Who was it who was teasing Aaron, and why didn't he beat them up? I know he could, if he wanted. That time's really good. I think it would take me a ton of working to be able to run that race that quickly. I have heard from people that it's a really difficult route. It's sad that he had such a miserable time. I think that California and everything related would be much more fun if you weren't being made fun of.
It's probably really good that the ward Christmas party was in that building. It's good that you enjoyed the children not running all over the place. It's been a really, really long time since I attended a ward Christmas party where Santa visited. I think it was Oma's and Papa's in 1997. (Yeah. A long time ago.)
I'm still not exactly sure how Christmas is celebrated in the Netherlands. I know that today is Sinterklaas, and that's the night when Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet go and give little kids presents. And we're going to go to Amsterdam when we're done emailing. It'll be interesting. I wonder if the Centruum will be really crowded. I'm thinking that on Christmas (and 2nd Christmas; the Dutch like celebrating) the Dutch people just go visit family and spend time together. But I'll let you know when it happens. We're hoping to be able to get a lot of investigators in church that day, because we have a service on Christmas, and that's one of the two days most Dutch people go to church.
I think it's probably a good thing that they have this new system done. It probably makes it a lot easier for the general authorities to get to all the stakes. And I'm glad that you all enjoyed it. With the last stake conference, I enjoyed what I could understand. Most of it was easy, because four of the seven speakers were from Breda, and I knew three of them, so I was used to their accents, but with one of the speakers, she was from Belgium, and that's a super-difficult accident. But stake conference is always an uplifting experience for everybody who can understand the talks.
I never really considered myself that good at making panakake. I remember the first time I tried, they were more like American pancakes with how thick they were. And I tried doctoring the crépe recipe that's in the mission cookbook a few weeks ago, but that didn't work out like I expected. I think it might have been because I ran out of milk halfway through.
Things are going well in Alkmaar. I'm much more comfortable driving, but it still sucks, even though I know most of the signs now (one of the members in Alkmaar is a driving instructor). I think when I get used to the fact that I can be driving 80kmh(50mph) on a road as big as 3200, I'll be fine. My night driving and rain driving are improving a ton, too. We used to have a lot of investigators but, thanks to my luck most of them dropped off the face of the earth right as I got here. But we're finding some new investigators, and we set two baptismal dates last week.
Well, that's pretty much all I have to say. I love you all. The Church is true.
P.S. The library in Haarlem (we're here again because of a baptismal interview) has a coffee machine. It's so weird. I miss Herriman Library and Bingham Creek library.
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