Too windy to ride, but not to teach!

Fam!

  What an amazing Week!!!

 First we got to go to the Temple. What a beautiful place. It was amazing! It was super cool to do it in Dutch too :) What a blessing that we have Temples all around us in Utah!!

Second we taught 4 lessons this week and Three on Saturday haha. Only one of them in a new investigator but still cool. Two were in English too. which is always nice. One was a Jehovah Witness but he was a cool guy. But our new investigator is GOLDEN! He basically told us what we believed when we asked him what he believed. He smokes but he wants to stop and he hasn't been going to church but says maybe us meeting is God telling him something. His name is Fillip. We didn't have a chance to teach Leon this week cause he was busy with work but we have been keeping in contact with him and he still wants us to go teach him so that's super cool :)

Third, today is a windy day!! haha they predicted up to 160kmph winds which is about 100mph haha it was so funny we tried to ride our bikes to the grocery store and turned around cause it was too bad haha it was so fun! trees are falling down and I saw a car window broken from a tree and its just getting worse but I don't feel scared like I'm a missionary I have nothing to fear but fear itself :) haha

  

I've really been working on faith and studying that and charity and I already see a difference in the work. We have already found the same potential investigators in one week than we did last transfer and I think its because I have faith in my Heavenly Father. Not that I didn't before but I could see it dwindling and I was not going to let that happen. The scriptures are amazing :)

  I know this is the true church. To Joop a friend that we taught even though he says he isn't interested all I said to him was Ik weet dat dat boek waar is. and I felt power in those 7 words and nothing he said could make me feel otherwise. It was super cool :)

I love you all and hope all is well!

Love Elder Bosco

A Great Week!

Family!

 What a great week I had! So Wednesday we taught Leon!!!!! I'm not sure he was all there cause he was smoking weed but I think he was :) We taught him in English and Dutch. (Nederengels) So it was kinda confusing. But we challenged him to baptism if he finds out its right and he said yes :) So now we need to teach him prayer cause we asked him to pray right then and all he said is "God is this real" we will teach him though he even said after that he didn't have an oprecht hart [sincere heart]. So we will keep working! he said he could believe the Joseph Smith story though so thats a good start :) 

Then we taught another first lesson to another guy. He contacted us about three weeks ago and he has been to Utah and stayed with an LDS family. He doesn't really believe there is a God but still cool to teach people. And the 6'9" guy that came last week to church came again this week!!! (He played basketball at Old Dominion) We are going over sometime to teach him more also! We have a lot of potential investigators that are so close! The work is moving forward!!

  I gave a talk yesterday in church also. And I was less nervous for this talk than my farewell talk! haha Still I was pretty nervous and I'm pretty sure I never looked up from my paper and read so fast but it got the job done! haha It was super fun :) And a lady came up to me after and said I was a hero so that made me feel pretty good :)

But the worst thing happened to me on Saturday... We were going to catch a bus to get our bikes but I forgot my ov chipkart (bus pass) So I ran back to the apartment and found it then I walked outside and looked down and had dog poop all over my shoe and then I looked and it was on my pants!!! HOW????? Then I realized that I probably stepped in it when I ran back to our house and I was skipping stairs to go faster and Dutch stairs are literally straight up and down so my shoe rubbed against my pants and it was just a mess and I was super upset and I was thinking why? This is the Third time I have stepped in dog poop. Then I realized it was satan trying to upset me so I shook it off and we got two more potential investigators that day :) Sucks to be satan. I probably shouldn't say that as a missionary but seriously I kinda feel bad for the guy. He has no future. poor guy. I hope he is reading this right now. :)

 Man I miss you guys so much and think about you all the time!! I love you more than you will ever know though! Its cool how I have been able to see through the eyes of the Savior a couple of times. I forgot to write this a couple weeks ago but on Oct 3rd I realized that it had been a year since I tore my ACL (no one knows what that is here) but I was thinking about the two ways life could have gone. Either it happened or it didn't and the happy of sad. If that even makes sense. Yeah it was super sad that it happened. But if I had the choice on Oct 2 2012 to choose. I would do it all over again because of the things I learned and the love I felt and the time I got to spend with my family that I may not have gotten if it didn't happen. I'm am very thankful that I tore my ACL. It sounds crazy but Its definitely one of the best things that has ever happened to me :) I love you guys!!

Love Elder Bosco

We get to go to the Temple tomorrow too!! Super Excited!!

  What a week! First we had an appointment for Wednesday and when we went to his house no one was there. Super upsetting! So we called him and no one answered. So we went home to eat some lunch and Elder Carter said the prayer. He asked to come in contact with Leon. Five seconds after the prayer Leon called us and told us he forgot so we rescheduled for next Wed. Super cool! Then we had a guest service and two people that we invited came!! so sweet!!! one of them is 6'9"! So that was super cool! We are starting to get some good potential investigators! Im really excited about this next week!

  I went on exchanges with Elder Douglas. I weighed myself and I weighed 88kg and just 4 weeks before I was on exchanges with Elder Van Komen and weighed 93kg. That is 11 pounds. hahaha how crazy is that?? We will see if that keeps up I was just thinking I was losing muscle and getting fat but I have already done that the past year with my knee! haha I can't believe it!

  Yesterday was super cold and rainy. You can't escape it. its nuts. So much rain and then so much wind. But its amazing :) I am staying warm don't worry.

  The mission is so hard but so rewarding. In priesthood I was asked to recite the 1st vision in

Dutch obviously. I love doing it :) It is so powerful I love saying the first vision. Every time I hear it I get goosebumps! Its so cool. Everyone should memorize the First Vision!!!! It is so powerful!!

  I love you all and am so happy for all your support! I love this work!

Love Elder Bosco

Hallo,
It was also cool to hear Gifford speak!! and I think I had the same tie as Dallin Oaks :)

Conference is amazing as a missionary! Can we have it every week?? Elder Hollands talk was super amazing I almost started crying. I was thinking about Kathi and so much joy came over me and I was thinking of everyone else and how much more joy they have that got to spend time with her and remember it! Conference watching is weird in other parts of the world. We watch one session Saturday then the priesthood on Sunday morning the Saturday night on Sunday morning and the Sunday morning Sunday night. We don't even get to watch the Sunday night! :( But conference is amazing :)

  So that kid that talked to us two sundays ago had us over for dinner. He ran into the sisters and said yeah I talked to the guys and I wanted to call them but I was busy! MIRACLE! he has lived in utah cause he coaches soccer for like 5 weeks and he stayed with a member family and so we are going to start teaching him I think. I know you all want to hear experiences from us teaching but I haven't taught anyone yet so I dont have any experiences... But we are teaching a guy on Wednesday his name is Leon and he was super excited when we talked to him so I'm way excited for Wednesday! We had lunch with Joop and he made us kibbling and it was way good! The only gross thing is I think some of his beard ended up in my food hahaha so gross! but he said he isn't interested in the church but he loves us. He calls us his jonges haha. one day he will accept :)

"Manneken Pis"

  I got to go to Brussels this week! for legality stuff and that was super fun! We got to see "Manneken Pis"[mother's note- I had to look this up, it is a famous statue/landmark in Belgium. And, no, he didn't have the right name on it- I corrected it] or whatever the peeing baby thing is hahaha! Everyone speaks French there so I understood nothing. I got some awesome pictures so hopefully it works sending them! 

 

  I dont have any crazy stories.. Actually this lady in our ward will not give out refferals but she prays that when its the Lords time the missionaries will find who she is praying for. And we did a blitz in haarlem so everyone in our district contacted in haarlem. and one of the guys that two elders got an appointment for was a guy that she has been praying for for years. Even she said it was a miracle and if its a miracle to sister jansen then it is a miracle!! haha she is an intense lady.

  Everything is good! I hope everyone is doing well

 

Love Elder Bosco