Elder Ian James Smith

 December 29, 2025 Hello everybody, this week was an awesome week! Full of miracles.  On Monday, P Day, I bought a lego car. (Thank you for the $$, Grandma Marjie and Grandma Carol.) We then had a meal with a member which was super awesome, on Christmas Eve he gave us way too much food, my stomach was full! Then it was Christmas, and we opened up all our presents in the morning. We got a bunch of nerf blasters (thanks mom), so we all started shooting each other for about half an hour in the morning. Later that day, we went to our senior couple's house and we had waffles, which were so fire, they had real American syrup and butter and it was just amazing.  Later that day was one of the funniest member meals I've ever had in my entire life. There's a member named Steeles, and he is from Greece, but he is so funny. We had a meal with him, which is called raklet, but it's essentially cheese, meat and sauce. Then he showed us all his video games and he was like one of the...

December 22, 2025 Hello, everyone, this week's been great! So I'm here in Brussels, getting ready to celebrate the birth of our Savior Jesus. It's been absolutely amazing.  This last week, we did so many things and had an opportunity to go on a couple exchanges. This week was really awesome. But also really tiring, we were in Brussels, Liege, Charleroi and Paris all in the same week, but we love our Lord. So it's been good.  This last Sunday, we saw a couple miracles with a couple friends coming to church.  Especially with one of our friends named Geraud, he is absolutely amazing. But all in all the week was great. We had a fun time. I scared the bejeebers out of my companion with a fake rat one day, and we missed our train twice. There is also a Belgian chocolate store here in Belgium called Leonidas which is soo fire! We love it. I think I was there 3-4 times during the week.  This last Sunday we saw a ton of miracles. One of the miracles we saw was when we ha...

December 15, 2025 Hello, everyone! I hope you're doing well. This week was full of miracles.  We started off this week with zone conference and it was amazing. It was for Christmas, so we had a lot of missionaries together. There were 4 zones at the same zone conference in Paris, and it was really fun. We made little missionary figures out of clothes pins, and they're now on our little tree in our apartment, so it's really cute.  We had an exchange with Charleroi in Brussels. It was really, really fun, we did a lot of stuff. I also got to meet the ambassador for Jamaica on the metro. It was super cool. He was super nice and he's interested, so an incredible miracle. His name's Andrew. Keep him in your prayers. On Saturday, we had an exchange with Elder Stam It was a super fun exchange. We visited our friend, Elio, who has a baptismal date, and he's one of the most Christlike people I've ever seen in my entire life. He's been taught for like years now by ...

 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...