soo i dont know how many more of these entries you will be seeing.. ill be home in a little more than 3 weeks and right now dont really even want to be emailing, ive got things to do and see! :) but i thought i could share at least a miracle and leave a picture or 2 maybe.. ill write another 1 or 2 of these before home and give you all info for when i will be actually home and ready to see you all again! too crazy.. 

soo.. the miracle: we are going to have a baptism before i leave! (if everything goes as planned of course). tuesday morning our appt cancelled and on our way to our back up plan we had the feeling to stop by an apartment from a former the elders had told us about.  we had been a couple of times but she was never home.  this time we belled up with no answer and then were about to leave on our bikes when the door to the apartment building opens! so we got to go up to her place, she let us in to talk and we found out she has a 5 week old baby! Her life is finally at the place she needed to be at to start living the gospel. she told us it was so weird that we came by because sunday she had tried to come to the church but it didnt work out! she is so ready to be baptized and change her life now and were here to help :) she is a MMA (mixed martial arts) former olympian in training and her father was a NBA basketball player (rudy jackson) so she is a verryy tall woman who you wouldnt want to mess with and then she has this adorable teeny tiny (premature) baby and they are both just the sweetest things ever.  im excited to get to teach her for the last few weeks! 

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this week has been the strangest but one of the coolest of my missions since im kind of just making up what were supposed to do right now.. lets see Tuesday was the coolest, queens/now kings day! so fun and I ate raw haring :)  wasn't too bad! then Wednesday was the big day! went into the mission office around 9:30 and then met our greenies and had a training in this super classy hotel across the street. the greenies all stay in a hotel now since the mission home isn't big enough to house groups of 30 and then we have all trainings in a conference room.  these new girls are amazing.  the quality of missionary has totally changed and im sad that I wont be a part of it for too long :( but glad that im still here to see all these changes take place.  after a long training and a super fancy lunch, we got my comps luggage and headed to Groningen! 3 1/2 hours later.. we made it to the train station and a girl in the ward picked us up, gave us dinner and got us settled in our new area.  by this time it was 8pm.. a very long day! the next morning we realized the maps on our phone don't work and we had no other map of where we were and only knew that one member... so we were sitting in our house with no idea where we were haha thankfully im good at directions and just went to the store and bought a map and weve been just fine ever since.  it was hard for the first few days not knowing anyone but thankfully we have 2 amazing elders here who take care of us! now weve met tons of potential investigators, taught our first 2 lessons here and have found 5 people that are officially meeting with us to find out more! all in 6 days :) and one of those days we had to go back to the mission office so we traveled for 7 hours.. im loving this city and am so grateful to be here for my last weeks.  that still does not seem real. I think its going to be harder to come home then I thought.. but im excited to see you all of course!

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