Hello
This week was another week. The rain is really coming down today, and there is even a little bit of thunder and lightning, which is rare. We got transfer calls again this week and I am blessed to stay here in Breda again with Elder Knaupp. Good news. Normally missionaries here stay 2-3 transfers in an area, but 4 is not too uncommon. Only 1 Elder is moving in our whole district though, so everything is pretty much the same.
On Tuesday, we had a district meeting, and we cooked lunch for the district. Normally a different companionship cooks every week, and we made chicken quesadillas. Some of the missionaries here have not had a quesadilla their whole mission. Everybody wanted the tortilla recipe from me since they are so cheap and easy to make. Pretty soon everybody is going to be eating only quesadillas.
We went on exchanges afterward, and I got to go to Vlissingen.
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You can see the relationship of Vlissengen to Breda and Amsterdam
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| A little closer |
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| Here's the city layout |
We went out into the countryside to eat at a members house, but we had a little bit extra time there, so we walked out to these houses in the middle of nowhere, knocked on the door, and said "Hi, we were just in the neighborhood..." No positive responses, but it was fun.
The rabbits and pheasants out there were huge. Another thing about the Netherlands, people like miniature horses here. Almost everybody with at least 1/2 an acre of land owns one.
Vlissingen is a really cool city because it was totally occupied by the Germans. But in 1944 allied soldiers reclaimed it street by street for 3 days, so most of it was destroyed. But it still retains the classic look of an old seaside town.
It also has an apparently really famous statue. All the Dutch people know it. Along the coast is a mix of 17th century sea fort structures with cannons in place to defend the city, and World War II memorials. There is a classic windmill that had a mortar bunker built underneath it by the Germans when they captured the city.
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| Uncle Beach with the windmill, cannons. The concrete thing next to the windmill is the German bunker. |
We had dinner with a family in the ward this week. The mom is from Tennessee, so we always speak English when we go there. They did a barbeque, and it was super good.
Other things this week included weeding Angkea´s yard for service and going to a birthday party for a lady that we met in the neighborhood who wants help with her alcohol addiction.
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There is a huge church in almost every town or city here, and they are all cool to check out.
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| Elder Meads and I in Goes. |
The churches are weird and archaic though. The saints are buried on the floor of the chapel though so you are always walking on graves
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| The Dutch countryside. Elder Meads is super funny |
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| This is that famous statue. |
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The last one is a concert poster that I thought was super funny.
All the Dutch music is dubstup and that style. There are about a million DJ´s. This ones name is "Yung Internet". Orion might like it. |
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