Beloved Brussels

(that beloved is for you chels:) Brussels is incredible. I am still overwhelmed and humbled at the call but I am loving it. We live just a 5 minute walk from the office and a short metro ride from the chapel. We work in the southern half of the city and it is LUXURIOUS. We come to the office to do emails, we have a washer AND a dryer and can come and get anything we need at the office. We picked up both a Persian and Mongolian Book of Mormon and are excited to get them to their future readers! Grand Place and Royal Place are in our area and we are headed there today. Sr England is incredible. She loves to eat healthy, go running, not stress and WORK HARD. We are definitely young but we are learning together and seeing the sustaining power of the Atonement everyday.

Cool story from the week...We were doing some less active passbys and we were trying to find this woman's house.We rang all of the sonnets and one guy came down. He tried to help us by....ringing all of the sonnets again:) Anyhow we didn't find her but we asked him if he knew anything about the church. We introduced the Book of Mormon and he said, "that actually sounds really interesting but I don't have any time right now. Can you come back next Saturday at 4?" Haha people setting up their own rendezvous. It's incredible. The people here are so willing to listen to the message. I am so excited to be here and hope that I get to stay for a while! It was sad to leave Liege. I was so excited to come to Brussels I really didn't have a whole lot of time to be upset but I love the people there. They are a blessed people and it was a blessing to be a tiny part of their lives. I know Sr Shannon is taking care of them.

Yesterday we went to dinner at the house of a family who is here from Arizona. The dad works for the state department and their whole family is incredible. We ate meat and potatoes and rolls. Delicious american sunday dinner:) what a blessing!

Did you get the pictures I sent? There is definitely one where the sky is on fire! I've told a few people about that and there isnt quite the same excitement:) I'll work on it.

It really is a blessing to have the gospel and when people see that we share out of love they know we are sincere. I am thinking of Elder Uchtdorf's talk from this last conference about how we should be known as a people who reflect the love of Jesus Christ. When we live his teachings there really is an identifiable difference.

Quick scripture! I probably have shared this already but I was reading it again yesterday morning and felt the power of the words. 1 Nephi 17:50-51. "If the Lord has such great power and has wrought so many miracles among the children of men, how is it that he cannot instruct me that I should build a ship." Applicable in every situation. He can instruct us how to be senior companion, how to lead our families, how we can best be the instruments he needs. I know that is true. I have so many things to work on, so many rough edges but also so much hope in Christ. He works on us until we become what he needs. I love the gospel of Jesus Christ! ok i have to go I LOVE YOU