August 11, 2025

Hello everyone!
Pretty standard week this week. But we put together an absolutely amazing missionary week by finding and teaching standards. Besides dealing with the occasional drunk guy, our week was pretty uneventful.

One story that I have this week started Thursday morning when we were street contacting. Me and Elder Gambee always split up and just talk to everyone at the gare (train station). So I stop this one cool guy named Françoise, a younger guy from Cameroon. We had a super good conversation with him when half way through a older white lady comes over and starts speaking in the fastest french I've ever heard. Me and Françoise were still talking but she was going crazy with some of the wildest questions I've heard. lNot bad questions, but just have no relation at all with our conversation. Like stuff about Mcdonalds in the United States and then after 10 minutes she just turned around and left. What makes this story better was that Françoise came to church this last Sunday and we had a good laugh about the whole situation. 

This apartment is the best in the mission. The 4 Elders we have are absolute goats and we have a blast each night. We're having a blast. Right now we're headed to the best zoo in europe it's called the Pairi Daiza tons of photos will be added to the album 

Also this was a big debate: can 20 full grown men beat a gorilla ? 

Spiritual thought: 

Prophets seers and revelators are on the earth again. We are blessed to live in a time with a prophet and apostles on the earth. I think that this simple truth is what turns the most amount of heads on the street. I love reading the gospel topics and questions explanation for certain topics. This is what it says about prophets. 

As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we are blessed to be led by living prophets—inspired men called to speak for the Lord, as did Moses, Isaiah, Peter, Paul, Nephi, Mormon, and other prophets of the scriptures. We sustain the President of the Church as prophet, seer, and revelator

See ya later!
Elder Smith


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