jordan 8.23.10

ok well an interesting week. it is only me and e crittenden now the other one went home on wed. it was weird for the first day but now its fine. i just have to do a lot more work and baby sit my comp some of the time.
so we have run into some opposisition this week. we were finding and we ran into a psyco who just started to yell at us. and get away and dont come back. its hard because you know you can help him but he has his agency.
we have been working even harder now that its two of us. we had some awesome appointments with maggie this week. we got to know her backgroung. she is 23 yrs old she was born in Zambia in the middle of nowhere, a 3 day travel from the nearest city. she grew up living in a mud hut no electricity no fridge no nothing. she would walk for 2 hours each day to fetch water that she would carry on her head and two buckets in her hands. she had never seen an airplane, her mom moved to the netherlands with a dutch man she met and left her behind. her dad would leave her by herself and she had to take care of her younger brothers and sisters who were babies for months at a time. so she would strap one of the babies to her back when she would get water. not to menchon that she lived completely off of the land. sugar cane sweet potatoes all kinds of fruit, bugs, rats bunnies, you name it. she would make evrything by hand from the earth. she didnt have shoes. ect...
when she was 16 yrs old she was brought to the netherlands to live with her mother. when she got on the plane to come here, she was waiting for the plane to take off. right when she heard the plane start she got scared and ran off the plane. they had to tranqualize her to get her on the plane. she was just thrown into modern day civilazation. she was amazed. she showed me her photo album when she first arrived in the netherlands. there was pictures of the first time she was on a computer or saw a computer or a tv. she said it was really weird that you just go to the store and buy things. she said why dont the just grow it or hunt it? she saw a duck while she was playing with her freinds and grabbed it and broke its neck and took it to her mother. her mom had to explain thats not how we do things here. when she went to the zoo for the first time she couldnt figure out why the animals were in cages. she started to take animals out of their cage and let them free. she said "i couldnt understand anybody because i didnt speak the language. now she has learned dutch and english. she started to get adapted to the normal city life giong out shopping, to parties, but she never did bad things.but she said she wasnt happy.
before we knew her we found her in the area book for the first time and decided to call her and get an appointment. she had met the missionaries on the street but nobody followed up on her. so we got an appointment and gave her a book of mormon. the next visit she siad she couldnt put the book down. our second visit she said im starting to change, i just dont like to do the things i did before. the next visit she brought friends. and she said she loves the book so much. she agreed to live all the laws. and loves to meet with us. she now meets with us almost everyday. she is the most prepared person ive ever seen. a few days ago we gave her a liahona and we came back the next day and she had read the whole thing. she ponted out points that she had never thought about before such as modesty and missionary work. she told us she now understands that she needs to share it with all of her friends and her family, at church on sunday she told me she had met a lady at the bus stop that was having a hard time. she told her that she had found something that had helped her. and she made an appointment to go visti her the next day. she took a book of mormon to give to her. it is only now that i realize the power of the book of mormon and what it can do to peoples lives, no matter where you come from. she said she now feels happy. she asked me on sunday if i would baptize her. so i will be baptizing her on the 4th of sept, pray for her.
well my time is up got to go. mom thanks for the bom study guide it is perfect. love e robert