May 25, 2009
Hey, how is everybody?
Sounds like life is slowing down at home. It is good that you have been able to find time to spend with each other too, I wish I could be there.
Liege is still going strong. We are really hoping to start sending this city back on the right path. I guess it was only 20 or 30 years ago and this place was the fastest growing area in Europe. This city alone was going to be its own stake, and this city was going to get its own temple too. They bought land for it and everything, but before all these plans got carried out, Apostasy struck in and devastated the area. There are over 600 inactive members in this city. They also had to close 3 wards/branches in this area too. So it is a bit crazy. We hope to have a lot of success, and really help bring this city out of the darkness, but it hasn’t been going as well as we planned. We met with an inactive member the other day that used to be a bishop, but now fell into apostasy. We stopped by his house, and ended up staying for over 3 hours talking to him and trying to clear up all this crazy stuff he had on his mind.
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May 18, 2009
Hey everyone!
Well I made it to my new city all fine and dandy. Everything is cruising right along. I don’t know what more to really say than that.
My companion is Elder Spackman and he is very cool. I am really enjoying working with him. It is especially a blessing after going through last transfer. I was so very glad to be transferred, I don’t know if I could have survived another 6 weeks with the way things were going. It was a big surprise to everyone that I got transferred out of Lille so fast, I guess Lille is often what the missionaries call a “black hole”. It is great, but it tends to be one of those cities that many missionaries end up going into and not coming out for a very long time. But Liege really is great, I don’t mind it at all. It is fairly big, and there is tons of bridges that we walk over all the time which I really enjoy. And a lot of boats and barges. I think it is pretty cool.
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May 11, 2009
Hello, it hasn’t been too long… less than a day actually, but i guess that is how it goes.
It was great to talk to you yesterday night. It was great. I am glad you got the card, and that you could read it.
Well, I got my transfer news actually right after you hung up. I will be going back to Belgium and serving in a city called Liège. It is home of the Belgian waffle. It is fairly big also, but not nearly as big as Lille. I am sad to already be leaving Lille. I was only there 6 weeks, but I am also glad with the whole situation of having a new companion. It will be nice to start over fresh and new. Liège is north of Brussels, but not far. So I have one more day here in France before heading back up to Belgium.
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May 4, 2009
Just kidding, it really isn’t, i just couldn’t think of anything else to write for the subject line.
Anyway, transfers are one week away. I am hoping for the best, if you know what i mean.
I guess you are tired of hearing about my companion, but that is all i have to talk about. I will try to write about other stuff.
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