Elder Ian James Smith

 January 27, 2026 Hello, This week was wild.  Tuesday was just a chill P Day and I bought some more flannels. So hype!  On Wednesday, we had an exchange with the elders in Liege, so we went and had really good waffles. I was with another Elder, who's from Tahiti and is a super awesome missionary. He might be one of the funniest people in our mission. We decided to go to this staircase that's the biggest staircase in Liege, it was crazy. Actually, we climbed up it and we could see all of Liege at night, beautiful! We also did a bunch of finding down there.  The next day we brought up Liege 2 (another companionship) for an exchange, and I was with Elder Vaughan. It was a great exchange. Later that night we went to one of our member's house who is known in the mission for her ability to cook. Her name is Soeur Fuji. So she had 6 missionaries over there one night, and after our meal, she made the slight Japanese curry we had cheesecake, which was insane. It was so g...

January 20, 2026 Hello, everybody! I'm still here and I'm doing absolutely fantastic! I'm gonna run you through a quick week of missionary work in Brussels. We started off our week on p-day, and we went to a car show that was super super lit, we got to see a lot of the new models of cars that haven't even been released yet.  Tuesday we had a super lit exchange with Elder Van dam from Charleroi here in Brussels, we did some finding and some teaching and overall it was just an awesome day.  The next day was Wednesday, and we went down to Brussels for our zone conference and we had an Area 70 there for our zone conference named Elder Mccloak, he is really cool. We learned a lot about listening to the voice of revelation and kind of learning about revelation, like kind of how that's a language that needs to be practiced and tested.  The next day was mission leadership conference, which was super cool. We stayed in Paris overnight. And unfortunately, we ran out of mattre...

  Hello, everybody welcome back to my email. We had a great week of missionary work, and we saw a couple miracles. We started this week by actually getting my new companion. His name is Elder house and he is from Utah, but he is an absolute dog. He's so cool and we're going to have a blast together. He also eats 10 eggs each morning. Every morning, working out gonna have to start to clutch up for us.  I'm currently in my last 6 months of my mission so it's time to  lock in  before I go back. I actually love Brussels so much. It's like one of the greatest cities for missionary work. One of the miracles we saw this week is we're trying really hard on 1 of our friends to get baptized. And we saw him on the metro the other day, and it was amazing. And we just talked chill.  We're teaching this fun family who has 3 kids. Her name is Ariane. She now has a baptismal date for the 8th of February. And we are so pumped. When we went over to her house this last Saturd...

 January 6, 2026 Okay, low-key, just had a crazy week.  I'm gonna start this off with the best story from this week. Yesterday we went to our friend's house. He is super cool, but really, really funny kind of goofy, a little weird also. We went with our senior couple in our district named the Paulsons (who are awesome) because he lives kind of far away. So we took a car to get there. We started talking to him and we quickly found out that he hasn't bathed in a month. He told us that he drinks ginger, and that's how he keeps his body clean-yikes! That was crazy.The next thing he told us was that he's in contact with Elon Musk and Sandra Bullock.Don't know how and i'm pretty sure he's getting catfished. Then he brings out food for us. The first thing he tells us is that he prepared ramen noodles and I'm like sweet, how can you mess up ramen noodles, you boil water, then put the seasoning packets in and drain noodles like easy. But the pot he brought ou...