Hey everyone!
So, an update with transfers, in case you were wondering, Sis. Kimmons is going up to Leeuwarden and Sis. Hanny is coming to IJmuiden with me. For those who were on my email list at the time of Gent, it is the same Sister Hanny that was with me in our adventure of the Draw Bridge. So you can expect crazy stories with us two. This is going to probably be one of the best and most fun transfers on my mission; not to mention that this transfer includes Christmas, New Years, AND my birthday!!! whoo hoo! We're both very excited. Yesterday she called me and she said that she hit the triple bonus with this one. We've only been talking about being companions in the land for our entire mission and this was the last chance that we could do it.
The past two weeks have been really great. Kimmons and I make try to create fun in the dull and busy moments. On the 5th of Dec. (Sinter Klaas) Cynthia and Jadon got baptized. It was so great! Everything worked, nothing with horribly wrong, all the people that needed to be there were there, it was just perfect; my smoothest baptism yet. You'd be surprised at how many things can go wrong all at once.
Jadon, a 10-year-old kid, is just so incredible. I remember the first time we spoke with him when he said that he wanted to get baptized. I showed him a calendar and asked when he wanted to and his quick and rapidly fired response was, "As soon as possible! If I can be baptized on this day when I want to be baptized on this day." "well," I said, "Jadon, that was yesterday..."
The Sunday after they were able to bear their testimony in Sacrament meeting. Jadon was first and he said, "Good morning Brothers and Sisters. I am so happy that I am a member now and I realized how much I have learned. I now know how important family is and you all are my family now." Several members just began crying.
When we went by this past week, we had him re-teach us a lesson and I let him wear my nametag but he's so desperate to get one. As he was wearing it, he said, "Wow, I love teaching. I can't wait to be a missionary and do what you guys do!"
We went to the Anne Frank Huis this week, I personally think that the Corrie Ten Boom Huis was better, but it was still cool to visit and hangout in Amsterdam. But I would say an exciting / interesting that happened to me was Saturday night when we came home at 11pm because of Stake Conference.
I call this - De Muis in Het Huis (the mouse in the house)
Now, those of you who know me, might know that a lot of things in this life does not scare me. Walking through pitch-black alleyways to go home - doesn't scare me. Having to deal with drunk guys asking me to marry them - doesn't scare (that actually annoys me more than anything). Going to foreign countries with a language that I don't speak - doesn't scare.
What does scare me, if you really must know is RODENTS! I hate them. I just hate them and I cannot help but scream when I see them. I actually sometimes freeze up and can't move but all I see is diseases and yucky-ness. When I had an apartment in the Bronx and saw a mouse, I moved out the next day.
Anyways, we got home at about 10:55 pm. We were sitting at our desks daily planning and I see out of the corner of my eye something brown and I look over and there is a mouse running into our room. I let out a tortured scream to which scares the crap out of Kimmons. The next hour becomes quite interesting. Kimmons, after calming down her heartbeat, goes into room, to look for the mouse. After pulling out everything and setting things on our beds she finally sees it behind my closet.
To keep a long story short because I don't have a lot of time. We came up with a plan of which I had to be a part. Kimmons choice of weapons was a stick (which we use to open our windows) and a plastic bowl to capture the mouse.
ahh. I'm sorry to do this but I'm out of time. I will finish the story next time.
love you all, don't hate :) bye.
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