The silver bullet

This has been an interesting week. Or rather, the last two days have been interesting: on thursday, elder Ballard spoke to the mission in the chapel in Zoetermeer, along with elder Dyches of the area presidency and elder Hallstrom of the presidency of the seventy. It was such a privilege to hear from there and to listen to an apostle of the Lord. It was really a great conference and I learnt a lot from it. Something that was said, was that meetings needed to be instructive as well as edifying. And that was definitely the case on Thursday. The speakers covered a variety of topics, but one thing that I really noticed, was that a lot of what they said confirmed the instruction that president Robinson had given during last zone conference, as well as adding to those subjects. Elder Ballard underlined the importance of doctrine in conversion and how we must focus on that and focus on knowing the lessons from Preach my Gospel. That evening, there was an equally uplifting stake conference for the Den Haag stake in the same location, which we were also able to attend. This time, the speakers focused more on temple work and general life problems, but also on sharing the gospel and using technology.

Yesterday, we went on an exchange with our district leader, elder Besendorfer and went to teach both the people who want to get baptised in October. As well as an investigator we hadn't taught in a month or more, only this time, her parents listened to us too. We also had correlation for the first time in a while (the ward mission leader just had a child, three weeks ago).

Next week is transfers and the mission is welcoming 12 new missionaries and saying farewell to 10 (6 next week and 4 midway through the transfer). Because of the large number, we will be doing all the stuff in the Sheraton at Schiphol. That will really be fun. It will be the first of three transfers for which we will be using a hotel, and the incoming and departing groups will only get bigger until December.

Working in the office is really fun, even when it's busy or when it isn't.