Week 33: Testing God

Hey family!! How is everyone doing??

Yet again...the week just flew by! I don't understand how that happens! It is insane. Wanna hear something sad? Zuster Rigdon is going home this week. :( She is done. I can remember the day she picked me up and we just had the best three transfers together..and now she is going home. Ah. Time is going to fly faster and faster and I don't know how I feel about it.. Okay I just had to vent. I think I do this every week but I am serious each week that my mind is blown.

Zuster Rosenlof and I at Zone Conference

Well too much stuff happened..but highlights!

1. We moved three fridges in one day. Yes, you should be proud! It was for Zuster Helderman, who is mostly blind. Really fun.

2. We had a Zone Conference in Zoetemeer! That was great! The building there is just as big as one in Utah and it is SO nice. Everything is gorgeous. Kinda jealous. But we learned about how through small things, great things come to past. The smallest seeds we plant can make a huge difference in someone's life. And the small and simple things we do in our life are sooo important! Read your scriptures, PRAYYYYYY!!!, Go to church and BE a good person. Remember that the Lord is always there for you!

Zone Conference - I'm in the front row light blue w/gray sweater near the middle.

3. We finished painting Madelon's room! It looks really cool..I dont know why I didnt take a picture though...sorry. She is one of the new members. All of her family is nonmembers. So we chatted with them while the Olympics was going on. We watched the speed skating..I think and dutch girls got silver and bronze. That was fun.

4. We visited Bizu again..she seems to not be getting much better..She did have a guitar so we were playing and singing songs together. I tried to play that "somewhere over the Rainbow" song but I couldn't remember the 3rd and 4th cords..so that was awkward!

5. We had a wonderful Valentine's Dinner with Familie Pantophlet! They are amazing cooks and super nice people. We then went to a baptism from the Hilversum Elders...haha And guess what? the Baptismal font wasn't filling up fast enough so Zuster Rosenlof, Elder Giles, Elder Hulet and I started boiling water on the stove and just filling up everything that we could see so that we could get that baby full. We missed the opening part of the baptism BUT the font got filled and it went really well. It was exciting! haha

6. We made cute Valentines using the stickers you sent me for all of the members and they LOVED THEM! :) So thanks!

7. We stopped by a potential's house, Brigette who is 83, and she was home. She is from Germany, and she is old so her accent was really hard to understand. I did catch somethings and she pretty much has no one. She said she doesn't even want to live anymore! I shared my testimony and they spirit was there. I think she really liked it but I am not sure how open she is to change. I guess we will see.

8. One night we decided to test God and just pick a language and find someone who spoke that language and give them a BOM. So we picked Twee (from Ghana because there are more people here from Ghana than some of the other languages haha) And we just worked really hard to contact all the people we could. AND we ran after this guy...and he was from Ghana! So we gave him the book and got his info!

9. Zr Rosenlof is getting transferred to Den Bosch and I am getting Sister Taylor as my new comp!! Super sad to see her go, but I am excited for a new comp! I will let you know how that goes next week! haha Now we have to cancel 2 appointments just because we have to do transfers...so bummed. So many other things happened but I cant write them all..as usual. But Heavenly Father really blesses you when you do what's right. He loves us so much! In my letter I have a little more detail about what happened. Sorry I am getting worse at writing letters...forgive me! Haha

I love you guys! Thanks for all of your support and love.

LOVE YOU! 

Zuster Kohlert