Hey Famille...comment allez vous?
Well I'm doing great... today a few of us that are in Brussels went to a sweet tourist town named Brugge.. it's in the Dutch speaking part of Belgium... it was really cool... We had a lot of stuff to look at and to do... it is a town with canals and houses just built in the canal .. you know like in Italy... so that was pretty cool, but it took up a lot of time so I don't have much time to do anything else....
Brugge, Belgium
The weather has been really nice for the last 2 months or soo.. it is usually pretty perfect .. not too cold, not too hot... it rains every now and then and it hasn't been too hot either... maybe once... but nothing big...
The missionary work is going really. really well.. the time with Elder Nielsen is great... everything is just a little more calm and under control and I don't feel so stressed all the time... we have been seeing a lot of blessings here in the Bruxelles Zone and everyone is starting to catch fire... The Zone was way down in attitude and faith and just kinda everything.... a few weeks ago we only had 2 people in the whole Zone who were preparing for baptism... this week we have bumped up to 18.. and a lot more are still really close... and all the people with a baptismal date are really solid and will be strong converts ... most of them have been to church over 4 times... Things are going well.. and the blessings are greatfully accepted....
As for things with our companionship... we had a great week. We found an awesome new lady named Jacquelin. She is from Uganda and speaks English and has a little daughter that is three and is named Bianca... Jackie is really cool, she has been searching for an English church because she doesn't speak French and she hates all the churches she has gone to... She was Catholic.. but some weird things happened and she didn't like the church... the whole 'Do what I say, not what I do' thing... and so she changed to some little break off the Catholic church and then she left that and went to a Pentacostal church and then moved here. She said all the churches back in Uganda that she went to... all of it's Pastors have been getting charged with molestation and all sorts of junk like that.. sooo she says that she is just looking for the truth... and wanting to know who she can trust... SO she is great and she has already said she will be coming to church this next Sunday....Also we taught Enrique, our Mexican bro. and he had read up to 1 Nephi 10 and he was loving it.. but he left on vacation this weekend so we won't get to see him for a couple of weeks... but.. things are great...
This week was Stake Conference and so I got to see a bunch of people from Charleroi which was sooo good! A lot of them remembered me and were really nice to me.. that made me feel good.... also I talked to Bishop Hoffmann from Charleroi and he told me that Daniel is doing really good... Unfortunatly Esther and Dylan haven't been coming to church.. soo.. that's sad. Claire, on the other hand, is doing well... she came to Stake Conference and she loved it... we have pretty much taught her everything... now she just needs to live it and keep coming to church until her baptism and all will be well.... also.. I don't know if you remember, but when I was with Elder Musters we taught a mom and her son all the time.. her name is Iness and her son's is Javier... well they are getting baptized this next weekend.. and I will be there... That is really exciting... they are great.. she has been going to church like ever since I was there...she is way solid and so excited for her baptism...
Well, can't think of too much else... thanks Trish for the letter... It made me trunky to come back to your house... haha ... but It sounds like you are going to have a lot of fun in Florida and back east...
Love you lots.. peace... bisous!!!!!
Elder Von Simonson
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