Maandag 4 september 2017
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| Joëlle's district met zuster Barker en elder Dubbeld uit Utrecht |
Hi
everyone!
So
what happened this week?
How is everybody? Has school started already? How is
life?
Life here is really good! This week we decided to work really hard. It
was hard, trust me. The sun is a huge obstacle. BUT we can do all things
through Christ right? So we did it. I yelled a lot, because we have to yell
“klop klop” all the time (knock knock), but people can’t hear us so we have to
yell really loud haha. It’s fun. I sound angry sometimes, whoops. Oh well. It’s
their salvation!
Funny
things first:
Because I want to end and leave you with the Spirit. Hahahah this
is too funny. There was a guy haha. He was biking, holding a plant or something
and he said “Ik heb geen paraplu, ik ben zo alenig.” So he had no umbrella (to
protect him from the sun) so he is feeling lonely. So he used the plant as an
umbrella hahahahahah. Wow we laughed so hard. People her in Suriname are crazy
haha.
There
was a creepy huge big iew bug in my drawer. We killed it with bugspray. I
screamed a lot haha.
Anyway,
this week was amazing! So I want to tell you all about it.
So
we are working in one specific area at the time, but we finished ours, so we
had to pick a new one. Of course we prayed. No answer. We just looked up some
potentials. But we had to pick a new designated contacting area. So we prayed
again. Then I thought I received an answer, but zuster Barker got another
answer. I was so confused. So I prayed again by myself and we decided to just
go. So we went to this street and we had some really good and spiritual contacts!
It is actually so fun to talk to people! Just random people you meet every day.
With their stories and their faiths and believes. It’s amazing! That we had so
many spiritual contacts was a confirmation to me that this was good. We were
doing the work in the area where God wanted us to do His work.
So
I want to tell you about two investigators this week. One is guy that knows
where Zwolle is because he used to live there! But he is really really poor.
Like he has no food (people here are really poor, it is really sad…). So before
we left our apartment I thought “maybe I should bring a snack, because we won’t
get home in like 5 hours.” Then after the lesson with him, he was telling us
that he hasn’t eaten all day. And I remembered that I put the crackers in my
bike bag, so I could give it to him. He was so happy!
I didn’t realize it was
the Spirit telling me to bring those crackers, but now I do. God works in
mysterious ways sometimes. It is awesome! Sometimes we don’t recognize that He
is talking to us, but if you recognize it eventually, that is good. It’s a
process. And we have the rest of our lives to learn how to recognize spiritual
promptings.
The
second is a motherl. I LOVE HER. She has having a hard time with her son with
autism. But we can see that the gospel helps her a lot. And she sees that
too! We took different members to her and it was amazing! They all could relate
somehow. Members are so important! We gave her a General Conference Liahona
so she could read President Thomas S. Monson’s talk. She just reads the
Book of Mormon every day AND a talk. We don’t even ask her to read a talk, but
she always picks the perfect ones. One of the talks was about the priesthood,
that day we wanted to talk about the priesthood.
The other one was about
certain women and we wanted to talk about enduring to the end and how she can
do that. She definitely is a certain woman! I’m gonna miss her so much! But God
needs me somewhere else.
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| zo groeit ananas |
I’m
leaving tomorrow and I will be flying all day pretty much #fun. I’m a little
bit scared, but I believe in God, and just like Alma and Amulek, I have work to
do here so I won’t die. I know God lives. Hij is een levendige God. I love
sharing the gospel. Sometimes it’s hard! But just do it! It will get easier. So
I invite you all to pray for an opportunity to share the gospel this week. I
will pray to :p I know you can do it!
Mi
lobi yu!
Zuster
Spijkerman
