Week 42: THE SUN IS SHINING!

Hey family..Yet again I don't have much time so I will try my best to get everything out to you. First. Transfers are in a week so if you are going to send anything..I would probably not do it now. Maybe hold off until next week when I tell you where I am going, if I do end up leaving.

Mission Temple Trip

This week as been really good. It flew by. We got to go to the temple on Tuesday and then right after we went to the Keukenhof which is the place with all of the pretty tulips! I will probably send pictures later(: Sorry. haha And it was so much fun. I hung out with Sister Taylor, Elder Gomez and Elder Sumter. It was way fun. We didn't get home until 8:30 pm so we hurry and ate, planned and went to bed because we were sooo tired from all the traveling. Totally worth it.

Kuekenhof without alot of Tulips

Kuekenhof

Kuekenhof

We met with Sonja alone this week and it went really well! We just did a review of the restoration and committed her to reading the BOM. She said she would do it so we will see how that goes this week. (: Aji and Henry still have TONS of questions. Yesterday was a hard lesson because he is very out spoken and will say exactly what he thinks but luckily we had an AMAZING joint teach, sister Seel, and she really helped out. More details are in my handwritten letter. so sorry I can't do more details. We haven't met with Cassandra for almost 2 weeks it feels like..sad. Her neighbors daughter died so she has been helping with that. Adrienne is doing good...Johan is still holding her back from coming to church :(  

Adrienne and Johan

Oh Today we went to Marken (really close to Amsterdam) with Sister Koens. She is from Utah but married a Dutchman and so she is really awesome. She has 2 adorable boys and we just had a really good time! I BOUGHT WOODEN SHOES! And some Delft Blue stuff. Hopefully they will still last the rest of my mission. I just thought, this is is probably one of my only chances to get this..so I did. haha I also got some cool chirstmas stuff. Don't be too excited. haha But we had a blast. (: Her and her husband are probably going to be moving to Utah at the end of this year so I can party with them when I get back! Woohoo.

My New Wooden Shoes

My New Wooden Shoes

This weekend is like Memorial weekend for the Dutch and one thing that is really cool that they do is have two minutes of silence at 8 o'clock on the 4th of May. And it's way crazy how things just die down. We got to see the king and the queen on the TV haha it was fun.  We also had a really cool fireside yesterday that we helped plan it with one of the members and it was on Mormon.org profile stuff. It's super important to have one of those here especially because lots of people think that our church is just an American church. So as the members make profiles, people will begin to see that we are normal and also believe in Christ.

I gave my testimony yesterday..man, it's hard speaking a different language when you are nervous. haha..but here is pretty much what i said..or wanted to say:  I am SO grateful for the plan that Heavenly Father has for me. We have been watching the Because of Him video with pretty much everyone that we meet with and EVERY time that I watch it, I get goosebumps and just an overwhelming feeling that Christ did this for me. And that Heavenly Father loves me. How great is it to know that we can be with our families forever? I think I ask that way too much but it's true. It's awesome. And my letter home really goes deeper into how important it is that we take care of our family and make sure our children stay on the right path so that their children will stay on the right path and in the end, it will make a huge difference in the world. We can't effect people in India, BUT we can effect our generations and those around us. That is why the Gospel of Christ is so important.

I love you guys so much. Sorry I don't have time to write more but know that the members are taking care of us! This week we have dinner appts and lunch appts almost every day. They are great. (: LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU! I'll talk to you soon!

Zuster Kohlert, aka Colie