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View Poll Results: How would you describe your mission?
Greatest experience of my life 2 4.65%
Among the greatest experiences 23 53.49%
A good experience 7 16.28%
A mixed bag 4 9.30%
Overall, was a negative 3 6.98%
One of the worst experiences of my life 4 9.30%
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Old 05-17-2007, 06:20 PM   #41
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Even I like the Dutch. They almost all speak English, and they never made me , an ugly American, feel bad that I didn't speak a word of Dutch (when I visited a few years ago).
They're the best English speakers in Europe by a long ways, IMO. They're super impressed by an American who would take the time to learn their language. They also think their language is really hard to learn but it's not. It's like German with watered down grammar and lots of English cognates. The Dutch are generally very friendly, just generally not at all religious.
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Old 05-17-2007, 06:23 PM   #42
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They're the best English speakers in Europe by a long ways, IMO. They're super impressed by an American who would take the time to learn their language. They also think their language is really hard to learn but it's not. It's like German with watered down grammar and lots of English cognates. The Dutch are generally very friendly, just generally not at all religious.
Just try to say Scheveningen (I went to 5th grade there).

http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/german/dutch/JJenkins.html
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Old 05-17-2007, 06:24 PM   #43
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Were you ever in the Hyde Park Ward?
Yes, I was - for three months.
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Old 05-17-2007, 06:27 PM   #44
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Denver was great except for all of the Broncos fans.
We had an elder from Denver, and all he did was talk about John Elway - it was really annoying.
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Old 05-17-2007, 06:28 PM   #45
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Yes, I was - for three months.
That is one of the favorite wards I've ever attended (although I doubt we overlapped since I lived in Hyde Park from 98-03). Lots of smart, interesting people.
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We had an elder from Denver, and all he did was talk about John Elway - it was really annoying.
In Denver, I worked a short distance away from about 10 different John Elway car dealerships - it was really annoying; at least in part because I already hated Elway.
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Old 05-17-2007, 06:45 PM   #47
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That is one of the favorite wards I've ever attended (although I doubt we overlapped since I lived in Hyde Park from 98-03). Lots of smart, interesting people.
Nope. I was there in '87. Do they still have the blue baptism box?
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Just try to say Scheveningen (I went to 5th grade there).

http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/german/dutch/JJenkins.html
I can. It's a killer for Germans to say right, but with enough practice Americans can learn to say the sch.
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Nope. I was there in '87. Do they still have the blue baptism box?
You were there before the built the chapel on 52nd and University Ave. Right?
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Old 05-17-2007, 07:11 PM   #50
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I was in the Hyde Park Ward in London....
That ward is fantastic. Quite the diverse leadership there.
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