Elder Thornton in Belgium/ Netherlands: Week 37!! Groningen (Also known as the Closest Place to Heaven)

Gooie Morgen!!!!!

Hey everybody! I hope you are ready, because these week has been incredible! I came to Groningen on Wednesday, and I have been amazed by absolutely

everything!

I mentioned that it was a student city last week, but I didn't quite realize what I meant. There are sooo many young people here. And since it is mostly hoge school (bachelors degree), they are almost all our age. It was kinda a shock.

With the business of the new week, we haven't gotten to do a lot of proselyting, but the times that we have I have been awestruck. And that is no exaggeration. I will give you an example. We were knocking in the middle of the day, so there wasn't a lot of people home. We ended up talking with a total of 4 people. 2 young men, 2 young women. We had a 50% success rate. And we all know what gender tends to be more open... It is a good thing we have sister missionaries to pass them along to :).

Sunday was the best day of my entire mission! This is the biggest ward in Nederland, and it is obvious why. Everyone magnifies their calling, and 1 or 2 people every week have given out of Book of Mormon. We had an investigator come, and he loved it! And we got a bunch of dinner appointments too, so this upcoming week should be good :). After church we went and knocked some doors, or tried to. Our first door was a guy named Bennie, and after the normal introduction, he let us in, we got to know him a little bit, and managed to fit a restoration lesson in there too :). And of course a return appointment.

After that we knocked a few more doors, but we had almost a 100% success rate, and we didn't even have enough copies of the Book of Mormon. The worst answer we got was "I am really busy with school, so maybe another time." I am unbelievably excited for this transfer!

Being a district leader has been super cool, but more time consuming than I thought. Elder Mostoller and I are district leaders together (that is normal in our mission). Our district is super cool, and I am super excited to work with them.