NIET Hij dood van ons

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Hallo iedereen!! Het is jouw leiflingse zendeling, Zuster Weaver!

It's already my fifth week of MTC... which means I have one more week left!! I'm flying out in 9 days... It's so soon, but at the same time so far away. It'll come soon enough though haha.

This week was good! More nederlands leren, more gospel learning. My companion and I taught our second practice MTC lesson in Dutch this week! It went sooooo much better than the first one. We weren't as nervous, and we prepared it in a totally different way. It was way better. Not as good as our English ones have gone, but better than our last Dutch one.

This is the worst lesson you'll ever teach in Dutch! It can only go up from here!

--- me, to Zus Lay, myself, and my district after we all taught our first dutch lesson. It's STRESSFUL. But hey,  it only goes up from here!

This week I'm grateful for grandparents who live close! My wifi was out this morning so I couldn't go to class. I was able to run down to my grandparents and mooch off their wifi for a few hours! Super thankful for that!

I've been mentally planning on getting to the Netherlands around January or so. I would LOVE to be there by Christmas, but I didn't want to get my hopes up. I was talking to one of my teachers this week and she said the mission president over there wants to have all the reassigned missionaries out by September!!!! It's just a guesstimate, a hopeful forecast, but still!!!! That's way sooner than January!!!! I'm still mentally telling myself it will be October or November, just in case things don't go as smoothly as hoped. But it looks like I might make it by Christmas, and that makes me HAPPYYYY :) 🎄

I was able to go to the temple yesterday again!! I did sealings with my parents, grandparents, older brother, and cousin. It was so fun being able to go again. By the time I leave for the field, I'll have been able to do every ordinance in the temple! I'm so grateful for the chance I have to live close to a temple and to be able to go so often!!

Love you all!

Dag,

Zuster Weaver

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