We all know God listens to Coldplay

Ah, email time. The time when I forget everything that happened during the week and go into panic mode because there's not enough time in the world for me to explain how much has happened, and how much I love missionary work! Haha.

I decided I'd better just start keeping these short. The work is moving forward! I found out on Sunday that I'm TRAINING. On my second transfer. Sooooo... Tomorrow. I will go to Leiden, and I will get a greenie, and a greenie will train another greenie. Dus.

We now have a legit baptismal date with  a quiet man from the Ivory Coast. He's suuuuper awesome. And he WILL be baptized on the 30th of this month, punt. :) He's almost quit smoking! Down to one every other day.

Sister Townsend is trying not to get trunky! I try to keep her on her toes. ;) She leaves in 4 weeks... I don't know what I'll do without her! We have super-companionship-unity. We say the same thing at the same time. A lot. And we just... Work. I love that woman. Also, her taste in music. There was a parade that went by our house the other night and a band played Boston's "Carry on my Wayward Son".... We jammed. Yup. Good times. :)

Wellll... That's probably good for today. Gotta go email the fam!

Reading assignment for this week is Exodus 3. Moses is awesome. Punt.

Love!

Zuster Anjewierden

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All right jongens!

Quickly - (Again, sorry. Happens every week. I'm gonna write something of substance at some point.)

Four new investigators this week! One is blind and she's basically already converted... Just needs to be taught and baptized. Super neat. :) 

Read Alma 7! It's my chapter of the week.

Be SO happy for American cigarette smoke. European kind is much worse.

I find out if I'm training next Sunday! Super crazy. We think we'll probably be in a threesome because Sister Townsend leaves the 10th of July!

We biked 36 km (about 22 miles) on Friday to go to a dinner appointment. I'm serious right here. Also, there were lots of hills. Haha. :)

Today I'm dressed like a 60's housewife. Dutch class. Or something like that!

The work is going forth, I know that for sure. Also, you can help SO MUCH. Missionaries love when members help. Invite them over for dinner and let them practice lessons... Go on joint teach... Give them referrals... Do it. :)

Love!

Zuster Anjewierden

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sorryyyy

It's official, I'm writing next weeks post slowly through the week as things happen. I have NO TIME left.

This week all my stuff has been breaking... That's lame. BUT the work moves forward nonetheless!

The gospel is true. I know that. :)

Love you all!

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Another week, another not enough TIME

LIST TIME because I literally have like four minutes. Also, I wrote the MTC advice, sisters, so it's coming next week, promise. The library we're at is closing. Poo.

Cheap chocolate here is like expensive American chocolate! So good!

Today we went to Gouda and played korfbal! It was awesome!

We found this super amazing Ghanaian family on Saturday and their son ASKED for a Book of Mormon. Before we offered it. WHAT? So cool! 

Dordrecht is SO cute. I'll post pictures next week!

I popped a bike tire and it's super annoying because I have to ride on the back of Sister Townsends bike. Better than just walking, but annoying nonetheless! Getting it figured out tomorrow!

I love my district!

I speak a lot of NederEngels here.

MMMMM look up fufu. So good.

K I HAVE TO GO BUT I LOVE YOU ALL!

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Shoot dang

OH MY GOSH I RAN OUT OF TIIIIIIME.

 

I'm in Dordrecht. I am with Zuster Madison Townsend and she's a marvelous trainer. Missionary work is hard, but grand! I'll write more next week...

 

LOVE

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Goedemorgen!

Hallo all!

 

SUPER quick update because I'm running out of TIME and this is the last chance I have to say last minute things to people that I have to say before leaving the country!!!

 

-I have a cold

 

-BYU Mens Chorus sang for us for devotional on Sunday night. It made my life.

 

-You can watch Mormon.org videos during additional study or mission portal time... I may or may not have watched the Brandon Flowers one mostly so that I could hear "Crossfire" playing in the background... I'm going through withdrawals. Haha. I sing Ingrid Michaelson and The Staves and Death Cab for Cutie and Coldplay in the shower. Oh, and shower choirs are the greatest thing of my life. Just saying.

 

-I can't believe I'm so close to being done! 3 more days!

 

-I will miss my zone SO MUCH. I'm getting all of everyone's information. Yeah. For serious. We're super tight.... It's awesome. :)

 

-I keep trying to not think about the fact that 1- I won't see my teachers after this week and 2- I won't see the people I'm with (the two Dutch districts) all the time after we split up on Tuesday... :( I'm so excited for it all but it's so bittersweet!

 

-I'll do a full MTC advice email next week for people coming in (Monica Baer, this is for you ;) ). I'm writing it on the plane. It's going to be awesome. But just know this now - the MTC is so awesome. If you want to love it, you'll love it. And actually... I'd have to try really hard to hate it here. It's marvelous.

 

-Megan Squire, I need you in my life. You should email me. :) Also... Pretty much everyone that is reading this. Haha. Letters/emails/DearElders are the greatest ever.

 

-DearElders must be sent today or tomorrow (anytime), or Saturday before noon to get to me before I leave! They'll shred any that are sent after I leave, so just email me or write me snail mail-wise otherwise.

 

LOVE YOU ALL

 

Zuster Anjewierden

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Ay mon, kop me een soft!

So I didn't get to finish last week... And the week before that apparently couldn't get through due to pictures... So here is last week, AND the week before, and this week. Email-ception.

 

Week 3

 

"The title of this means "Yeah man, buy me a soda!" in Sranam Tongo (Suriname Tongue), and I wish I could post a recording because it's hilarious. Two of our teachers went to Suriname and they're awesome!

 

Ummm... I kinda ran out of time. List again! I think I'll write this completely out next week so that it's just done and I can type it and not think...

 

Zuster Hudson and I got called as Coordinating Sisters for our Branch! That means we work with the Zone Leaders and Branch President and we keep the sisters in line (aka we love them to death because they're amazing).

Nederlands is moeilijk, but heel fantastis! Ik hou van het! Mijn is pretty all right. Ik sprek weel Neder-Engels. :)

 

Go look up The Character of Christ by Elder David Bednar! It was amazing! We watched it Sunday night.

 

Sheri Dew and Bishop Causse came on Sunday for Easter! It was so super wonderful! :)

 

Scriptures of the week - Moses 6:32 and Ether 12:12. Look em up,  they helped me so much this week!

 

We have SO much Easter food. I have a drawerful, and the other girls have a ton too... Haha it's bad!

 

I'm super psyched for General Conference! Truth! I hope you all are too! :)

 

AHHHH okay gotta be done. Love you all. Have some pictures."

 

 

And now week 4!

 

"Let it be known to all...

 

I LOVE GENERAL CONFERENCE! AHHH.

 

It was so good. :) It's pretty much an MTC holiday. You just kinda wake up and eat and go to conference and eat and go to conference and eat and go to conference! Yayyyyy. :) It was such a wonderful weekend. My favorite talk was probably President Packer's in the first session... But it's so hard to pick a favorite. Oh, and I cried when the YW presidency got released. They were wonderful! I know the new presidency will be wonderful too, but this was my presidency! Haha.

 

Okay, so, quickly -

 

Vocal Point came for our devotional after conference! It was so great! They were awesome.

 

Ik hou van het Nederlands (Dutch - I know I'll love de Nederland also but I'm not there yet!) Het einde.

 

I have a temporary companion! Her name is Sister Shayla Peterson. She is going to Denmark - her distrct was temporarily reassigned to Nashville, and they left Monday, but she had to stay cos she has mono. It's sad! But she's a super trooper! She ahs the greatest attitude. Also, the doctor cleared her today (the 11th), so she leaves whenever she leaves!

 

Elder Gerald N. Lund (who wrote The Work and the Glory series) came for Tuesday devortional! It was wonderful! He spoke on revelation. I absolutely needed it.

 

There was a bat ouside our room on like Tuesday night! It was kind of fun, actually, except it was after quiet hours, and there was lot of singing. Pff, cmon sisters. It's tiny. And cute.

 

I auditioned to do a musical number today with Zuster Wood from my district, who's amazing at the piano! We're in the "yes pile" - we'll see what that means. If hnothing else, it was wonderful to practice with her! I miss inging just to sing!

 

2.5 weeks left to go, folks.

 

ROMANS 5:6-8!"

 

 

OKAY THIS WEEK (5) -

 

SUPER quick so I can write a nice long email to my family...

 

I cannot believe we're so close to leaving. I've had friends come and go while I've been here but I feel like I just got here, seriously!

 

We had the amazing opportunity to hear from Elder Scott on Tuesday! It was super awesome. He spoke on revelation and prayer - communication with Heavenly Father. It was so wonderful, and again, I really needed it! I realized that I really need to rely more on prayer. Also, I KNOW that he was called of God. He is truly an apostle of Jesus Christ. What an incredible man.

 

We have started to speak Dutch all the time. It's SO HARD but so worth it. I can already tell I'm getting better.

 

Sister Peterson is hopefully leaving today or tomorrow! She's no longer our companion - a new group of Danish came in so she's with them. It's been a long process and she's super frustrated (for good reason) BUT she gets travel plans today.

 

I LOVE MY ZONE. I want to know all of these wonderful people forever. Hooray for the internet, and writing things down!

 

I think that's pretty much it.... Oh except we used Ghostbuster vacuums for service day. Truth.

 

ALMA 29:1-4 (Sometimes I feel like this. But not close to as selfless as he is. Because seriously... Read the whole chapter.)

 

MINDEN/JAMES AND MAGGI I need you to write me or email me or something. Haha. I miss you! If you are reading this... My email is kira.anjewierden@myldsmail.net. Or my address is over in the sidebar. Tyler, if you're reading this, you should tell them. Also, expect a letter like tomorrow or Saturday.

 

Also, my lovely Mariah Latu... You gave me quite a scare... Haha. I'll send you a letter soon!

 

I'll try to do MTC advice next week.... I have a lot of it. Many things to know about this wondrous place.

 

SO MUCH LOVE!

 

Zuster Anjewierden 

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