A Weekend in Holland

Good afternoon, everyone!!!!

This week was AWESOME! Not too much happened, but it was just an
incredible week.

We had an amazing lesson with our investigator, Nicole! We focused on
recognizing and understanding the spirit. We did the lesson in the
chapel with Sister Rivas. Nicole said that she is really understanding
the spirit and feeling it work in her life. Reading the Book of Mormon
brings her so much joy in her life. We felt the spirit so strongly as
we testified to her of the power and reality of the Holy Ghost. It was
absolutely incredible! :)

Elder Holland came to our mission-wide conference yesterday, so that
was exciting.

Stake Conference was yesterday, and our ward mission leader was
released. We have no clue who the new ward mission leader will be. As
a "goodbye present" our ward mission leader, Brother Margiotta, took
us for a ride in his brand new Tesla! It was SO cool!

Anyway, I guess I will talk a little bit more about Elder Holland :)
it was just the most spiritual meeting of my entire life!!!! There are
honestly no words that can explain how amazing it was! He asked that
all 200 of us missionaries could take a picture with him and then all
shake his hand and tell him our name and where we are from. When he
started speaking to us, he said that it is extremely important that he
shake all of our hands. He said that he doesn't do it to be personable
or anything like that. He needs to do it so he can interview each and
every one of us individually. He said that he literally looks into our
eyes and into our souls and is able to know everything about who we
are. It was incredible. He told us that he has a nasty reputation for
going around and rebuking missions and yelling at them to be better
haha. Then, he said that our mission has such an amazing spirit (HE
felt OUR spirit when he entered the room) that he did not have to do
any rebuking at all. "3 or 4 or 5 of you may need some help, but
everyone here deserves to be here. Thank you all for being so worthy
to be serving a mission." He talked to us about the Restoration (which
was INCREDIBLE!) and he talked about how a mission is a life-long
thing. "YOU CAN'T GO BACK!" He is truly and apostle called of God. He
has undeniable power of the spirit. He is amazing :) the gospel is
amazing!

Well, that's it for this week! I love you all!
Elder Snell

Manhattan Temple!!!

Found this while knocking...

Inside the Tesla!

Tight parking for the mission-wide conference