Hoi ledereen

Hoi Iedereen,

I hope you all had a good week. Our week here in Rotterdam Zuid was a little dissapointing, but we are hanging in there. As i said last time, our friend Rory had a baptismal date for the 16th. He was doing great, had his interview on Thursday, and passed with flying colors. Well, then a little birdy told us that Rory had still been smoking. When we asked Rory about it, he said he had had one cig on monday-thurday, and maybe Friday too, we are not sure. So we had to call the baptism off. He is so close, and the members here are so excited to actually have a Dutch person enter the waters of baptism that they are being really supportive and really extra friendly to him. (Baptizing a Dutch person is actually pretty rare) So we spent a lot of this week planning for the baptism, and then most of Friday calling everyone and telling them that it wouldn't go through. But he is still so positive and ready. Finding has been a little slow still, though i see myself improving and, "breaking out of my shy shell" as i just start talking to people. What is really hard is that most of the people that we run into are Muslim. The problems with them are, 1) we are not supposed to teach them because it could be very dangerous for them if their friends found out, and 2) They believe that Mohommad was the very last prophet, and that there is no way that there could be prophets after him, so it is pointless to talk about the restoration and modern day prophets because they just laugh at you and say that the Koran says otherwise. The thing with muslims though, is that they are actually really nice people. They are not afraid to talk about their religion, as most of the Christians here are. The work will move on though. I want to thank Andy, Jill and Lindsee for your emails. Thanks for letting me know how you guys are doing and what you've been up to. It is going to be so weird to come back and see how much everyone has grown since i left. I'm already almost at 10 months. Hey Rob, time flies when you're having fun. In Dutch, you say, Lekker is maar een vinger lang, Or, roughly translated, "delicious is only 1 finger long" It goes so quick. Thanks for your support everyone. I love you all and i wish you all a wonderful week. Keep up the good work as Soldiers of Christ!!!

Groetjes vanuit Nederland,

Elder Bair (pronounced by the Nederlanders BAY IR)