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 in.

We went to Liege, and I had one of the best waffles that I've had on my mission, twas very good. We then had an exchange here in Brussels with Elder Rich. He is the oldest missionary (i.e. he's about to go home). There's a joke in the mission because he puts little ducks everywhere, so when I was making my eggs this morning, I found a little duck in our salt shaker. He puts them everywhere, like these little plastic duck its his mark. 

Then Today, we just got done playing sports with the whole zone and it was actually really good aside for the fact that I totally ate it about halfway through and sprained my wrist. But we're still doing fantastic.

Spiritual thought 
One of my favorite things to do is to read the dedicatory prayers of temples. And if you go to gospel tools and scroll all the way down, there's a praying hands emoji. If you click on that you can read the dedicatory prayer of your temple. I like to think about how my endowment is tied in with the prayer. 

Elder Smith


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