Week 15! No Candy!

Hallo jullie! (translation: Hello you!)

This week was pretty great! We had 2 days that we didn't get to work in our area (working with the Zone Leaders in Den Haag, and a full day trip to Brussels for Residency and Driver's License), but we still saw a ton of progress and a few new investigators and potentials.

Joelle, our number 1 investigator is continuing to be awesome! She is following the Word of wisdom, which she has already passed her initial 3 week goal and decided to keep on going, which is so awesome. I made a promise with her that I wouldn't eat candy if she followed the world of wisdom for those 3 weeks, and I ended up forgetting when that was too, which was pretty cool, so I guess I will keep on doing that with her. We taught her the law of Chastity today, and she was very open and willing to apply it in her life. She was going to go right home and talk to her boyfriend and set a goal, so that was pretty exciting. Our excellent joint teach Brother Latort let us use his house, cooked us food, and explained the law of chastity in the perfect way for Joelle. It was pretty amazing!

We are going to kill it this week! Good luck to my fellow missionaries, and for those who aren't missionaries, look for missionary opportunities. Members are the biggest part of a truly converted convert. We emphasize that so much in our mission that we don't even baptize, the members do.

Tot volgende Maandag! (translation: Until next Monday!)

Love,
Elder Thornton

Lance sent home handwritten personal letters to each member of our family! They were so fun and a little silly :) He had a creative salutation (Mom. . .Mom! Mommy, Mom! or La. . .De. . .Kur. . .Col. . .Micah!!- I was just practicing being a dad and not remembering which child is who(: ) and fun way to sign each letter (Elder I-totally-beat-you-in-Minecraft Thornton, and Elder hopefully-I'm-still-taller-than-you-when-I-get-home Thornton). He is still the same great Lance, just a little bit awesomer! One cool thing he mentioned is that he went on splits in Den Haag (where the temple is) with an Elder Richards from Layton who happened to play Lord Farquad when we saw Layton do Shrek in recent years. Can you just imagine Marius and Farquad as a companionship?!!