July 13, 2009
Hey Everyone,
Well this week has been full of sickness for us here in Belgium. On Tuesday, my companion was having really horrible stomach problems, it was actually the 3rd day in a row that it had been that way, except that it kept getting worse. Now he could barely walk anymore, so we took him to the hospital. We ended up staying there all day and got back late at night. They gave him some pills and told him to rest. That night the recently baptized member, Aurelie brought us over some really good French food to make us feel better. She made the BEST ratatouille that I have had me whole mission and some good bread, with some super good garlic Humus. And also some Belge zucchinI soup. It was really good. Well the next day my other companion the new guy, started pooping out straight blood, so of course we had to take him to the hospital too. Continue reading ‘Week of Sickness’
July 6, 2009
Hey family.
Well I actually don’t feel like there is much to say this week, sadly. Not much is new. But I figured that I would send some pictures to make up for it, since I am finally at a computer that I can. More or less… today we went up to the Netherlands again for p-day. It was mainly to just spend time as a district, but also we went shopping for groceries. I ended up buying a sweatshirt too. it is very European, but I like it… it is all good. It is kind of a funny green color, lol. But now we are back in Liege. We are giving a stop smoking workshop tonight at the church, and it sounds like we are going to have a big turn out, so it sounds like I am going to be using my French public speaking skills if I have any tonight. We got a really nice PowerPoint presentation that goes through the steps. We have been working hard on it, and I think it should be cool. Unfortunately it looks like the internet is not so speedy here, so the number of pictures will be limited.
One of them is a pic with me and president woodland and his wife. Another is a pic of liege in cool lighting and a cool bridge. Another is a picture of me in a cool forest.
Continue reading ‘Just Another Week’
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.
Continue reading ‘Liege Recovery’
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.
Continue reading ‘Liege is going good’
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.
Continue reading ‘Well, I Guess there is News.’
