Christmas is coming!

Hey everyone!

This week was a super boring week. Elder Kusseling and I have had colds all week which has really made things go slow. We had a pretty decent week number-wise though so that was good. Last Friday we went and saw a family that lives in France. We had fixed the rendezvous the week before but the family had completely forgotten about it. We pulled up and the father was outside shoveling snow. He looked up and we could tell he was not very happy. He invited us in and then got the family all together. We started talking to them and found out that they have really been struggling. We shared a message and just talked about how the gospel affects their lives. The father really opened up to us and it was pretty awesome. Right before we showed up he slipped and hurt his back and was just stressing about everything. He told us that he said a prayer asking for help and literally 30 seconds later we showed up. At the end of the appointment we were all shaking hands saying good-bye and when we went to shake his hand he grabbed us and gave us each a huge hug. It was such an awesome visit after what was a terrible day for him and for us. It is such a struggle to find people here who actually want help and want to become stronger or learn about the gospel and so when you have appointments like that it is that much more special to you.

Other than that nothing special has really happened. Everybody here is getting ready for Christmas. We have a couple members who have started inviting us over so that will be good. We are probably going to Skype Christmas day from the Olivers' house so that will be legit. It has been snowing here for the last week so that helped get everyone excited and Saturday is the ward Christmas party which will be rather interesting. We are hoping to have a lot of less-actives and investigators there.

This week the mission president is coming out to Luxembourg for our district meeting so we have to clean the apartment really good in case he comes and inspects it. We have to prepare for picking him up and the train station and that whole deal.That should be rather interesting as well.

Today we are going to check out Bastogne which is a pretty big World War II site. It is where the 101st airborne got pinned down by German artillery for winter. Then we are going to look and the Wall that France built to "keep" the Nazi's out (doesn't work so well when the just walk around it haha) I have heard it's cool though so that should be awesome.

Well that's it for this week hope you all are doing great.

Elder Lerdahl