Okay, so that wasn't her ward.

Those of you not religiously inclined, please feel free to skip over the next five paragraphs.

I called Grandma last night, and she said that Susanne actually goes to church in Spijkenisse, even though the Meetinghouse Locator at LDS.org says that she's assigned to the Rotterdam First Ward.  Whenever I search anything in Hellevoetsluis, it always comes up as Rotterdam First Ward--doesn't say a single thing about the Spijkenisse Ward, even though there is definitely a meetinghouse there, and it's about halfway between here and Hellevoetsluis.  Weird.

Yet, the people at the church today knew her name when I said it, so they've probably at least met her, which is even more puzzling.  Grandma thinks that the building I went to today is the Stake building, but it's so tiny, how could it be?  Sure, the Stake President was there today, but that could have just been because that ward was getting a whole new bishopric.

Oh, well.  At least I packed my Kindle (which I have copies of the scriptures and the hymns on)--not even my mini-quad and my mini hymnals would have fit in either bag I packed for this trip.

Anyway, I got up and got dressed, surprisingly, at 8 a.m.  One of the other people in my room snores, so I figured it would be easier just to get up, especially since I had a long walk ahead of me.

After breakfast, I headed out, and it was pouring down rain.  I had that umbrella I bought at Madurodam yesterday, but the wind blew so hard that the umbrella turned inside out, and half of the extender arms broke!  Both my jacket and the bottom half of my dress were soaking wet by the time I got there.  The rain stopped long enough for me to get back after church though.  Oddly enough, their meetings are in reverse order of the ones back home.  We had Relief Society first, then Sunday School, and then Sacrament Meeting.

So now I'm back, and I'm hoping to do some laundry later, because I didn't pack nearly as many t-shirts as I thought I had, and I've run out of clean, full-length pants.  In other words, all I'm left with are warm-weather clothes, and it's pretty chilly here right now.

Or maybe I'll try calling Susanne in a little while, and do laundry tomorrow.  Though that might not be a good idea, for the same reason I just said above.

I didn't take any pictures while I was either walking or at the church, since I was just trying to stay warm, and my camera was inside the jacket.  Opening the jacket to get the camera would have been dumb--not to mention, my hands were already pretty frozen as it was, carrying the umbrella and the Kindle.

That's about it for now.  Maybe I can get some more of my story typed up or something.

Sunday

I tried to watch the Smallville episode from this week, but two things prevented me from doing so:

1. The cable company was having trouble (due to the weather) with their sattelite feed from the CW.
2. The tape I'd taped it on was old--as in, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel: The Series first run OLD.

So, the sound was really bad, and the picture was all fuzzy, and the whole thing would just cut in and out for no apparent reason.

In order to see the episode, I have to download it from Limewire--the download is running now. I got a 160GB external hard drive yesterday (after I ran my errands for the next two weeks) with season 1 of M*A*S*H, and seasons 2 & 3 of MacGyver (they didn't have seasons 1, 4, or 5 at Best Buy, and those are the only ones I need now).

Went to church today. While I was sitting in sacrament meeting, I decided that every Sunday, I'm going to write down all of the scriptures we look up on all three hours of church, and put the references in this blog, plus actually quote my favorite for the day.

So, here are this week's scriptures:

• Doctrine & Covenants 107:23
• St. John chapters 3 & 4
• Mosiah 5:2 & 7
• Moses 6:59-60
• Matthew 25:40
• Alma 7:11-12

AND, this one was actually quoted first, but I liked it the best:

Children, obey your parents in the Lord for this is right.

Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with
promise;)

That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the
nurture and admonition of the Lord.

(Ephesians 6:1-4)