Lieve Familie,
Yes the World Cup has now come to an end. It was super fun to be here in
Nederland during it and also spending half of it in Belgium. Last Wednesday
President Robinson gave all the missionaries permission to stay up and watch
the Netherlanders play against Argentina and let me just tell you, that was
awesome to just spend the night staying up late with members watching the game
(check out the pics attached). Unfortunately they lost though. Penalties are
definitely not the way to go out.... (Been there done that). In Nederland’s we
would say HELAAS PINDAKAAS for Nederland! I still think that Amerika should
have been there...
Anyways the missionary work is going good. We have been able to pick it
up here a little bit. Last week we had a great appointment with Francis who is
still on her date for baptism (26th of July) and we're also able to extend
another baptismal date for the 16th of August with a new investigator that we
found named Tú. It was great! However there is still lots of more work to do
and lots of lives to change. Just got to "keep on swimming" and make
sure to always be engaged in a good cause.
You know this last week as I watched Nederland play and lose in
penalties I thought to myself. Man life just isn’t fair sometimes. And I
haven’t come to any conclusions, but I believe that it is true- that sometimes
life just isn’t fair. We have so many things that happen in our life that are
unexpected or things that are taken away from us. So many emotions and so many
choices to make. Just so many things to deal with. Now I have been thinking
about it and ya life definitely isn’t fair, but that is because it is not
supposed to be. We experience all these emotions/ incidents throughout our
lives so that we can learn and grow. I am grateful that we aren’t on this earth
forever. I am grateful that we get to go through this learning process and
discover who we really are. I am grateful that life isn’t fair and that we
sometimes just have to climb over some mountains. I heard this quote here on my
mission: "The blessings are behind the Mountains, first we just need to
climb the mountains". We just got to keep going and climb. Trials are just
blessings in disguise. We just have to make good use of our free agency and
stay positive and realize that "alles komt goed".
The mish is great peeps. It is the
best learning experience available. I love it and I love you guys. Love you all
with my heart and soul! God is real.
Love,
Big Dude
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