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 

Week 53 Delft Netherlands

This last week we had a zone training in Zoetermeer.  We had a member of our ward teach a language section during it and that was actually my favorite part!! He really helped us with the language and it was just a lot of fun. 

So on Wednesday I as on exchange here in Delft and we did just a bunch of look ups and door knocking.  At about 8.00 we knocked on this guy’s door and he let us right in.  He is an old guy from curacoa! haha I love old men from curacoa.  They are always religious and willing to talk.  But anyway we taught him all about the book of Mormon and set up a return appointment.  It was awesome! The work has been going really slow here lately so that was just what we needed.  We are going back tonight to teach the restoration so I hope it goes well. 

We have been teaching this young student lately that actually referred himself via mormon.org.  He wanted a triple combination so we delivered it to him a while ago, but anyway we stopped by on Saturday to try and get a lesson set up for Sunday and he let us right in because he had some questions.  He had read the pearl of great price and had a lot of questions about the war in heaven.  I'm not used to talking about the war in heaven on a first lesson, but it was actually pretty cool.  He seemed to really just love everything we were telling him, but before we left we told him to check out mormon.org and look through the Q&A section.  ON Sunday when we showed up he told us he had read through it and he read the part about the churches standing on plural marriage.  Turns out he's gay and he dropped us.  He doesn't want us coming back anymore, and he said that he had hoped that Mormons were different than other religions but we are all the same. We tried to teach him about it for a while but he wouldn't listen.  It was kind of a hard experience for me.  This guy was so positive.  He had so many questions answered about the bible by reading the pearl of great price and he felt the spirit, but in the end he just wasn't open to listening.

On a different note, I was reading through the liahona yesterday and I read an article about a Brother Hulet! haha I don't know if we are related or anything but it was just cool to see the Hulet name in a magazine that millions of Mormons read!

Well I had a good week, and I'm grateful for all of the support and emails from yall!

Elder Hulet

Week 52 Delft Netherlands

My sweet new water bottle

Picture of DELFT!

Me in DELFT!

Dinner Appointment with the Peacock's

Sorry I didn't send an email to yall last week.  We had a zone pday and we didn't have much time to email.

So this last week I got the chance to go on three exchanges.  I really enjoy exchanges and look forward to them every week.  On one of them with the zone leaders I got to spend the night in den haag with elder Bitters.  When I woke up in the morning there was no food in their apartment so we decided to go out and get some McDonald’s for breakfast.  Well we forgot McDonalds doesn't open until 9 here, and we had already driven all the way out to it. So in the mean time we went up to the beach and had our study time on the beach while we waited for McDonalds to open.  I didn't have my camera with me so I don’t' have pictures, but it is like the coolest beach ever! So dang cool! And it was early enough in the morning we didn't have to worry about people being on the beach so that was also nice!

So since it is summer break all of our investigators are gone on vacation.  We teach a lot of student’s because the university TU Delft is in our area.  We did a lot of finding this week and we found these two Chinese kids.  I still can't pronounce their names but they are super cool and willing to listen to what we have to say.  We got a lot of other potentials this week but they all said to not contact them until after summer break! haha this city is going to go crazy in September!

This last week has been the hottest of my mission! They also don't believe in air conditioning in this country so it is just as hot inside as it is outside.  Whenever we come home for lunch and dinner we change into basketball shorts to try and cool off, and we carry frozen water bottles with us.  It is unbelievably hot, but luckily it rains a lot here too so every once and a while rain is nice.

Well it was a good week.  Not a whole lot happened, but I'm still just loving my mission! Delft is the coolest city in the world!

Elder Hulet

Week 51 Delft Netherlands

Fathers Day Card Ryan sent home

Every Friday we have correlation with all of the Den Haag missionaries and our ward mission leader Broeder Scherf.  This last Friday right as we were closing he bore his testimony, and then he said he felt like he should tell us something else.  Then he started talking about how important it is to have spiritual experiences every day.  He challenged us to do that and I really think that is the biggest thing about our personal conversion in the gospel.  If we don't feel the spirit often then we start losing a hold of the iron rod.  It was kind of a crazy week I'm not going to lie but what broeder Scherf said was an answer to my prayers.  I am so grateful for my mission.

 

Well I love you all and Hope you have a great week!

 

Elder Hulet

Week 50 Delft Netherlands

I GO HOME EXACTLY ONE YEAR FROM TODAY! Crazy right?? Well anyway this last week was good.  We got permission to watch all of the Belgium or Netherlands games in the world cup now so we watched the Belgium one the other night and they lost. But I'm so excited for the Nederland game this Wednesday. It's going to be insane!!! Anyway the work is kind of slowing down here because everyone of our investigators just left on vacation.  It's weird here. Like the whole country shuts down and everyone leaves on vacation.  Everyone gets like 3 weeks of vacation time for work and school so it’s really no good for missionary work.

We helped a few people move this last week and one of them was going to get rid of their couch so we took it and put it in our apartment! WE HAVE A COUCH NOW! Its super sweet!

Well yesterday was the baptism of the sisters investigator who has been investigating for a year and a half.  She was so excited and she invited us over on Saturday to eat at her house and she had us all bring 3 ingredients. It was like that iron chef show. She made us a super delicious dinner with just the things we brought!  Then we went to a second dinner apt/ world cup party! It was a lot of fun!  All in all it was a really good week! Oh yeah also on the fourth of july before we went to bed me and my companion shot these streamer things off of our balcony and screamed GOD BLESS AMERICA! at the top of our lungs just to celebrate a little.  Well I hope you all have a great week!

Elder Hulet