May

We've been hoping to hear that the temple will be opening in phase 2B which would allow for families to come do baptisms together but our index number is still not down far enough. 

We are still have presidency meetings but not every week and they are usually by Zoom.

We have some restrictions still in place that the government has put in place and that we are very careful to obey.   We are not able to meet in our home with more than 2 people at a time.

We had our first in-person meeting last week so we took advantage and had our picture taken.  

            On the right you see Nico and Marianne            van Wermeskerken,  then us and on the left        are Yvonne and Fred Brandenburg. 

We are very grateful for their faithful and loving service. 

By the end of the month of May we will have had 6 own endowments received by 3 young Brothers and 3 Sisters.  These have been very special and spiritual experiences for all involved since they and their guests are the only ones in the temple at the time of the endowment.   We look forward to every one that schedules to come and we earnestly pray that more will call and schedule with us.

           In our spare time we've enjoyed seeing more parts of the Netherlands as we travel to the missionary apartments in the different parts of the country and also in Belgium.  We have to watch for border rules that change from time to time depending on Covid restrictions. 

This is in Enkhuisen which is about half an hour to 45 minutes north and slightly east of Amsterdam.

This bridge is opened and closed manually every time a boat needs to come through.

This is a military graveyard in the town of Ysselsteyn located near the German border.  It has almost 32,000 mainly German soldiers buried in it.  We've seen several military graveyards and each one has a

very peaceful and reverent feeling about it.

We were biking in the Rottemeren area and found this overlook tower. 

     The weather had been threatening all morning and then we saw the sun shining on 

Rotterdam in the distance.