Elder Ian James Smith

 February 24, 2026 Hello, everyone, I hope you're doing great.  We had a wild week including getting a new companion and he's so cool. His name is Elder Haubrick. We did a lot of different things this week. But the biggest thing is getting our friend ready for baptism this Saturday! We're really excited about him and his progression.  In Brussels, right now we actually have 6 French elders, 4 Spanish missionaries and some Dutch missionaries as well, so there's a lot of missionaries in Brussels. It's a lot of fun to talk with them and see them all. One companionship has a new trainee who's from Quebec and has a wild accent, but I love it, he's super cool.  We saw a cool miracle this week. The first person my companion stopped in Brussels was this amazing lady who accepted the invitation to come to church and she came! She immediately told us that here she felt the spirit and that it was something crazy. She also spent €100 to take a taxi to church, but she sa...

February 17, 2026  Alright, transfer board this week and the wildest thing happened. I'm actually staying in Brussels, but I'm getting a new companion. So I'm actually really sad, because I love my current companion, but I'm getting a new one named Elder Haubrick, who is an absolute chiller.  A lot of cool things actually happened to us and definitely we were able to see the hand of the Lord work through us. One of the biggest miracles we saw this last week was with our friend Mack. When he told us how he was able to meet missionaries, it was an absolute miracle. He found the church thanks to a couple of members in England. Who helped him when he needed it. When he came here to Brussels. He actually lost contact with the church for a little bit. Then one day when he was on his phone, he saw an ad for the missionaries. Yesterday we probably had the most spirit-filled lesson with him, and fixed the baptismal date with him. He also speaks every single language, which is a ...

 February 10, 2026 Hello, I hope you're all doing well.  We had such a big miracle this last week. After about a 100 missionaries and three years of coming to church, one of our friends who has been investigating the church for a long time, decided to be baptized! His name is Elio. This was an amazing experience. We had a temple tour with him and when we got to the part about the celestial room, the spirit was so present you could touch it. Amazing! Later that lesson, he told us that he wanted to be baptized and that he chose a date. So Elio is being baptized on the 28th super excited for him. Brussels has gone absolutely amazing. Some of the best members with some of the most faith live here in Brussels.  This Saturday, we will receive transfers, and I have no idea what's going to happen with me. The mission is in preparation for the split and is about to go through a massive change. We're getting 18 new areas in the next 3 transfers. A lot of new missionaries are coming...

February 3, 2026 Hello, everyone. Welcome to another week in the life of Elder Smith. This week was awesome, saw a ton of miracles! This last Wednesday we went down to Charleroi and had an absolute blast. We visited a couple old friends and new members. Every time I go back to Charleroi, a bunch of good memories come back and hit me like a freight train. I also think Charleroi probably has the best finding in the whole mission. So many people are so awesome. They're willing to listen to us. It was one of my favorite areas! Then on Thursday, we had Elder Geysler, come up. He's absolutely amazing and from Switzerland. We went and saw a couple of our friends. And we were able to have an amazing lesson with one of our friends talking about baptism. Friday was maybe one of my funniest days on my mission. We went to Paris to do an exchange with the AP's. We went to this place called Chateau Rouge, which is essentially mini Africa, and it was super amazing, there are tons of A...