So
Where to start? Thanks for all the emails love hearing from all of you.
I
had another really cool week and early in the week we
visited someone in our ward that we see regularly, he was baptised 8 years ago through the missionaries, however his wife and his two sons did not join at the same time. They know who we are because we see them all the time. This
week we went over to provide some service and helped his wife with some shelves. We shared a spiritual thought as well with them. His wife has never shown any
interest at all in the church but we invited her to participate and this was the first time in 8 years she has met with the
missionaries. It was great to see how happy the husband
was that she agreed. We will enjoy getting to know them better.
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| Train Station |
Part
of our vision in the Ward is to visit and help all members become unified! We also visited a less active family that lived in the
same area. They have a ton of kids and hadn't been to church in a while. We
went and ate and socialized with them and then shared a message for family home evening. They loved it and they were touched. The next day they showed up at church with all their kids. We
were so happy we made cookies and delivered them to their house later that
day and gave them to the Dad and left. As we were down the
road all of the kids starting running after us telling us that their Mom wants
to have us over again ASAP!
The other night we were porting
(knocking doors) and we found this family just before we were going home, a Mom and Dad and three teenage daughters. We asked if we could meet with
them but they said they were eating. Instead they asked if we wanted to have
dinner with them and suggested that we just share our message then. We don’t even get those invitations with most members!
We also taught Renault this week. We cleared up some other questions he had and helped him to understand the plan
Heavenly Father has for all of us. He loved it! If all goes well we are going to be inviting him to commit
to a baptismal date. We pray all the time for him and all our other amis. I feels like he is is
basically a member. He comes to church every week and participates. We went to a
YSA activity in the ward with him this week too. He has so many friends in the
YSA now. I hope everything works out!
This week we also helped the Ward prepare for the Halloween
party, pretty funny. This week we drove to some farther parts of our area in our little hybrid. It’s like a little tin can. Got to see some really beautiful countryside, reminds me a lot of Ontario.
This next week is going to be really packed too. First on Friday we have Zone Conference
in the morning. Then we go right to the Halloween party at the church at night, the next morning we move to our new apartment. THANK GOODNESS! Then
after that we have to go to Brussels in the afternoon for the adult session of Stake Conference. We are staying with the other Elders in Brussels on that Saturday
night and Sunday we have Stake Conference. Monday we have P-day
then we go back to Brussels on Tuesday for district meeting. Then on the Wed
the 5th we go to Paris and get to the see Eiffel tower etc.!! Exciting
times ahead.
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| The Abbey in Nivelles |
Nov. 3rd
Thanks for all the emails this week. We are literally SOOOOO busy. We actually got the keys this
week to our new place and the apartment is ours we just don’t have time to move
in! The office in Paris has to bring up desks and beds etc. It will
probably be sometime next week.
So Noelle Finnigan is an old teenage friend of my Aunt Heather and knew my uncle Michael and my parents. Her husband is the son of the
member who Grandpa Sam knew when he was here on his mission 59 years ago. Her husband is actually the Stake President. He is a great guy and very inspired. It was funny that she knew you guys and we could make that connection. She was wondering if it was the same family she knew from way back when. An Elder McBride from Ontario Canada, good chance there would be a connection. She is actually in our ward and we are going there this week for dinner.
So first of all I have never been this tired in my
life. It is a good tired though. I really don’t know how I am really
functioning. Anyway so right now the work is a little out of control. We have
so many appointments and so many people we are teaching. We have this whole
week booked already. We are teaching a group of around 15 to 17 people and on top
of that we are always travelling. Trains, Bus, and car and people don’t live
close to each other. The other day alone we walked like 10 miles!
We had a lesson with Renault this week and he is progressing. All of the lessons are at a members home and they are a discussion and family home evening combined. It was a really good discussion. He is progressing with his reading. As a part of the last lesson we gave him a soft baptismal
invite; he said yes and told us that when he has been taught everything and
knows it is true without a doubt he will be baptised.
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| The Hybrid! |
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| Halloween Party |
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| Train Station in Brussels - Halloween Candy in mouth :-) |
I get to go to Paris tomorrow! Our train leaves
Brussels at 4 and we get to Paris at 6. Elder Bailey and I have the whole night
free because my appointment for legality is the next day so I think we might go
see the Louve, Arc de triumph and the Eiffel tower. Maybe dinner by the Caen River. We have a Conference on Wednesday, the same day as legality in
Paris. We are staying with some Elders we know there too. It should be a good time, can’t wait. Oh and this week we have district meeting,
ward mission meeting and 10 appointments. Here we come!
Love you guys.
Elder McBride
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