Hey guys! What a great week. General Conference, Easter, missionary work, and miracles. The weather is getting better, and you cannot complain when you are driving around, tulips everywhere, windmills spinning, and speaking Dutch. I love it.
This week was amazing. Miracle, after miracle. Once again, we were really busy with exchanges. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with Mission Leader Council on Friday, District Leader Council on Saturday, and General Conference taking up our evening on Saturday, and whole day Sunday. We were busy, but let me tell you about a man name Johan.
On Thursday, I was on exchanges with Elder Thomas. We were working in Den Haag. Our mission is really good at using Social Media to advertise things around certain holidays... for example, with easter, we put advertisements on Facebook to order free 'finding faith in christ' dvds. The office would send the video, and we would follow up by going to their homes and asking what they thought. We had about 10 of these to follow up with these week just in our area. Thomas and I went and looked up one of them. He wasnt home, so we knocked doors in the area. Not much success, but we finally got somebody with a speaker bell and he was talking to us through that. He told us that he is already Christian and we should help someone else. We told him we have a video we want to share with him about easter, so he said kom maar binnen. We went up the stairs, met him at the top, and he said "you guys must be the boys with the dvd". I was super confused. He told us to come in. We introduced ourselves, and he told us that he is Johan. I started to put things together in my head, and realized that this must be the same Johan who wasn't home. What is he doing here? Miracle that we found him. I explained the situation to him, and that he wasn't home, and told us that this is his painting office. He is a painter, and goes there to work, then goes back to his other place to sleep. It was amazing that we were able to catch him there! He told us that he beleives we are angels and appeared unto him like angels to abraham haha. Long story short, he asked if he could come to church on sunday, so we told him to come at 6pm... which was the live broadcast of General Conference. He was amazed when he came. He said it was a blessing to come when it only happens twice a year, and loved every second of it. He was bawling during Elder Hollands talk. That was powerful! We taught him the restoration afterwards, and he asked to be baptized. He told us that he heard God tell him it was a good church, 5 minutes into conference.... It is all true.
This is one miracle this week. There were others... Like a member that we have been working with finally wants to quit smoking and go to the temple. That was insanee!
I love this work. I love easter. I think it was Holland that mentioned what Easter means. It represents the resurrection, but also our personal triumphs through Christs atonement. What a special meaning it has. I felt the spirit very strong during Conference.
I love you all. Thank you for all that you continue to do. This work is true, and Heavenly Father is hastening His work. I am a personal witness! I love ya all!
Elder Elkins
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