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

Week 56 Delft Netherlands

Onze Achter tuin

Our Papa Rogers Pizza Feast

Newly arranged apartment

This last week was awesome! Fall is finally hitting, and the leaves Be A Fallin! It also rained every day as well but in spite of that We had a few really cool miracles and I will share one of them with yall! So it was like Tuesday night during daily planning we got a call from the ZLs and they challenged us to get a new investigator the next day.  So we decided to pray again and then pick a street for the next day.  We found one not too far away, and turns out the first door we knock lets us in.  His name is Harry, and we taught him about the book of Mormon.  He invited us back, so we will teach him the first lesson this week! It really was a miracle for us. We also got let in while knocking doors on Saturday and got a new investigator there too.  I don’t know how long it has been since I have gotten two new investigators in one week.  It made the week just so much better.  We got a few pepper plants as well from an investigator, so we now have a garden. haha I will send some pics.  We rearranged everything in the apartment too so it is lookin Nice!

Groetjes

Elder Hulet

Week 55 Delft Netherlands

This past week has been pretty great! On Wednesday I got to go and pick up my companion at the office. There are also 4 other elders from my group that are training, so it was really cool to get to see them there as well. So my comp is Elder Parr from St George, Utah! He is really cool, and he is going to be an awesome missionary! We spent a long time trying to find him a bike in Delft, and there were no used bikes to be found, so we talked the zone leaders into driving us around Den Haag to try and find a good store. We ended up finding him a pretty good deal at some Turkish bike store. It was probably not the funnest first day for him, but bikes are really important here!

A few nights ago we made some American Brownies with Micha our investigator. We used your recipe mom, and he loved it!! I hope you don't mind me giving him your secret recipe! haha so something cool about micha is that he is in a band, and they are actually pretty dang good! They just did a tour around England a few weeks ago and they had Lindsey sterling as their opener. Pretty cool! He gave me their new cd so I can show yall when I get home. He isn't super interested in the gospel though which is too bad, but he is so Christ like!! Like for real he is always doing things for other people! He also loves our church, because he feels like we don't judge him like other people do! He would make a great Mormon! haha but anyway we had a dinner appointment last night with familie Jansen, and they live super far away, and after the appointment we had to wait like 45 minutes for a bus. So we took a ton of stupid pictures. haha I will send some to you. We then spent the night in Den Haag with the elders there so we could play voetbal with the members this morning. They are too good for us, but it was still fun!

I hope yall have a great week!

Elder Hulet

Week 54 Delft Netherlands - Will be training a new Elder

Stealing Sister Hulets Ideah and drawing the plan of salvation on the groung

My lekker kapsalon! My favorite food over here

Today at the beach!

So last night all 8 of us the Den Haag missionaries had a dinner appointment with Familie Berends, and after it was over and we were leaving was exactly the time we all started getting transfer calls.  It was kind of fun so we could hear where everyone else was going.  Turns out elder Pouwer is going to speikenisse to be a district leader and I am going to be training a greenie here in delft.  I'm super excited!

In other news! This week we had a lesson with william.  I don't know if I have said anything about him yet, but he is a new investigator.  We had a bomb lesson with him.  He is a dutch guy with two sons, but he likes speaking english with us. Anyway he is super interested with the book of Mormon.  It was the first lesson I think I have had where we talked about American history and how the book of Mormon and all of that stuff fits together.  He is such a smart guy and super cool! We have a lesson with him tomorrow so we will see how that goes.

Another cool thing that happened this last week was while I was on exchanges with elder Pugh in Den Haag.  We were talking to a guy on the street when I saw a guy ride by on his bike with a Karl Malone Jersey on!! I seriously with we wouldn’t have been talking to anyone at that moment so I could have stopped him and gotten a picture.  That is the first time I have seen the Jazz anything here.  Everyone has Yankees or bulls hats.  Pretty lame. But that was just super cool to see.

The work is going awesome here in Delft, and I just can't wait until the summer vacation period is over because things are just going to explode here!

 

Elder Hulet