Week 75 Hengelo Netherlands

Christmas gifts from elder Wiscombe

Christmas morning with the sumters

Our Christmas feast!!

Sorry this is a short email this week but I told my family I would send some pictures. Christmas was awesome! In the Netherlands they have a 1st Christmas and a 2nd Christmas so we had two times the fun! There are lots of miracles happening in our district here, and it is super exciting to see. I love you all and hope you have a happy new year!

Love elder Hulet

Week 74 Hengelo Netherlands

Sorry there is no Mass email this week! But here are some pictures!

We got to go to Germany for a members birthday party and they took us to see a castle with the German elders.

　

We will be going to the Aldrinks for Christmas day. They are going to have two of us Skype at 4. Then we will eat dinner and watch a movie and then the other two will Skype after that. Elder Frisby is skyping someone in Hawaii so he has to do it as late as possible because of the crazy time difference.

Week 73 Hengelo Netherlands

Dear Family and friends,

This last week was transfers, so we were busy getting companions packed and unpacked. It also like rained like all week. haha but it was a good week.

I am now with elder Frisby. We have changed out apartment around quite a bit since he got here. We are at the library now and all of the good computers were stolen and all that was left were the standing ones. So we have to stand for our emailing time. haha

One cool experience we had this week was Monday night! We had our usual dinner appointment with the Aldrinks and after it was over he took us to see the new church. They just bought a building for the church here and they found out the alarm in the building had been going off for a few days and making the neighbors super mad. No one had a key to the building though so we got to break in and break the alarm to pieces!! haha It was a lot of fun and it was cool to see the church. It will be like 6 months until they can use it though because it was like an old school or something so they have to build it up like a church first.

Saturday we were out of town all day. We had DLC in the morning and then from there we traveled to apeldoorn for a Christmas concert. A couple of the missionaries participated in it, and it was soo cool!!! One guy sang a song from les misrablés and that was my favorite part! We talked to a lady on the bus ride home who was from England, and it was nice to talk to someone in English again. Not many people over here speak English to us like they would in the west. I guess it's good for my Dutch though.

Groetjes,

Elder Hulet

Week 72 Hengelo Netherlands

The surprised us for elder wiscombes birthday. He goes home this week and they
wanted to give us a real sinter klaas party for his birthday.



Me with the zwarte Pieten!! They put gifts in our shoes.

Last night we got transfer calls and turns out I am staying here in Hengelo! Elder Holt is going to Rotterdam as a ZL with one of his former companions. Super cool for him, and I will be getting elder Frisby! We are from the same group and he was in my last district.  He is super cool so I am excited!

I got a call Friday night from elder Parr and elder Lee in Delft and they were letting me know that the baptism of Josh was this Saturday!! I don't know if you guys remember but josh was a guy that me and elder Parr started to teach two transfers ago. He is from Africa and was in Delft for school. We set the baptismal date with him the night before I was getting transferred and It went through!! I am so happy for him! I just wish I could have been there to see it.

We had 2 investigators show up to church this week!! Belloh and Br. Torosian. They both loved it and I hope they will come next week too.  The work is starting to pick up here a little so I'm excited for this coming transfer!

 

Love Elder Hulet 

 

Week 71 Hengelo Netherlands

We spent the night in Den Haag before our conference and
I stopped in to visit Broeder Scherf

This is us chillin in the business lounge in Rotterdam. We get in with our
NS Business card from the church and we get free drinks and stuff.
We just feel so cool so we had to take some pictures

This week was a lot of fun. We only had like a half a day of actually knocking doors! We had 3 full days of service this week, and then we also had a conference in Rotterdam with elder Moreira a 70. Then we had DLC on Saturday so we had to travel all day for that as well. It was not a good week for numbers but it was a very good week.

The elder Moreira conference was awesome. His English wasn't the best so it made his jokes even better. He kept saying that we need to, "keep the smiling."  Haha this guy’s hobby is to dress up as a clown and go visit people in hospitals! haha he was just such a goofy guy! He told us how we need to apply the things we learn on our mission to life when we get home. He said when he got off the plane he went up to the girl that would become his wife, and he said to her, "you can date all the guys in this stake, but the marriage. That is for me!!" haha then he told her to put his name in her prayers that night and if she feels the happy then they are to be married.  If is works for the book of Mormon then is has to work here as well! haha and he said the most important thing he learned on his mission was following up. So the next morning he called her to follow up, and they ended up getting married. haha Just picture that story being told by a  guy who can't speak very good English. haha then it's more funny.

Saturday night after we got back from DLC we stopped by a less active member named Arend. His girlfriend just had her baby a few weeks ago so we just brought them a little gift, and they invited us to stay for dinner. This guy told us he makes the best panenkoeken in the world so he taught us how to make them. They were super delicious, and when we were done he asked us when the next 5th Sunday was. We told him it was the next day and he said he wants to come and bring panenkoeken for the whole ward.  So Sunday morning we went over early to help him make panenkoeken, and HE CAME TO CHURCH!! It was super cool.  It was also unit conference so the whole stake presidency was there to teach the lessons. It was super awesome! One thing I've learned on my mission is that nothing gets people to church like making food with them.

Elder Hulet 

Week 70 Hengelo Netherlands

Us with Gagik Torosian. He loves taking pictures of us!

Our new tie knots we made on exchanges!

 Riding in a German train. We got our own little compartment thing to ourselves and some one came by selling drinks so we bought some and we felt like we were on the hogwarts express!!

Lieve Familie en vrienden,     (Dear Family and Friends)

 

We were really busy this week.  We had exchanges with the Enschede elders on Tuesday. That was a lot of fun, because we got to play basketball Tuesday night! It has been a long time since I have played basketball. They split us up into 3 teams, and they called our team "the Americans."  We destroyed them in the first game, but then they realized we are all short and they just took it to the basket every time. We couldn't stop them. All Dutch people are just so tall! But anyway it was a lot of fun.

Wednesday we had to travel to Leiden to spend the night, because Thursday we went to Belgium to get our drivers licenses.  It was so much fun! We bought some Belgium waffles, and some of the Belgium fries. They are so dang good!!  My comp used to be a skateboarder, and we saw some dude skateboarding in this big plein and he went up to talk to the guy, and the next thing we know he had switched shoes with the dude and was doing tricks on his skateboard! haha it was pretty cool.  We also both forgot our cameras so no pictures. I think I forgot my camera last time we went to Belgium as well. Sorry mom.  We will just have to go visit it someday again.

We taught familie torosian this week, and it is so difficult. They don't speak much Dutch at all, and also no English. So most of the time we are just reading out of the book of Mormon with them. They have a pretty sad life, so I think they love it when we come over. They also said to "doe de groetjes aan iederéén!" Or to tell you all that they say hello! I will send a picture of us with them. I don't know if I sent it last week but I will send it this week. Today we are all traveling to Zwolle to have the annual Turkey bowl! It's where we all get together and play American football! I'm super excited! I hope you all have a great thanksgiving week!

 

Love Elder Hulet

Week 69 Hengelo Netherlands

We did not receive a Blog e-mail this week so I will just put part of the letter Ryan sent to his mother.

So sorry there is no big email this week.  We have too many appointments today so our pday is only 2 hours, and we have to do shopping still too. The members here are super cool, and they invite us to everything! We are going to a bday party of zr daniels granddaughter today. And actually last night we had 2 dinner appointments so I almost died because they were both crazy good Indonesian food and it was so good! I ate a ton!

Thank you for the post card. I got it this week, and I love it! I miss those Utah leaves! But fall here is super cool as well.  So about the skating on canals. They like never do that because it never freezes anymore. But maybe this year it will freeze again. It is not too cold, so I'm staying nice and warm. As long as it's not raining it's pretty warm all the time. And yeah the hagelslag is just like sprinkles. We eat them a lot especially on the pancakes.  Do you remember those like dutch biscut things you sent me while I was in the MTC? Whenever a baby is born they eat those with butter and sprinkles on top.  If it's a boy they use blue sprinkles and if a girl then pink.  That's a pretty typical Dutch tradition. Turns out Dutch ovens aren't Dutch. I've been asking around my whole mission and no one knew what they were, but I finally found a member who knew and they said they are American.

I didn't realize how many famous artists are from the Netherlands until I got here. And I've been saying van gogh wrong my whole life! haha

So that referral I got to look up someone’s family here in Hengelo. ya well we looked her up and she didn't even open the door. She yelled from inside and asked who it was and I said elder Hulet and I was sent by zr van der putt to visit you, and she just said to go away. Super lame!

Week 68 Hengelo Netherlands

My new bike!

FREE REFILLS!!!

Sweet Dutch Graffiti

This week we had exchanges with the zone leaders. I was here in Hengelo with elder Corsini, and we decided to get me a new bike because we hadn't been able to find time yet. Soo we go to this run down used bike store, and before we go in elder Corsini just looks and me and says, "don't say anything. I'm going to get you a deal." haha so we walk in and he goes and asks to talk to the manager, and then tells them this whole story about how we are missionaries for our church, and we have saved money our whole lives to be able to come here and share this message with people and someone stole my bike. haha and he's like my companion only has 200 euro with him but he really wants that bike! haha so he ended up talking the guy down fifty euro! haha it was so cool, and it's a pretty nice bike!

On Friday we had a dinner appointment with Br Kabel, and he took us out to KFC! He just wanted us to get a little bit of 'merica for dinner. But he drove us super far to a certain one and we were wondering why but then we walk in and see that they have free refills! That is the first one in the country that I have ever seen with free refills! It was like Christmas.  He also bought us a ton of food, and even made us go back for seconds. haha he was super nice.

The work in this part of the country has the rep of being a little slow.  We don't really have many investigators, so we have been doing a lot of look ups lately.  We looked some formers up this week, and we met this family from Syria. They let us right in and they want to meet with us weekly! It was awesome! They don't speak very good Dutch though, so it is kind of hard to communicate with them.  They said they love the missionaries because we care about them, but whenever they talk to any members all they talk about is baptism baptism baptism.  I kind of thought it was the other way around. haha but anyway they are a super cool family, and I'm excited to start teaching them.

 

Elder Hulet

Week 67 Hengelo Netherlands

Jewish Synagog tour. It is the biggest one in the country.

 My District!

I found platform 9 3/4!! I tried to walk into to pole
and it turns out I am a muggle after all

So this week was transfers! I am now serving here with elder Holt from Canada! We actually have two Canadian elders in the ward now so that's cool I guess. Not a whole lot happened this week. We were pretty busy with meetings and stuff but I do have one story that happened to me Tuesday night. 

So as I woke up on Wednesday morning I went into my study room to work out, and I looked out our window and noticed our shed light was on.  So I yelled at Goates to see if he had turned it on and he said no so I went out to check.  When I looked in the shed I could see elder Goates bike pushed over and mine was gone!! Someone fetchin' broke in to our shed in the middle of the night and stole my bike!!  The worst part is that I had just barely bought a new pair of gloves and they were in my saddle bags with a jacket, an unbrella, and a tool kit.  So it's all gone now! Our new zoneleader is letting me use his bike for a while until I can get a new one so I guess that's a blessing.  I'm carrying around my bike keys still though so if I see this fool riding my bike around Hengelo I can push him off my bike and ride away! haha Or if I see it locked up somewhere I can get it back. I hear though that a lot of the time when people steal bikes here they sale them to bike stores, so maybe while I am looking for a new bike I will run into the old one! ha that would be funny. 

Well the work here in Hengelo is going great. I really like my new companion, and we are going to do work here!!

Luvs

Elder Hulet

Week 66 Hengelo Netherlands

We Got transfer calls last night. Turns out elder Goates is leaving and I'm getting a Canadian kid! I think his name is elder Holt. Me and elder Goates have had a lot of fun so it will be sad to see him go. Also I have only been here for 3 weeks so I don't know the city at all yet. Plus we don't have the maps we need for our area so it will be difficult, but I'm excited for it too.

We have an investigator named Anja here in Hengelo. She is from Germany, but came to the Netherlands for school.  She has been meeting with the missionaries for like 5 years, and in that time she has read the book of Mormon 15 times, Jesus the Christ twice (in two different languages), and all of the standard works many times.  She knows more about the gospel than me! She is super cool, but just doesn't feel like she is ready for baptism. Her mom is also kind of against the idea of baptism I think. We will be teaching her tonight, so I am excited for that.

In other news it rained all friggin' week! So that was nice. While we were on exchanges elder Goates and elder Brown had a cool experience here in Hengelo.  They were looking a potential up and her daughter in law answered the door and asked what she needed to do to get baptized. haha we don't get that every day! She came to church yesterday, but got there late and left early. Her kids were just too crazy but she said she wants to come next week without the kids, so I hope she does. I still haven't even met her though, and now elder Goates is getting transferred so next lesson will be with all new faces.

Today we are going to visit this cool Jewish building thing, and then tonight we have a dinner appointment in Germany!!!! Haha I'm super excited for that! Well I hope you all have a great week!

Elder Hulet

Week 65 Hengelo Netherlands

This week we had Temple conference! It is Always the best conference of the year.  We had to travel to Rotterdam Monday night to stay with the zone leaders there, and on the way to their apartment we passed the oasis of the sea! It is the biggest cruise ship in the world, and dang it was huge!! So that was cool, but then Tuesday we went to the temple and that was awesome!! We were there about an hour and a half early so they had us just sit in a sealing room, and that was the best part for me. The temple is really just such an amazing place. 

We had corrilatie this week with our ward mission leader who just happens to be a golfer! He took me in his "golf Room" and showed me his clubs. He was pretty excited to hear that I'm a golfer.  The ward mission leaders assistant is Niek Sumter! He was my zoneleader two transfers ago so it is cool to be able to work with him again.

One random experience from this week is when we were riding our bikes to an appointment, and we contacted a lady who was walking and pulling a wagon on the side of the road.  The wagon was just full of beer, and she paid us 90 cents for a book of Mormon. haha Then later that day we went to buy some new maps because we have pages missing in ours, and I had to find my way around the city in exchanges. So we went to a book store, and turns out the company that makes these maps stopped making them anymore because no one uses fetchin' paper maps anymore! The guy kind of laughed at us when we asked him where the paper maps were.  We really need to get Ipads soon or we are going to get lost one of these days.

 

Love Elder Hulet

Week 64 Hengelo Netherlands

We got haring with the district after District meeting. This is the guy cleaning
 them before we ate them, so they were nice and fresh!

Me eating the delicious Haring!!

Micha Dropping us off at the station

This past week had been great! Wednesday was our little transfer day, so we all met in Den Haag at the station.  It was sad saying goodbye to all of the Den Haag Missionaries, but I am super excited to work here with Elder Goates.  Me and him were in the MTC Together, and he was also in the Almere District with me, so We know each other pretty well.

Hengelo is in the middle of nowhere right on the border of Germany.  We actually have some members in Germany, and we will be going there for a family night next week. So I am super excited for that. Also the other elders in the ward are teaching a golfer, and he wants to take us all golfing next week with President Robinson!!! I am so dang excited! I Hope it all works out!

The ward here is great.  I got to introduce myself in sacrament meeting yesterday, and there was a total of 50 people in sacrament meeting. I counted.  The church is in an office building, so it was very crammed!

Over here on this side of the country they speak a dialect called Twents, and it is so hard to understand!! Most of the words are dutch, but they pronounce them so weird, and change some letters.  We went to ward council on Friday the members spoke the dialect, and I felt like a greeny again. 

We live in a nice little house with a back yard and shed and all that good stuff!  We each have our own study rooms, and it is super nice! It is such a nice change from our little one room apartment in Delft.

We have done service twice this week, and already had 3 Dinner appointments.  The ward here really loves, the missionaries, and I am so excited to be here in Hengelo. It is going to be an awesome experience! I can already tell.

 

Love Elder Hulet

Week 63 Delft Netherlands - Going to Hengelo !!!

So I got a call on Saturday and was told that I am being emergency transferred, because the office elders transfer is in between regular transfers. I am going to Hengelo this Wednesday.  I am super sad to be leaving delft, but I have heard a lot of good things about Hengelo.  I made sure to take a ton of pictures with the members yesterday. I am going to miss them a lot. One good thing though, is that I was given a bunch of referrals from the members here when they heard where I was going.  I received more referrals yesterday from members than I have for my whole mission.  Maybe that's why I am going to Hengelo.

So last week the senior couple took us to a museum called maduradom. And it was AMazing!!! Seriously it was so cool!! It is like all of the famous places in the Netherlands all built in a miniature size... if that makes any sense.  I will send some pictures, but it was really cool to see building from cities that I have served in.

On Saturday there was a baptism in the Den Haag ward!! It was one of the zls investigators named Aliza.  She is 17 and her dad is getting baptized next week too. Super cool! And she asked me to speak at her baptism. I was pretty nervous, but it was fun.

This week was conference, as I'm sure you all know, but it is one of the greatest things as a missionary.  I love it so much! And with the time change over here we just stay at the church all Sunday and watch conference. It was a long time to sit on a church bench, but it was awesome. I learned so much.  Oh and we also had Josh our investigator come to the baptism! He loved it and even butted up in front of people to get a good look at the font.  haha he is a stud, and I'm sad that I am leaving but I'm also really excited to go to Hengelo! 

Week 62 Delft Netherlands

Throwback!!!

Egg Aftermath

Hello family and friends! It was good to hear that Lindsey made it safely back to America!  I still can't believe she is done with her mission!!

This last week was great! Monday night we did a little exchange with elder lee so he could come with me for a Chinese joint teach!  We taught Br Montes girlfriend, and it went awesome! There are so many Chinese people here in Delft, so I have a feeling we will be doing these things quite often.

We taught Joshua again this week, and he just loves it! He said he is going to make us some African food next week, so I'm excited about that. We taught him about the plan of salvation, and he took it like a champ! Had a lot of questions but it was good!

We helped Micha make some piñatas this week for some volunteer work thing he is doing, and it was a lot of fun but mine didn't work out very well.  We dropped by on Saturday to see them after the kids had decorated them, and mine were destroyed.  Elder Parrs looks really nice though! After that we headed to the ward picnic thing in den haag! We got to play tennis and soccer with broeder Monte, and that was fun but the best part was that they had baseball gloves! So me and elder Parr got to play catch for a minute. That would totally be the highlight of my week, except for the fact that we found throwback mountain dew at the store this week! Don't worry I will sent pictures! It was probably the best purchase of my mission.

Last night as we were walking home a car drove by and threw an egg at us!! haha It hit my leg and exploded all over our shoes. It was kind of funny though, and now I can say I am the victim of a drive by egging! Not too many missionaries can say that!

Groetjes,

Elder Hulet

Week 61 Delft Netherlands

The princes in her golden buggy thing

Hittin some balls at the golf store

Waiting for a bus with the den haag elders

LINDSEY IS GOING HOME THIS WEEK!

This week was a lot of fun!  We had a member call us on like Thursday or something and needed some help breaking down boxes so we helped him for a few hours, and on the way back we ran into a golf store. Now there is this book they give to all of the missionaries called the Managing stress book, and in there it tells you that you should take ten minute breaks every few hours to help keep your stress levels low.  Sooo we decided to take one of those and we went into this golf store. IT WAS AWESOME!! It's the first one I have seen in this country!! They let me hit in the simulator so I will send some pictures.  It felt so nice to hit some golf balls again. 

Besides that on Sunday we had an investigator in church!! His name is Joshua, and I think I talked about him in my letter last week.  He is from Africa, and he is here studying.  He loved church!! I had to translate for him for the first two hours, and it was probably a good thing that he doesn't speak Dutch.  In the investigator class some of the members were asking some super stupid questions about the second coming, so I was a little selective on my translating. 

The work is going so awesome here in delft, and I am so excited for josh. He is just excited to learn more, and he said he has a lot of questions for our next appointment.

Elder Hulet

Week 60 Delft Netherlands

What it looks like outside of our apartment every night!

Ran into farley at the Elder Ballard conference!

Service with micha

Geliefde Familie en vrienden!    (Beloved Family and friends)

 

This last week was amazing!! First off, elder Ballard and 2 other general authorities came to visit the mission, so on Thursday we had a mission conference.  It was for sure the best conference I have had on my mission.  One thing that elder Ballard announced was that our mission will be getting ipads sometime hopefully in the near future.  He talked about us being responsible and all of that good stuff.  He was also just ripping on one of the other general authorities through his whole talk!! haha he was really funny, and it was just a powerful meeting.

After the conference, we had to stay in Zoetermeer to clean and set up for the stake conference that night.  We had two less active members show up! Broeder Monte and Tom! They both loved it!  So we pretty much just got to have an apostle blow our minds all day long.  It was Fantastic!

Saturday we had a whole day of service.  We helped a family paint in Den Haag, and then we came back and helped Michas friend Maaike in her garden.  It was so nice to be able to wear nikes and a Tshirt all day.  After we helped her, we headed to her house for dinner.  She is like a pro chef, and she lived in Italy for a while. So she made us real Italian pizza.  It was probably the best pizza I've ever eaten besides my dads of course!  But after we ate we agreed to have a pepper eating contest with Micha.  We all picked a huge razamataz pepper from maaikes garden and ate them at the same time.  It was the hottest thing I have ever eaten!! We got it on video so yall can see that when I get back.

Last night we were heading to an appointment with a referral, and we got to what we thought was the house.  Turns out he doesn't live there, and we just thought it was a fake address.  So we called him and he didn't answer.  So we decided to just look up a less active who lived on that street.  She let us right in, and we actually ended up teaching her roommate.  He took a book of Mormon, and invited us back!! So that was cool, but then when we left I noticed we had 2 missed calls from this referral kid, and he still wanted us to come over.  What happened was I just went to the wrong street! I looked at the map and was just like oh yeah I know where that is and I was one street off!! haha so my stupid mistake ended up turning into a surprise member present lesson. 

We taught this referral as well last night.  His name is Joshua, and he is from Africa.  He is probably one of the most golden investigators I have ever taught on my mission, so I'm pretty excited right now.  He is just so ready for the gospel!!

This week was an amazing week! I love my mission sa dern much! and we just heard as well that me and elder parr will be staying here for another transfer together!! Also none of the Den Haag missionaries are getting transferred either.  So that was just the cherry on the top of the cake for this week!

Love you all!

Elder Hulet

Week 59 Delft Netherlands

Apostate Vans Pday

Micha working magic on our balcony!

 En herinnering van Lil Jimmy
A reminder of Little Jimmy

Mountain West Computers going International

This last week went by really fast! We stayed pretty busy with appointments, which is always awesome.  We found a new investigator named Miguel, and he is super cool.  He sat and listened while we taught him, but when we were done he just jumped in with all of these crazy questions about America! haha Like does everyone carry guns, and are all the cars pimped, and do you just have car street races all the time! haha he watches a lot of TV, but he LOVES America!!

We also had Micha come over to build us our vertical garden! It is sweet! We have so many plants now I can't believe it!!  Micha is also coming this week to the elder Ballard fireside with us.  I can't wait for that! So Thursday is the mission conference and it goes until 3 and then we have to be back at the church around 5 for the fireside, so it's just going to be all day with Elder Ballard teaching us! I seriously can't wait! All of the missionaries are hoping that he announces that we are getting ipads, because the first presidency announced last month that some of the Western Europe missions should be getting them by the end of the year.  That would be really cool, but we will have to see!

Yesterday was a girl’s farewell in the Den Haag ward, and she is originally from Almere, so half of the Almere ward was there yesterday, and also a few people from Groningen.  It was the greatest!!! I got to talk to so many people I haven't seen for a while! I hung out with Broeder Van Vliet for a while. He was one of the ward mission leaders assistants in Almere.  It was just a great day! Then after church we went and fixed a sisters computer. Ha that was a lot of fun! It brought me back to the good ol mountain west days! The zone leaders came with us and they were taking action shots the whole time! haha I will send some. 

Well this week was really a great week.  We are teaching people, and seeing some success here in Delft! I love my mission and I pray that I will be able to stay here in delft for at least another transfer!!

Elder Hulet

Week 58 Delft Netherlands

Micha found this "WEED" growing in a neighbors yard

Scoren in mijn eigen buurt!
Translation
Scoring in my own neighborhood!

FuFu!! I ate it for the first time this week and it was the worst thing I have ever eaten in my entire life!!! I have heard about his african dish since I've been on my mission and I've avoided it until now! But it was a fun experience. I don't think I've ever prayed to hard in my life.

Fish and chips with the Den Haag elders.

Dear Friends and Family,

This last week was really great! Two of our investigators, Qian and Sarab, are home from vacation. We had a lesson with sarab while on exchanges this week, and she is super positive! She also says she just has the greatest feeling when we are over at her house. She's just awesome!

We also had a zone conference with the Rotterdam zone this week.  It was really good to be able to see so many of the rotterdam missionaries.  Elder knudson had just broken his foot, so he showed up in a cast. haha It was really fun to see him.  If you don't remember I served with him up in groningen.  But anyways the conference was awesome!  President Robinson did a cool little section on anti-mormon material.  He called it an imunization to anti! haha all he did was throw all of this anti material at us so next time an investigator tells us about some things they have heard about Mormons we will already have heard about it.  This really seems to be a huge problem in my mission.  Even a bunch of missionaries here have struggled with anti stuff that they have heard.  I really liked how president talked about it so much.  I Think it will help a lot of the missionaries here.

They are also starting a new Facebook campaign here.  They will be giving out free 'mijn familie' books through facebook.  Last time they did one of these campains we got like 600 referrals from facebook, so I am really excited to see how this one goes.

One other thing as well that happened this week was that micha brought us by some of his peppers.  He's like yeah I've been growing these in my garden and they aren't all that hot, so just throw one in your soup or something! ha so we cut one of these things in half, and we each ate one of the halves. It was the hottest thing I've ever eaten!!!! haha We got it on video so I'll show you it when I get back.

Things are really going great here in Delft.  I am really getting along with my companion, and the work here is just amazing! I love my mission and I'm so grateful for all dat yall do for me!

Groetjes,

Elder Hulet

 

About 8 months ago they started this big thing around the mission called a 2 sentence testimony.  They wanted us to teach members how to share stuff on Facebook, and then share a 2 sentence testimony with it.  It was really hard for me to share something super powerful in only a few sentences. But it is something that has helped me a lot on my mission. Sometimes we don't have the time to sit and tell a long story and stuff like that for our testimony. Especially with the Dutch people. they like you to be straight forward. So squeezing everything into one or two sentences is hard but now it is my favorite thing to do on the doors.

Week 57 Delft Netherlands

Goede Dag iedereen!

This week has been good! We spent a lot of time with Micha.  He invited us over like 5 times.  We did service for him, and he also gave us a guitar lesson.  That was super awesome, because it has been a long time since I have played the guitar.  He has been giving us a ton of plants and stuff lately too, so our back garden is looking pretty sweet!  On Friday broeder scherf, our ward mission leader, invited us and micha over for dinner.  Broeder Scherf is so awesome.  He is always helpin us missionaries out! Micha loved it too, and now they are really good friends.  They like trade plants and stuff with each other. haha I love the Dutch people and how obsessed they are with their gardening! 

We also met with broeder Monte this week, and made brownies with him.  That has become our new thing.  We just make brownies with less actives, and then they have no choice but to come back to church. It's great! 

On Saturday night I got a call from a member of the bishopric, and he asked me if I would give a talk in church the next day! ha I hate how people bail on their talks the night before! ha anyway the talk was on "het belang van de doop" or the importance of baptism.  Luckily it was only a 5 to 10 minute talk so it didn't take long to prepare.  I have always been super nervous when giving talks, but my mission has really helped me out with that.  I kind of enjoyed it actually! haha I know weird, but it was good!  I told a golf story in it too! haha I think I have done that in all of my talks I've given. 

Last night we stayed with the Den Haag elders, so we could play basketball with them this morning.  We found a court here with actual break away hoops! It was awesome, so that was our pday activity this morning. 

Hope you all have a great week!

Groetjes,

Elder Hulet