Conference Weekend and Easter is Underway!!

Goedemorgen Familie en Vrienden!! SO I once again don´t have to much time, but I will try my hardest to type as fast as humanly possible! 

Lots of things have happened since the last email, Elder Groesbeck is now home and all is well for him. Elder Young and I are doing well together and are having a lot of fun as well and seeing some success already! The Weather is just absolutely the best, we went out the other day just in our white shirts, and we received a lot of confused and scary looks from everyone, haha gotta love it!

I don´t know if I told you all but I got released as a DL, because we are now part of the Groningen District and we will now have a lot of time just to us and the Work, so that is really nice, but I will miss all the exchanges and being involved with the District Members. But we are excited to be a part or Groningen!

So this week has been really busy actually, I set up a lot of appointments and it was a really great week! We had the chance to go knocking on Saturday, which was the only time we had this whole week thank goodness! We were doing a look up at first and he wasn´t home and when we were biking there I saw and area that honestly looked really cool and I thought to myself, hey we should knock there and low and behold we ended up finding two potentials there. One of which is pretty positive and told us that we could come back some time and share our message!! YAAASSSS!!!

Our investigators that we do have are doing well and are making good progression. We ended up having a less active come to church on Sunday, which was awesome. He is from Indonesia and he is hilarious. But overall it was a solid week and we are getting super hyped over here in Assen for General Conference! I hope you all have a great time Watching Conference and make sure to take some notes! I love you all and will talk to you soon! Tot Ziens!

Trust More, Fear Less.


Love Elder Noah Morey

Golfing Last PDay!!!!!!

Me reading a book to Peter Roman! His mom
is a member and his dad is a investigator!

My New Comp Elder Young!

TRANSFER CALLS, ELDER GROESBECK HEADING HOME

Everyone. Goedemorgen. I have no time at all now. Just in Thies De Jonge a member here in the Groningen Ward, just called us and said that Golfing is going through!!! SO we are about to peace out and hit the golf course!!!! I am super hyped about it!

SO this week was a hard one. We didn't see to much success. But we are excited for the future of Assen. I got my transfer calls this week and I will be staying and getting Elder Young. He is a transfer below me, so it will be interesting for the both of us. I wonder if he is going to be the one who will send me home.. super weird. Even though the work can be hard some days, I can still see the blessings of missionary work here and there.

We had an investigator come to church and that was super awesome!! He enjoyed it and hopefully him and his wife who is a member, will start coming more often! I literally cannot describe how exciting it is to have some come to church and enjoy it! Love it!

Also had a cool experience in Church that day, I had the opportunity to be involved with a baptismal interview for a lady that is getting baptized on the week of General Conference so that was cool. I and Elder Groesbeck then after church were invited to ordain a young man to be the Priest Quorom assistant. His name is Niels De Jonge. And it really meant a lot to Elder Groesbeck and I that we were being good examples to Niels and that he invited us to be a part of that. It meant the whole world to me. Being a missionary rocks to say the least.

I love you all and hope you have a great week and I will talk to you soon! I will send some photos soon! If you have time you should read the first Presidency message for April!! TOT ZIENS!!

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Elder Noah Morey

Went to the Uitkijktoren in Appelscha
with some members after dinner!

NL Doet Dag!!

Goedemiddag everyone!! First off I don't have too much time, so hopefully my typing skills will be better and I can type faster! Also Birthday shoutout to my boy in Alaska Elder Tyler John Fawson!! He is turning 20 this week!! So shoot him an email and tell him Happy Birthday!!

This week was awesome here in Assen, we were busy and saw a lot of little miracles through the week! First off We had NL Doet Dag this week, which is a Nederland wide day of service, last year I was in Deventer for it and this time we had the opportunity to go with the Groningen Missionaries and do some spring cleaning for a local Stable for horses, we were there for about 5 hours just cleaning the whole place. I ended up cleaning and shining the saddles for the horses and just doing some manual labor for them. It is Always nice to do some service and smell like Horse Poop!

This Friday we had the opportunity to go to our investigators Birthday party. It was a lot of fun, it was really cool to see that the whole family really warmed up to us. Normally people are quite scared of us for some reason, but they just treated us like we were family and had a great discussion about faith and beliefs and it was really awesome, Iona makes the best food in the world!!

On Saturday we had the chance to go on Exchanges with the Emmen Elders and I went with Elder Vander Werff. He has been on the mission for about 6 months now. We had a great time knocking doors and having people get upset with us. We ended up seeing a dead guy on the side of the road having CPR done to him, so that was scary. Later that day we decided to go to a place in Assen called Kloosterveen and knock and do some lookups. We ended up contacting a referall that was interested and getting back in contact with some really positive Former investigators! SO it was a super succesvol week!

On Sunday we sang in Church and it was nice, Grietje our investigator came to church which was super surprising! She seemed to have felt the Spirit, so that was all that matters! We ended up having 8 investigators in Church as a ward! Well this is Elder Groesbecks last week, so we are going to make it his best one! I love you all and will talk to you soon! and remember that The Lord loves you!!

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Love Elder Noah Morey

Groningen 160

Goedemorgen everyone!! This week was an awesome one for us here in Assen! We had a lot of good sucess and the move to Groningen was a sucess as well! I don't have too much time today, but first shout out to my Mom and Older Brother Matt, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Hope you two have a great week and a great birthday!!

Okay so this week we saw a lot of small miracles happen. Elder Groesbeck and Elder Thornock were on Exchanges in Assen on Wednesday and they ended up knocking into two Former investigators that want us to come back! SO we set up a time with them this week! That was super cool! While I was in Zwolle with Elder Mikkelsen we ended up finding a cool investigator for them that wants to come to church and learn more about the Book of Mormon. We ended up teaching her a Restoration on the door and it was really cool!

Well the move to Groningen began on Sunday and needless to say it was packed, There is now a ward in Groningen that has 160 members. It was insane. It was crazy to see that, it felt like a ward in Utah! In the Apeldoorn Ring, we have probably one of the best Stake Presidencies in the Netherlands, everytime I hear the stake president talk, the Spirit is no doubt in the room. He talked a lot about recognizing the feelings in our heart and not with our head, and that when we go through the hard frustrations in life, we can always go back to how we feel about our Savior and how much the Gospel has affected our lives! It was great!

Well sorry this was super short and very little information, but I love you all and hope you have a great week! Hopefully it is getting warmer wherever you are! Remember that you have a Father in Heaven who loves you and you literally are his work and glory! Tot Ziens!!

-- 
Elder Noah Morey

Elder Groesbeck and I sporting our klompen!

Elder Mikkelsen and I on Exchanges

Elder Groesbeck catching some ZZZZZ on the bus!

Got my high score on Sjoelen the other night!!

Time to move to Groningen!

Well goedemiddag everyone!! I hope you all had a great week! First off, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Sister DeVries in the Utica mission! Next week we will be heading to Church in Groningen, so this last Sunday was the last time the Branch in Assen would be meeting together, it is still emotional for a couple of the members and some not so hard, but it will all be good in the end!

We had a miracle happen on Sunday as well! Now here in Assen we work with two part member Family's, and on Sunday they all came to church!!! So we ended up having 5 investigators in Church, which was super awesome! They all enjoyed it and hopefully they will be able to come more often to Groningen!

This last week we had Zone Conference which was super nice, We talked about Goal setting and having more Faith as missionaries. President Bunnell gave a bomb presentation on Faith and it was just a really needed Conference for everyone. Elder Groesbeck had to give his departing testimony which was super sad, I am going to miss him when he leaves...

We didn't have too much success finding this week, the only day we found someone was when Elder Stevenson and I were on Exchanges in Assen. We did a quick look up that was a less active to see if she was coming to church on Sunday, and we had some extra time before Lunch, so we thought we would knock some doors. And it ended up being Sunny that day, so it made knocking a lot more bearable! But we ended up finding 2 potentials that seem to be interested in the Book of Mormon and what we have to share, so Exchanges always bring success!!

So I say the highlight of my week had to have been on the train ride home from Exchanges. Elder Groesbeck and I exchanged back in a city called Zwolle and had a hour train ride back home. Now when we sat down there was 2 cute 10 year old dutch girls sitting across from us. And they were being funny and messing with people outside of the train. They heard Elder Groesbeck and I talking English. One of them in Dutch said, "They are Americans." Thinking I wouldn't understand what they were saying, so I turned and asked them in Dutch, "Have you ever been to America before?"
If you only could see there reactions and faces when they heard me speak Dutch.. haha it was hilarious! We then had some Language Study with them the whole train ride home, they made us ask them English words to see if they knew them in Dutch and vice versa. I have never laughed so hard in my life and have never been so happy getting off that train knowing that even though I didn't share the gospel with them, they thought Elder Groesbeck and I were pretty funny and that is missionary work in itself, just being an example.

I hope you all have a great week and hopefully Spring is under way for everyone else! The Sun is shining here in the Netherlands and that makes me happy! I love you all and will talk to you soon! Tot Ziens!!

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Love Elder Noah Morey

Happy Birthday Elder McBride!

These are the girls we chatted with on the
train ride home that I was talking about!

Playing some Sjoelen with the De Jonge Family,
Sjoelen is an old dutch game!

We went to a Vesting(Fortress) in Bourtange!

Stake Conference in Apeldoorn!

Goedemorgen Everyone!! Well this week was a pretty simple one, not too much to talk about, but there was a couple things and miracles that is worth telling! One cool thing that happened this weekend was that we had Stake Conference in Apeldoorn. Cool fact is that I have been in the Apeldoorn Zone for almost a year of my mission and I was here for the last one not too long ago, so that goes to show how long I have been in this Zone! but we got to sleepover with the Arnhem Elders on Saturday night so we could make it to the Sunday session on time! It was super nice to go back to Arnhem and see that city again.

I had the chance to go on Exchanges with Elder Thornock on Thursday and we got to stay in Assen. It was the first time I met him and he is a super cool guy from Bountiful, Utah and we actually have a lot in common and we had a super fun exchange. We had the opportunity to go to Hoogeveen and go teach a Family from Iraq and a man from Indonesia. It went well with the man from Indonesia, he isn't too open to investigate to know if the Book of Mormon is true, but likes talking with us. The Family from Iraq are super funny, they have a daughter and 2 sons that are hilarious and love the missionaries! 

On Sunday we had Stake Conference and it went well and was very uplifting, they missionaries got to sing, so that was good. President Hulleman is the Stake President and man we he gives a talk everyone is at the edge of there seats. He is amazing and just always brings the Spirit into the meeting!

This next Sunday will be the last time branch Assen will meet together, it will be hard to leave such a nice branch and go to a big Ward, but it will be a great blessing as well! We have many good plans this week and are excited for what this next week holds! 

I love you all and will talk to you soon! Tot ziens!

Love Elder Morey!

From Wet!!!

To Sunny!!!!!

Found a Tree House!

Traveling to Stake Conference

Change is Difficult..

Goedemiddag everyone!! Well this was a crazy week for us here in Assen! Do I have some crazy news for you all! But first I would like to wish you all a Happy Valentines Day tomorrow! :) I will be spending it with my beautiful Companion and will do something nice for him!

Well this week was a great planning week for us, we have made some super good plans for Elder Groesbeck's last transfer on his mission, mainly just me trying to keep him from not being too Trunky! But this week we didn't see too much success knocking or getting in contact with other investigators.. but hey that is alright we just keep trying!

The reason I set the subject of this email that Change is Difficult is because recently the Assen Branch got some news from the Stake Presidency during Unit Conference and that news was that Assen is being shut down and moving to the Ward Groningen... Now a little side note, Assen is one of the strongest branches here in the Netherlands, so everyone was super surprised to hear that they're shutting it down. Emotions were everywhere and to be a missionary there I literally felt the pain and sadness of the members. I love them very much and care for them. I had the chance to stand up and bare my testimony to them that as a missionary in Assen I am here to serve them and to help and support them all.

A couple of the members were upset, but understood the decision that was made, though hard to swallow. Our Branch President gave a great talk on about What is your Identity and Where do you stand. He gave a great example of how much he has moved in his life. But one thing that never changed was home was with his Savior, Jesus Christ and even though he was moving constantly, he still had his faith with him.

I have recently been thinking and studying about Optimism. And one of the best example of that was one of our Prophets, Gordon B. Hinckley. He always had a great outlook on everything, he was known for saying, Have Faith, Be Happy, Don't get Discouraged, All will be well. I know that to be true, The Lord has his hand in everything. Sometimes we may not think that is right, but He has a plan and that is better than what we can ever Imagine. I am grateful to be serving where I am and to be able to go through this hard time, I know it will benefit me in a lot of ways! 

I love you all and will talk to you soon! Tot Ziens!!
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Love Elder Noah Morey