Starts the Rainy Season

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 through their backyard so they live in Belgium, but they have all their barbecues in the Netherlands.

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