Good Day all you good looking people,
It was a week I would have never expected. As you heard about last
week, I came to Eindhoven and was serving with my Finnish friend. Life is
always unexpected and is full of surprises. A lot has changed this week.
But nothing in a bad way. Elder Torniainen was emergency transferred to where
I just came from! Good ol´ Rotterdam. He has been given a calling
in the Rotterdam Zuid and you won´t believe who my new comp is... I´ll send you
some photos to see! haha I´ll just tell you. About 1.5 years
ago....I walked into a strange classroom filled with new sounds and smells
which I called home for 7 weeks. The first person I saw (other than my
teachers)...was my good ol´ friend and new companion....Elder Ames! Elder Ames
will now be my companion here in Eindhoven! It´s going to be exciting.
It´s the first time either one of us will be white-washing so we are excited
for the new adventure. We got everything in order...just time to put in
some work and get things rollin! haha it´s a little weird to be serving
with someone in the same group as myself....especially because we haven´t
really seen each other since the MTC. Fortunately, the language has come
a little ways since then. Man....hot diggity dog...it´s going to be
sweet!
This week was a good one. It was fast and with the big change that
happened all of a sudden... it feels like it was over before it began! We
have been focusing a lot on using the Spirit in all that we do as we try to
apply him in as many aspects of our lives as we can. We have seen a lot
of miracles as we have put our faith to the test and have done our best to
follow the thoughts that have come to our heads and the feelings that have come
to hearts. It´s amazing what happens as you continue to follow the ideas
that come to your head.
We had one experience where we kept following all these thoughts and
feelings and nothing ever came of it. Well...not what we expected would
happen at least. Everyone was saying no and not wanting to hear from
us. But...we kept on going...and kept following all of the impressions we
could think and feel. The Lord provided us with an answer to know that
all the impressions we had were from Him as we came across a lady at the very
end of the day.
She was on her scooter mobile as we all crossed paths on a
sidewalk. If we weren´t there at that exact time...we would have not seen
her. She came up to us and asked who we were. We told her and she
ended up saying she thought we were from another religion but she felt
something different. She said she felt that we worked with the Spirit and
she knew that we had something special to share. This lady turns out to be
really spiritual and religious. She is a Messianic Jew and has read the
bible countless times so it was really cool and the best part is that she is
open to learn what we share. She knows that her Father in Heaven will
guide her and she is looking for something and hopefully we will be able to
help her find it.
The Lord will always guide us. Sometimes we will not see the
fruits of our labour...at least in the way that we would think.
However...all these impressions, thoughts and feelings come for a reason.
We will see that they come from Him as we follow them. I know that we
build our trust in Him and we start to understand the language of the Spirit as
we try our faith and follow and endure with patience.
I love you all and I hope you have a good week!
The ward is pretty freaking fantastic here. We went out with some
of the young men to hand out copies of Book of Mormon after church and they
gave 2 away in 1 hour. The ward is really working at spreading the gospel
as a family. It´s so fun!
Love,
Elder Holt
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| cruisin to den Bosch |
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| Short term comps / long term friends Elders Torniainen and Holt |
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| Reunited Elders Holt and Ames |
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| Harry is a member of the mission here in Nederland. He´s been serving longer than 3 mission presidents. Such a cool dude! |
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