Week 79 Hengelo Netherlands

We found a new guy this week named Nour from Seria.  He speaks great English, and he was interested in the book of Mormon, so we set up a time to meet with him, and we taught him on Saturday night.  At the end of the appointment he was like, "by the way I liked your guyses Facebook page and I saw the video of you Elder Hulet." haha we hear stuff like that all the time. People see missionaries and say that they saw us on tv or on the internet so I was just like well that's cool! And he was like No really it was you! So he took us to the website and It was the video that the church made about a year ago back when I was in Almere.  It is the conversion story of a sister there, and they had me and elder Fowkes play the elders in it.  It was the first like I'm a Mormon video thing here.  The church made a new website just for Dutch, and they put this on it.  If you want to see the video it is also on the Facebook page.  It is called Mormonen Lage Landen.  Then it’s just under videos on that page. 

Link to the Facebook video
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1567734370123253&set=vb.1455383471358344&type=2&theater

Our Phone broke this week as well.  When elder Frisby stood up on the bus it fell out of his pocket and the screen broke.  So we called the office and we have to pay 60 euro to replace it. We were pretty upset about that until our new Phone arrived in the mail.  It is a Samsung Galaxy Y!! WE HAVE A SMART PHONE!!!  It is called the galaxy youth so I guess it's for like little kids but it's a whole lot better than the one we used to have.  It is super nice for missionary work!

We met with Mike a few times this week and we pushed the baptismal date back to February 21st.  He is still just progressing and loving it. I'm super excited for him. 

It also snowed this week, and we had a little snowball fight with the Enschede elders. It was awesome!!

Love elder Hulet


 

Week 78 Hengelo Netherlands

Me and Anja!



Lunch for sister support day

This week is transfers, and me and elder Frisby will both be staying here in Hengelo together.

Most of the district will be staying except elder kettler will be coming to Enschede, so he will be in our ward! He is in my MTC group, and he was my companion on my 3rd transfer. So I'm pretty excited about that!

This week we taught more lessons than last week, and it was really just a great week!  We had 2 lessons with Mike, and we set a baptismal date for January 31st!! We are super excited! I hope he will be ready by then.  We also just got a few new investigators, and our eternal investigator Anja wants to set a baptismal date for May!! We are so excited for her.  This week was just really a good week for missionary work.  It has been snowing and raining all week. They said it's not normal to be raining this much in the Netherlands! haha so if it's a lot of rain for this country then you know it's a ton!! We have these nice little heaters in our apartment so we can dry our stuff every night so it will be ready for the next day. Haha I'm glad we have those.

Elder Frisby lost his ov chip card and also shoes last week.  So he has been having to pay for his travel with his own money, and its been rough.  It makes you realize how blessed we are to have the church pay for our travel.  Without it we would be broke!! 

I hope you all have a great week!

Love elder Hulet

Week 77 Hengelo Netherlands

We spent a few days this week getting all of the referrals looked up that we had from the Facebook campaign.  A lot of cool things happened. We taught a few lessons, and that is a big deal in this part of the country!  Our district really is starting to pick things up, and it is so awesome! Everyone in the zone taught at least 1 lesson last week, and that is the first time in a long time!!

I had the opportunity to go on exchanges with the zone leaders this week and it was awesome! We had 4 appointments back to back, and 3 of them went through. I have never taught 3 lessons in one day before. I don't know how some of those other missions do it.  haha It was really nice, and I was telling a member about it on Sunday, and he was like you know why they are getting lessons? It's because the members are giving them people to teach, and it's true. That's where those people came from. So this member yesterday asked if he could have some more of our pass along cards because he said he is going to find someone for us to teach this week. It was super cool of him!

Yesterday after church the ward all went over to see the new church building that they just bought. It was my second time there, but this time the bishop lead us around and showed us all of the changes they were going to make on the building. They have a ton of extra space so they said they might have the elders move in to the upstairs part of it. It is actually perfect for a missionary apartment, but too bad I won't be here when they move into it. They are thinking it will be done in the summer sometime.

We taught mike again this week, and it went great. Most of the lesson was just answering questions, and then we finished up with the restoration.  It was a really powerful lesson. We are teaching him again tonight, and I'm excited for that.

Love elder Hulet

Week 76 Hengelo Netherlands

1&2 Fireworks outside our house

1&2 Fireworks outside our house

Julio! ha He is a stud! I didn't have enough time to get a picture
with him because we had to catch a train.

This last week was a lot of fun.  We had to be in for new year’s eve at 4:00 because of all the fireworks.  A member brought us a bunch of food so we could have our own little feast at our house.  The fireworks were CRAZY!!! I will send some pictures but they don't do it justice.

Anyway... on Saturday we had a lesson with Meik.  He is the boyfriend of a member and we are teaching him.  He has no religious background, and we have already taught the first 2 lessons.  We decided to start over and take it slower for him because it is a lot of info for someone who doesn't even know anything about the bible.  The lesson went great! We had it at the Brandenburgs house and they had a lot of great input. Meik was also in church on Sunday. He is super cool. We are hoping to set a baptismal date next lesson.

Later that day me and elder Rasmusen headed up to Groningen for the baptism of Julio! I don't know if you guys remember but I taught him back when I was in Groningen, and he was waiting  to get baptized until his wife came back from Cape Verde (shout out to Elder Jarvis).  She is back now and we got permission from president to go because me and elder Rasmusen have both taught him.  A few of the members recognized me so that made me happy!! I was there like 8 months ago and only for one transfer, so it was so nice to be able to go back. 

Seeing a baptism from someone you know is the greatest experience on a mission.

Week 75 Hengelo Netherlands

Christmas gifts from elder Wiscombe

Christmas morning with the sumters

Our Christmas feast!!

Sorry this is a short email this week but I told my family I would send some pictures. Christmas was awesome! In the Netherlands they have a 1st Christmas and a 2nd Christmas so we had two times the fun! There are lots of miracles happening in our district here, and it is super exciting to see. I love you all and hope you have a happy new year!

Love elder Hulet

Week 74 Hengelo Netherlands

Sorry there is no Mass email this week! But here are some pictures!

We got to go to Germany for a members birthday party and they took us to see a castle with the German elders.

　

We will be going to the Aldrinks for Christmas day. They are going to have two of us Skype at 4. Then we will eat dinner and watch a movie and then the other two will Skype after that. Elder Frisby is skyping someone in Hawaii so he has to do it as late as possible because of the crazy time difference.

Week 73 Hengelo Netherlands

Dear Family and friends,

This last week was transfers, so we were busy getting companions packed and unpacked. It also like rained like all week. haha but it was a good week.

I am now with elder Frisby. We have changed out apartment around quite a bit since he got here. We are at the library now and all of the good computers were stolen and all that was left were the standing ones. So we have to stand for our emailing time. haha

One cool experience we had this week was Monday night! We had our usual dinner appointment with the Aldrinks and after it was over he took us to see the new church. They just bought a building for the church here and they found out the alarm in the building had been going off for a few days and making the neighbors super mad. No one had a key to the building though so we got to break in and break the alarm to pieces!! haha It was a lot of fun and it was cool to see the church. It will be like 6 months until they can use it though because it was like an old school or something so they have to build it up like a church first.

Saturday we were out of town all day. We had DLC in the morning and then from there we traveled to apeldoorn for a Christmas concert. A couple of the missionaries participated in it, and it was soo cool!!! One guy sang a song from les misrablés and that was my favorite part! We talked to a lady on the bus ride home who was from England, and it was nice to talk to someone in English again. Not many people over here speak English to us like they would in the west. I guess it's good for my Dutch though.

Groetjes,

Elder Hulet