November 24, 2025

This was the best week of my mission by far. I'm so excited. I'm gonna tell you all about it!

So this week we had two exchanges. One of them was in Lille with Elder Checketts and the other one was here with our ZL Elder Rich. The exchange with Elder Checketts was amazing. They have a friend named Benjamin and he's awesome. We did a temple tour with him. He had a ton of questions about the temple and what happens and what we do, and all that type of thing, and it was a really good experience to talk with him and to clear some stuff up that he had questions about the next day. 

We had in-person district council in another city in our area, which was fun. Then right after in-person district council, we had an in-person lesson with another one of our friends. His name is Benjamin as well. But we fixed up a baptismal date with him for the 22nd of December, so please pray for him. Right after that, we had Elder Rich come down here to Amiens and we talked to one of our friends. His name is Antoine and he is cool and his whole story is amazing. But he lives right next to one of our amazing members named Fabrice and Fabrice loves this guy to death, I mean, it's hard not to he's so precious, but we talked a lot about baptism, we taught the gospel of Jesus Christ and we fixed the baptismal late for him in January. So those 3 days were kind of crazy and very action-packed. 

Then this last Saturday was my favorite date of my mission. We had set up for a while to go to the temple. And this Saturday, we were able to go to the temple with 3 new members, and these 3 new members mean a lot to me as a missionary, and it was amazing. One of them was able to baptize me in the temple was Julian, and he was somebody that I found on a street contact in Charleroi. And that was an amazing experience for me. The spirit was so strong and I was crying the whole time.

 Then later that Saturday night I got a call from our mission President and he tells me that  I'm leaving Amiens and I'm going to Brussels. I'll be back in the land of the waffles and fries! My new companion is someone I know well from my mtc. We're gonna have a lot of fun together. And I love the Brussels Zone! Let's go Brussels. To go back to Charleroi on exchanges to see all the people there that I have so many memories with will be awesome.

Spiritual thought:
My spiritual thought is more of an invitation. The only gospel that gives an account of the birth of the Savior is Luke. I would invite you all to read the first part and to have in your head the true meaning of christmas. 

Elder Smith

Zeinab, Elder Smith, Julian, Leila at the Paris Temple


Elder Smith & Elder Laughlin

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