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 

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