and contact!!!!!!!!!!!

So heres the newsy blog-able part of the letter. =) This week was literallyone of miracles. It began Tuesday night when Sister Barkume and I prayedduring planning about who our new investigators would be. I felt like itwould be a ,iddle aged mom, she felt like a college aged woman. And the nextnight, after a fabulous lesson with a great joint teach, we found thatfamily on the second door we knocked! The father let us in, and the daughterwas 19. The mom and daughter were the most open - I was on exchanges fo thereturn appointment yesterday, when they proceded to drop us, but Im mostlyjust happy we could be where the Lord directed us. Many people need manycontacts with the church before they really investigate and get baptised, soI know this familys time will come later on. Thursday one of our baptisimal dates got dropped because shes prettywacked out into the paranormal... We are her ´´angels`` who sang to her andreminded her of Gods love during a hard spell. The funniest part is thatsince we dropped her she came to a baptisimal service and church! So weirdqfter all those weeks of trying to get her to come. Oh well. Its all in theLords hands anyways. But we had a real miracle Wednesday. We finally finally got to meet withan inactive woman who wants her 13 year old son and 9 year old daughter toget baptised. Her hardest part was meeting with the ,issionaries - she madeand dropped so many appointments! But the Lord let her hurt her ankle so itwas easier to persuade her to stay home when we came over. Sometimes theLord just has to slow us down so we stay out of our own way. ;) Her childrenwant to get baptised, and she is so excited to return to church and have thespirit again in their home. She married a Belge man but is now divorced; shecomes from Brasil, so it reminds me of mom. =) Her children are amazing...They really are the miracle of my mission thus far. Our other really great family is Lola, Sammy, and their two littleboys. Theyùre from Albania and Serbia and so sincere. They came to abaptisimal service Friday and they love having us over. Shes reading moreand more of the BoM and catching hi, at home was a big breakthrough - hessuper friendly and more excited about us then we feared hed be. So good! Andthey both speak Dutch so the ward will like them a lot. The Lord really hasblessed us with families and its awesome! Overall we had five investigatorsat the baptism on Friday (plus the other missionaries investigators) so thatwas pretty cool. Other funny miracles include - meeting a woman on thestreet who, upon seeing a pamphlet, excitedly yelled I LOVE JOSEPH SMITH!!Apparently she got a pamphlet THREE years ago and keeps it by her bedside.Crazy! Yet another reminder the Lord knows whats going down - we just haveto do our best and not get in our own way. =) Monday we met a man and his father in a park and had an incredibleconversation about God, religion, absolute truth - and in English!!! The sonhad lived in Hong Kong and met the missionaries there - the one heremembered could possibly be Dean Newton but probably not. But he had such afond recolelction of that Elder. He was hesitant to make an appointment withus because he was about to go to London (darn European vacation strikesagain) but took our card and even wrote down our names. Well see! And yesterday I got to go to Rotterdam on exchanges. I worked with Zr.Knoelk who was pretty amazing. Sometimes I feel like such a &" year old here- in frumpy sister mish clothes, awkard with the language, and just tryingto fight back anxiety qnd hqve more faith. Working with more experiencedmissionaries helps me see that there is a light at the end of this greenietunnel. Anywho, we had a fabulous time with one of their goldeninvestigators and then 7 more lessons on the street - including my firstreal Rastifarians!!! Utterly hilarious. When I realized he was smoking pot Istepped back a little bit, but hoepfull he still felt the Spirit. So good!Rotterdam is more crazy modern Europe than Amsterdam, and it was fun toserve in a place where the Durch was so clear. At ward council I couldunderstand ninety percent of what was said! So exciting - and a relief. =)