A Handshake and A Giant Bed

So that is week three, Crazy how time goes so fast here.  I feel like I just barely got here still.  The biggest highlight of this week was for sure Tuesday nights devotional.  We had Elder Runland fro the quorum of the 12 come and speak to us and his talk was awesome as well,  but the coolest part was after all of the missionaries at the MTC got to go shake his hand.  They said stuff like that only happened once every 3 or 4 years so it was way cool to get to be a part of that and meet a real life prophet of God.  It was a really cool experience.  Also the dutch is coming along as normal, we learned past tense this week so now I can say things that have happened and had happened haha.  Also we found out that you can push the bunk beds together and make one giant bed!  So we now have two giant beds in our room.  This week had been fairly similar to the other two in all other aspects though.  Our 'investigators" have been progressing at about the same rate we have.  The more I am here the easier it becomes to teach in Dutch and convey my thoughts to the people we are teaching.  The gift of tongues is definitely real and I can feel the spirit working through me.  I read a talk by Boyd K Packer about strengthening the less active members that I thought was really good if you want to check it out.  (you should it was cool) Also sorry about the pictures from last week I will try and figure them out better this week.

Elder Harding

I few words to his mother:

(Disclaimer he is mostly responding directly to each sentence in my letter to him)

Hello there Mother,

About time we got a chicken run haha that's cool you and dad got that all set up it will sure make the yard a lot cleaner.  And yes I remember the water cycle haha.  I will have to send Easton a card for his birthday.  But ehh I don't feel like I am missing out on too much by not graduating with my class. But ya that is way weird Abbie will be just right here, and I mean we aren't really suppose to meet people at the Temple but I'm there around 1:30 or so on Thursday's and like 3-5 on Sundays...Sooo theres that information do with it what you will.  

My companions are good we all get along pretty well.  I usually have to be the one that keeps us focused during study time and such so that has been a bit not my fav but it's all good here in prison.  Oops I mean the MTC not prison.  I converted Elder Nus baum to watches and he bought two in a day haha.  And for Elder Schwinger he said that I made him realize he is not great at ping pong (we ended up with a little stretch across net and some paddles from people who left the MTC so that has been fun)  Also we still are focused we really just play a little at nights when we have an hour just to chill and relax.  The dutch is good we learned past tense and I am learning more every day.  I love learning it.  Honestly it's my favorite part.  Spiritual experience was definitely shaking hands with an apostle, I felt like I could feel the spiritual power oozing off him.  And my investigators are the same still making baby steps haha.  

Here is our picture from Austin's graduation with our fake Austin.  It's really his best friend Jason, but it was fun to pretend like I had a son around graduating that day.  Even if he didn't feel like he was missing out on much, I still did.