Monday, November 13, 2017

Week 70: Temple!

Hoi!
This week was pretty great! I got to go the temple this week, and that was especially amazing because it had been a whole year since I had been. It felt wonderful! And I got to do it for an ancestor who I had performed the baptism for in Nauvoo a few years back, so that was pretty cool. I feel a little bad that I made him wait that long, but he probably never expected to recieve his endowment in Nederland. 

As for Antwerpen, it is going pretty good. Our investigators have kinda disappeared... We had one initial investigator near the centrum of Antwerpen, and since he kind of struggles keeping appointments, we ended up doing a lot of knocking in his area. And, seeing that it is pretty much the slums of Antwerpen, the people are pretty poor. And as we learn in Alma, also super humble and open! But... They tend to struggle with reliability and keeping appointments... So we are trying to figure that one out. We have 5 investigators on 1 street. That is really abnormal. But we only have contact with 2 of them.
But they are super cool! I am excited to see how much progress they will make.

We also got a text from Joris this week! He is currently on vacation in Seattle, but he still attended church! He is the best! (He also said he would bring some microwave popcorn back for me, so I may be slightly biased) :)

 The river next to Antwerpen!
The Temple in Den Haag!
Cake with Isabel! Isabel is one of the investigators of the Lokeren Sisters, and I got the opportunity to do her interview! She is so ready! She has completely turned her life around since she started learning about the Gospel. She got baptized this Saturday! It was Sister Klenk's birthday so we had some cake.

I love you all!
Love,

Elder Thornton

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