Week 9: We Found an Oven

Hello Family!

I loved getting all of the pictures from your trip to Seattle and San Fran! I hope you guys were safe and had a ton of fun! Kinda jealous that you went on Segways.. Can we do that when I get back? Thanks.

Haha Soo I decided I am going to need to buy more clothes than I was expecting.. I don't really have any winter clothes..This could get expensive. But I will just withdraw money from my personal account so that way I still have some emergency funds left here.

This week flew by but it also felt like one of the longer ones. I feel like I wake up with soo much doubt in my head..I don't have confidence or faith or something. I say to myself that I don't have to be here if I don't want to. Which is BAD. I WANT TO BE HERE!! I LOVE IT!! But Satan is definitely messing with my head. I had a good cry and talk with my companion. Hopefully things will get better! My comp is really awesome!

We do FHE with this cute lady every Monday and last monday we played frisbee which was way fun! Hopefully we will have more people show up today.

We are going to go visit a castle in Gent today! So excited. I will send pictures next week.

Wednesday was a long WET day. We weren't that smart and forgot our embrellas so we were soaked to the BONE! If I have time I will send pictures.

So Jason.....our investigator....He was too busy to meet with us this week. We hope we can meet with him this week but I am scared that he has lost interest..which is lame because we had SUCH an awesome experience with him. I just want him to be happy. We will see.

We do a lot of work with the less active members/non-active members and they are actually really awesome! I feel like they are important, if not more important, than finding new people. I love seeing them change!

We did pick up a couple new investigators. I will let you know how those go. But we had a lesson with an investigator of the sisters before us. Her name is Philomena. She is super cute. After teaching her and her sister Gift(now one of our new investigators) the rest., we invited them to be baptized! They said if they were to find out if this was true, they would. So that is exciting!! (:

WE FOUND AN OVEN!!! We had been using a stove and a microwave to make food..which was fine but limiting. One day I was just looking through the kitchen and I found this little oven thing! AHH THANK YOU!! We made something from it right then and there. We have so many possiblitlies now.

So excited that Kristy is in Luxembourg!! I can't wait to hear how that goes!! Good luck! Love you tons.

SOO yeah.. I feel like I am missing a lot but then again I don't think I am. Nothing too exciting. I am super grateful for my companion though. She really has given me some hope when I felt like I was being the worst missionary ever. This is hard stuff, yo. But worth it.

I love you guys sooo much! Lauren, Good luck with school..whenever it starts! You are going to LOVE BYU! Advice: Try to talk to a new person everyday! Doesn't have to be much just talk to them. And find people in your classes and get their numbers so if you have questions, you can ask them! Classes don't start until Sept huh? haha

LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU!!!!!!!

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