A day in Belgium, A Sick Companion, a little this, a little that.

So, we are pretty much down to 0 investigators. We dropped our last one this week. :( It was really sad, because he has a testimony of the Book of Mormon, but he went on and on about how we don't know what it's like to have to change your life completely. No, we don't, not in the same way he has to, but we tried doing all that we can for him, so we are going to give him a little break, because he wants to figure things out and what he needs to do. Which is okay. On Wednesday, we went to Belgium. And it was such a long day! Sister Rosenlof and I had to get up at  4 in order to catch our train. It was a about 6 1/2 ours from here to Belgium, so we spent  13 hours on the train that day. It was crazy. We did get to see more of Belgium this time though, which is great. I think Belgium is pretty than the Netherlands, in it's own way. Like the architecture is prettier, and they have all those grand cathedrals and things. 

Also, we all had to meet up at Rotterdam Centraal this week to meet the other missionaries  going to Belgium, and Sister Raun was there with her companion, and Sister Raun told me that one of our investigators from Lelystad that we found has decided to get baptized. :) But they haven't set the date yet. It's the man who read all those chapters from second nephi between our lessons. I'm excited for him. Also, she delivered a  message from one of the ward members that she wishes, that if she ever had the opportunity to have a daughter, that it would be me. So that sweet, shes said that before, but it's always nice to hear it again.

So Sister Rosenlof has been sick again this week, so we have spent a lot of time inside... boring. But she's getting better now. Anyway, on Tuesday, at district meeting, it was pouring rain, like it has been every day for a couple weeks, but we were talking in the hall waiting for lunch to be ready, and we see this guy come in to take shelter from the rain, under the church's veranda thingy. Sister Rosenlof and I stare at him for a minute before we realize that we should invite this guy inside. So right as we're opening the door, he bikes away, and I refused to let that happen. So I yelled after him. And then he turned around and came back, and so I invited him inside to take cover and to eat with all of us. So he came in, although he didn't eat. And he was able to talk to us there and another one of the missionaries told him all about the church and he talked to us about his family and his beliefs and everything.  He said he would be bringing his two girls to church yesterday, and that the missionaries were welcome to come to his house anytime. He was a nice guy. I don't know if he came to church, because it was in Groningen, but I hope so.

Oh, so every Saturday we eat dinner with the Elders at one of the branch members houses, and hes Egyptian, and always makes super spicy food.  Anyway, Sister Rosenlof, because shes been sick for about a month asked the elders for a  blessing, but they didn't have any oil with them, so they asked this member for some. So, after dinner, he goes to put the oil on Sister Rosenlof, and the top flies off, and oil goes flying everywhere, and he starts yelling "Shit!" It was hilarious. Mainly because it was the most  inappropriate time to swear every, and because it  means totally nothing to him because English means nothing to him. Anyway, it was funny. Also, yesterday we were at dinner with this family who feeds us every sunday, theyre super cool, but their grandma is pure dutch, but every one else speaks English because the mom is American. Anyway, the oldest boy was talking about something not to do in Italian, that the grandma had done because it's like flipping people off, and she looked so surprised, and was like oh I didn't know! Yadda yadda. Then, she turns to the boy, and flips him off. And hes like what was that for? And then she gives him both fingers. And laughs. And then continues on in her conversation. People are weird.

We have zone conference on Thursday, and it's in Rotterdam, which  means Sister Rosenlof and I will have to get up at 4 again to take the same train we did on Wednesday. Yay. That's the only bad thing about being in this area. Since we are at the top of the Netherlands,  we are the furthest away from everything, so travelling also takes forever. My Blegium ID is just one of the passport pictures, so no, it's not a cute picture. We will be getting Ipads eventually, but no one knows when. President and Sister Robison were just a conference thingy for it, so maybe we will know at zone conference.  It sounds like yalls trip to St Lucia was fun, and I am glad grammie is doing better, and is out of the hospital, because hospitals sucks. Hmmm I can't think of anything else to say really. Oh, actually. It was warm yesterday! And it didn't rain. It was really nice. I'm going to miss the sun. It sets at 4 pm in the winter here, because we are so far north. In the summer, the sun didn't set until about midnight. It was really weird.

Hope you have a great week!