Groetjes uit Holland! Another week. So weird! This week was decently long, but it came and went. It was a good one. Rained almost everyday, still no snow. So funny how the Dutch were freaking out that this would be the worst winter every, but it might not ever snow! I'm not complaining ;) Elder Yocom and I had a fun week. I learned a lot. Not only knowledge wise, but also who I am! Still working on that part, but I'll figure it out one day :) I have kinda been out of the loop with the Olympics and had no idea that they were this year until an inactive told us that the Opening Ceremonies were on Friday. That was so cool to hear. I love those! Then in the newspapers, they are freaking out about how the Dutch won Gold, Silver, and Bronze in the Ice Skating or something. The Dutch are unreal at that though, so no surprise there! We might be able to watch a little of it next week at an investigators house so that would be cool! I hope that you all have had a great week. Nothing is really new here. Just working hard, learning new things, and pressin' on. Life is Good. :)

Monday - P-Day. Shopped around with the Zone Leaders. Love them. Bought some great things, and also promised my parents that I wouldn't spend anymore money for awhile ;) Great day!

Tuesday - Great start to the day with spiritual studies, then District Meeting in Amsterdam. It is so weird just being in Amsterdam as a non-tourist. It's unreal actually haha. After District Meeting, Elder Yocom and I went to go look up Ibrahim and Revalino to try to get appointments with them. They have been really hard to get contact with lately! We will keep trying! Then we did a lot of finding. It is still hard to find, because of the limited Dutch, but honestly it get's better and better every week. That is what's nice. I love finding too! Great day. We had an appointment with an investigator named Melieke at 8. She let us in but only had a few minutes so we just gave her a spiritual message and prayer. She has been sick and in the hospital lately so it has been really hard to get with her as well. We made a return appointment though for Thursday. Great day!

Wednesday - Studies, then we were supposed to meet with an inactive, but he canceled so we just did some finding. We found for hours! It's been pretty nice. We headed over to Zaanse Schans, which is absolutely gorgeous. It is in our are and is really Dutch, so we went over to contact over there. It is beautiful. I will post pictures too. The windmills and canals are unreal. You will see. So fun. We didn't have much success, but the photos were worth it! 

Thursday - Studies, Contacting in the Centrum, then we went to an appointment with Danny! Gosh I love this guy so much. We took Daniel with us as a joint teach. Daniel is amazing and is a really good friend of mine here in the ward. We had our lesson with Danny, and we watched the Joseph Smith movie. The spirit literally pounded. I love that movie. After the movie, we asked Danny how he felt and if he felt the spirit. He replied 'Of Course". That was so cool! We told him that is the same feeling that he will get when he prays. He said, I know that feeling. I can feel if radiating off of your guys' energy. That was really cool to hear from an investigator. He told us that he KNOWS without a doubt that he will receive an answer to his prayer, but it is a little hard for him to pray because he knows that when it is true, he will have to change a few things. He is such a golden investigator though and he committed to praying before we go back over this Thursday. Great appointment. We went back to Zaandam, and I ate my first Doner since I was with Elder Alston in Enschede. It was lekker. We then had an appointment with Aspacia that night. We went over with another joint teach. His name is Vincent and he is a return missionary. Unreal good too. We were planning on watching the Restoration with her, but we ended up reading Alma 32 with her because she didn't read it between lessons. This was a great lesson and we taught faith and prayer. She asked if she could pray right then and we let her. The spirit was so strong again! Gosh, I love it. We had a great lesson with her, and will also meet back with her on Thursday. 

Friday - I was on Splits with on the AP's today. Elder Van Komen. Sickest missionary in our mission , no doubt. We are good friends and I had a great time with him. We went and visited two inactives, and found for hours. I have a huge testimony of Exchanges. My whole mission, I have seen numerous miracles on Exchanges. We were expecting a few today. We found, and got 5 potential investigators. It was pouring all day long, and we had a great time just walking around and telling life stories. It was great. We talked to everybody, and gave away a few Book of Mormons. We decided to go see if Luma and Anna were home since Anna just had surgery for Breast Cancer. We walked over there, missed the bus halte and ended up walking a distance. We got to the house, and rang the doorbell. Next thing we know, a young man walks up to us and asks if we are the missionaries from Lumas church. We told him yes. He is the father of Lumas baby, Corolina. He said that he wants us to teach him about us and our religion. He is such a great guy. His name is Andy and is 24. He took us back to his house, we gave a restoration lesson, then he took us home. MIRACLE. Return appointment for this week Friday. If we wouldn't have missed the bus halte, and talked to people on the way, then we wouldn't have met him. We would've missed him. That was cool. We then went home and ate, then went to play Soccer at the church with the young men, and the other 6 missionaries in the ward. So fun. Europeans are unreal at soccer. That's all I'm gonna say haha. 

Saturday - Studies, then took a BoM to a potential. We made an appointment with her for this week. Baptismal date coming for her as well! Then we looked up 2 more potentials and went home to weekly plan. This week is Elder Yocoms last week in Zaandam, so we made some great goals and will work harder than ever! We then went to Gerphals house to have a Chocolate party and eat his German food. He bought a ton of German Chocolate. Literally UNREAL. He is a great cook too. Such a fun night. We always have a great time over there. Good day. 

Sunday - (HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAIGE!) Church. We were expecting Danny, and Aspacia, but Danny was sick and Aspacia didn't show up. That was a bummer! It was a great day though. I love church so much. After church, there were four baptisms! That was literally beautiful to see. So much white. I love it so much. You can literally see the light in these peoples eyes when they come out of the water. Perfect. Daarom ben ik hier! Fun day. We went home, ate, then did some contacting and look ups. Rained all week, and today as well. 

Well, that is my week. It was a good one. This next one will be even better. Yocom is leaving next week, so we are going to go so hard this week. We have a lot of cool things planned. Tomorrow we have Zone Conference in Apeldoorn. Right by Enschede! I will see Elder Alston there and some of my other buddies. I'm looking forward to it! I'm excited to tell you all about this week, next week. 

I want to give you guys a though. I have been thinking a lot about it lately. One of my biggest focus points as a missionary is, Love. Love is much more than just what people thing it is. It isn't romantic, it isn't just relationship related, but if we have Love for others and truly care about them, this is called Charity. Charity is a 'pure' love for other people. Christ demonstrated this perfectly when he was on earth. While he was hanging on the cross, he begged God to forgive the people who mocked and criticized him. This is Charity. Christ loved people. He loved people so much, that he was willing to help them with whatever they needed. We aren't asked as people to help people with whatever they need, because quite frankly, that is impossible. But what we are asked to do, is to love our neighbor, as we love ourselves. We have Charity for other people is what this is asking us to do. We are willing to help them with whatever they need. What I have learned quickly out here, is that I cannot help people with absolutely everything by curing them of their faults, or weaknesses, but what I can do is I can help them by giving them Love and Support. Sometimes that is all it takes for other people to develop the strength they need to get through a struggle, or overcome an obstacle. Love will be the definition of my mission. I cannot be a missionary without it. I love the people here. I love the time I have here. It is the hardest thing that I have ever done, but Loving helps me focus on other people, and get myself to work. My dad always told me "Attitude is Altitude". I live by this motto. There are rough days out here. This isn't an easy mission, and never will be, but if I love other people, and shift my attitude to wanting to help others because of that love, then it will be the best day of my life, even if it was a bad numbers day. I hope that you all have a great weak. I love you all, and I'm grateful for your support. I pray for you all everday! 

Love,

Elder Elkins

Go Seahawks!

I will start off this way... GO SEAHAWKS! SO SICK! Well, I hope you all had a great week. I woke up to a text from one of the sisters in my district at 6:30, telling me that she got a text saying the Seahawks railed the Broncos. I was so pumped! I'm so glad that Chad, Darren, Grandpa, and the Millers can't rub it into me now that the Broncos won ;) I'll stick witht the favorite team of Andrew and Preston... :) So pumped! Well, this has been a good week. We had more lessons, and had some fun! Testimony is growing, and seeing a lot of cool things in the amazing counrty. I think I told ya'll what I did last week for PDay, so I will start off with Tuesday this time!

Tuesday - Exchanges with District Leader Kemp. Pretty fun! Went to Zaandam and worked there for the day! We had district meeting in the morning, then did contacting until about 5. At 5, we went to an inactives house and just talked to him and invited him to church. We had a lesson with Eric that night and I was sooo pumped! We were going to teach the plan of salvation, which is my favorite to teach, but he had to cancel! WOWWWW. Just like last weeekkk. haha. Oh well. We just did more contacting and had fun. Good day. Elder Kemp is very interesting!

Wednesday - Went on Exchanges with Zone Leader Bishop in Alkmaar. I love him so freaking much. He is literally making me almost want to go down to SUU for school cause that's where he lives and is going. He is so tight and I'm so glad that we've gotten to be great friends! He will be here for another year too so that will be awesome! We had a great day. We went to a members house in his ward and ate and helped her move stuff from her attic to the front yard to get taken off by the city. She is 80 and her husband is 86. They are from Indonesia, well born there, but have lived here for like 65 years, so yeah. They are pretty dutch! Her husband has Alzeimers, or however you spell that. It was a lot of fun talking to him. He told us over and over how he was a sailor and sailed and lived in Australia. Over, and over, and over. It took everything I had not to laugh, but they were good laughs. I love that guy! We ate amazing food, then helped her move the stuff. She gave us two rugs, Elder Bishop got cool church shoes from her, then she said "do either of you wear size 42?" I said yes, then she brought down the steeziest shoes I've ever seen. She gave them to me and told me they are French and she paid 300 euros for them. That is like 470 american dollars! So tight! I was so pumped hahah. Great night, then we looked up inactives in his ward. It was unreal cold today, but it was nice to have the ZL's car!

Thursday - Cold day again! Exchanged back with Yocom. Wasn't with him for two days and I thought I was going to have a heartattack! ;) We had a lessons planned with Danny, but that didn't go through cause he didn't have anymore time. We rescheduled it to Saturday. We found, then went to dinner with the AP's to a members. Very fun dinner! Then did investigator look ups after dinner! Fun day!

Friday - Studied, then  went to Luma and Ana's. They are so fun to visit! They kept showing us places they wanted to visit. I want to go to Brazil! They showed me so many cool pictures of Brazil and they love Curitiba where my parents served! I want to go there! Luma and Ana are doing great. Ana is getting surgery for her cancer on the 6th. Hopefully that goes well! She is such an amazing woman and does so much for us. After this, we went home, ate lunch, then weekly planned. Good weekly planning session. Then went to Gerphals and Annickas. Gerphal moved from Germany to Annickas this day. We had to help him move in! He is the crazy video game fat guy. So funny. Love him so much. He brought us a bunch of German Chocolate. So good! Great day, we got home late cause he asked for a lot of help, but it was fun being with him!

Saturday - Studied, then we were supposed to meet with Brian, a referral from Indiana, but he canceled at the last minute. We have an appt. with him this week, so that will be great. We went to Dannys to teach him the second lesson. He picked us up at the Amsterdam Centraal and we went to his beautiful house in his great little dutch neighborhood. So cool! He had his kids this week and we had a lot of fun with them. Perfect time to teach about families being together forever! Such cute kids! This was a great lesson. Danny is a serious invesetigator who poses great questions. The spirit was unreal strong. I have made it a goal to find and teach better with the spirit, and wow, it is paying off. I honestly don't do anything, but in our lesson, Elder Yocom and I were in great unity with the spirit. Elder Yocom is a great teacher and an amazing missionary! We had a great lesson and have another appointment with him next week. He also told us that he plans on moving to Bountiful with his girlfriend within the year! SO FREAKING SICK. CAN'T BELIEVE IT! After Danny, we went to William. He is an inactive member and we asked him if we could come over and eat. He is black with steeze dreadlocks and is like jamaican. Well, he is from Aruba so that explains it! But, in the appointment, we asked him if he can rap. I started beatboxing and he rapped so hard! Found out he loves the NBA and he knows so much about it. We talked a lot about that and he is so funny. The sisters were there too. Such a fun night! Then we went home and did our nightly routine there!

Sunday - Fast Sunday. Great day! Church was amazing, and of course, the spirit is always strong. Danny didn't come to church cause he was throwing a party for his sons birthday. That is ok! We need to do better at getting other investigators to church though. We have good plans set up to do this! We had a good day. After church, we went with a man in our ward to the hospital to give a blessing to his friends dad. His friends dad fell the other day and broke his neck in two places and is paralized. I literally was in tears after the blessing. Life is so fragile, and it is unreal to see how fast it can change. The blessing was amazing, and the man's spirit is so strong. This man isn't LDS, and neither is his family, but they felt the spirit as well. The man cannot talk either and it was so sad to see him try. I smiled at him as we left, and he smiled back. Literally heart breaking! I'm so grateful for the experience though. It helped me realize some things about a mission and what I'm supposed to do here. I love it. This was a good week. My testimony is growing, and getting stronger and stronger by the day. Missions are hard, but worth it. I loved life in Utah. I had a great life and had a lot of fun, but this is better. I didn't think it could get better, but it did. I'm so grateful for it. I'm grateful to serve with Elder Yocom. We only have 2 more weeks together, but we will make them count. I've learned a lot from him. He is a great missionary. I want you all to know that I have a burning testimony of this church, and of missionary work. This is a real thing out here. Miracles happen every single day. I don't believe in coincidence. Why? Because this many coincidences don't happen. I love you all so much. Miss you guys like crazy, but this is going freaking fast! I hope that you all have a great week. Love you all!

Elder Elkins

Hey Everyone! I hope that you all had a great week, and that everything is still rolling in Utah, or wherever you may be.... Cancun for my parents ;) Gosh! I LOVE IT OUT HERE! Hardest thing of my life though. No doubt. Every return missonary before I came always told me, "A mission is a rollercoaster" and boy, is that true! Emotions rollercoaster, physical rollercoaster, everything rollercoaster, but boy is it worth it. This past week was a good one if you look at it correctly. We did a lot, but not what we expected either! Here we go:

Monday - P-day. We cleaned for 5 hours of our apartement, then shopped and of course, I bought the most amazing european clothes. Loooook goooooood ;) Thats all. Then worked at night!

Tuesday - ZONE TRAINING! I absolutely love my Zone Leaders, Elder Bishop and Elder Cooper. The training was on "Do what you do, with Jesus". It was about finding who we are, and our strenghts, and how we are supposed to contribute to this mission. Really helped me a lot. Talked to president a bit, then we went to an inactives to give him the sacrament. He loves us, and it makes me so happy to help him. He speaks really hard Dutch, so it is hard for me and Elder Yoc-Daddy to understand him, but we just sit there and let him talk. He loves talking to us cause he is 86 and can't leave his house. Such a great guy. He always gives us Dutch Choco Milk and Snickers. Love the guy. Then we had dinner at the famous "De Nijs" house. They are members in our ward who know how to cook. AP's came with us and this was so fun! It is great having the AP's in our ward.

Wednesday - Rough one. I was on Exchanges in Zaandam with Elder Sosa from Santiago, Chile. He is pretty much American though. He has never lived in any country with English, but on his mission he learned American English. He is unreal. I thought he was from California since he is like Mexican hahaha. We decided to do a lot of finding, and look up former investigators. We had 2 lessons today, but they both fell through. That is the worst. I was so excited, maar het kan gebeuren. We did more finding, talking, and then came home and slept in the BEDroom. Love the BEDroom. 

Thursday - Studys, then did a former look up, then we switched back with our companions. Then Found forever. We just found until our appointment at 8 with Aspacia, and it started to pour really hard. We walked 35 minutes to Aspacias house in the pouring rain, with a joint teach with us, and when we got to her house, I get a call and she said "mogen wij de afspraak verzetten?" Wow. We had to change the appointment. That means 3 lessons in 2 days got called off. That is rought especially concidering how teaching is a delicacy here. Found, then walked 30 minutes back home and got soaked.

Friday - Studied, then we went to Amsterdam North and tried to visit some investigators. Made an appointment with Ibrahim, then went and looked up more investigators, made more appointments. Then, we went back to Zaandam, and knocked forever. When we were done knocking on doors, 5000 birds, literally 5000 were in the air just like a cloud and doing an airshow. Sickest thing I've ever seen. I asked a lady what the crap was happening and she had no idea, but loved it. So funny. Then we heard drops... tons of them and we thought it was about to pour rain, but it was literally poop. I have never seen anything like it before. Yocom and I took off running and hid under a tree. I almost threw up cause of the smell. It was terrible. We saw a lady get railed on her arm and head with poop. So freaking hilarious. Then I looked at my leg, and I got literally pooped on. So funny. Walked home and made Yocom clean it for me. GOOD FRIEND! Then we weekly planned and made some cool goals that will help us. To this point, 6 lessons this week have been called off. We havent taught an investigator yet. This has never happened to us ever in our missions, so we called the Zone Leaders and asked for suggestions. They decided they wanted to work with us on Saturday, so thats what we did! I wasn't complaining. I love them!

Saturday - Got with the Zone Leaders, I got paired off with Elder Cooper, and we went ham! We found and knocked for 2 solid hours before lunch and gave out some BvM's, and got a really positive potential investigator! Her name is Ana and I will call her tonight for an appt. Also, Elder Cooper and I saw a zombie spider. Literally a huge spider with frozen frosted legs and it was walking really slow. I have never seen a spider in January, and it was frozen. Steeze as crap! Elder Cooper and I had a great time. Ate lunch, then went back out for 6 hours and knocked doors, contacted, and have fun! Gosh I love this mission. We literally live everyone elses, in one! It is insane how many people live here from around the world. I dont think there is a country in the world that I havent met someone from. So sick! We found forever, then came back in and ate. Then found some more after dinner. It started to pour, and me and Yocom were back together at this point. We just handed out mormon.org cards like crazy. Fun, but once again, freezing rain.

Sunday - Church, invited some investigators, and DANNY CAME! We are so pumped about Danny. He is so sick and he seemed to enjoy church. It was kinda a weird church service, but it was all good! Danny is such a netjes guy and everyone loved him. Gosh so sick. After church, we had dinner with a member. All 8 missionaries in the ward. Lucky is the member and she is so fun! We love her. After, we found, of course!

This was a hard week if you look at the numbers. Honestly, if the Lord would rather have us find then teach, so be it. I know that He knows what needs to happen. This is His work, not ours. We worked really hard, and really, that's when you love the mission the most. You can work hard and love it, or you can be lazy, and feel miserable. Guys, I mean this with all my heart. I love my mission, and I love these people. I love my companion, and quite frankly, I love Dutch. Never thought i would say that ;) Very hard, but coming. Slowly, but surely ;) Thanks for all your prayers. I love you all too. I am so grateful for all of your support. I can't even describe it. This next week will be great. It started off with a great PDay. We went Ice Skating in the middle of Amsterdam with the other missionaries and a member, played tag on the ice, fell, laughed, and had a great time. This was all right in front of Rijks Museum which is one of the most famous museums in the world. Sometimes I forget where I am at! I love it. Gosh. I hope you all have a great week. I keep you in my prayers!!!! Tot Straks!

Elder Elkins

Hello everyone! Well, this was a busy week with a lot of things happening! I love weeks like these, although, I also experienced the longest day of my mission haha... It is starting to get colder here, but that is ok! I didn't know that the winters here drag on this long, but they are the coldest in February, March, and April. That will be interesting! I'm ready though, hopefully it won't be too bad! Winter has been really good on us up to this point. Well, Thank you all for the letters and Christmas cards that keep coming ;) It really honestly helps us missionaries to get letters from home. Keep um coming :) I'll give you my week now!

Monday - PDAY! Phewww. Needed this one! We had a lot of fun things planned today. Elder Yocom and I set up a Zone PDay activity in Amsterdam at Hard Rock Cafe! This was a blast and I love my zone! We had a great time and ate some incredible AMERICAN food. With free water, never ending. That is very, very rare here! Before Hard Rock, Elder Yocom and I went to the Anne Frank house. That was an experience that I will never forget! It is an incredible story and so cool to see the house that I remember studying about it 8th grade! I love Amsterdam! Except for the marijuana and other crap everywhere, but it usual makes it fun to people watch :) Great Day, great to hear from family and friends via email too!

Tuesday - Studies, District Meeting, then President Interviews! I love President Robinson. We have a lot of fun and we talk about a lot of fun things! He always tells us that he wants to go hunting with Yocom and I back in Utah so we will do that for sure! He is a big hunter and loves his ranch. He is great and I'm so grateful for him as my President. After Interviews, we went and did some look ups, knocked some doors. We taught a lesson to our investigator Marvin. He isn't really progressing, he just likes to learn about us, which means he will baptize ;) We did a lot of finding, and more contacts throughout the day. Pretty typical day!

Wednesday - LONG DAY! No specific reason either. Just dragged on forever! We studied, then went to Anna and Lumas house. Anna has cancer so we went over there for a while to bring her some talks from Eyring about things that will help here. We had a great conversation and she will be going through Chemo and maybe surgery this week. So sad, but she is a champ about it! We went home and ate lunch, then went and looked up two people who we met on the street, but neither were home, then we did some other crap, then Wijk Eten. Ward Dinner every other week. This is very fun and it is fun to mingle with the other 6 steeze missionaries in Amsterdam ward and the members. I enjoy it!

Thursday - Studies, then we went to Ibrahims to teach him the second lesson, and to review the first because it's been a long time since we taught him! We got to his house, sat down, and just started talking and catching up. We didn't end up teaching about the 2nd lesson, because he had a lot of questions about the first and other questions. THE SPIRIT LED THIS LESSON! He had a lot of questions, and I feel like we were able to answer to his needs and he felt the spirit as well. At the end of the lesson, we shared scriptures about baptism and what it means. He told us that he knows everything we teach is true. EVERYTHING! This is so amazing. This doesn't happen in this mission. Incredible. We asked 'What would it mean if you got an answer through prayer?' and he said "aansluiten" which means " to Join ". WOWOWWO. We were blown away, and made a baptismal date for Feb. 23rd :) After this, we went to a headquarter referrals house. His name is Danny. He has a girlfriend who lives in Bountiful, and she told him about our church. He visited her for the holidays, and now we were finally able to meet with him. He lives in Landsmeer, outside of Amsterdam, so we bussed to this land of the unknown, and it is soooo beautiful. We got the bus stop cause he said he would pick us up there. We were joking about how he better pull up in a steezzeee BMW or Audi cause nobody drives those here except the rich and steeze guys. He pulled up in a black pimp BMW! So awesome haha and we were dying! He lives in a beautiful home with a gorgeous scenery. We sat down in his house and he said "one sec"then went to grab something. He came back with a Leather Triple Combination with his name on it and he said his girlfriend gave it to him for Christmas. This guy is golden! We had a great lesson, then he wanted us to meet his girlfriend over skype! This was incredible and we both found out she lived in Kaysville just between me and Yocom for a year! Small world. We went home, ate dinner, then were supposed to have an appointment with a new investigator but she wasnt home. Jammer! Still the best day on my mission.

Friday - Studies, then contacting for an hour, then lunch, then weekly planning. Boring, but very necessary! Then we went and gave book of mormons to potentials, then went to teach Marcel. He is a weirdo. He first said he would maybe get baptized, but his brain blew up during the lesson and just went straight pyscho. We told him to call us if he wanted us to teach him more. Thats all haha. Then we were supposed to have dinner with Anna and Luma, but they couldnt so we rescheduled that to Saturday. 

Saturday - Studies, then found. We did a lot of inactive member look ups today but didnt have any succes. Oh well. That always sucks though! We got an appointment with Soraya, Sher, and Latisha though! They used to be 3 baptismal dates but have been really busy, so hopefully they will be again this week! We went to Anna and Lumas for dinner and she cooked Brazilian food for me. She loves the fact that my parents speak portugues and went on missions to Brazil! She bashes on it though about all the bad things there, but it can't be worse then the Netherlands haha. Great day! Such a fun dinner appointment and we always talk about the funnest stuff. I love them! 

Sunday - Church, then the sisters had a baptism after church! Sooo fun! Daniel, our friend in the ward, was able to baptize her! His first baptism! Such a cool experience. We stayed at the church forever to help and stuff, then we went to a dinner appointment with a cool family in the ward. After the appointment, we finally went back to Zaandam and taught Aspacia the first lesson. This went well, and we took a joint teach with us. His name is Vincent and he just go home from his mission a year ago in France. He is a killer teacher and a very cool guy. The lesson went well and we were able to commit her to baptism when she finds out its true. She told me at the end of the lesson that I look like the "TinTin"movie character. I don't even know that movie hahaha. Oh well. I wonder if thats good or bad ;) Fun day! I love teaching!

Well, this was a great, busy week. We did a lot, but also need to be doing more! We are working hard and have a great week this week! Today for PDay, we did a mission wide clean day in our apartments. We have to scrub everything!!!! It took us 5 hours, but was well worth it. Our apartement is gorgeous :) We put all 4 of our beds on the floor, and now we call it the legit BEDroom cause the whole room is beds and soo fraking comfy. Love it haha! This past week was a big growing one for me. I have been able to learn a lot and apply a lot of new things to missionary work. Elder Yocom is a great missionary and I'm so blessed to be able to work with him. I really love being here and just being able to help others change their lives. I am absolutely nothing without the lord. I love telling investigators that when they ask me why I am here. It is so true. None of us our. There are bad things and bad people here, without the gospel. I'm so blessed to be in this position. I love you all so much and I hope you all have a great week! Tot volgende week!

Elder Elkins