I hear the ocean is quite nice this time of year

hello, This week was pretty interesting. Week had quite a few ups and downs. So, on tuesday we had an amazing lesson with this couple from india and they were asking all of the right questions and felt the spirit so strongly ( or at least I did) and then later that night we got a really solid referral. So tuesday was great. Then wednesday we had two lessons planned. both of them went not so great. One was a word of wisdom lesson with a chain smoker who has been making tons of progress but does not think he should quit smoking if we are still allowed to take prescription drugs because they are both bad for us. The other was with a newer investigator, he has a crazy story but anyways he doesn't really like dutch people. Our joint teach happened to be dutch and he kept talking bad about people from Rotterdam the whole lesson. We didn't realize our investigator had such a strong distaste for Rotterdam people. But ya that lesson did not go to great. Then on Thursday Elder Dial got a package from his gf back home so he was all happy about that, then later that same day we had to use the computers and he checked his email only to see that she'd broken up with him that same day. That was rough... Also directly after we had a lesson with our guy on baptismal date. Well he said his parents in china were super against it and he didn't want to worry them a ton... so for the moment he isn't on date. We will work with him though. We did have stake conference this week though. It was actually really cool. It's fun to see so many members there and stuff. Plus the talks were all really good. It is a little different than stake conference in Utah, Dutch people are very direct haha. It's kind of funny sometimes. Also yesterday we got caught in the pouring rain in the middle of the city with just our bikes haha. We got soaked. but it was all good. Anyways haha that was this week. Oh also last monday we made mussels haha, we saw them on sale for 3 euros for 2 kilos. So we thought why not. I had no idea how to cook them haha but we just put some garlic and oil and butter and other spices. Also a non alcoholic beer. Then we boiled them for a tim until they all opened. It actually turned out pretty good. I was surprised at how good they were haha. Also neither of us got sick or died. so that was exciting haha. Also one day this week we jsut randomly saw this bright green parrot looking bird flying around by our house. so that was cool. Itried to get a picture of it but idk if you can really tell. anyways until next week

Sincerly, Elder Harding