Tuesday: So we had to exchange companions for a day and I was more than a little nervous. Elder Garcia, who I would be exchanging with, might be a little strange. He is nice, kind of, but strange. We made the exchange and then it was just me and him. Immediately he just took over and started replanning everything that elder thomas and I had planned to do. It was very frustrating. The funniest thing that even happened was when he got angry at these people for calling us Jehovah's Witnesses. Man he has a temper. you just had to be there.
Wednesday: We had our lovely zone conference on Wednesday and it was just wonderful. President and Sister Poznanski are such great people. I'm very pleased to have them as our mission leaders. After the interviews and training we had a lovely Thanksgiving chicken dinner. It was about as good as thanksgiving gets in Brussels has. Even though it was only Wednesday. Then came the time for the chicken bowl. Now correct me if I'm wrong but a whole zone of missionaries playing football sounds like a recipe for disaster. I knew there was a blown knee waiting to happen. Luckily we all survived and we all ended up muddy but jovial. I tried playing quarterback without my glasses but that didn't work out as well as i hoped. i blame the people for not catching the ball. I mean i guess the worst place to hit them is in the hands isn't it? This ended and without even thinking twice me and elder thomas were on our way to tie any loose ends we had with ludovic. It went smooth as usual and he passed his interview with flying colors.
Thursday was a lovely day of course. We celebrated our American heritage with my first taste of Macdo. yuck. I payed more euros than i should have for something that was certainly sub par. Well now i will try my hand at quick and see if anything better comes from that. I sure hope it does because I was not pleased at all with the European Mcdonalds. I'm shaking my head while writing this, that's how bad it was. After some hardcore work we had a lovely Thanksgiving dinner lined up with the best family in the whole wide world. they are the curtis family and they are so awesome. It was just so much fun having another chicken dinner. ha. so much fun. When we were stuffed to the point where buttons could burst we lined up to take a picture. I was put in the most awkward situation i've had on my mission. 3 of the curtis kids tried to sit on my lap. contact with children is a very touchy subject in the rules of a missionary. We are to avoid things like holding kids and having them sit on our laps like people avoided the plague. So i threw both my hands up and showed that I could take no part in this lap sitting that was wanting to be had. it was funny and i feel bad but rules are rules you know. I am very grateful for wonderful families like them and for all the wonderful members of this wonderful church. everything is wonderful
the next to days just went. they were just days. i likened these days to the 23rd of december. it's not christmas and it's not christmas eve so you are just looking forward to all the wonderful presents that are to be had.
No worries, Sunday was certainly like Christmas. We prepared all the stuff for the baptism and i prepared my talk on top of all that. I really had so much going on that I went up there gave my talk and we soon after left the chapel. Nearly all of our investigators were at church and we also found a new one who is looking to (I'm using his words right here) "do what that guy did" that guy he is talking about is ludovic and doing what he did is called baptism. Ludovic brought his mom which was so cool. she really liked the spirit there and decided she wanted to see us and be taught. It is just so awesome seeing ludovic's testimony grow. Ah I can't even describe the feeling. I'll describe it as cake. Cake is really good. I just said cake so you could put in your mind whatever cake you want. and the best part about this cake is that it is super healthy for you. So you have this super delicious healthy cake and you just eat it, all of it, and it's that feeling when you've eaten the right amount. Ya that's how his baptism felt. It almost felt surreal. When we gave him the holy ghost it was also just such an awesome feeling. this feeling was like getting a free gps system because really that's what the holy ghost is. It's like we said, "Here Ludovic have this gps system that will guide to anywhere and tell you anything you need, oh and it's free." If we were to look at the holy ghost as some technological gift the overview would be something like this
Can tell you anything you need to know concerning your life
Can guide you to make right decisions at all times
Works as long as you have faith
Will always be there if you keep yourself worthy
Can be charged every sunday when you partake of the sacrament
Is very simple and easy to use
Wow now that does sound too good to be true doesn't it?
All joking and lame analogies aside it was one of the greatest days of my life. Just the spirit during the whole day was choice. It is something that I hope to feel a lot more in the future. ludovic is a great example to me. I'm very proud of his decision.
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