December 9th update

Familie,

It's been a super fantastic week! It's also been an extremely tiring week! We have been finding and contacting people like crazy! We're super determined to reach our goal of contacting 3000 people in four weeks. Fortunately, we only had two dinner appointments last week, so we were able to spend more time out finding. Our current total of people contacted is 851! We were getting a little behind last week, so on Saturday we went crazy and contacted 294 within only a few hours! It was pretty much non-stop talking with people. We definitely can see the rewards from our efforts. We're starting to build up list of potential investigators. We're currently averaging about one potential investigator for every 100 people we talk to. It's hard work, but there are prepared people out there! In fact, we had a miracle just yesterday. We stopped by the home of one of our potential investigators, one who Elder Harvey contacted and gave two french BoM's to (one for him and one for his friend), to see if he had read the book at all. Luckily he was home and when he saw us he got super excited. He said he hadn't read the book yet due to school exams, but he was planning on starting to read it this week! And even more cool, he asked us if he could have an extra Dutch BoM so he could give it to one of his other friends! We then set up an appointment with him for next Saturday! It's our first appointment of the transfer!! Well, since we pretty much only did contacting last week there isn't much else to tell. The only other interesting thing was that we got stuck in our elevator on the way up to our apartment last night. We literally got stuck just three inches away from our being able to step onto our floor. We had to call the emergency number in the elevator for help. They sent a technician out to help us. So basically there were three of us in a super tiny elevator for about an hour. And we were all tired and needed to use the restroom. It was quite the adventure, haha. We even ended up doing our planning in the elevator, haha.  Also, it's super cool to hear about what you're all doing for that family. That's the way Christmas should be done: in the Christlike service of others. I love you all and your wonderful examples! 

Met veel vreugde,

Elder Fowkes

Three Elders stuck in tiny elevator