Belgium: Week Three

Bonjour Toute le Monde,

This week was a pretty crazy crazy week! I had my first exchange on Tuesday and Wednesday with Elder Barney who is our district leader. We went after district meeting  and dropped my stuff off at their apartment in Liege about an hour from Namur and then we went porting for about two hours.  Nobody was interested, so that was fun stuff but porting isn't all that bad. It's kinda fun if you make it fun by being goofy in between houses and singing and what not. We probably looked like crazy people but oh well. We then taught a lesson, went back to the apartment and did the usual- daily planning the next day. We did our studies as usual which was kinda cool with someone else, then we contacted, had lunch and caught a train to Namur. We taught Jean-Philippe at Jenri and Mei's house and then switched comps there. It was good to have a day with someone new and be able to learn a lot. The rest of the week was pretty normal. We had some good lessons and fixed a baptism date with an Ami named Odette. I have not worked with her much, and I think we are making good progress with one of our Iraqi Amis named Abdel. He has been coming to church and he loves the ward and they love him so I am looking forward to working with him.

One of our recent converts that we work with a lot is Beebee. She is Moroccan or something like that and she moved to Belgium to take care of her son who got in a car accident and is mentally and physically handicapped. She is about 70 and feeds us once a week and on special occasions which in this place means we get fed twice a week by here because there are so many flippin' holidays.

Well I am about out of time. Things are good--I get fed so much by members but have still managed to lose about ten pounds so that is good and my French is slowly improving. That's the life and the life is crazy.

Love you all! Hope everything's going great

- Elder Lerdahl