Week of September 1st

hey hey howell fam and the best mom in the world ok so holy crap, jason got engaged, that is so freakin awesome. its so great that im out here gettin my butt trashed and jason is engaged hahaha. im so ecxcited for him omg thats awesome. and here is the big news. IM STAYIN IN AMDSTERDAM. im so excited, amsterdam really has so much potenital and it is a good city. so a little about about the week. on sautrday we had a baptism. his name is mark and the sisters here taught him and i become good friends with him and visited and taught him a lil as well. he is an african from texas. he's conversion story is seriously a miracle. he used to smoke pot, go to the red light district, drink, and all that stuff. he meet the sisters and his whole life changed. i got some pics with him so i will have to send them home. he has a lil problem with swearing omg its so funny. he bore his tesimony after his baptism and he was like ""i told my freinds i was gettin baptized and i was like, hell ya i am"" right up on the pulpip hahaha. he is awesome. and our number one invesgitaor came to the baptism, Yalmer. he is seriouly so prepared its off the hook. after the bapztism we went over to yalmers for dinner and a lesson. we gave the closing prayer and it was honestly so amazing. i understood like 70% of it but the spirit was just so strong. he sayed that he hopes that heavenly father can help him get baptized like mark did that day, soooo good. ya so it was a way good week. i hope you all had a good week with each other. sounds like you all did epecially with jason and lindesy. oh and thanks for gettin my face on the big george bush cardboard thingy haha. so everyhitng is going good here. im still trying to get adjusted its still hard sometimes but i will just hang in there. i can just see a really bright and awesome fututre here for me in the netherlands. dutch is comin along. i understand like maybe 30%-40-% of what people say on the streets. i havent gotten stressed out about it so thats good. so fam i love you all so much. i cant believe i have been on my mish for about 3 months now and i just went through my first transfer. I love you all ELder Howell P.S i need so cetapil face wash