Bonjour Bonjour!
Well its been another great week in Brussels....we even saw the sun for a couple days. But now it is currently snowing...so apparently the singing birds were just giving me false hopes of spring...ah well...guess I'll need to be transfered south to ever see the sun again.
This week has been full of lots of finding. Missionary work just seems to go through cycles. You find lots of people, teach, only one or none of them progress; so its back to finding. Soeur Cope and I had a nice companionship unity moment this week. We did our personal study in the morning- and I had this super awsome study about the importance of the Book of Mormon and was feeling like we needed to focus our finding on introducing people to the Book of Mormon (you may be thinking...well what else do missionaries do? But you can approach people with lots of stuff...eternal families, modern day prophet, God is your Heavenly Father...etc.) ANYWAYS turns out Soeur Cope had had the exact same prompting...so in other words revelation is real! We have yet to find the person who is just waiting for the Book of Mormon...but it will come I know it. So the knocking doors continues....
We had zone conferance in Paris this is week. It was great...you know spiritual, inspiring, uplifting, etc etc...however...it also made me realize something. IM OLD. Ok...not literally...well maybe literally but I'll have that freak out when I get home from my mission and all my roommates are freshmen. But Im old in the mission...I don't know anyone! I remember Soeur Pearce telling me you don't know anyone at the beginning of your mission, you know everyone in the middle, and you know no one at the end. I think I'm moving into the knowing no one phase. Its slightly freaky...ah well...its just a strange feeling to be considered one of the old missionaries when you still feel like you have so much to learn and do!
So our ami Peter! The one we found on the metro last week. We had an awsome rendezvous with him! He told us that ever since he has met us that he has been praying for us- particularly that we will find good husbands that will have faith like us haha. (For Soeur Cope who is headed home soon this is a much appreciated prayer :) ) His family is amazing. His wife watched a church film and loved it, and the end of the rendezvous they wanted to come to church. BUT they live in the other ward's bounderies. So we had to pass them over to elders in the other ward. It was pretty sad. But they came to church yesterday and the elders told us that Peter was taking notes and asking lots of great questions...so maybe at least we will be able to attend the baptism? We are all in the same boat anyways right? Right. (aka its the elders turn to find us a super legit family! Jk Jk...kinda)
We had a tender moment with a less-active this week. It was her birthday so we stopped by with a card and some cookies. Its been sad for me to work with this women, because when I first got to Brussels she was coming to church pretty regularly...but she has been coming less and less and recently she told she is done with God and that he doesn't care about her. But we keep visiting her...and on her birthday she told us she didn't have the words to tell us how grateful she was that we had kept visiting her, and that it just means alot to her. It was just one of those tender moments where the Lord lets me feel like all the passbys, notes, cards, and lessons with people do make a little difference.
So voilà quoi....another great week!
Love you all!
Soeur Smith
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