2 Nephi 31:20 -> "Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life."

Dear family and friends,

I'm not sure if any of you understand Dutch but yes 'vrouwen' does mean 'women'. I promise you that there is a good reason for that title. I'll explain. Over the past two weeks Elder Sosa and I have worked hard to find people to share the gospel with in TIlburg. In that time period, we have accumulated a good amount of potential investigators, and about 80% of them are women. Fun. No seriously it is fun and they're all great. Maybe women are just more open to the gospel right now. The biggest problem is that we have the 3rd man rule and that makes it difficult to teach women when you serve in a branch of forty very busy members. Fortunately Harry is always very willing to come with us and has come with us a couple of times over the past few weeks and will be coming with us again next week for some really cool lessons that I am very excited about. 

I don't have time to talk about all of the cool ladies that we have taught over the past two weeks but I will say that we had a lot of fun and met some cool people. We taught this old lady named Bep a couple of times and met a Kenyan girl named Frida who we should be teaching this next week. Today though we had a really cool experience. We went out to work for a couple of hours and looked some people up in Groenewoud (our favorite area to work now). We looked up Selina, a woman we met last Wednesday with Harry. She was home and we talked with her for like thirty minutes and she just opened up to us about her life and how she adopted her little brothers disabled son and has taken care of him for the past fifteen years. I was really impressed to hear about that and her life story. She saw the potential of her nephew and has helped to have as normal of a life as possible rather than keeping him shut up on meds. We compared it to how God see our potential and does His best to help us achieve it. We were able to set up a time to come back and meet with her and her family on Wednesday. I'm really excited to get to know her better and share more about all that Heavenly Father has placed on this earth for her. The gospel could really help her and her family.

I love being a missionary and serving in the Netherlands. Tilburg is great and I'm thankful for the last three weeks that I have had here. It's been a blessing. I hope that you all have a great week and are able to reach your potential this week and help others to reach theirs.

Love,

Elder Wright






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