Elder Thornton in Belgium/ Netherlands: Week 64! More Miracles and Words from God!

Hallo Iedereen!

This week was excellent! We saw a ton of miracles, we had Zone Conference, and we got to watch General Conference. We also found a lot of new investigators!

Zone conference on Tuesday was really great, and we got to end the day off with a lesson with a new investigator, and several new potentials.

The next day I was with Elder Jensen on exchanges. He was in my district in the MTC, so it was a little weird but really awesome to be with someone who could speak as much Dutch as me and who can teach way better than me. We went to an appointment with Derick, someone who we had met on the street last week, but he wasn't there so we belled his neighbors, and one of them let us in! We taught him the first lesson, and he seemed pretty interested. When we were done with that lesson, Derick was home, so we walked right next door and then taught him the first lesson. It felt like I was in Brazil or somewhere in South America. He took it really well and accepted the goal to be baptized on the 19th of November! So that should be pretty exciting. He is from Suriname, so I am pretty excited. I love Surinamers! We also had a really cool lesson in the park with someone who had come there to contemplate becoming a nun. It was definitely no coinicidence! Hopefully she will end up coming to church!

We got to watch the Sunday Morning(6:00 pm here) with Joris! We ate dinner with him and his mother, and then watched the whole session with him. We also found out that he watches BYU TV for fun, meaning he watches Studio C and American Ride. And they had 2 photos of the Salt Lake Temple hanging in their front room... I'm still not certain why he isn't a member... But after he defends his thesis for his doctorate this Wednesday, we will make sure to figure that out with him. I'm pretty sure he took more out of General Conference than most members.

We also had another miracle with Tahir this week! We didn't have a lot of time left in the day and I thought that we should spend some time finding, but Elder DuWors felt really strongly that we should visit Tahir, so we headed all the way over there, and it turned out that this was his most difficult night since the accident that took his wife and two daughters away from him less than a month ago. It was so amazing to see how happy he got while he was talking to us, and he really recognized the light that we carry as Missionaries of the Lord Jesus Christ.

My Birthday was great! Elder DuWors made pannenkoeken for breakfast, and then we got to teach people on the street about the Book of Mormon. One of the guys we talked to said,"Why haven't I heard about this yet?!" We told him a bit about it and set up another appointment :) Then we got to watch General Conference.