God is in Charge

Well everyone,
But hey, I wanna tell a few things that have happened here.
Did I mention that Ivo proposed to Rowena a little while ago? They´re gonna be married in the temple in a year :)
Also, we´re getting a mini missionary for 1 week (last name is Akash). He´s a member from a nearby ward (a convert of a few years). He´s planning on serving a mission in January, but he wants to do this mini mission to see kinda what it´s like. 
    He´s gonna be companion to Elder Sosa, although we´ll work with him too. He´ll be here til Sunday. :) Something different. Should be cool. Gonna be insanely cramped now in the apartment heheh awesome.....

This week we had a meeting with ]Judith. We went with a sister from the ward, which turned out to be exactly what was needed....
When we started talking she told us what she had just found out. That she has cancer, in stage 3 (out of 5)... ... She is taking it very well. She wants to fight it, and she’s waiting now to find out more info from the doctor. ...
     We talked to her about her testimony, and she told us all about how she came to know things in the gospel were true, how she had felt the spirit throughout the time she had been investigating. The Sprit there was strong as we asked her about what she wanted to do with that knowledge. She told us that she wants to be baptized, but that she just needs some more time, to prepare....
       
         I am so often baffled at how the Lord chooses to prepare his children. Judith is one of the most spiritual persons i know. She is kind and honest, and she wants to improve her life, and do God´s will. I wonder why God challenges her with something so great. But what I do know, and what i testified to her, was that even though often we don´t know where the ship is heading, we can be comforted when we realize that He is at the wheel, and he is steering us to the place we most need to be.
                                                   The same is true for all of us. God knows where He´s taking us. This is His plan. He knows us and what course we need to take to be prepared to meet Him again. All of you, I hope that when things your going through are hurting you, that you can pray to Him. He may not always give you all the answers, but he will comfort you and give you peace you need to go on. I testify of that.
I love you all. Hope you know that my mission is amazing. I love it.
I wish you guys a great week,
Elder Chantry

Short but Sweet

So a few cool things about those we’re teaching.

Rowena who was baptized is doing great. Ivo proposed to her the other day and they're gonna be married legally on December 31st :) (Here temple marriage isn't 'legal' so you have to do it by the city too).. Then in a year from now they'll marry in the temple.

She actually had us meet with a friend of hers who had a few questions about the church. We met with the friend (whose name happens to be Anna Marie) and her boyfriend and they both said they would read the book of Mormon and they want to meet again this week to talk about the plan of salvation :)...

Needless to say we are overjoyed. Another member of the church had us meet with a friend of his named Peter and he is gonna meet with us again too. He has interest and we'll see where it goes :)

So cool to have more people to teach. But more cool that they know members and that gives us a better face then just boring old missionaries coming every week. It works a heck better.

Judith is doing super great. She came to church yesterday. Arjan and Dominique are the same... but we meet again Friday, so we'll see....

I gotta run. We’re gonna play soccer with the other Elder's. But of course it's raining. Like it's been doing almost every other day for the past few weeks. And apparently will be doing for awhile still...heheh joy..

met grote liefde,
Elder Chantry

Why We Are on Earth

Weekly message (mostly consisiting of pics and smiley faces)

District at the Beach

 Happy :) that´s one of the most important things in the world. Literally. We´re on earth for two reasons. 

1: To prove that we will follow God

2: To have joy. "Adam fell that men might be and..." Clara, em, you know right? ;

Anyways. I’m glad. I’m gonna send some pics. cool ones. (hopefully) I hope your mother’s day was awesome mothers. 

love you guys

take care

tot later!

Working With 3

So guess what?
Actually I don´t know
but what I do know is that Rowena was baptized by her bf, Ivo, yesterday. And the kingdom has grown here in Breda :).
It was a really good service =) and here mom came and one of her friends as well... her mom wasn´t sure if she wanted to meet with us, but she gave us a definite maybe heh. We have faith when she sees what it´s doing for her daughter she´ll want to :)...
            And Judith came to the baptism as well. She really liked it (she´s one of our investigators in case you forgot) (or incase I didn´t tell you)
We´ve been having fun with three people here :) . It´s actually gone way smoother than I thought it would. The only real awkward thing was last night when we were going back from some members house and elder Wayman´s chain broke clean off, falling on the ground like an unloved greasy snake heheh. We laughed the whole way back to the member’s house where we stowed the bikes and caught a bus back to the appartment. 
Unfortunately when they sent us a third guy they didn´t send another shower with him. Or an extra fridge. Or another computer to do email´s on so that one of us doesn´t have to wait ; heheh or another bed. Although we did some scrounging from members and got another bed frame. Elder Sosa just had to give up the second mattress he was sleeping on. heh boohoo for him ; 
We taught a couple pretty good lessons together already. We´re working on teaching better together, and trying to get to know each other more. It´s for sure different. But I like it. 
This Tuesday we were by the beach (sort of more of a bay) for dm. and we took some cool pics :).....and this Saturday there was like this Bevrijdings dag dinges. (Note: that means Liberation Day thingy) Like memorial day for the Dutch. Really kinda cool different organizations from the city layed flowers to remember the dead. And some of the youth layed some for our Church :)

I´m gonna go quick today. We got a third guy chillin waitin here heheh..

Elder Chantry