love/hate relationship

The love/hate relationship

 

Weeks go by so fast here but so much happens that I feel like its been a month!  I have an extreme love/hate (maybe bipolar) relationship with this language right now.  Its almost funny (funnier when i love it) cause 1 min i will be so frustated and just want to speak english and the next min i love it and have so much fun learning.  I think im getting over the fact that im going to have a horrible american accent and now i just want to be able to say a sentence without getting correct :) 

 

This week we had lots of appointments with members from the ward introducing a new missionary program and eating (as we do a lot).  The funniest one was with the bishop.  we eat with him and his wife once a week but this week his wife wasnt home from work yet when we arrived. (for those of you that dont know, 2 sisters cant be alone with a man for obvious potential reasons, even when it is a completely trustworthy man) so we went and did some door knocking while we waited.  we came back 15 mins later and she still wasnt home.  so after he got a little upset that we wouldnt just come in, he brought the dinner outside to us.  so here we are, sitting outside of his house in freezing cold holland weather eating a delicious hot meal.  he thought we were so rediculous but rules are rules even when they may seem a little silly.  We all had a good laugh though. 

 

They really dont mess around with getting me involved at the church here. The first week in Gouda i had to introduce myself in front of everyone at church, the 2nd week i gave a talk, and this week we gave a lesson to all the adults.  I still cant speak enough to give a full lesson though so what i did say was a pretty bad mixture of english and dutch.  we had an investigator there though and I got to bare my testimony of the love i have for missionary work and he told me all about how he enjoyed the emotions he felt, so i was grateful for the opportunity.  As frustrating as some moments may be, I love where i am at right now and i love sharing the beautiful message of the gospel.  I feel so blessed to know where I came from, why am I here on this earth and where I am going after.  So many people here say they dont believe in anything and it makes me so sad.  If only I could speak more of there language and tell them more! haha one day soon that will happen!

Anyways, once again out of time!

until next week!

<3<3 Zuster Jones