On Thursday for Thanksgiving we're going down to France, in
Nancy, to have interviews with the President!..... And we're going to celebrate
thanksgiving there with a lot of missionaries, so that will be good. We're
going to eat at the home of an American family in the ward with other American
members on Sunday, so that will be fun! There’s no KFC here. There's KFC in
Belgium though. On the drive down to teach an investigator who lives in France,
we pass through Belgium and there's a KFC there. Its too far to just go and eat
at but maybe one day if I serve in Belgium I'll go there.
A… was baptized! It was
great. He is such an awesome person. I
was able to teach our investigator from Albania a few days ago! It was a really
fun lesson. He knows very very very little French (and no English) and his
brother (who's a member) is there too and he knows even less French! So we
explain something, see if he understands, then we have to act it out to show
what it is and what it means and everything. It was fun! He's a really cool guy
and wants to get baptized, but he can’t come to church because he lives so far
away. There are no buses or trains that go from his tiny little town in France
to Luxembourg on Sunday. And there aren't members that live near him to come pick
him up for church on Sunday. So once there's a solution for that, he'll
probably get baptized.
Our apartment situation is interesting... The owner of the
apartment building wants to live in our apartment space so he's kicking us out.
We have within 6-8 weeks to find and move in to a new apartment!! We were
originally planning on moving in to a member’s apartment that was moving out
but the owner of that building said we can't move in because he thinks that we
will just party and do crazy things that other 20-year olds would do. Even
though the church is paying for it, meaning it will be under the church's name,
they still won’t accept us. We have to find an apartment quick. The mission
office said that if we can’t find one within 6 weeks and we get kicked out,
then Elders in Luxembourg will be sent somewhere else and there won’t be Elders
in Luxembourg any more, just sisters. That would be an enormous blow to the
ward and the mission and everything! So we have to find one real soon. The ward
is trying to help, the mission is trying to help, and of course we're looking
too. There is only one ward that covers the entire Luxembourg (city & country),
a big chunk of the east of Belgium, a little bit of France, and the borders of
Luxembourg and Germany. So the ward’s boundaries are really really big. As for what we as missionaries here in
Luxembourg can use, we still don’t have ipads , iphones, or even Facebook. We
just have a dinky slide cell phone, and the little planners that every
missionary knows and loves.
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