To get it over with, I'm sure everyone is wondering if I got transferred this time. The big news is: yes. I'm going to France! To be exact, Villeneuve-d'Ascq. Right next to Lille for everyone like me who doesn't know France that well. I'm sad to be leaving Belgium and their delicacies (goodbye amazing frites) but France is good. And it turns out, half of my sector is in Belgium! So I'll still spend some time here.
In other news, there was a grève on Tuesday, which meant there was next to no public transportation. That's no good since we live pretty far from downtown Charleroi. We stayed home most of the day. But then we got a call from one of the members saying that there was someone at the chapel who wanted to meet with us! So of course, we walked the hour or so to get to his house. Luckily, on the way home we were able to catch a train (which were normally running, thankfully) and one of the few busses that existed. But I learned a valuable lesson that day. Strikes are the worst!
We had our last exchanges this week as well. I got to go with Elder Ovard to the small village of Bièrcée. We visited some less active members, but we had to walk 40 some minutes from the train station in Lobbes to get all the way to Bièrcée. We had a nice scenic walk nonetheless. Lots of walking this week I'm realizing.
The best part of the week was definitely General Conference. It's a little weird here in Europe with the time zones though; we watched the "morning" sessions at 6PM. Lots of great talks, of course President Nelson's talk was great, as well as Elder Bednar's and Elder Holland's. President Oaks's and Elder Christofferson's were really good too. But as a missionary I especially liked Elder Soares's when he talked about the needs of recent converts. It's super important to integrate new people, I'm sure they already feel like they don't quite fit in, so they need a friend. And that friend could be you! Don't hesitate, say hi or something! It's the easiest way to be a missionary.
Allez-y!
Elder Wood
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| Group photo at lunch on exchange day |
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| Exchange photo with Elder Ovard |
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| Weekly food photo: "My last Belgian mitraillette" |
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| "One of my last gauffres" |
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