Conference was Absolutely Enjoyable

Dogs here are mangy and nasty.

Elder Hulme and Elder Bytendorp (I think)

One of their favorite restaurants

Conference was absolutely enjoyable.  Here's the timeline.

Saturday morning.  Woke up, studied and then went out to try to talk to the people, we got slammed and nothing done, people were MAD that morning for some reason.  Then the Zone Leaders picked us up, and we went and picked all the other missionaries up together and met at the church at 1, when the first session began.  Enjoyed the first session and learned lots, then we went out and talked to the people again. These people were nicer, but all Hindu, and may or may not be valuable to continue teaching.  Went to the second session beginning at 5.  Loved it.  Then we went to McDonalds for food due to starvingness, had a good time there and talked to some of the members afterwords and sat down for Priesthood at 9.  Priesthood is #1.  Then we went to the two missionary houses in the area for sleeping.  I stayed at the Zone Leader's, listened to Elder Thompson and Norton play guitar until about midnight, and then fell asleep.  We got up and ate some french toast, then went to the church to do studies.  I studied about the priesthood like President Uchdorf asked.  I learned lots from DandC 20, it's a good one.  We then did some role playing with everyone and went out to talk to the people.  We met some nice people, some mean.  More Hindus.  Really interesting culture.  Then we watched the Sunday morning conference, which was lovely.  We had lunch at the Jansen's on Sunday.  Delicious soup, and really good sandwiches.  She had this yogurt drink that was way good when mixed with the chocolate milk, it tasted like a chocolate dipped strawberry.  Dutch people are funny, they are very very very picky with a few things:

Cream and creamy things

Bread

Cheese

Stroopwaffels

Weird kinds of salty black liquorice

Bitter foods, they love them.  Like the soup which was so herby and wondefully bitter.  I haven't enjoyed soup for years, but I think I'm ok with it again. 

Priesthood is more than a fancy word, and we need to use its power. Richard G. Scott said something way interesting about getting married young, I'd say definitely check his talk out, it was beautiful. I mostly enjoyed hearing about the priesthood, but the other stuff was good also.  When president Monson said he was going to talk about a very special temple, the only thing that came to my mind was "whoa it's time for New Jerusalem!!!!!" But that was not the case.  He was talking about the newly announced and incredibly beautiful Rome temple where the olden Apostles did their proselytizing.  It was a great relaxer, I was getting wound pretty tight. It was a great time at conference.  The two Kasmani boys decided they didn't want to come to conference at all though.  It doesn't make sense to me because there is only 2 times in a year that you get to hear talks that aren't awful.  We need to do a workshop on giving good talks at some point. 

-Elder Hulme 

I was on exchanges with Elder Thompson.  We went to an appointment with a super uninterested man, closed the lesson as soon as possible due to how uninterested he was.  Afterwords he asked if we were still looking for families.  This came from the day of initial contact where we drilled him for referrals.  He showed us the direction and gave a few instructions on where a family he knows lives.  We went looking and asked a few people.  One man was mean.  One lady was nice.  So we asked the nice lady who she knew we could try to visit.  She referred us to the same family.  So we went and finally found them.  Turns out it's a part member family, Mom and daughter are members.  Other daughter is now and investigator.  The coolest part, is that we set a goal of two reactivation's for the month of April.  Game on.  -Elder Hulme

This is a "success story."  The zone Leaders asked us to send these in every week, it's something important to President Gamiette. 

I Love you bunches.  Until next week.