Spring Cleaning

Dearest of families, 5/18/2009

Hello again from sunny (sometimes) Rotterdam!The weather here really has been quite nice, if a little cloudy/rain-like-there’s-no-tomorrow at times. It makes for exciting days tracting :) Actually, we went tracting the other day after church, and it was cloudy, but not too bad when we left the church and started knocking on doors, but half way through, the heavens opened and water GUSHED out of the clouds. I've never seen such hard rain in my life. It lasted about 5 minutes, during which we were all three huddled under our umbrellas laughing as our shoes completely filled with water. After 5 minutes the rain stopped, and we kept going, now completely drenched much to the confusion of the people behind the doors who opened them to see us, three drenched girls and blue skies behind us. That night my feet were dyed completely orange from my shoes. It was a great day!

Now that spring has come and the winds are so crazy, I decided to cut my hair. I just got it cut this afternoon by a Turkish man that I had some trouble communicating with-- an interesting experience, but it ended up being a pretty good cut. I think I still like it better long, but the long hair was getting in the way and was kind of distracting, not to mention attracting some unwanted attention from some weird potential investigators :) It is a little shorter than my shoulders now. It is much nicer and doesn't get nearly as snarled in the wind.

My new companionship is great. Zr. Higham is my new companion, in her last transfer, which has been really awesome. She is from southern California and we get along pretty good. She is very bold in the work and is going to be great for our investigators. It is kind of a relief to have such an experienced missionary here to help Zr. Wieland and I work with our investigators to prepare them for baptism. Zr. Higham is also very good with Dutch, which will really help me. Now that I can say a lot more stuff, I realize how much I say wrong-- which is not exactly ideal, but its great to have Zr. Higham here to help out. We’re doing an English fast next week- which means we won't be speaking English from tomorrow morning until next Tuesday. Its going to be awesome!

Well, I'd better head back to the world of missionary work, we've got a lesson in about 20 minutes. I love you all and hope you are all happy and enjoying the beautiful springtime.

Ik hou van jullie!
Love,
Zuster Cherie Gulliver