What happened
this week? Whitewash. Stolen bike. Elder Ballard. Blessings. Rotterdam
Philharmonic. Baptismal date with Eritrea. Mouse proofed house.
Yep.
So The transfer call came yesterday. The transfer call that said we'd
be being white washed. Let's get that out of the way right now. My comp
is leaving to go home. I am going to Zoetermeer. And my new companion is
going to be ZUSTER SPENCER--we've prophesied of our eventual
companionship since the MTC, and sure enough, our last transfer, it has
come to pass! We're both pretty stoked.
My
bike got stolen. So I'll be moving to my fifth city and my fifth bike.
Luckily one of the sisters going home is real happy to give me her bike.
I love her.
Elder Ballard came. It was
incredible. I learned so much from him. Like what? You have no time to
be anything but great. Teach the message and importance of the
Restoration. Make people FEEL your testimony. Make sure they know how to
PRAY. Man, that man is an apostle of God, I'll tell you what. And I got
to shake his hand! I was the very last one. Best for last, right? :)
I
got a blessing! My first blessing on my mission. I know that the
priesthood is real, it helped so much! I usually don't ask for blessings
but I did and it was so good! God wants to help us and he is just
waiting until we are willing to humble ourselves enough to acknowledge
that we cant help ourselves as much as He can. It was wonderful. The
priesthood holder said afterwards Ï don't always see sunflowers when I
give blessings." It was funny in context. But also cool.
A
couple in our ward are from Russia and they are world famous violin
players and they LOVE us so the husband is first chair in the Rotterdam
Philharmonic and so they got us tickets AND permission from President to
go! It was insane. I ached for my bass again.
The
Eritrean family dad wants to get baptized! They all have hearts of
gold. We did an activity with them with footsteps and had them follow
the footsteps to the picture of Jesus and on the footsteps were the
steps of the gospel--the little girl did it first and when she got to
Jesus, she kissed the photo. It was PRECIOUS. I am going to miss them
hardcore.
Aaand we also mouse proofed our
house. all our food is in containers and we don't know what is where. So
it'll be an adventure for these new sisters coming in.
I love you friends! Have a great week!
xoxo
Zuster Hoff
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