Michael Wood's Missionary Blog: Week 70 (Nivelles)

Conference week is just amazing, isn't it?

I always love getting the chance to hear from the Lord's prophets and apostles. And this time it was so good! I really liked Elder Bednar's talk about the cheetahs, it was good imagery with an important message. Which was your favorite?

It was also a great week because we're now officially plumbers! Since before Elder Dunn got here our toilet has been leaking. So finally we were told during an apartment inspection that we didn't need to call a plumber, we could just replace the old part ourselves. So we stopped by a local hardware store to find a replacement piece, then went home happily to quickly swap it out. The problem was that the connection was a different size than the old one, so we couldn't hook it up to the old pipe. This led to a couple days of manually filling the toilet in order to flush it, before finally finding a new pipe that would work. But it was so satisfying when we finally got it working! I can't even describe how accomplished we felt.

Other than that, we also had a couple exchanges this week with the Charleroi elders. Charleroi 2 came here and I had a great day with Elder Risher. We were going around passing by people's adresses, and we met this one guy that we talked to for a while. Maybe too long though. Because when we finished, he offered to see us off at the front door of the apartment building, so we all took the elevator together. That was when we got trapped. It was working fine until we got to the ground floor, but for some reason it didn't open up, it just stopped working. So we tried the "call for help" button, which was less than helpful. Then, since we were slightly panicked about being trapped in an elevator and being late for the train we had to catch soon, we decided to force the door open. That was probably the best decision we made all day. We pushed, and the door opened right up, letting us out at the main entrance. We quickly said goodbye and ran as fast as we could to the train station, getting there just as our train pulled away. Luckily there was another one not too long after, but it's always hard missing a train by *this* much.

Then when we went to Charleroi for exchanges I was with Elder Belka. We had a good day, and we finished it off with a rendez-vous. It was with a cool guy that already believed in the Bible, but he couldn't accept the Book of Mormon. It was disappointing, but the wise man that he is, Elder Belka said the Spirit was there, so even if he didn't want to read the Book of Mormon, it was an important step in the right direction. Like Elder Uchtdorf said this weekend, it's not a failure just because they don't accept, the success is in the invitation.

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Elder Wood