First P-Day in Emmen...

Hey everyone! Its Monday preparation day! It has been the best 6 days ever! My trainer is Elder Bell from Idaho. I got to my city, Emmen on Wednesday and on the train rides up I got to meet him. Also on the train rides up we had both of our appointments cancel on us :D typical right. So we decided to go finding with our bikes (they typically have an extra one at this city if one breaks or if someone like me doesn’t have one...) turns out that the key to the extra bike went to de Hagg with an elder and my companion’s promptly breaks. So we came up with a backup plan for our backup plan and we started talking to people in the bus station. The good part of the story was that we got 3 numbers from people to call them back. One couple that we found later on Saturday found us and told us that they had read the pamphlet and wanted to make an appointment. We are going to be meeting them on this coming Sat. On Friday we had a baptism, Elder bell baptized and I was a witness :D. She was a Chinese student who has good English and her friend, Jules has a baptismal date on the 30th! We also have Elmar, 32 years old who came to the baptismal service for Melody and yesterday came to church for the first time. We have complete confidence that he can kick smoking and we can get him a date soon. Azadeh has a baptismal date on June 6th and we are working closely with him. The work goes on and I am loving it. As for the jet lag! Such a myth!! It hasn’t slowed me down a bit. I’m sure all those long nights "studying" at BYU-I help out there. Tomorrow is district meeting so I am going to Zwolle for the meeting (my companion is the district leader) and then Nijmegen with another elder for exchanges! I got to bear my testimony in church on Sunday, it was leuk. There is a strong branch. I am buying my bike tonight (the key hasn’t come back yet and my companion’s bike is in the shop) so till now we have been using the bus and walking. P.S. I am loving the food here! But all things in moderation as dad would say:D. Sister Ekstrom is in de Hagg right now and i am sure my Danish MTC companions are loving life in Denmark. ps. Ganzenveld 70, 7827 SC Emmen, Netherlands is our address so you know. my love goes out to you all!