We need to learn Dutch!

Pres. Bunnell told us we didn't need to know Dutch to serve.....probably not with the Young Single Adults but ALL the meetings are in Dutch!  Today there wasn't anyone to translate so we just listened to the Spirit in Sacrament Meeting.  There was someone in Sunday School and RS/Priesthood who was willing to whisper in our ears.  It is exhausting! We've decided to really consecrate ourselves to this mission and try to learn Dutch.

 

We have started with a language app, Duolingo, and have resorted to asking our language questions to anyone we see.  We ran into a couple of the Mission office elders at The Hague temple yesterday and bribed them with lunch at McDonald's if they would give us some language help and figure out our cell phone issues!  They were happy to oblige!  We think it impossible to learn a new language but I made a list of the words we know today, compared with NONE a week ago when we arrived and we feel hope and faith that the Lord will help us accomplish this! Here is the list:

the, and, or, she, they, we, you, child, boy, girl, man, woman, church, Jesus Christ, book, read, father, mother, sister, brother, drink, sandwich, milk, juice, menu, help, thank you, not, yes, no and I. 

I can say "Ik heet Zuster Christensen", roughly... I'm called Sister Christensen  and

"Hoe heet jij?"  roughly, what are you called. (I said these to a primary child today and she understood:)      So maybe we'll get there!