Starting to get around :)

We left Leiden for Zeist on Monday evening.  We are staying in this cottage until Sept. 1, when our permanent residence will be available.  It's darling and will do nicely :).  

We stayed one night and headed for Groningen, in the North of the Netherlands on Tues. morning.  We found our way with the help of the gps and stopped in Zwolle for Zone leader training.  The zone leaders did a great job of teaching us what a good door approach looks like.  I haven't tried it yet but hope to.  I have managed to tell 5 people we are missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints!  (baby steps!).

From there we continued on to Groningen, in the north of the Netherlands to stay with the Elder and Zuster Caldwell.  They taught us several things..

..how to ride bikes like the Dutch,...

How to love eating poffertjes (think donut holes but out of pancakes). It's really the berries, whipped cream and chocolate!

and where the first LDS baptisms took place in the Netherlands in 1861.  

We shared a new member discussion with the Elders and the Caldwells on Thursday and then managed to navigate ourselves back to Zeist.  

We have spent today getting organized...found a grocery store, set up a local bank account, found the information center in Zeist, managed to park successfully in downtown Zeist, drove by our permanent  residence, and located the meetinghouse in Utrecht where we will be attending regularly. 

We are hoping to meet the Bishop and find out how we can begin helping.  We also hope to meet the Elders and Sisters serving in the ward to find out if we can assist them or go out with them!  (and it rained today for the first time since we arrived, tho they say it rains most of the time...can't prove it by us...it's been gorgeous since we arrived a week ago!).