Zuster Lilli

Goede Dag friends and family!

well, here I am in The Netherlands! I thought that it would never happen.  AND I am in Groningen, of all places! It is absolutely beautiful here.  Every time I talk to someone I have a Best Two Years moment where I think that's not the language they taught me in the MTC,  but I have been learning to listen, harder than I have ever listened in my life!

My new companion is Sister Harris, she has only been here 6 weeks.  So she is training me and we are white washing *which means that we are both new to this city and have absolutly no idea what we are doing*   But we have been so blessed so far, other than arriving 45 minutes late to our first appointment we have been somewhat on time. But we get better every day, I am starting to recognize the city more and more.

The other day we had dinner at a members house, her name was Karin and she is like our language coach, we come to her with questions every week and she will help us out. While we were there she was telling us about how we will have to bear our testimonies in church on sunday and the only tip she had for us was not to say that you are enthusiastic to be here, I guess that was one of her pet peeves.  But me in my poor broken dutch didn't understand what she was saying. So Sunday  comes and I get up there and the first thing I say was that I was enthusiastic to be there.... my companion did the full facepalm. Oh well, at least Karin wasn't at church that week.

There is a lot more to say but I´m running out of time

so I´ll just say totziens and I´ll see you all next week in the daily adventures of Zuster Dixon!

​this is me and Silvester (my bike) in Groningen.

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Sister Harris and I with our Orange Kingsday hats.

Loves

Sister Dixon

 

From Adam

 

 Dear Family,

To start off, I just want to calm things down by saying that the sickness I've had has died down a good bit. Parts of it still remain (and I'm still chained to the house every day, darn it), but the fevers only get up to 101 if it's really bad now. 

To give an update, I was sent back to Iquitos because the doctors here are more trusted and they know a lot more stuff and take their job seriously. We've done another series of tests, but the doctors still aren't 100% sure as to what I've got, so we're doing a round 3 of tests.

BUT, the infection-expert has a hunch. He thinks I might have a parasite called "Toxoplasma" (which is a pretty awesome name, if you ask me), which is known by the less-awesome name of "Cat Parasite". It is, of course, passed by cats. About a month ago, in a service project, a kitten attacked my hand (right when I thought cats were OK after all). If it does turn out to be Toxoplasma, we would've known why.

But nothing is certain yet. The doctor himself says that he's only 33% sure about this. I'm sure that this time around, we'll be able to pinpoint what I've got and I'll be able to hop back into the fray!

Sorry for the short email this week, but being stuck inside the offices all day kind of leaves me without cool experiences. Glad to hear that everyone over there is doing alright!

Don't worry about me! I feel a lot better than I did last week! 

Love you all!