Missionary Opportunities

Kathy, Wendy, Cheree and a lady from Englang that joined us for the day.

A week or so ago, I went to the Nijmegen market and to lunch with my American sewing group friends. It was right after we had gotten home from Rome so I had lots of questions for a couple of them. (There is a lot about the Catholic church I don't know much about. While in Rome, we had spent quite a bit of time seeing various famous churches and then did the whole Vatican tour thing. We sat in on several masses and a vesper service and on our tour the ladies were all excited about the plethora of rosary beads at the Vatican gift shop.) My friends are all "regular" church attenders andvery religious. (As opposed to those who maybe attend Easter and Christmas services.) Two are catholic and the other is Methodist so we've had some interesting brief conversations in the past about religion and I have had several opportunities to share a little info about the gospel and some of our beliefs. This is really a first in a long time for me so it was very exciting and scary. I am not very good at doing it and I get really nervous because I want them to understand what a wonderful religion it is and why they should want to know more.

Cheree having hot chocolate on her front porch.

My friend Cheree and I have had several opportunities to talk about religion and so a couple of weeks ago I got an English Book of Mormon from the missionaries. Several weeks ago, I had given away a bunch of novels in English to the group and I just happened to pull out The Peacegiver by James L. Ferrel, thinking Cheree might find some comfort or councel to some struggles she is dealing with. Cheree loved the book and read it in a day. In the back there is a whole page of scripture references that the book uses, including some scriptures that "weren't in her bible." This last Thursday, I went and we spent the day together and had a great time. She took me out to little places in the eastern part of Holland that I hadn't been to, like Broekhurst - the smallest town in the country. Anyway, we had lots of great opportunities to talk and before leaving her that day I gave her the Book of Mormon. She is planning on coming to Thanksgiving dinner so it will be fun to see if she has had a chance to read any of it or not.

I have one more Book of Mormon in Dutch that I need to give to another friend. I'm a little worried that there won't be a really great opportunity to give it to her since our time is running short here but I'm sure if I pray about it then it will happen.