Goede Middag!!
It's wonderful to be back again, writing you an email! This
week was good, we did a lot of hard work! We had a lot of things fall through
but we were able to meet a really cool family, the father's name was Ab! At
first I thought he said Aap. It was a really cool experience because we had
gone back to that area for the third time that day and we were struggling to
figure out the reason why we weren't finding anyone. At one point, we literally
stopped and asked ourselves, "What are we doing wrong, is there something
that we aren't doing?" We decided to keep going, it was getting late and
it was pretty dark but we had hope that we would find someone to talk with. On
the last house we were going to try to talk with we found Ab and his family!
They a family from the Netherlands and part of the reason they left is because
people would ridicule them for believing in God. He would pray over his food
and some people would laugh at him. I'm not saying that all people are like
that but it's just more prevalent there than in other places sometimes. We had
a really good conversation with him and he was interested in the priesthood. We
walked away from that and I just felt like I was walking on a cloud, I was so
happy that we had decided to push through. As we were walking back to our
bikes, a story in the Book of Mormon came to my mind.
Alma 8: 13-15, 18
13 Now when the people had said this, and withstood all his
words, and reviled him, and spit upon him, and caused that he should be cast
out of their city, he departed thence and took his journey towards the city
which was called Aaron.
14 And it came to
pass that while he was journeying thither, being weighed down with sorrow,
wading through much tribulation and anguish of soul, because of the wickedness
of the people who were in the city of Ammonihah, it came to pass while Alma was
thus weighed down with sorrow, behold an angel of the Lord appeared unto him,
saying:
15 Blessed art thou,
Alma; therefore, lift up thy head and rejoice, for thou hast great cause to
rejoice; for thou hast been faithful in keeping the commandments of God from
the time which thou receivedst thy first message from him. Behold, I am he that
delivered it unto you.
18 Now it came to pass that after Alma had received his
message from the angel of the Lord he returned speedily to the land of
Ammonihah. And he entered the city by another way, yea, by the way which is on
the south of the city of Ammonihah.
Missions are awesome, I highly recommend them. Not too much
else happened this week but Sunday was the first day my toe was strong enough
to wear normal shoes! I feel like a full missionary now! When I was wearing a
flip-flop, people would look at me funny; it probably doesn't help that it was
a bright orange, Nike flip-flop but it was all I had!
Lobi,
Elder Hardy
Title Translation:
"Today we worked hard, I feel that my legs will walk
away from me!" "If they did, I would not bring them back, because I'm
dying."
Attached: Picture in front of a statue in Rincon, with "Broertje" (little brother), one with a flip-flop and one without. And also Diydra and James!
Oliebollen, I need to get the recipe from
Sister Albus and maybe we can learn how to make them, you eat them with
powdered sugar!
