Bonjour toute le monde,
I have been staying so busy here! We taught 17 lessons this last
week and had three or four dinners with members where we had spiritual
thoughts but they don;t count for our numbers. We even got one new
investigator and scheduled an appointment with a lady who we hope will
become a new investigator. Things are going good with our progressing
investigators too. We had two investigators come to church for the first
time ever yesterday and they fit in and everyone at the church was
super nice it was great. We have another investigator named Monique who is a strong Catholic
and by the end of our third meeting with her she is saying that she
knows the Catholic church has been changed and is liking the Book of
Mormon so that's cool. We have some great investigators so I am excited
to see where we are at with all of them in a few weeks. We have a lot of
dinners with members and I have been giving most of the spiritual
thoughts. It has been good because they are members and are
understanding that I am terrible at the language and I find that I am
improving a lot by speaking with them. In our lessons when we talk about
the gospel I understand a lot and can help, but when they talk about
other stuff I am completely lost a lot of the time. It is crazy that the
MTC has helped me understand so much gospel talk I just wish I
understand more of the day to day stuff. I think my vocabulary just
needs to grow and it will get better.
Contacting still is pretty intimidating because you never know where the conversation is going to go but i am making some goals to contact a lot more so hopefully that will get better. I was told contacting is scary the first 1000 times so you might as well just get those 1000 times in your first few weeks--easier said than done. Tomorrow I have my first exchange, I am going with the district leader. We have a district meeting every Tuesday that we take a train for about an hour to and from. Tomorrow after the meeting I am with Elder Barney our district leader for 24 hours then we switch back. I don't really want to go but I think it will be good for me. I am starting to get more used to the schedule and life in Europe in general. Namur was a great place to start because we have a killer ward here and are having some good success. I am excited that I will be here for at least two probably three transfers so I can hopefully see a lot of progress here with the people.
Funny thing here is there are a lot of Jehova's Witnesses and people here hate them and so sometimes people will see us and be like oh my the "temoin jehovas" or tj's and when we explain that we are not tj's they totally get happier and stop hatin' on us so that is kinda funny. There is a lot of American music over here-- especially music from the late 90's so its been fun to hear some of the classics I grew up on ha ha.
Things with the comp are good we get a long well. Well there is really not that much new going on here. Next up we are going grocery shopping. Last week we spent 50 euros and that was including all the stuff we only buy once a month or so like toilet paper and stuff. It's funny here the milk is super cheap like 50 cents for a liter and they make is so that you don't have to refrigerate it. It also stays good for like 3 months. It doesn't taste the same as in the US so that sucks but hey cheap is cheap. Cheese and bread are super cheap too so that is nice. But other stuff like soap is pretty expensive also clothes are pretty nuts here--Levis are like 100 euros and shoes are crazy as well.
Contacting still is pretty intimidating because you never know where the conversation is going to go but i am making some goals to contact a lot more so hopefully that will get better. I was told contacting is scary the first 1000 times so you might as well just get those 1000 times in your first few weeks--easier said than done. Tomorrow I have my first exchange, I am going with the district leader. We have a district meeting every Tuesday that we take a train for about an hour to and from. Tomorrow after the meeting I am with Elder Barney our district leader for 24 hours then we switch back. I don't really want to go but I think it will be good for me. I am starting to get more used to the schedule and life in Europe in general. Namur was a great place to start because we have a killer ward here and are having some good success. I am excited that I will be here for at least two probably three transfers so I can hopefully see a lot of progress here with the people.
Funny thing here is there are a lot of Jehova's Witnesses and people here hate them and so sometimes people will see us and be like oh my the "temoin jehovas" or tj's and when we explain that we are not tj's they totally get happier and stop hatin' on us so that is kinda funny. There is a lot of American music over here-- especially music from the late 90's so its been fun to hear some of the classics I grew up on ha ha.
Things with the comp are good we get a long well. Well there is really not that much new going on here. Next up we are going grocery shopping. Last week we spent 50 euros and that was including all the stuff we only buy once a month or so like toilet paper and stuff. It's funny here the milk is super cheap like 50 cents for a liter and they make is so that you don't have to refrigerate it. It also stays good for like 3 months. It doesn't taste the same as in the US so that sucks but hey cheap is cheap. Cheese and bread are super cheap too so that is nice. But other stuff like soap is pretty expensive also clothes are pretty nuts here--Levis are like 100 euros and shoes are crazy as well.
Well that is it for this week love you all and hope everyone is doing great!
Elder Lerdahl
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