A Plutonium Dragon

Another good week, but nothing really exciting happened. I wonder why I am even writing this blogpost, hahahaha.

We did have a great member present lesson with our good ol' South Korean investigator. Though short, we were still able to talk for a bit and then show a bible video, and "Because of Him". It was really good, and it showed me again how great it is to have members present during lessons. It's a big help to investigators (and to us, also). I am very grateful for what members do to help missionaries and will do my best to help the missionaries when I'm done here: the work must go on, I just will not have a name tag anymore.

No Brussels for me this week, so I just worked on a few projects instead, and got a lot of work done. This week was very productive, but not at that busy or stressful. The next months will be getting busier all the way until July. But it will be very exciting, I am sure.

As usual, we will be playing Munchkin and eating Domino's today, our standard p-day tradition. We have even more cards now, so it should be exciting.

"Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love." - Robert A. Heinlein

Feed my Sheep

Things are moving forward with the "travelling band" and early this week I worked together with the members of the group on the posters and invitations and ordered them via Vistaprint. They turned out surprisingly well and when they arrived, they were almost as good as they looked on the computer. It is always surprising how much you can do with certain graphics tools and what a simple picture can turn into. I would never be able to do something like that so quickly (or at all) with pencil and paper, haha. 

We had a fun trip to Brussels for driver's licenses and other legality. After getting lunch, we looked around some chocolate shops and ran across a member that worked at one of them. We had a brief conversation and it seems that she was baptised about 3 years ago in Brussels. Then she gave us some chocolate to taste. 

There seem to be worryingly few missionaries that have their calls to arrive in May. We may have to close a number of cities and/or apartments in May. I just hope that there is a larger group in July and then another in August so that the numbers are only down for a month or so. But yeah, maybe the mission numbers have peaked and will now shrink to a stable number around 120 or 130. 

Today, after e-mailing, I am going to go buy another Munchkin set and then we're going to play. I am very excited to see what sort of new cards we get. 

"Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." - Charles Dickens

Beware my power, Green Lantern's light!

It's been another good week. As you may have noticed, I am past my year mark, and have almost a year to go. It's an interesting feeling. But yeah, a year is a long time, so it'll be plenty of time to do what I need to. 

On Friday, we drove down to Brussels once again. It was a fun ride there, a great opportunity to get to know my fellow missionaries and get some food in Belgium, haha. Maybe one of these times I will get a waffle or chips. :p The trip went smoothly and there were no riots or crazy events this time. Too bad, haha.

We had some good lessons with our few investigators, and we have a Surinamese investigator we want to introduce to our favourite Surinamese member, haha. Most of our investigators told us last week to call them two weeks later, so I would imagine that next week or the week thereafter will be somewhat busier. Which is always good. 

I am currently working on a poster and invitation for the new travelling band that was just formed. I also am working on the pictures of former mission presidents and for that I get to do fun research online on such sites as ancestry and familysearch. It is annoying that I cannot find all of them, but I am glad I found a few. I would imagine that more will pop up eventually.

"You will do no greater eternal work than within the walls of your own home"