So this week has been one of the craziest thus far on the mission.
Monday we just had a nice relaxed P-day oh except for the fact that we
went to grand place to check out all the stuff for Noel and it started
pouring. It seems that every time I go out without an umbrella I get
soaked. I ended up just putting my glasses in my pocket. My hair was
literally dripping on the metro. I looked like a mess, it was great.
Tuesday we went out and taught this super cool guy named Fabrice. I
must admit it was one of the best lessons I've been apart of. We just
testified of the truthfulness of the book of Mormon. If anyone could
have felt the spirit in that room they would be changed in an instant.
It really shaped my week a lot. Some times I have difficulties using
some of the more complicated grammar in French. I found myself flowing
and just using the subjunctive like it wasn't anybodies business. The
most often used subjunctive trigger is afin que. I use it in prayer a
lot but I was just talking and it made sense and I just used it. It's
hard to explain on here, but it is an awesome feeling. I feel like my
ability to understand everything really skyrocketed this week. There
must be some people praying for me back home haha.
Wednesday was a very frustrating day. Our whole day got shot because
we got stuck with an elder waiting for his companion at the train
station. So frustrating. We ate some great fries though. Belgium is all
about beer, chocolate, fries, and peeing babies haha. It's great. I love
it. It's like every time i see mannekin pis i see little Crew or Fin
just peeing away! Haha.
Thursday was so super awesome that I would need to put like 4 more
adjectives to describe the awesomeness. we woke up at 4 which was not so
super awesome because we had to catch a train to Paris. The best part
about it was we rode first class with the zone leaders. That means we
got free breakfast, yay! i had some yummy speculoos sandwiches.
yummmmmm. when we got to paris we had 3 hours till the conference
started so we went to the Eiffel Tower! Finally! It is just really huge!
I feel like i'm actually serving in the paris france mission now that
i've seen it. The conference with the leaders of the mission was so dang
cool. There were a lot of good things presented about being a
successful missionary. It isn't about baptisms it's about loving people
which was really cool.
Each week I like to pick a different Christ like attribute and work
on it. This week I picked charity. Now before this week I though charity
was just giving to people who are less fortunate. If you look in bible
dictionary that proves to be totally wrong.
Charity is the pure love of Christ. It is the love that Christ has for
the children of men and that the children of men should have for one
another. It is the highest, noblest, and strongest kind of love and the
most joyous to the soul (see 1 Nephi 11:23)
I love this
definition so much. This is an excellent scripture. Sorry i couldn't
pull up the bible dictionary one but this works too. But really this
week I have tried to focus on really having that pure love like Christ
did. It's really shown me a lot. Shown me how much the people I love
actually do mean to me. I invite all of you to study a Christ like
attribute each week and try to apply it in your lives. It helps a ton.
The other days kind of dragged on till Sunday where we got invited
to eat at an Italian guy's home. His name is Antonio and he has a wonky
eye but i think he may be my second favorite person i've met on my
mission
So as people around me know, I love Italian food so much. I was so
excited to go eat. We had such good food like wow like honestly wow it
was so good i nearly died from joy. Rapture. There's a good way to
describe that food. But the food got stumped by what happened after. So
we shared a scripture from Alma, it was alma 7:11-14 I believe. Now one
line stuck out to me big time while we were reading this. It's weird
because we read the scripture a lot because it's about the atonement and
I just never really took much though to it. Anyway, it just talks about
being born again, nothing we don't hear all the time. But for me I felt
I really needed to put a lot of emphasis on this part about repenting
and being born again. The wording is a little different in the French
one though. When my time came to testify of this scripture I just said
that I was so thankful for the opportunity we have every day to
literally be born again. It hit me like never before the truthfulness of
that statement. We really can be new people everyday because the lord
has suffered for us. It was so strong that it made antonio cry. It was
hard hold tears back for me. Maybe it was the thing we all needed. I
hope all of you have the chance to read those few verses in the next
week and really apply the atonement in your life because repentance is
such a wonderful gift we have. use it. As missionaries we use it daily.
I
almost forgot to mention that I gave my first blessing to a sick person
ever. And it was in French haha. So scary. There was this lady at
church who is apparently having a really rough time with some things. We
were just all chatting in the foyer after ludovic got the priesthood.
Oh ya ludovic got the priesthood and it was the coolest thing ever. so
samuel grabs me and said we needed to give a blessing to this lady. So
we just went and I almost forgot the words and it was scary but i ended
up ok haha
There's me on a soap box for a little while, sorry! Ha really this week has been so great and so quick WOW!
I love you all.
Avec Amour
Elder Oliverson
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