Week 14 Ommoord Netherlands

 Temple conference.  THose are the Noord elders.  
We took and awkward crammed picture because we have been liveing
 in their super small appartment... we thought it was funny!

 Our Fron't door. A sweet picture we stole from the Rotterdam Noord elders
and a quote I took from dad's email!

Me and Dhana! He's wearing my other name tag!

This week was awesome!  So we got all of the problems with our house worked out.  Turns out the heat and electricity was just a blown fuse so we replaced that and then our neighbor came over one day and said she either found my blog or elder shoemaker told her that we were having problems. (she was telling me this in dutch so it was hard to fully understand) She then told us that she really didn't want us to move because we give a sense of calmness to the place and she said she prayed that we wouldn't have to move!! Then about five minutes later she shows up again at our door and hands us the phone and it is our landlord!! No one at the mission office could get in contact with her.  The water company couldn't reach her and neither could the real estate people, but our neighbor did!! How cool is that!! Our landlord was super cool and she kept telling us how sorry she was and she called the water company and it turned out to be a huge misunderstanding, so they got the water turned on that day! Pretty sweet!! We also had temple conference this week! That was really fun.  I'll try to send some pictures.  So on Saturday we met this guy Dhana at the church to teach him and he was actually elder keys investigator in his last area and he travels to rotterdam every week so we are going to teach him too.  He was supposed to meet some guy for a school project but the guy bailed so Dhana just hung out with us all day! He went tracting with us! haha he is a super cool guy! He's been investigating for a long time and he really knows the gospel.  

So yesterday in church the speaker called me up on the stand and made me hold a 20 kelo weight the entire time he talked!! He told me why I was holding it but I couldn't understand him because it was in dutch! haha and he kept looking over at me and saying stuff and I would just smile and laugh... haha I felt like a fool! haha but then he let elder key come up and help me hold it so it wasn't too bad.  All in all it was a pretty great week!

 

Elder Hulet

Week 13 Ommoord Netherlands

My new colega elder key. petting a goat in the middle of rotterdam city.

Cinamon rolls we made this week with oreo icing.

Our district before transfers

Crazy Week!

 

Sent Shoemaker home this week.  It was sad to see him go, but I love my new companion elder Key.  He is a small town hick from Wyoming!! We get along super well and we are always singing country music. haha he's a cool guy.  

So This week has been super weird.  Wednesday while my companion was unpacking I decided to call Carolyn (our only Progressing investigator) and see if we could set up another appointment and she told me she wants to get baptized into another church... So we are down to zero investigators.  That night our power went out in our apartment and then Thursday morning two guys showed up and shut off our water.  We found out that the lady who owns our apartment hasn't paid her bills since January.  We also have no heat. haha So no electricity, heat, or water.  It's great.  We are staying with Rotterdam north elders but their apartment is one little room and whenever the guy above them showers then it rains from the roof. So they are in the process of moving as well.  We have also gotten a lot of other bills in the mail and this lady who owns our place hasn't paid taxes in a long time either and we got a letter saying if she doesn't pay soon then the cops and a repoman will show up and take everything out of the apartment.... our things!!! haha so we try to carry all of our valuables with us just in case.  So the church tried to just pay off her bills for her but they won't allow that without permission from her.  The only thing is they think she is either dead or left the country.  haha its great! Almost no missionary work got done this week because we have to sit in our apartment waiting for calls and such and we have to travel every night and morning from Rotterdam north and back so we haven't gotten much accomplished.  We might move next Saturday to a sweet apartment with the rot north elders.  It’s on an island!! Their bishop told us we would be moving from hell to heaven.  So I'm pretty excited about that.  

Week 12 Ommoord Netherlands

Cool church we went to in Gouda

Our sushi we made with familie kat last night

Pday shopping with elder cluaflin

 Making cake for district meeting

Final product! We didn't have pie pans so we improvised

 



So transfers are this week and I am staying in Ommoord! My companion is going home this week and my new companion will be elder key.  I know nothing about him yet. But that he is only one transfer ahead of me so neither of us speak Dutch.  So this week I had to go to Brussels for some legality stuff and I realized after I got back that I didn't take any pictures.  So sorry mom but I will be going back next month again so I will take some pictures then. This week was pretty slow.  We only taught one lesson.  We brought sister Gruppman along with us to teach Milka and they went off in croation and serbian.  Sister Gruppman practically taught the lesson for us because neither of us speak serbian.  It turns out that missionaries have been visiting milka for 17 years now, and she never saw the importance of baptism until yesterday.  She really opened up!  It was super cool.  I have no idea what they talked about but when it was all over Milka said she wanted to be baptized!! Super cool.  I don't know how sincere she was because she has never kept one commitment that we have left with her so we will just have to see if she can progress.  We also got an oven this week! I'm pretty excited about that!



Week 11 Ommoord Netherlands

This is us at kinderdijk last pday!!  It was super cool!!
There are like 19 Windmills in this little patch of land.  It was way fun!!

This is me and my comp ochteroping! haha

Watching conference!  It was super good!! it´s like Christmas for missionaries!!

I had my first bike crash this week!! haha it was actually a pretty wimpy little crash.  I turned a corner too sharp and slid off the road and fell on to someone’s lawn.  haha it was kind of a lame crash but now I can say I´ve got my crash out of the way!  So this week was kind of slow but last night we were doing some planning and we want to go to the food festival today but we didn´t know anything about it so we decided that this was the perfect opportunity to talk to our neighbor again! So we went over and she looked up a bunch of stuff for us and then when we were about to leave she started talking about her job (she works for the police) and how she doesn´t like it very much because it is very negative and then she just started talking about religion! she told us she wouldn´t have taken the book of mormon from us if she wasn´t planning on reading it!! So she committed to read!! and then she started talking about mormon.org and she wanted to watch some more videos like that!! haha it just so happened to be 10:00 and that is when the Sunday afternoon session of conference starts so we showed her the site and she totally watched conference! We don´t get to watch that session because it is so late for us but It is so cool that she wanted to watch it.  This is the lady that was against the church because of all the stuff she found about us on the internet!! That has got to be one of the coolest things that has happened out here!!  My companion goes home next week!  It’s crazy.  This transfer has flown by!