So I'll send this before reading anything, to make sure I get it off in a timely manner
I'll be to the point about things. I heard last night that I'm getting transferred. I'm going to Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, to be a Zone leader with Elder T.
It's funny cause, ZL''s have a car. But idk if i ever mentioned i went to get my license (you give your US one, and they give you a Belgium one in exchange. They have all the DL's do that here), and after some time of having it, they wrote the office back saying they couldn't switch it cause it says, 'intermediate license' on the front and they think that means it's temporary. Silly, cause it's not. it's just cause I'm not 21 yet. The Utah one's don't say that, so they never have a problem usually. silly. But not unfavorable :) I'm so glad i don't have to drive heheh. I would die. (there's a slim chance i could get a license, from Netherlands but that you have to take a test for, so might not happen)
ANYWAYS, boring stuff.
Basically, I'm gonna miss Elder P. and this area. I love it here. I've met some of The Coolest people here. Mom talked to one of em :)
She made the best thanksgiving dinner away from home i could EVER have. She's so awesome. She stuffed the turkey and everything. I'll attach pics...
Also, on thursday we had a zone dinges, and we dressed up as characters from Daniel 6. I got to be one of the plotting presidents that wants him dead. Best role play ever. (reminded me of the veggie tales with the song where they're singing about what they need to do to get Daniel:) so fun. And it taught a really good lesson. Plus, I got to be thrown into the lions den at the end :D fun indeed....
Wow, I feel like this area is my home. I'm kind of not sure about leaving. I don't really know how different life will be. Rotterdam is a zone I've never worked in. :) here we go again eh?
Well I have not so much time this week, but I’ll talk about a few things,
We had stake conference this week. And it was so cool cause I got to see a lot of members I knew from Breda. Also R., who was baptized when I was there :D. And her boyfriend I., was ordained to the Melchizedek priesterschap, and I got to stand in on that. Such an honor. .
Also, remember Y.? He was the Chinese student that we taught when I was in Breda. Well he was baptized! And at the conference. Got to talk to him. So awesome..
What else? Did several exchanges this week. Stayed busy, it went good. We had a turkey bowl today, and ate soup and stuff after :) real fun...
Can you believe this coming week is the last of the transfer? So next I’ll know if i go or stay. I swear, transfers are every two seconds.
We get to have a Thanksgiving dinner this Thursday with some members :)
Something that struck me in stake conference. We had Elder Adler from the seventy come, he's German, and he had some great stuff to say.
One thing, he talked how before this life, we were with God. And we were prepared to come down here. And he said that God talked to each of us, before we left and told us it wouldn’t be easy, that we would have trials, but that He wanted us to return to HIm. And if we held fast to the commandments, then we could.
It struck me, that we all were, indeed, prepared before we came. The challenge is to remember that, here on earth. We all had faith in our savior, Christ. But we just forgot. And perhaps, we were scared, before we came, that by forgetting, we would never remember that again. But Our Father knelt down next to us before we left, and He promised us, the Holy Ghost. He is the key to remembering, that faith, we already had.
Work with HIm guys :) He will never lead you astray.
It's hard work, but hey, we wouldn't learn much if it was easy.
I love each of you,
Have a great Thanksgiving, this week or next (whenever it is)
Elder Chantry!
I say. The world is good.
True, the world is not perfect. And many parts of it aren't good. But if you look at it thinking about how Christ made it for us to live on and have joy, then the world is quite good :)
In district meeting, we talked about how real faith is necessary in order to avoid being held back. And I talked about Mel’s story :) how a lot of times what holds us back is not God, but really just our lack of faith.
I mean, we're all given things we have to accomplish in life. Often times we do the right thing and we pray for God's help. Funny thing is though, we often don't really think anything will happen. Especially when we think it's too small or unimportant a thing for God's care.
For example, when I was in Breda, transfers ago, we wanted to look up a referral, and we couldn't find her address that was on a piece of paper. Now we were just gonna say bummer and leave, but I got to thinking. We just taught an investigator the other day how when we pray with faith, believing we'll receive, we will. So why could we not do the same, right then, for a piece of paper? After all, we have the most important message in the world to share, and she needed it. So I suggested we pray to find it. Elder S. and I did. And guess what? We found it.
Sure, we can say it's coincidence, or that we would've found it either way, but come on. How much more obvious can God make it?
We taught the plan of salvation (of het heils plan. in het Nederlands) And, it went great. Elder Pugh led it, and it was so good. He had on this piano music in the background that played different hymns and stuff. I'll tell you what, if you play pretty piano music in the background, it soo can invite the spirit. I recommend it.
I'm gonna, run. As in, do something else.
Love you all!
Elder Chantry
 |
| In Brussels |
Good people!
So I’ll run through the week.
We had a zone Halloween thing this Monday. Here in Belgium they do some stuff for Halloween. Just not as much as in the states. Same basic ideas. costumes, candy, trick or treating (although not that much). haunted walks and stuff. Basically they get the stuff from the states and they implement it to varying degrees.
But ya we played tons of games and I owned at the donut eating one. totally fastest :)
But on other news,
We had a great district meeting :) probably the best I’ve led. We had a role play where Elder P. pretended to be a friend of his back home and each companionship took turns teaching for a few minutes and switching off. I paused it every so often to talk about how it was going and what he needed.
It was so cool. Cause see we wanted to set a district goal for the transfer, but at the beginning nobody had ideas. I did, but I wanted it to come from all of us. So we had the meeting and the teaching activity. And after talking about what he needed and how that applied to people we taught we came up with an awesome goal. :) I'm excited to see what it can do for the district.
We had more pumpkin pie :) even better then the first. heheh :D I was so happy.
On Halloween we went bowling with the branch. It was awesome. Guess what? I got three (count em) strikes in a row at the beginning of the first game. First bowl, strike, second, third, all strikes. haha. Funny thing, I only got like one maybe two more the rest of that game and the next. Couldn’t do it again. Frustrating! I scored 147 the first game. 81 the second. Go figure heheh....
We had to do most our preparation day stuff Saturday. Cause we have 4 appointments scheduled for today. heheh. Going to be busy.
I'm gonna go. I love you guys!
heb een geweldige week eh?
tot dan!
Elder Chantry
She made the best thanksgiving dinner away from home i could EVER have. She's so awesome. She stuffed the turkey and everything. I'll attach pics...
