January 26, 2009

This past week was very different than normal. I've been in two different countries and I wasn't in Lelystad that much this week. I had to go to Brussels to renew my Belgium legality. That was pretty cool because I haven't been there for almost a year and I got to talk to alot of the French-speaking missionaries. It took us ten hours of traveling to get there and back, plus two hours down there. It was a long day, but it was still fun. We almost missed the last train for the night out of Brussels coming back to the Netherlands, that would have been bad.
The next day I had to go to a District Leaders meeting in Zoetemeer and I was there for the whole day, so I didn't get to go to Lelystad for two days in a row. But it was still a great week. We are now teaching Iris and both of her daughters and we're kind of teaching her son, but not completely. They'll be getting baptized in February. We are also teaching a lady named Saraida and her son Jamal, they were in church on Sunday, they're really positive. Oh, and we had an investigator read 30 chapters out of the Book of Mormon in between our first and second appointment with her, that was really cool.
It's been raining alot and my feet keep getting soaked because of the holes in the bottoms of my shoes, so the next day I'll wear my other shoes that are still pretty much brand-new and it won't rain at all, so I'll switch back to my more worn-out shoes and it'll rain again. But I don't care because for the first time on my mission, it doesn't matter to me anymore that everything goes wrong sometimes. I just keep going, no use in complaining about it, I can't change some things so I just forget about them. I'VE REALLY NEVER BEEN HAPPIER THAN I AM RIGHT NOW. I like where I'm at and I like the changes I'm making.