First off, my sincere apologies for last week
and the mad rush it was to email home with a 3 minute time bomb flashing at
your face at an Internet cafe where you have no more change to add time and
spell check wants to change everything you want to say in Turkish. Golly I hope
the email was comprehendible.
Last Monday we decided then and there that the
week would be a great week and that nothing out there would stop us from having
a great week. Such a mentality has power to give you according to your desires.
This week was a testimony to that.
We were able to recontact
investigators that had dropped us and taught a few lessons, and the
biggest one of them being JONES. Hallelujah. He had been traveling the last few
weeks but we found him home and he expressed his desire to still be baptized so
we took our ward mission leader Bro. Scherf on joint teach and taught about
faith and repentance from the 3rd lesson. Bro Scherf testified of his
experience of repentance before baptism and I know that the Spirit touched
Jones and that it will help him continue progressing.
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Wednesday heaven showered us with rays of
Sunshine. President invited us over for lunch so we ate with him and zuster
Robinson and said our goodbyes because they leave on the 1st. Really hard and
strange but it is exciting for them to go back after 3 years of sheer dedicated
service. I love them so much. We were contacting around the beautiful centrum
then got a text from our investigator 10 minutes before our member lesson
saying she was sorry for the notice but her boyfriend didn’t like that we were
teaching her and threw her Book of Mormon away. We want to go over there and
pep talk her into being a strong and independent woman but the setting is not
too appropriate for that haha after all her name is Destiny, and she was just
on the right path to finding hers...
So our joint teach came away and was awesome
enough to do some look ups with us of people we had contacted the day before.
Heavenly Father knew of the effort we had taken and 2 of those potentials let
us in on the spot and we taught the Restoration with Ilyza with us on joint
teach! So awesome to see such miracles when you do all you can to move the work
forth. Awesome day.
This week we were in Groningen. (good luck
finding that one on the map it is basically Germany) and it was a grand time.
We actually got to meet with a woman named Nina and her husband and 2 little
girls, of which are a referral from a Zuster in Dordrecht that I received after
our Rotterdam performance back in April. It was sooo cool to go teach them and
help her husband who has been trying to find faith for his wife who is so
spiritually sensitive and loves the zuster missionaries there. It was amazing.
Ahhh we met with such cool members in
Groningen. I love that ward simply because it is functional haha so sad but the
members JUST GET IT. Nothing is better than when members just get it and
nothing comes before living and moving the Gospel forward. Priceless.
We head to Leeuwarden this week now. Where
they speak Fries. Not a dialect, not an accent. Another language. Hooray.
But the DRIVE up to Groningen is magnificent.
Ah it is so beautiful. Last night coming home the sun peeked through the crazy
Holland clouds and kissed the richly green landscape with the windmills and
canals and it was simply out of this world.
WE are going to play beach volleyball right
now and it is raining and windy. There is no such thing as summer in Holland.
Seriously. You all say it is like 100 back in the states and you are boasting.
That’s really cold of you. Shoutout to my sweats and sweaters because it is
freezing here.
The strength of the members here is
unbelievable. Once again. This continent is under the refiner's fire in regards
to religion and standards yet the members in Belgium and the Netherlands all take
the heat and are shaped into some of the most incredible people I have ever had
the pleasure to meet.
I hope you had a good week. Shoutout to all
the Father's back home for Father's day! Love you Dad thank you for all you do
and the prayers and love you send. It is felt and seen in everyday miracles.
Also I got a flashlight as a father's day gift
in Leeuwarden Sunday. Haha not a father but it lit up my world.
Love
Elder Trevan Scott Reese
Oh yes, we went to Germany this week as well
at the border. Add that to the list.
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