5/23/11

Dear Family,

I absolutely love being a missionary! Holy cow, life is good! It is such a lovely day. Today we are headed to Haarlem for a zone American Football game. Haarlem is the city where "The Best Two Years" was filmed. Yes, I had a chance to read Neal's email super quickly. I was so excited to hear from them! That sounds like an awesome place to go this time of year! I would love to hear how the trip was and how the presentation went! James, great job at sectionals! Regional qualifier as a sophomore, that's awesome! Tell Adrian congrats for me as well please? I laughed really hard when I saw Paige's photo of the (laundry bucket) hot tub. I would love to join when I get back! Dad, I am super happy for you! That's so awesome that you are doing so well! Both you and mom keep up the great work! Haha, mom your translation was very very close. :) I chuckled about the heel blisters haha. This week has been really great. We set baptismal dates for 2 investigators and we have 5 investigators all together. One of them, George, is from Ghana. I am so excited for him. He is so ready! Keep them in your prayers please! The museums were fantastic! We saw pieces from Van Gogh, Pisarro, Picasso, Monet, Manet, Emil Bernard, and Cezanne. They were beautiful and I felt very cultured :). Unfortunately we didn't have enough time to go to the Anne Frank House but we hope to go in the following week. When I cook, I just make things out of the mission cookbook or something from scratch. The address Jesse Owenshof 38 is good for right now but we may be moving apartments in the future. Not fairly soon however. Could you ask the new elder in the Ward if he was in the same zone with dutch elders? He may have been the group that moved into my dorm. I know for sure that there was an Indianapolis group who moved into my room right after. Ask him if he knows Elder Van Overbeek please? I need a tide-to-go pen or a few... Grandma Linda asked if there was anything she could send. Could you tell her thank you so much for the wonderful letter and I will write her very soon? If she needs a quick idea, starburst candy. They don't have it here :X. We have a dinner appointment every night this week so it'll be nice not cooking dinner a few times. I love Dutch food! I need to go, sorry :( It was great hearing from you! Tell William I said hello and I'm super happy he had a stellar semester! I miss him.  Love all of you!

-Elder Schulte