Gouda is on Fire! 

We had an unexpected baptism last night! most unreal experience of my life.. let me see if I can explain..

so sister gruppman's (i skyped from her house on mothers day, shes the professional violin player) friend, Zoran, got baptized yesterday. here is the story. they grew up as childhood friends in Serbia but had not seen or heard from each other in 40 yrs.  a couple of months ago, zoran woke up and saw sister gruppmans name in his head and knew that he needed to contact her and didnt know why.  So he searched for her online (and since shes a famous violin player it wasnt difficult to find her) and then they started emailing.  the second sister gruppman saw his name in her email she got a very strong prompting to send him a book of mormon. so two months ago sister gardner and I highlighted some passages in a book of mormon with sister g and sent it too him.  then sister g asked us to contact the missionaries in canada (where zoran was living) and gave us very precise directions on what they should do and say.  we thought she was crazy. But the missionaries went and saw him and taught him a couple lessons, and that was the end. But a few weeks ago sister g told us he was moving back to serbia and would be stopping the in the netherlands for a week and she wanted us to talk to him.  Then friday night we got a phone call and she said, weve been reading the book of mormon together and hes ready to be baptized. now. can you come teach him the lessons? haha uhh yes! So with permission from our new mission president, we taught him every missionary lesson in one evening and then sunday we went over the baptism, he got interviewed by our district leader after church and got baptized and confirmed last night at 7! it was the most crazy unreal, spiritually uplifting experience of my mission so far. some how we were able to teach using the scriptures to teach every single point with no preparation or thought.  my scriptures just opened up to places where thankfully i had marked during my studies and fit perfectly into every lesson.  I love the scriptures.  they are the truth and they bring people closer to the truth everyday.  
So now today were going to go meet up with him to make sure he can get settled into a ward in serbia and get a calling and the priesthood! and we get to go to the conservatory that the gruppmans play at and take a tour with them! So pretty much, im living the life.
No time for other details this week! hopefully pictures soon!
love you all! 
Zuster J