Strange sights about

JUNE 6:
It is not 115 here, but it is warm and humid. The other day you could almost taste the water with every breath. But al lot of the water dried up today. We just got back from playing soccer with a kid from Congo, a kid from Morrocco, and a kid from Iran. And later, another joined in that looked like he was from Ethiopia or Eritrea. It is getting easier to distinguish where people come from just by looking at them. 

There are hundreds of goslings at the park now

On Wednesday, we went to Roosendaal to help with the transfer. Transfers can be pretty stressful here because people have to sometimes board several trains with 2 suitcases, a backpack, and a bike. We missed Elder DeBloois leaving towards Emmen, but were able to do a little work in Roosendaal. Elder Knaupp was telling us that he sees people here all the time that look like people he knew back home. Elder Dearden started noticing it too, but I did not think anybody here looks like people from home.Then Elder Prickett got here, and he is Elder Deardens new comp in Roosendaal. Later that day we were walking around the centrum doing some contacting, and I saw somebody on the bus that looked just like Marcus Jones. 

And 5 minutes later I saw somebody that looked just like a kid named Donovan Merry that I have known from Mercury Mine. The person was staring at me though so I looked away, but then He shouted "CONNELY!" because it was Donovan Merry. It blew my mind, but he is actually here in Breda doing a study abroad.

 I would have understood if it was in Amsterdam, Den Haag, or Rotterdam, but Breda is not actually that big. It was a pretty big surprise. We talked for a little bit, but had to go to meet the Roosendaal elders, so maybe I will see him around. He should be here until the end of June. I guess I was supposed to stay here in Breda. 

We have been doing a lot more finding in the centrum than we used to, but you meet some interesting people. We talked to a really drunk bum a few times. There was a holiday agian here, so everybody was drunk the whole week. Yesterday we actually met somebody that greeted us as the Elders because he had taken lessons from the old Elders here a while ago. He was a little drunk, but super nice. We were having a good conversation with him, when two muslim girls walked by and said, "Islam is the truth." He called them back and started having a friendly argument with them. They would ask us questions and then only hear a couple words of our answer before trying to rebuke us for worshipping Jesus Christ. We did not argue back, but once they actually started hearing our answers, they could not really argue with us anymore. They would accuse us of praying to Jesus, but once we explained that we do not and we pray to God, there was not really much to be said. It was really cool to see the soundness of the doctrine. They were really nice, but all of their religious fire came their convincement of Islam.

 The word in Dutch is overtuigen which means convince. But I realized that we are not merely convinced of the way anymore, it is literally knowledge from the spirit. We had no desire to argue or pursue in a heated debate about what we believe, but we held our peace, answered questions simply and honestly, and displayed all of the fruits of the spirit. I guess we had no fear of being wrong or feeling defeated because we have the advantage of knowledge. The bum that called the two girls back was super funny while he argued with them. They would accuse him of worshipping multiple Gods, saying that God cannot take part of the creation of a human being, and he would reply " Who are you to say what God can or can not do. He is all powerful and you believe that." It was so funny, but we refrained from laughing. He had some really good comebacks to what they were saying. 

Eventually it just got worse because he mentioned that he believes that Jesus was a woman. The girls were laughing at him and stating the obvious that he was a man. But he made another great argument that no man on Earth could get 12 men to sit down all in one place and tell them what to do.