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Hello Hello, How is everyone in the real world? Our week was pretty good here in the north part of Rotterdam. This week we went on exchanges, So I got to go to Gouda for a day (yes like the cheese) That was pretty cool. I was with Elder Calmez who is from Aruba. He speaks spanish, dutch, englsih, and papiementos. So that is pretty cool. At one point we were on the train and every single one of those languages were being spoke at the same time and he could understand them all. So that was pretty cool. Also when I was on splits with him we gave this german guy a blessing. But he didn´t speak dutch so we did it in english and since I had the best english I got to give the blessing. It was actually a pretty good experience and I was happy I got to do it. It is crazy to think that we get the oppertunity to give people revelation from God and tell them things from him. Pretty crazy once you actually think about it. We also had a lesson with this Older Jewish lady, Her name is Marcella. She kind of reminds me of an older female captain jack sparrow haha, But we met with her and her husband and her husband was a pretty funny guy. I will quote some of the conversation for you people 

Marcella speaking to her husband "See I told you these were nice boys!"

Husband "Well what did you expect me to do, kill myself?" 

Later he started making jokes about hitler and me and Elder Lowder weren´t sure how to handle that because theyre all Jewish and stuff. Also Elder Lowder and I cooked some pretty good foods this week which I will send pictures of in a bit. Saterday was kind of a bummer, We had 3 lessons planned and all of them fell through, Then we found this one potential and started talking to him, It was all going good until his father came out and yelled at him in arabic then pulled him inside and slammed the door on us, So that was a bummer. Also someone threw a water balloon at us from the top of a building, They missed of course. But ya we left after that haha. All in all not too bad of a week.

Peace out, Elder Harding​​​​​​​​

Here is a picture of some Hebrew Candy Marcella gave us, some food we made, Elder Calmes and I, and a picture of my bike I made I can´t remember if I sent one last week

August 7, 2017 America The Beautiful

Hello hello, 

We have had an awesome week here in Rotterdam north. This week we had four new investigators and taught tons of lessons, but still had time to go finding so it was cool to see everything work out. This week I got a new bike and put it all together, that was super fun, I love my new bike haha. We also talked to a lot of less actives this week. A couple of them we have met with before and they are working on coming back to church. It is awesome to see their lives change as they come back to the gospel, no matter where anyone is they can still come back to the gospel and become clean. That is something I have seen a lot on my mission so far. 

Cool experience this week, We had a lesson with this eternsal investigator and we were actually going to give him a drop lesson, but he had his friend there and so it turned into a restoration lesson, Well his friend was sarting to try and bible bash us and say we worship Joseph smith and the bible is all god will ever give us and all this stuff. But then Charles (the eternal investigator) was like hey man listen to these kids. They know what they are talking about them and you aren´t listening to them. So then after he started really listening and it turned into a really good lesson. Anyways that is my week.

Sincerely, Elder Harding