Life You Can Hang Your Hat On

Wow. 
You know, if myself in the training center could've looked forward to myself now, he would've wept with joy.
No I'm not boasting. But it is true, after a year and a half of doing something every day, you do start to improve. 
I am so happy with the work that is going on here. We are working a lot with different members from the ward, giving support. And we've started teaching several new people this week. A mix of referrals and former investigators...

We went and got our pics taken dressed in the old style classic Dutch clothes. And I ate more herring. Was disgusting.

I'll send some pictures now. tot kijk!
Elder Chantry

Kaas Market

Tulip Festival Float

Short Letter. Pics Next Week

I ate another bite of raw herring. My lips still taste like fish. heheh.

We went to the kaas markt, (cheese market) and we went to Vollendam today, and Elder C. is gone. And I have Elder I. from American fork Utah.

We have a zone conference morgen. (tomorrow)  And we are busy this week. Lots of planning last week. Got set though.. We’re ready to go. We had on Friday our mission leader council, and we had today our district leader council. Then we went to Vollendam and went and took great pics. I'll tell more next week.

veel liefde!
Elder Chantry!

Temple Trip and Keukenhof

Elder P and Elder Chantry.

3 Photos from Keukenhof.

Outside the Temple.

Elder Chantry and "Sons".

Enjoying the Netherlands.

Life is GREAT as a missionary!

Tempel Schoonheid (Temple Beauty)

The temple was great. It's so peaceful there weet je?
And Keukenhof was really pretty. It was better this year. Way more flowers. (that’s the flower garden place, in case we didn't know) (world renown and stuff)

AHH! out of time. 

IK HOU VAN JULLIE!!!!

Hoera Hoera!! (Hurray Hurray)

Hoera Hoera!!
Konings Dag is al voorbij. Die dag was echt een geke. We moeste heel vroeg opstaan en .....
Just kidding.'I'll do english. Google translate isn't that good :)

We slept in the Amsterdam apartment. Friday night for kings day the next day. Basically, on that day, it's een open market and everyone's allowed to sell stuff and set up booths in the Streets. It's a huge holiday. It's in honor of the Kings Bday. Which was that weekend. So they celebrate and party.  Lots of beer drunken, lots of orange is worn. (orange is the color of the Kings house "het huis van oranje" so everyone wears it that day. ...

We were busy from like 7:30, when we got there, til, .like, 4. And we just quit cause we were dood moe. . .

Our booth had a banner. I am proud to say that it was my idea (but I thank you for it dad:). Its a big mormon.org banner. And It turned out really well. Got people's attention hard core. WE were kinda shoved into a corner cause some people stole our spot (first come first serve basically) so it's jury rigged, but it worked. .

The booth, banner and gingerbread cookies. 

The second pic we look dumb in, cause we're eating some speculaas koekjes our neighbor booth guy gave us, but you can see the banner better. Elder C. and I worked with the sisters on that booth. And two other companionships worked in another one, a little further down the road...

SOO much FUN!
We were beat by the end of the day. 

Helping pop heads off Tulips.

We got the chance today to help a family (mom is member, the rest not) with their tulip fields. We had to pop the heads off. I know, sounds weird. But it makes the strength go back into the bulbs, cause that's actually what they sell. Not the flower itself (at least, this family) In this area of Nederland there's TONS of tulpen fields. It's sooo pretty right now, cause alles is in bloom. 
Life is good....

Elder C

Saturday Email

I email on Saturday. Cause Monday is 2de pasdag. Sorry, didn't know I would be doing it today, so I couldn’t warn you. .. But next week should be normal day...

This week I went on exchange with Elder K. He's serving up in Den Helder (north part of our zone) in a 3some. He's doing well. Likes his area (he was my first greenie in case we had forgot) ...

This coming Saturday, is Konings dag. We're gonna be setting up the booth and all that and talking to people. So we’re finishing up the plans for that (we were put in charge of organizing that for our zone, slightly stressful, almost finished though).
  
I love you all. 
Elder Chantry!

Spring in the Netherlands