Elder.Connely.Packard

This week was a mix for us. We had a pretty disappointing drop from our most solid investigator. It is not over, but they decided to start investigating elsewhere and make a decision between the two parties. The good news was that we had some miracles. We took the time to do some centrum contacting while waiting for a bus, and ended up missing the next couple buses because it was working so well. We got information from one man form Suriname, and while we were telling him about the Book of Mormon, another man came out of nowhere and asked if we had the same book in German and gave his address so we could bring it by. We also met a lady from Russia who has the same name and profession as another Russian member here. She wants us to come by sometime. Also, of all places that she has been to in the US, she has visited New York, Phoenix and Sedona. Another miracle is that we had a couple hours before we needed to get to our next destination, so we took a short bus trip to a dor...

The rainy season here has started. Luckily, the weather here has been fantastically dry compared to last year. We are starting to get a bit wet now. We had pretty good week with one of our most spiritual lessons ever about the gospel of Jesus Christ. As missionaries we often teach it as 5 separate steps, when in reality what we mean to teach is that it is a continuous process. It was super cool. Last week we went to Ieper, a famous WW1 site. There are some cool trenches there and a lot of people died there. It was pretty land but at the same time, there was kind of a dismal gloom about the place. It was hard to put a finger on what it actually was, but probably because so many people died. We also went to a town north of Turnhout to help a family paint their new house. It is a place called Baarle, and parts of the town are Baarle-Hertog which is owned by Belgium and the other parts are Baarle-Nassau which is Dutch. Look it up on the map. Anyways, the border goes throug...