Elder.Connely.Packard

While we spent a lot of time planning this week, it was well worth it because Angkea got baptized. She is awesome. She grew up here but is originally from Thailand. She grew up Buddhist. She does not have a very good Christian background. She has 1 daughter. She was prepared to hear our message. Angkea was a member referral a couple years ago, but after the first lesson, she decided to stop investigating. The missionaries had just made contact with her again when I got here. I did not know that because she was so spiritually receptive. She really does not know too much about Chrisitanity, but what she does have, is a relationship with God and Jesus Christ. She gets names, people, times and terms mixed up sometimes, but she never gets truthful principles mixed up because she experiences them for herself. She has a strong testimony, and is willing to keep any commandment because she knows that it is true. What sets her apart from a lot of investigators is that she has a n...

The sun came out on Saturday. I took a picture to prove  Crazy week this week with the bombings and everything. We invited a recent convert to come and have lunch wit hthe district after district meeting on Tuesday morning, and she was the one who told us about the bombings. It was quite a surprise, especially since our mission covers that area and we are just above the Belgian border here in Breda. However, we did not have to do any emergency procedures, and nobody from our mission was actually hurt. Unfortunately, the Paris France mission can not say the same. Jammer. The less active that we invited is awesome. Her name is Jasmine and she is a dancing coach here. She is american, and met the sisters on the bus a few months ago and was baptized in December. She moved here from the states when she was little, and she has a super awesome story and it is going to be published in the Liahona soon.  I went on exchanges with Elder Van Fleet that day, the one ...