Week 46: Have you ever tried achteroping and ghostriding at the same time...We have(:

HEYYY FAMILY! HOE GAAT HET MET JULLIE? IK MIS JE ZO VEEL. HET IS GEK. MAAR DE HEER HEEFT ONS ZEKER DEZE WEEK GEZEGEND!

This week was amazing! We ended up getting 6 new investigators this week...ALL thanks to the Lord. Three of them are a referrals from members and other missionaries and it was awesome. We are seriously SO Blessed. I wish I had more time to tell you about them but I really don't..but I will tell you about our baptismal dates!

Serenity and Usha are daughters on a member that just moved here from another place in Rotterdam. Serenity is 8 and Usha is 11 and they are the cutes girls ever. Their mom was baptized only a couple of years ago and is separated from their dad. They have been dying to get baptized so they are super excited to take the lessons. They know sooo much more about christ and the church than I did when i was their age..I am so excited for them. They will be baptized on the 19th of July.

We had an awesome dinner with Shabnam and Tahira (an awesome young single adult) on Friday! It was fun to just talk about Heavenly Father's plan for us and how much HE loves every single one of his children. This is where the quote of the week comes in. Heavenly Father loves us dearly.

My tire got a hole in it this week...again. haha So sister Brophy and I had to (once again) achterop and ghost ride at the same time. That intails me sitting on the back of the bike...while she rides and I hole my back at the same time. it's pretty fun and totally something I would have never experienced if I wasn't on a mission. haha Missions are great.

We had an awesome Stake Conference this weekend. Uchtdorf and Anderson talked to us! (: But my favorite talk with from our stake president! And he talked about how we can find the most happiness in our lives. And he started by reading in Alma 37 starting with verse 35 almost to the end. I hope you get the time to read it cuz it's GOOD but here are a couple of verses.

35 O, remember, my son, and learn wisdom in thy youth; yea, learn in thy youth to keep the commandments of God. 36 Yea, and cry unto God for all thy support; yea, let all thy doings be unto the Lord, and whithersoever thou goest let it be in the Lord; yea, let all thy thoughts be directed unto the Lord; yea, let the affections of thy heart be placed upon the Lord forever.
 37 Counsel with the Lord in all thy doings, and he will direct thee for good; yea, when thou liest down at night lie down unto the Lord, that he may watch over you in your sleep; and when thou risest in the morning let thy heart be full of thanks unto God; and if ye do these things, ye shall be lifted up at the last day.
Then he pulls out of there a few things to do in order to find more happiness. A couple of them are 1. Every evening after or before prayers take 2 minutes to write down how you saw the Lord's hand in your life THAT DAY SPECIFICALLY. "Counsel with the Lord in all they doings and he will direct thee for good"! and 2. In the morning after or before prayers write down 3 things that you are grateful for. (They shouldn't be the same things everyday) "when thou risest in the morning let they heart be full of thanks unto God." And if we do these things, we "shall be lifted up at the last day." Who doesn't want to be lifted up? I sure want to be lifted up. But yeah. I just thought that was such a wonderful thing and a simple thing to do in order to receive blessings from God. I have seen the difference it makes. I have been failing at writing three things I am grateful for in the morning..BUT I am working on it!

We got to go to a new investigators house and he has horses so we hung out with horses for a little and then talked to him about how he can stop smoking. He has already been to church twice but I don't know exactly how he is feeling...i feel like he is going for this lady in our ward:\ sadly. But we will see.

Hangin' with a horse!

 Other than that..I can't think of anything. But this week was great. I love you guys and I miss you like crazy. This week is my year mark...WHAT? haha a year from today I gave my farewell talk. I will give someone chocolate if they can remember what I talked about! And what song I quoted. haha I LOVE YOU!

"The scriptures are the little notes that Heavenly Father puts in our lunchboxes." - Quote of the week

This old couple is GREAT. but the reason I am sending this is because we reminds me SO MUCH of Kyler. Like it's insane. haha i wish I could explain. Kyler, this is you in the futre. You should be proud. haha 

This old guy reminds me of Kyler

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