Elder Ian James Smith

 December 8, 2025 Hello, everyone. This week was amazing. But I'm very tired so I'm gonna write this email and it may be quicker, so sorry about that.  This week was awesome. We had 3 exchanges. They were all very fun, I had the opportunity to go back down to Charleroi and it was amazing. I was able to see Julian and a couple other friends from there, as well as all the Elders. While I was there, I was with Elder Geissler, who is amazing and from Switzerland. And then the next day we were in Leige, which is another city, and I was with Elder Sheen, lowkey, probably one of the funniest missionaries in the mission, just crazy. We had a lot of time for finding, and at the end we got chocolate so it's great day! This last Saturday was really cool. We did an exchange with other elders up here, and we went to play some basketball with some of our friends. One of them is named Jerome, and he is really cool. Last Sunday, we had a really cool spiritual experience right after churc...

 December 1, 2025 This week was crazy, I went from Amiens to Brussels (and the trip with all those suitcases is not fun going from Paris to here). But we made it and we're doing good. Got a Waffle immediately off the train, which was absolutely fire. Then we just started doing missionary work. We planned out our transfer, and it's actually crazy. I'm super excited for it, though!  Tomorrow we go to Paris for a missionary meeting which is gonna be super fun. My companion is actually a goat his name is Elder Johnson and we will be working hard this transfer. Today was p-day and it was crazy. We ended up having to hunt down a sister's phone that was stolen and taken to a shop and sold, but we were able to get it back! Crazy big shout out to Elder Rollins for being the hero of the day. We then finished our day with in person district council and pizza at a pizza place that our senior couple bought for us. The pizza place burned ours but the man was soo nice so he made us an...