Elder Noah Morey: Birthday Week/Blessings of the Temple!!!

Goedemorgen everyone!! Well this week was more than likely the best week I have ever had on my mission!! It was action packed and had a bunch of fun and spiritual experiences! Well I turned 19 on Friday, so thank you to all that wished me a happy birthday! Elder Le Duc and I had a good week of work, it was kinda a slow once again, but hey that is alright, just got to keep our heads up and keep working hard!

Well on Tuesday we had Temple Conference in Zoetermeer, and also we had the opportunity to go to Keukenhof (Garden of Europe), which you all have probably seen by the pictures I have sent. But first I want to talk about the blessings of the Temple. We truly are blessed to have temples upon the earth, we are so lucky to be able to participate in such sacred and special ordinances! It truly was amazing Tuesday to feel the spirit in the Temple, it truly was needed for me to be there at that time! The apostles are always telling us how important and privileged we are to have such blessings upon the earth, I am one of those people that are truly grateful for how much the temple has blessed me in my life and also on my mission!

On Wednesday and Thursday we spent the majority of our time going to do Lamb of God look ups, the Lamb of God was a DVD campaign that our mission did and it is exploding! We as a mission have received over 2000 referrals! so we spent a lot of our time doing that. On Thursday we did a Lamb of God look up in a city called Holten, we did our look up but they were unfortunately not home.. so we decided to knock around the area. As we knocked for a little, we were just getting door after door slammed on us.. but we went to this next door and this adorable old lady comes out and asks us who we are, so we tell her who we were and that we were here to share a book with her. She gladly took the Book Of Mormon and we had a great lesson with her and how she has been searching her whole life for god and how she has been searching for the truth, it was amazing to see the testimony that she had, it truly was heart warming! We have a appointment with her next week!

For the rest of the week on Saturday was our P-day and we went up to Groningen to play in a volleyball tournament that was done by the church here in the Netherlands and Belgium, we unfortunately took 5th out of our pool.. but hey it was super fun and I got a good workout!;) Sunday we taught a lesson to our Investigator Tony, he has an amazing understanding of the gospel, we just have to help him with his addictions that he has, but it is super cool to see the difference the Spirit makes on him. You can see the difference very clearly when we teach and he asks us questions that just invite the spirit, I am so grateful that we have the spirit! It truly makes miracles come to life! Without it, missionary work would be impossible! I am so grateful for all the blessings that we see as missionaries and the miracles that can come from it! I love you all and hope you have a great week! and Remember WE BUILD THE KINGDOM!! Tot ziens!

Love Elder Morey