Week of March 15th

hey mama and fam
thanks for the email. yes, i did get your package and thanks for sending it. thats awesome to here that sis verboeket emailed you. i just talked to harry today (the old man who works with the missionaries everyday) and he says eindhoven is doing great. i miss that city soooo much. theres just somethin there that i love. the members there are seriously amazing. they help us out so much.
zwolle is doing great. man i am terrible at writting emails. i have been here for about 3 months and you guys dont know anyting about zwolle haha. well zwolle is a branch with maybe 40 members. and actually, on sunday, a missionary just returned home from france. he gave his homecoming talk. it was really good. we then went over to his house and had dinner with him and his family. he know elder rock cause they were in the mtc at the same time 2 years ago, small world hu. it takes us like 30 minutes to bike to the church from our place. and yes, we ride bikes everyday all day haha. only the zone leaders have cars. we have like 3 pair of zone leaders in the netherlands. then a couple is belgium. its quit confussing.
well we had interviews last week. i swear president woodland is amazing. you can see him just recieve revelation from god and send it right to you. what a blessing he has been in my life.
i was able to give my first blessing while holding the melchizedck priesthood in my life last week. i gave my frist blessing last week, awesome hu. we went over to the knarrens to eat. they are from the netherlands but found the church in england while he was studying there for school. they have one baby who is like 6 months or something. but after we eat she asked me to give her a blessing, in english. they prefer speaking english. this blessing was truely one of the most spiritual experiences of me life. the words just came and it was so amazing and such a blessing to be apart of.
roda is doing great. she will be baptized i just dont know when. she has been coming to church every week. she is just living with her boyfriend.
we got zone conf coming up. president oaks will be there, he is the president of europe west. (elder oaks cousin). he was 3 hours with us so i am stoked.
i love you all so much.
ik hou zo veel van jullie. vergeet dat nooit
Elder J Howell