tights the other day....and the winter begins.

What a wonderful week we had!! I don't have time to go through everything, but I will definitely hit the highlights. Okay so, Tuesday we had a dinner appointment with this cool family and then on our way back home we were talking to this lady on the tram. She started talking to us in English because she heard us talking about what stop we had to get off on and everything. We tell her that we are here for our church and she says cool that is totally awesome. What church? We tell her and the second she realizes we are Mormons she turns her back and says "Oh I changed my mind, I'm Jewish." ... super random but also sad...Oh well. The cool part of the story is coming up. There was a lady sitting close by her who would smile at us and be nice. Both Zuster Aldous and I felt that we needed to talk to her so we did. When the other lady got off, we got a conversation going with her. She was really sweet and pretty interested. We gave her a Book of Mormon and everything. So hopefully things will get going with her.

Wednesday was full of miracles. We had a lot of free time in the morning to do contacting, so we started knocking doors near one of our potentials. No one was really answering but we decided to keep going. The next door we knocked was this really nice lady. She had a friend who was Mormon so she was pretty interested. She ended up letting us in!!! Super cool!. She loves learning about new religions and stuff. We gave her a Book of Mormon with our testimonies written in it. She was really cool. We couldn't get another appointment with her but she said she wants to drink some tea with us again and just talk. haha... Oh yeah, she gave us some tea and we told her we only drink kruiden tea..uhh herbal tea haha and she was like ya ya. So we get our tea and take a sip and as we are she tells us it is Black tea..Woops awkard. I felt bad....Oh well. Black tea tastes nasty. Later that night we went back to Isaac (the potential in that area) and he wasn't home but is younger siblings were. His sister said that in September she had gotten a Book of Mormon from some elders and was really interested. and his 4 year old brother was like "I want a book of my own" so we gave him one and he was super excited. She wants to be taught with her brother so we will try to get to them this week..the only hard part is that he is only home on Wednesday nights and this week we are going to the Netherlands for Zone training and we have to leave Wednesday night.

I am super nervous for Zone Training by the way...I am singing again. AHHHH I will let you know how that goes. Totally not ready.

But guess who is ready??? Eugeen!! We taught him about the law of tithing this week and he was soo accepting that he even wanted to pay extra because he had missed 90 years of his life. We told him he just needed to start when he got baptized. I love that man. He came to church and I think he really enjoy it.

There was a crazy wind storm this week and I heard it was pretty bad in the Netherlands. Good thing we are in Belgium and the weather is milder. I love it here. Seriously, I never want to leave.

Sunday was Sister Aldous's birthday!!! WOOOT So I made some breakfast burritos for her and they were pretty good. We then had a rocking dinner appointment after church. Then later that night we had strawberry shortcake! I will send pics..We got in a whipping cream fight. Hence the title " Whipped in the Face" haha I thought I was pretty clever. haha Anyways.

Happy Birthday Zuster Aldous

Whipped in the Face

This week I really realized how awesome our church is. A member showed us this Mormon message "The reason behind Christmas" or something like that and I almost cried my eyes out. The church is true. The Book of Mormon is the word of God and also a super awesome story that we can learn SOO much from. We can receive personal revelation as we read and ponder its words.

LOVE YOU SOOO MUCHHHHHHH WE GET TO TALK TO EACH OTHER SOON!! Woot;

p.s. Congrats to Jake Larson and Hannah Bradford! I wish them the best with their new companions and this step in their lives! Super exciting.

Love, Zuster Kohlert