Goedemorgen!
This past week felt so jam packed so I hope that I´ll be able to
remember the good stuff.
1st thing I remember was going to Antwerpen where we heard from
President and Zuster Robinson for the last time and then had zone training.
2 weeks ago was President and Zuster Robinson´s last MLC, which was weird
to think about it, and this past week was the last time that they would be
addressing the missionaries over the pulpit. It was an honour to have
been able to hear from people who had devoted such time and energy to help
fulfill the tasks that Lord has given them, but from people who have focused so
much love and energy to try and help us become stronger and better people as
well. We were informed that the Netherlands mission has been progressing
in marvelous ways and were shown the amount of increase, through graphs, in
order to show how it´s been progressing. We´ve had solid and faithful
leadership that has helped us apply skills in order to progressively increase
in our amount of lessons, finding people and helping people work towards
baptism. Most importantly, we´ve had a lot of help that´s helped us find
who we are and how we can work closer with the Lord. They will be flying
out in a few weeks, which is sad, but I am looking forward to having the
experience and opportunity to learn from our new Mission President and his
wife. It´s going to be sick!
We had the zone training, like was mentioned earlier. It was weird
because we had it in Antwerpen and not in Eindhoven but it ran just
great. We focused on all learning how to work more effectively with
members, how we can serve the members better, how to prepare for Sunday in
order to be accountable/responsible to the members, helping people face the
Temple and understand the path to Eternal Glory and how we can apply the area
plan more in our work. I love preparing for these things because it helps
push me to study, in depth, certain topics, but it´s always relieving when it´s
over! We had the senior couple and some members really pull out for the
Antwerpen and Eindhoven zones! They cooked for about 60 people and to
make it even better...they cooked sloppie joes! gosh. I´m trying to
figure out ways to let them know how much we appreciated it and how much it
meant to us that they helped out...I hope to be able to express our gratitude
for them like they do to us.
We have found some new people....but can just never catch them home or
their spouse isn´t really on board! I don´t know what it is...but there
are days where things like that including the times when people say no...just
get me wanting to work even harder. It makes me sad, but it doesn´t seem to get
me down and helps push me to push a little more to find those people that have
been accepting Gods influence in their life.
We went out and worked with the Zuster missionaries to Maastricht and
had the opportunity to find 2 people in like 30 minutes who were curious and
wanted to learn more about the Book of Mormon and to understand how it can
bring people closer to Christ and bring them a stronger spirituality. There are
people out there...they just need to be found and the more people we reach out
to...the more likely we are to find those who are following God’s
influence.
It´s comforting to know that the Gospel will never leave the earth again
and that the Prophets of old rejoiced in this last restoration of the fullness
of the Gospel and even though our numbers may be few, 1 Nephi 14 : 12 ´´And
it came to pass that I beheld the church of the Lamb of God, and its numbers
were few..´´ but that we have a
source of strength and power to help us overcome all objections to that which
come against our morals, beliefs and teachings of Gods messengers, the
prophets. 1 Nephi 14 : 14 ´´...and they were armed with righteousness and
with the power of God in great glory...´´
People notice our differences. They can feel
and sense ´´a light´´ is what is often said to my companions and myself.
We live in a great time. We have so much available to us in order to help
us find happiness in the things that are easily seen as not happy. We
have words of comfort, hope and understanding in the scriptures, we have
Temples that help us receive answers and guidance to our questions and
concerns...a place where we will
can receive eternal promises...we have friends and family to
help support us....gosh...come to think about it we have...we have way more
than I know. We all have so much that is offered to us that will help us
find the joy we are looking for...but do we understand how they help us and
what they can do to help us? The best way to find out...is by
experiencing them. It´s sometimes hard to push yourself to get to the
point of experiencing our experiment of faith...but in the end...we need to
reach out and ask for help to get us there and then we will know...because we
have experienced...how these things help us.
Congratulations to Brynn and Bo on their wedding
day! Shoot...That´s so freakin cool! I miss you all and a lot of
happiness and peace comes to me as I rejoice in the success that you all
enjoy. Keep it strong and enjoy the simple things in life. Love you
guys.
Elder Holt
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