Conference!

Hey everybody!

So.. how about conference!  I still haven't seen all of it but let me tell you, it fit my bill perfectly!  I am so pumped to go out and work now - well even more than before anyways.  It is always good to know that we can receive guidance every 6 months from men truly led by God.  I am excited to pour over and apply all the things I have learned over the next 6 months.

Fifth Article of Faith

As far as the rest of the week went, I just need to start expecting that things will be crazy.  I went and picked up my new companion on Wednesday, Elder Stanworth, fresh off the airplane.  He is from Hurricane, Utah.  He just graduated from High School a couple of months ago.  He is a lot quieter than my last greeny, very observant, and just super cool!  We're going to have a lot of fun. He played Football and Soccer, and snowboarded in High School.  He kind of got thrown into a tornado on his first couple days.  We've been doing things you wouldn't normally on your first couple days, because the singing elders have been working in our area this week, plus general conference, but it's been all good. 

Elder Stanworth and Me

Elder Lott and Elder Stanworth

We've seen some cool miracles so far.  We've been having to walk places until we can find him a bike helmet.  (It is almost impossible to find one in this country, I swear!)  But the good thing has been we've been talking to a ton more people than just on buses or biking so that has been good.  It's always fun to see who you will meet in this country.  We really are called to teach all nations.  You can find people from every continent just about every day here.  

I'm super impressed with how pretty Breda is, there are so many unexpected cool things that you find here.

I love you all!  Hope you have a good week!

-Elder Hayden L. Lott

Question of the Week:  We received word this week that the Mission Office moved to a new building.  Do you know why, and have you had a chance to see the new place?

Answer:  For the question of the week I don't know why the mission office is moving, and I haven't had a chance to see the new one.  I did know it was moving though; hopefully they can figure it all out quickly and smoothly.

New Mission Office Address:

Belgium Netherlands Mission

Elder Hayden Lott

Schuttersveld 2 C

2316 ZA Leiden

NETHERLANDS

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Goede Dag Iedereen!

[Good Day Everyone!]

Well this week has been a really fantastic week.  We spent quite a bit of it traveling (again :p) but the rest was really quite great.  Traveling this week was dedicated to getting me my Belgian Drivers license, so that was pretty fun.  I always love that chance to go back down to Belgium.  The reason this week was so great was because we were able for the rest of the time to hit it hard, really focusing on doing the work and in the way the Lord wanted us to do it.  Glad we were able to do that because one of us is on our way out.  That would be Elder Higham, he is being transfered up to Heerenveen in the Netherlands.  I will be getting ANOTHER greeny!  So I will find out on Wednesday who I am training. That is super exciting.  Training is a lot of fun, and I've been doing it the last 4 transfers (3 finishing up, and one greeny of my own) so why not keep going!  It's fun working around young missionaries, most of them have fire and it just needs to be directed and refined.  It helps me grow a ton as well, forcing me to be thinking about what I can do to be the best example for the young missionary I can be. It forces me to progress or give up.   Also my ability to see things more for what they are, being able to discern between good and bad.   Haha, it's also taught me quite a bit of patience.  I'm ready and excited to teach and learn from another new missionary.

I love you all and hope you have a good week!

Doei!

[Bye]

Love,

-Elder Hayden L. Lott

Question of the Week:  We see quite a few pictures of water in Breda.  Is it just from the canals, or are there polders that far inland?

Answer: The water you see is canals, it is super pretty, but really only around the centrum.

Breda Harbour in Old Town Breda
image from Google

Park Valkenberg in Breda
image from Google

Boats on Canal in Breda
image from Google

Breda Canal
image from Google

Breda at Night
image from Google

Kasteel van Breda
image from Google

Blokhuis, part of Kasteel van Breda
image from Google

Spanjaardsgat (Spanish Water Gate)
image from Google

Castle Bouvigne
image from Google

Crazier Than Normal

Hey guys!

So this week was fun, crazier than normal.  The first half of the week was normal.  Had some really nice appointments with investigators and all.  It was also Hands to Serve Week across the mission so we had a service project nearly every day.  Then craziness happened. President Bunnell called for an emergency transfer.  So we are now in Breda.  So we spent a couple days transferring and figuring all that out.  

Harbor of Breda
image from wikipedia

Hands to Serve Week
picture from Zuster Emilee Bush blog
Elder Lott is on the end left in blue t-shirt

I also had my first chance to do a baptismal interview this last week.  That was super cool, super spiritual.  

Anyways, that was our week. I've got to go, love you guys!

Love,

-Elder Hayden L. Lott