This week has been great! Even all of the busyness and crazyness of the holidays, we still mangaged to be pretty effective. We found several new investigators, and we are really hoping that we can do better this week to turn them into progressing investigators and actually have more than a couple who we teach regularly.
They take the New year very seriously here, so we were required to be in our apartment at 4:30 on New Year's Eve since missionaries make very good firework targets. We thought we would have a little bit of down time during that so we had bought a 1000 piece puzzle the p-day before. We ended up finishing the day before New Years... oops. All on P-day time and after 9 of course.
But the fireworks were crazy. We got up to watch it for a few minutes, and is impossible to describe. In America you have a few big firework shows around you, but in Nederland everyone buys a ton of aerial fireworks, and the moment the New Year starts they go crazy, and don't stop for a while. The entire horizon was covered in fireworks.
This email wasn't super spiritual, so I would like to end it with a bit of my testimony. This church is so very true. I did not understand that before as much as I do now. We are so very blessed to have these opportunities to be led by leaders called of God. The power of the Priesthood is real. Jesus Christ truly is the Son of God and has made it possible not only to have eternal life here after, but find happiness here on Earth. I promise that true happiness comes through this gospel. I hope that you will all take the chance this new year to continue to know your God, and to better understand his love.
I love you all!
Love,
Elder Thornton
The Puzzle!
Enjoying my Christmas package :)
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