jordan 6.21.10

well as you might know nederland won there second game in the world cup soccer. it was made clear to us buy many outragous drunk men raging through the streets of amsterdam dressed in orange with a beer in one hand and a horn in the other. oh little morgy porgy, i dont think france is doing so well thats weird.
anyway missionary work went well this week. our baptismal date patrick is serious about being baptised. we found out that he is addicted to smoking ciggaretes and the other green stuff. but who isnt around here. we are workin with him to get of of it . it is nice to see progress in our investigators. its been a while. patrick is shooting to be baptized on 24 july.
cherissa is doing well also. we found out that she has no parents they both passed away. she lives with her brother. she and patrick both came to church yesterday . and we taught them both a lesson after church. we went to cherissas house and her bro was there. we taught him to. i think cherissa has some trauma in her past. we gave her a blessing because she cannot sleep because of things from the past i think. she is very nice.
ive come to the realazation that here in amsterdam the world has a great hold on people. and its hard to pull them from satans dirty old hands.
well this transfer i have given more blessings than i have given my whole mission. probably 4 times as many. it has strengthened my testimony on the power of the priesthood. weve seeen so many miracles out of it, healings, strenght, reactivation, love, everything.
today we are gong to play some tennis with the zwaan sisters kim and joyce. it will be super nice to play.
ohhh yeah i almost forgot. yesterday in church im in the investigator class minding my own buisness. when david ( a good friend and young adult) comes into the class and askes me if i have an investigator by the name of, i cant remember the name something really weird. i say no. and he said well he just walked in the church and i told him to go to the duch class but maybe it would be better if you went and got him and brought him into the gospel principles class. ok sounds good so i went to the dutch class and there were not to many people in there. because the man that walked in was an islamic dude and he was telling everybody that we are wrong and we need to worship allah. he was very creepy. all the wemen took there children and got out of there. i was kinda like in my mind should i take this guy out? karaty kick? round house? full nielsen? no i just bought a brand new suit and i dont want to ruin it ha ha j.k. ( ps mom i bought a new suit at h&m my suits are struggling hope thats ok its a lighter gray.) so he was talking about mohamed and we needed to worship him kindof face to face with the teacher.the teacher said well we belive in Jesus Christ and we respect what you worship you should respect what we worship. he sais that Jesus was not the son of God and then this super cute old lady in the class sais well we believe in Jesus Christ in her old grandma voice it was so cute, finally one of the councelors came in and we went out in the hall. then the other councel and then the bishop. he just kept telling us that we need to worship allah and they said we have the same God we just choose to worship him differently and you need to respect that. then he was escorted out. he was a well mannered man didnt yell but just creepy and kindof quiet. well it was just another day in the amsterdam ward. i thought though that everyone of us wouldve stood up for what we believe no matter what. even until death. Jesus is the Christ and there is no other way.
g2g love you all
elder robert