Another Week Down!

Hey Everyone,

 

So this week was pretty sweet. Last Monday I gave the lesson at family home evening and it went really well. I was able to use some personal experiences and stories which is something I don't do very much because the past tense sucks in French haha, but it went well and I think everyone that was there enjoyed the lesson. Tuesday we went to a zone meeting and we had two different trainings. The one I really enjoyed and hope to apply the things I have learned. The other was good too but I find often now, especially at church, that I want to go so much deeper into the doctrine and the "why" when learning about the gospel. I guess that is one reason personal study is so important is that you can go into as much detail as you want. There is this guy in the ward here in Namur who translated Jesus the Christ into French. I thought that was cool! I am gonna pick his brain one of these days.

After our meeting Elder Glover and I, who is six weeks younger that me in the mission, went to Namur. I was so exciting, some of the people in the mission call us twins because we have such similar personalities. It was so much fun! We laughed and joked so much and I learned that who you are with is just as important as what you are doing. We did a ton of contacting and porting which usually is not my favorite thing to do but I had so much fun. 

Tuesday night we taught Mary Claire, the sister of Odette. It was a solid lesson and we fixed a baptism date! I am super excited about it even though I will probably leave before the date. Other than that is was a pretty normal week. Yesterday we went to the Bishop's house after church and had root beer floats. Not really my favorite American dessert but holy cow root beer-- I miss that stuff!  He special ordered it at the store for us-- I was stoked! After we went to a rendez-vous with the bishop and taught our ami Stephan. We talked a lot about faith and I felt really good about it so hopefully he starts coming to church. One of the hardest things for me is seeing how much potential someone has and then seeing them not acting. I makes me think that as missionaries or other various callings in the church, and parents too that we see a glimpse of the sadness our Heavenly Father must feel when people choose to reject the gospel or don't live up to their potential. It is a sucky feeling but there is also nothing better that seeing someone accept the gospel and start changing their lives to follow Christ!

This afternoon we are going over to Beebee's and she is teaching me how to make her Curry, oh my it is so good! Since we eat at her house every Sunday for dinner, on Sundays at about 4 I start craving curry so bad so now I will be able to make it whenever, yeah buddy! This week I spent 14 euros on groceries. I am pretty happy about that. I also found a store that sells Dr. Pepper near our house so I have been taking advantage of that. And I never thought it would happen but I am now digging mineral water. It is so good here. Well this week I hit my 6 month anniversary of my mission that is prety weird! This Saturday I find out if I get transferred. My guess is that I will be, so that is a bummer but also exciting. Well that is pretty much it for this week, I hope you all are doing well!

 

Elder Lerdahl