One More Baptismal Date!!!

What a great week it has been here in the ghetto south of Rotterdam. We had a wonderful time, doing loads of good works. We were able to have and appointment with an eternal investigator, and set a baptismal date with him. His name is Adriano Fernandes. He is from Angola, Africa, and he is ready!!! This brotha has had a few baptismal dates before, but it has always been very difficult for him. His parents are deathly scared of him going anywhere but the Catholic church. His aunt apparently went to another "church" and it ended up being a cult that made all of its members commit suicide. So if he joins the church, his mom is threatening to cut off financial support. But he has such a strong testimony. He is so humble, and so sincere. He knows of the difficulties he might face. He has had a few baptismal dates before, but this time, he really wants to follow his Lord and Savior into the waters of baptism and be washed clean from his sins. He is awesome!!!
We had a zone training from our awesome President Brubaker this last Friday. The whole zone Rotterdam came to our building where we were taught about the importance of leaving commitments after our lessons. The best part of it was the Thanksgiving dinner that we had in the middle of it. I don't have any pictures, but if you look on the mission blog there are probably some up there. We are working hard and talking to everyone we see here. I had the opportunity to meet a really cool and humble woman on the metro. She came up and sat by me, and when I said hi she said hi back in a really happy way. We started talking and she asked where I was from. When I told her I was from America, she didn't believe me because "my Dutch was so good." She couldn't believe that I had only been able to speak Dutch for 11 months. I ended up telling her why I was here, and have her een Boek van Mormon and I got her number and address. Her name is Ana, and she is from Chile. She has lived in the Netherlands for the last 20 years, so she has really good Dutch. As soon as I knew she could speak Spanish, and I told her I wanted to learn it, she was even more excited. We have some really high hopes for her!
Thank you everyone for the wonderful stuff that you all do. I love you all and I keep you in my prayers. Have a great week and I will do the same here.

Veel liefs,

Elder Baer (I finally got my new name tag so the people here can pronounce my name right)