Bonjour!!!
Well our Halloween costume ended up being... Belgium Waffle with a fork! Haha...you might thing its wierd.But here they give you these funny little forks to eat your waffles with...so naturally if your going to dress up as a waffle...you have to have the fork as well! Ill try and include pictures....
This week as been an adventure...as usual. Alot of our rendez-vous fell through which means we spent alot of time finding........yup that means more wheres waldo moments and some good ol street contacting. Im pretty sure Soeur Murray is getting a little sick of me being amazed that there are actual houses here in Brussels...she keeps telling me that I was in Paris for too long and that a yard is not a novelty. I can't imagine what I'm going to be like when I get sent to some tiny town where houses are not only exisistant...but seperated from each other! (Brusells kind of looks like San Francisco style houses...nice and schmooshed together). Anyways...
During our contacting this week I feel like we've talked to an unusual amount of aethisist. To be honest...I hate those contacts. It makes me so sad. I just can't even imagine a life where you think that this life is it...I guess that's why we are out here! Still..I'm starting to relate to those scriptures about not being able to bear the thought of one soul being lost...
Our church had an open house this week. It went over pretty well! The ward has been working on this for a couple months now. I guess a common complaint from non members is that they can just walk into any other church at anytime and see what it is all about. But our church has a gate and a fence and is only open for a couple hours on Sunday. So the ward came up with this idea to let people come and see what the church is all about. For it being the first time, it went really well! We didn't have as many non members as we hoped, but the members were great and alot of people came out! There was one lady who stayed the whole time...but she is also currently studying with the Jehovah's Witness so we will see how it works out...
We had a little miracle this week amoungst all of our cancelled rendez-vous. So one of our first weeks here Soeur Murray and I went and passed by a less active family's house. We didn't know anything about them, other than thier name on the ward list. When we passed by they told us they would love to have us over, but its not considered polite in Belgium to just stop by at peoples homes (sorry as missionaries I think we choose to kindly ignore that social normality...among most other social faux-pas haha) So we went home and tried to call them...but the number didn't work. Since then we've passed by and left a couple notes for birthdays and different things. Yesterday, we decided to stop by again. Just the mom was home and one of her daughters.We were able to get in and spent about an hour and a half talking with them. They even said they had been waiting for our call so we could come over. It sounds like they have kind of just been forgotten by the ward and went inactive because of some misunderstandings of doctrine. We also found out that two of the three teenage girls are not baptized because they were too young when the family went inactive. The girl is adorable, and wants to come to Young Womens this week! We are pretty excited...we are hoping that all this family needs is a little love and guidance and they can start coming back to church.
So that family is our ray of sunshine...along with the real sun that has somehow miraculously stuck around! Fall is beautiful right now...lots of leaves changing colours and brisk air. But this morning is foggy and cold...so I'm scared that winter is just around the corner. We hear rumors that its supposed to get down to -20°c this winter...not too excited about that. Ah well...we just need to find lots of investigators so we can spend all day inside teaching.
Find, find, find. That seems to be the answer to all our problems. :)
love and miss you all!
Soeur Smith
PS another ray of sunshine. We totally ended up walking in the flemmish countryside for an hour trying to find a member's home...Mom tell Sister Burgess to tell Evan that he is SO lucky. It is SO pretty...stopping to take pictures was necessary. He's going to love it!
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