Week 27: Said's baptism!

Goeie Middag!

Said got baptized! And everything went fairly smoothly. His dad was so excited to be able to baptize him, and his mom brought a ton of food and a beautiful homemade cake. I didn't get to take a photo until it was almost gone. :( His mom was slightly hesitant about baptism, but she says she will be baptized with her youngest son in December, so that is still pretty cool.

This week was yet another busy one contacting and following up on all of our referrals. Most of them have been interested, but it has been really hard to set appointments with them since they all are really busy :( Everyone here in Amsterdam seems to be always working... Anyways, we have managed to set up several appointments this week, so we will finally start teaching them.

Sorry that my email was so short last week. I just wrote the things I wanted to, and I couldn't think of a ton more. There is always more, but I can't bore you with the normal daily stuff, or with investigators that we don't know if they are solid or not.

But we did find an incredible new knocking place. It is a beautiful little town called Weesp right outside of Amsterdam. We looked up a referral there, and then knocked for 30 minutes, and in that 30 minutes we gave away both of the copies of The Book of Mormon that we had, and one of them wanted to pay us for it. We will definitely be returning there sometime soon!


Our last court wasn't quite big enough...
Said's Baptism!

The last of the beautiful cake Said's mom made!
Weesp! It is your typical Euroupean "dorpje." Canals down almost every road, beautiful houses, cute little bridges... I am in love. The whole tiny little town looks just like this.

I love you guys!

Love,
Elder Thornton