Goede dag!

Hello familie!

I can't believe Niki's graduating from junior high! That is soooo not allowed. Man, time flies WAY too fast. I had my 7-month mark a few days ago. That means that my mission is officially reduced to only 11 months :(. It makes me want to work even harder and become the missionary the Lord wants me to be even faster-- time is running out!!!

It was a great week. It was kind of a rough week at times. One of the things I have learned on my mission is that Satan will do everything he can to distract us from doing and learning about good things. He will make us really busy, and try to convince us that we don't have time to do the important things. So often he will try to play with our investigators priorities and convince them to spend their time doing other things than meeting with us and learning more about the gospel. Luckily, the purest of the pure in heart recognize that and just make time.

We have the most amazing baptism set up for the 20th of this month. Prins (I think I told you about him) is being baptized as soon as possible because he knows that the church is true and is TOTALLY converted. I've never seen anyone so antsy to be baptized! It is such a blessing. We also are teaching a woman right now who is the European champion karate-person. She just won some competition and now is champ from Europe. You should look her up. Her name is Hendrike (Hendrika?). Oh yah, and she's praying about being baptized on July 25th. YES!

As for me, I'm doing great. The Lord has blessed me with some very neat spiritual experiences this week that have taught me so much about myself and our purpose here on earth. Oh yah- Zr. Higham's foot isn't actually broken. She had x-rays and it is just bruised really badly. She's in some pain, but fully functional as a missionary. It really was a blessing. It is such an awesome opportunity to serve with her. I am just so blessed.

Well family, I love you all a ton! Mom and Dad, your trip to NY sounds like so much fun! I'll have to go check out New York sometime when I get home. I bet it’s nothing like Rotterdam :)

Have a great week and don't forget to pray!!!

Love, Zuster Cherie Gulliver