July 21, 2025 

Bonjour everyone! 


I will soon be a Belgian and I am soo excited! I just got transferred to Charleroi, Belgium with Elder Gambee. I'm so pumped up! I've wanted to serve in Belgium since I got called as a missionary and I will be in a four man in an awesome apartment. 

We had a ton of success this week finding as well as teaching. We have one friend right now who is super cool and is searching for the truth. He also came to church the last two weeks. Pray for him as he continues his search, s'il vous plaît. We also had our zone conference at Lille this week. It was awesome getting united with a bunch of cool missionaries. I also got a tahitian shirt from Elder Ravatuua love this guy!  And got to see all the Elders (including Elder Stone and Wilstead some of my good mission friends and old comps). Our mission is doing so well right now as far as finding and teaching and baptising the Lord truly is hastening his work. 

Also on Tuesday we had an amazing exchange with Elder Housley where we found someone who now has a baptismal date, an absolutely incredible miracle. Tonight I'm super excited as well. We are going to a member's house who both went to BYU Idaho and served missions so they are giving us pizza and they speak english also have an ac unit. 

Pense spiritual: 

Sometimes the Lord asks us to do things we never thought of. One example of this is in Mark when Jesus asks his disciples to go find a man with a cup of water: 

Mark 14
13 And he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and saith unto them, Go ye into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him.

For the context of this story, this is right before the triumphant entry and his disciples are trying to find a place to have the passover feast. As I read the verse I thought to myself the disciples had to be confused, right? "Go find someone with a pitcher of water."??? They didn't have running water back then. so there would have had to be a bunch of people with a pitcher of water. The disciples had to have had questions like who, where, and why. But they went and did as the Lord had commanded and it worked. Sometimes it takes less questions and more action in our life to become disciples of Jesus Christ. 

Elder Smith






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