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