Holy spirit fill us with your POWER!!

Another week has come and gone and we're sitting here wondering where the time went. What's a week in Brussels without a wonderful African experience to start things off. So we have one ami named Olivier and he is the guy who is a branhamist which is totally crazy. This week we went and saw him and his mother was there for the RDV. We decided that we'd get her up to date with things and we watched the Joseph Smith movie, the short one that lasts 19 minutes that is. After watching that my companion asked a simple question of, "What do you think about the movie?" the lady replied in a very unique way, she asked if she could sing. Personally I was taken aback by this request but we obliged and she sung us a little tune that went like this:

Holy spirit give me your power, she sung this line 3 times

Holy spirit show me the path, she sung that about 5 times

and then she really dropped the bomb with this next line and accompying dance move

HOLY SPIRIT FILL US WITH YOUR POWER!

It's important to know that when she said US she put her hands out and did a move where she swayed back and forth, almost hitting me in the face because i was in the seat right next to her. She then ended the song and we sat in silence for about 10 seconds till she said amen. We all said a solemn amen agreeing that we had just experienced the things that start basic voodism and we went and taught the lesson as planned.

We stumbled out of that RDV and headed directly to another one where we taught our sweet baptismal date Fabrice about all the fun things that have to do with the ten commandments and the law of chastity. He took it very well and it was super fun. It was also super hilarious to see my companion try to work an Ipad. Fabrice wanted to know if there was an app where he could get the scriptures on his Ipad. My comp was all over that and I watched him for about 3 minutes struggle to find out how to use the Ipad. Oh boy i wonder what another year in the mission is going to do to me. He is currently complaining that the missionaries in his ward in California all have Ipads. We've had lots of talks about how we're a dying breed of missionaries. We're the breed and age that went out and talked to people and had no idea that there would ever be an Ipad in the hands of a missonary. Honestly i'm so thankful that i get to be here right now and i couldn't even imagine my mission without the endless hours i've spent trying to find people who are interested. I love it!

This week we had a weird chat with one of our amis and her family. This amis is the only person in her family not baptized and after she has her baby she'll be baptized, but that's beside the point. We were talking a little about the protestant church that they went to and they were telling me the things that went on there. Never before in my life had hearing about other people's practices make my testimony of our church stronger but that this point it did. I'm not going to go into the specifics but all that RDV long while we were talking about the gospel of Jesus Christ I just kept thinking about how blessed we are to have a prophet who is really inspired from God and who know what's best for us as a church. Today I studied modern day prophets and it was just another testimony builder for me that really we're guided by a real prophet or else our church would have apostalic practices like the churchs who try their best but don't have that restored authority. The church is true!  

Tomorrow is zone conference and we're going to have a fun training on being yourself and doing missionary work at the same time. It should be fun and it's one of the things that i think all missionaries need to work on.