Week 10 Ommoord Netherlands

This is last pday.  our zone got together and played foetbal.  It was super fun.

Me and Elder Fonger enjoying our first warm, real, delicious stroop waffels together!

This week was pretty long.  We had a zone conference on Thursday and it was really good but it was like 6 straight hours of teaching.  I got really tired.  President Robinson taught out of revelations and explained verse by verse what was going on so that was really cool and he will finish up the book at mission conference next month.  My companion’s bike broke so we are doing what you call in Dutch ochteroping. It is where your companion sits on the back of your bike and you haul him around. haha it is fun for him but a work out for me and he goes home in a few weeks so he doesn't want to fix his bike.  We will see how that goes.  I also had to go to leiden this week to do some legality stuff and now I'm legal!! It was so nice to see a couple of my buddies from the mtc.  Me and elder Fonger hung out and got a nice warm stroop waffle together.  I will send you a picture.  So last District meeting they chose someone at the first of the meeting to teach the lesson and it ended up being me...  I'm still the new guy so what in the world could I teach a bunch of experienced elders!! Well anyway I talked on the topic of knowledge.  We read in 2 Nephi 9:28-29 and it talks about being learned, and how that can be a good thing or a bad thing.  This didn't really make much sense to me until recently.  We have been talking to a lot of jehovas whitnesses lately and they are super smart.  They know exactly what to say to us to stump us and I can honestly say they know the bible better than we do.  They have a lot of knowledge but that is unrighteous knowledge or falsely interpreted knowledge.  So we had a nice discussion on the differences between the two and we also talked about the saducees and pharacees (I don't know if I spelled those right) and how they were super smart.  They knew the scriptures very well and even Christ said they were not far from the kingdom of god.  But that knowledge was not righteous knowledge.  It was cool to hear all of the other missionaries opinions on what the difference between the two is, but the main thing we got out of it is, like it says in verse 29, To be learned is good, if you harken to the counsels of god.  So the way you can truly know if you have the right type of knowledge or your using that knowledge for the right reasons is if you have the spirit.  It is so important to teach by the spirit for us missionaries and if we can truly teach by the spirit in every lesson than we know that we are harkening unto the counsel of god.  That is kind of a summed up version of what we talked about and I hope that made sense but it was a really cool discussion.  We also did service this week for a family and we painted their house allll day long.  Seriously from ten in the morning until nine at night.  They fed us lunch and then they said they were going to take us out for dinner.  I got super excited to eat at a real Dutch restaurant and then we pulled into a McDonalds... haha it was really good though and they are really nice people.  Not much happened teaching wise this week which isn't very good but it was still a good week and hopefully next week will be better!

 

Elder Hulet