Holy man, it's been one of those weeks. A crazy week where everything goes incredibly right. I have to say, a lot of things happened this week that Elder Giles and I had been hoping for--not even actively praying for. Craziness.
...but I'll start at the beginning of the week.
Elder Giles doesn't really like watching the Preach My Gospel DVDs we're supposed to watch. At one point, somebody is tearing up in one of the videos and Elder Giles said, "Gee, why don't people tear up in our lessons." Psh, like that's a measure of how good we are. Anydoodle, we had two people tear up this week. Weird. One was an inactive member who, after a decade or two of not coming to church because of her non-member husband, decided to simply come back. Wham. We're going to reteach her the lessons to get her acclimatized, so to speak. Right off the bat, we asked the simply question of who God was for her and bam, the tears started coming and she bore a simple but beautiful testimony.
Also, that same day we met Lot Fi. Well, he met us. We went to go buy flowers for a member who had knitted me a pullover and on our way back, he said hallo to us. Apparently, missionaries had come in contact with him several years ago, but had actually made an effort to avoid him. Don't know why. Lot Fi is probably the most animated person I have ever met. Holy Moses. He's desperate to talk with people about God and his beliefs, but nobody will. He was ecstatic to meet with us. When we went over, we simply listened as he essentially bore his soul to us. At one point, while telling us a spiritual experience he had, he was indeed tearing up. Lot Fi is one of the more Christlike people I've met, I'll tell you. He's also a riot. Oh man is he entertaining. At one point, he hugged one of his plants. Aha!
I'm happy to say that Sister Nunez is now reactivated! Woo! Reactivation's kind of stink because on paper, there's nothing to show numerically. But whatever. A reactivation is as good as a baptism. The Salazar's are nearly reactivated and the above-mentioned lady is well on her way. The work is progressing here!
We challenged Sister Boutee to quit smoking cold turkey. Unfortunately, she hasn't yet, but she is still reducing bit by bit. We can't get her to church though, which I believe is really holding her back. Hmph.
I've been hoping for a family to teach for a while. While knocking doors, we found one! Woo! She was diggety down to meet with us again. She's Dutch too. She blew off our appointment, but we'll see yet.
Also, we're teaching somebody named Sherry. Ooo, weird. She's Antillean, but super similar to Katy.
KATY! Katy is doing awesome. She came to church again and commented on how she had felt the Spirit super strong upon leaving the building. I think the big difference is that we introduced her to the members better, and she made some good friends. Both her children are on board to get baptized as well, so it's turned into a teaching jamboree. We taught her oldest son, Martijn last night and he was very open to the Plan of Salvation. He's a rapper. One of his songs was a hit on a hip hop station too. Rappers seem pretty common here...
Jurgen is busy moving, so we couldn't meet with him this week. But next week, oh ho ho.
We found a Hungarian lady on the street not too long ago. We finally went over and had a...interesting lesson. Her boyfriend was there and he was smoking weed. Still, he's a strong believer and exploded right away telling us all the things he believes. Our joint teach was amazing. By asking strategic questions, our joint teach made the man realized that he believed in the same things as us, but just slightly skewed. By the end of it, this man was basically agreeing with everything we said, whereas he was before a bit...tegenstrijdig (contradictory). I felt bad, because the Hungarian lady just kind of sat there, looking awkward. They have an enormous dog.
Buuut it was a good week. Prayers were answered, lessons were learnt, and numbers were good. Can't complain right?
Also, I found a new bike. Aha. It was in a closing-down second hand store. They offered to sell it for 25 euro, but after checking the chain and riding it around, I offered 20 Euro and snagged it. It is a surprisingly good bike actually. I cleaned the chain and oiled the heck out of it and now it works just fine. Again, can't complain. It's not as beautiful as my old bike, but Rust Bucket does the trick. Thank you, Rust Bucket.
Also, I met some of the new 19 year old sisters. One of them had been following my blog before she left. Kind of a...awkward conversation.
Yep.
tot volgende keer,
Elder Burgess
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