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!