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Hej everyone! 


Thank you so much for all of the birthday wishes. Very much appreciated. 

This week was pretty eventful, actually!

Some good stuff:
- had Splits on my birthday, where I got to teach one of the best lessons of my mission. I don't know if I've ever seen a person more genuinely touched by the Plan that God has for us. It was awesome.
- the sisters we stayed with threw a little party for me when we got back to the apartment that night, which was very cute of them.
- I also gave out a Book of Mormon on my birthday, which was sweet! #bestgift
- had another lesson with a woman from Ukraine who is really sweet and even reads the BOM on her own! 
- ate a lot of naturgodis. 
- met a guy on the tunnelbana who's mom was a witch, and we're meeting with him this week! 
- ate waffles at Pablo's house yesterday.

Some not so good:
- Had to block a creepy guy on Facebook. 
- had to live-translate our testimony meeting to English, which I am SO terrible at doing. PLUS, there was a guy that got up and told a story where he almost got murdered in the woods and I TRULY thought that I was misunderstanding what was going on. But after talking with some members afterwards--that was exactly his story. Sheesh.
- our sink is still broken and our tiny apartment smells like toilet.
- there was a crazy guy on the tunnelbana that started following us to church yesterday. lol

I love my mission, and I'm so grateful for all of the experiences and the people I've met.

God has a plan, everyone! 
Syster Naatjes 

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Surprise party from the cute systers. 

Cherry blossoms ft. Syster Atkinson.

Rainbow train station!

Last picture before the end of Splits.

District council! 




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